The overwhelming call from the National Women’s Council webinar is for social media companies to step up and start protecting women online. They also believe men need to be involved in the conversation around online abuse

With the CSO reporting the highest number of returning Irish nationals since 2007, lifting the country's population above five million for the first time in 170 years, Joyce Fegan caught up with some ex-pats to ask why they have stayed away and explore their views on the country they left behind.

In a world where we ask such ridiculous things of women like to not go out, to not let their hair down, to not venture out alone after dark, is it too much to ask non-offending males to call out the sexist jokes of their mates, the 'banter' in the locker room and the ridicule of anyone who confronts their 'humour'?

'As we return to the workplace, let's keep talking about the realities of our lives and the impossible choices we face everyday as we try to balance care work with paid work'

"As supermodels and millionaires, reality stars and actors walked the red carpet in New York this week, Afghan women were protesting a Taliban diktat one photo at a time"

Birds, bikes and even recycling... Joyce Fegan meets the people whose names match their jobs

"Quotas are there to speed up the essential change we're just too prejudiced, institutionalised and self-serving to make"

Proposing economic reasons not to welcome refugees is merely racism and xenophobia dressed up as bogus economics

"Shaming ourselves for our better fortune is pretty much as useless to people in Afghanistan as being immobilised by our feeling of powerlessness. So what's a decent citizen to do?"

"The cost of loneliness may well be unquantifiable but its impact will be far reaching. If you're looking for it - psychologists say it lands in the chest and sits there like an ache"