Can you hear that? Are you sure they’re listening?Apologies for the paranoia. For the last few nights, I’ve been watching Adam Curtis’s documentary series Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, which is bad enough if you’re easily unsettled.

A true confession. Your columnist doesn’t cycle. His relations cycle. His friends cycle. His enemies cycle. But he doesn’t.

When a coach produces a version of “if every individual can do just that little bit more” in the dressing-room, then he or she acknowledges a profound truth

Calls for men to improve, or to raise sons with a better understanding of these issues, are fine, but is there more that can be done? Can the city be made safer for women in the shorter term?

Tidying a lockdown beard is more difficult than it looks, which got me wondering. Where exactly are modern sportsmen getting those immaculate fades, those well-maintained side-creases?

You don't need a PhD in history or a degree to be a historian, you can go to the archives and do the work, writes Michael Moynihan

The recent controversy showed neatly what happens when a couple of cultures collide: the modern eagerness to condemn, swiftly and utterly, intersecting with the traditions of the horseracing business

SPRING is in the air and blossoms can be found on every footpath in the city. They appear in varied forms: yellow conch shells and densely packed brown curls. Liquefied spatters and solitary blobs.

It’s slightly unnerving, on reading the book, to realise how illogical our decision-making can be, but it’s also hugely instructive

Cork has a culture that’s garrulous and boisterous and argumentative — and that bodes well for a city