The historic Al Smith black tie dinner is an event held annually at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to raise funds for Catholic children’s charities in the New York archdiocese

We like to believe that Victorian poverty and the shocking history of our own beggarly past are behind us. Far from it

I have never seen any sense in the vow of celibacy. It has always struck me as biologically and emotionally unnatural. So why won’t the Catholic Church allow its priests to marry?

Doctors call prostate cancer, among others, the silent killer — it’s worth adding cholesterol to that list

Schools were never havens. For all those victims of child abuse they were the closest thing to a living hell imaginable

'I have very few happy memories of my time at school'

Unfortunately, Ireland still mostly basks in an illusory mindset that the Patty Hearsts of this world don’t exist here

Harris’s politics is about breaking boundaries, coming from a childhood steeped in the civil rights culture of the 1960s and 1970s, writes Gareth O'Callaghan

Old turf rules appear to have changed now that a joint intolerance towards immigration has resulted in a shared prejudice

Jane and Paul open up about their horrific experience following tourism surgery