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2024 European Athletics Championships - Day Four

Sarah Harte: Anti-hate laws not about being woke, we need clear and legal parameters

Adeleke story is more proof, if any was needed, that we cannot manage the cyber world by consent alone

Wed, 19 Jun, 2024

Sarah Harte: Enjoy the moment but keep your head. A career is a long race

S Sarah Harte: Enjoy the moment but keep your head. A career is a long race

Who you are today is not you forever. You will try on many different versions of yourself. And you have the gift of youth

Wed, 12 Jun, 2024

Nicola Coughlan

S Sarah Harte: Attack on Nicola Coughlan shows it’s open season on women’s bodies again

Professing to enjoy Coughlan’s acting skills and 'lovely face' while using demeaning words like 'trundling', Strimpel concluded: 'She is not hot.'

Wed, 05 Jun, 2024

Sarah Harte: A train to Youghal would help protect our cultural heritage

S Sarah Harte: A train to Youghal would help protect our cultural heritage

Why, when the town has patently got so much to offer, is it destined endlessly to be the bridesmaid to Kinsale?

Wed, 29 May, 2024

Sarah Harte: Battling mindsets over women’s clothing leaves us a little ‘short’

Sarah Harte: Battling mindsets over women’s clothing leaves us a little ‘short’

How women dress and how society views them has changed over the years, as Sarah Harte experienced on Grafton St in Dublin, recently

Wed, 22 May, 2024

Sarah Harte: Do new Irish citizens need to know more about what it means to be Irish?

Sarah Harte: Do new Irish citizens need to know more about what it means to be Irish?

What it means to be Irish, of course, is open to a wide variety of interpretations

Wed, 15 May, 2024

Sarah Harte: Right to peaceful protest can’t be at a cost to human rights of others

Sarah Harte: Right to peaceful protest can’t be at a cost to human rights of others

There’s a marked difference between protests that may be disruptive but democratically acceptable and protests that are designed to target and intimidate public figures

Wed, 08 May, 2024

Sarah Harte: McGahern leaves us pondering what we have lost and gained

Sarah Harte: McGahern leaves us pondering what we have lost and gained

These are the men and women who took the boat in droves in the second half of the 20th century, to find work, and to flee institutional abuse

Wed, 01 May, 2024

Street prostitute of Eastern Europe

Sarah Harte: It’s ludicrous to suggest that sex work is just another form of work

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

Wed, 24 Apr, 2024

Herd of Friesian cattle

Sarah Harte: Could a new crop of independents harness anger and come together?

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

Wed, 17 Apr, 2024