Maeve Higgins talks to writer Carmel McMahon's about the influences that informed her memoir 'In Ordinary Time'

Migrants and humanitarians who help them — including Seán Binder who is on trial in Lesbos — are being criminalised while states get away with breaching international law

It was inevitable that I would see The Banshees of Inisherin. You will see it too. I resisted for as long as possible, which was almost three months. Three months isn’t that long, I know.

The first and most obvious rule about flying is not to.

EVERY time I write this column, I learn a ton of new stuff, and that’s my favourite thing about being a writer. Writing is a way to ask questions, however basic or complex, to think things through and eventually form an opinion of your own.

Like the best old Hollywood actresses, trying to find out what year Jesus Christ was born is next to impossible. But scholars and historians have largely agreed upon the place he was born in — Bethlehem, in Palestine.

Last week, an Iranian government spokesman announced that the morality police had been abolished. However, laws about how women must dress remain the same as before the protests over the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini and Iranians know change does not always happen quickly

As the third anniversary of the first recorded death from Covid-19 in Wuhan approaches, the Chinese government is still struggling to control both the virus and their population of 1. 4bn people.

I could ask questions, make comments, promote my work, connect to people and generally exercise my free speech. That felt valuable to me. But that feeling is gone now.

We should be thankful to anyone who cares for our children, all of our children, throughout the world, in all the ways they need to be cared for