Every time a business like John O'Flynn & Sons butchers closes, we are moving closer to an utterly detached shopping experience devoid of any human contact. That is not progress

Happiness isn’t some abstract elusive thing, we need to gain more understanding about what makes us happy and do more of that

Two of the most important questions you can ask yourself before you launch out on a new year resolution is, “Am I afraid to thrive?” and “What would thriving look like?”

"Sometimes we can really question our levels of merriment: ‘I don’t have the Christmas feeling this year’ or ‘it doesn’t feel like Christmas at all’."

I work with wonderful teenage boys who are lost in pornography... I find myself becoming enraged sitting, hearing their isolation, and pain. Why do we not protect them from harmful content?

Richard Hogan looks back on highlights from the last 46 years

"When we have a fear we generally have three responses, we attempt to control the fear which leads to obsessive behaviours, we attempt to avoid the fear which leads to phobic behaviours or constantly search for reassurance which leads to further worried thoughts."

"What can we do, as parents, to help our children out of anxious, worrying thoughts?"

Norma Foley is bottom of the Junior Cert class

We need our youth to believe they can bring change to the world they live in. But we have to teach them that how they bring that change matters