A job with a risk of unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, rape, violence, and stigma is not a dream job

The lens in rural Ireland has always been different. Ignoring their concerns just plays into the hands of populists

How to solve the problem of finding people for a project without inadvertently conveying the message that we want people to fill a quota for their skin colour?

Maybe we women lack confidence and underestimate our abilities. Or maybe it's just that some men are staggeringly overconfident...

While the time may have come to confront the issue of assisted dying, it is not something to be done lightly

It's hard to report domestic violence when the perpetrator is in a position of authority

We need stronger policies that emphasise the civic role of the state in facilitating the wellbeing of families and individual citizens

It’s so easy to burnish your liberal credentials and sell yourself as a caring, moral person when you’re not personally fighting to get by

Referenda are to some extent blunt devices in that complex questions must be distilled to a yes or a no. Therefore, any issue being put to us must be explained clearly and comprehensively, writes Sarah Harte.

We are failing to identify neurodivergent children, we are failing to support them in their childhood and teenage years and failing to see what their strengths are, ultimately failing to stop many of them from falling through the cracks