Toy shops are flooded with dolls that portray women as weird sex objects rather than people girls can aspire to be. And don't get me started on how older people are portrayed in media...

It was also the week that Joe Biden reminded us that — whether we're locked in lockdown, or flocking to the pub — Ireland's unofficial national motto seems to be 'libation once again'

I need the Renaissance man/woman of joining things up and making sure everything works simultaneously

A short spell in hospital if you’re not writhing in agony is like being on a plane

As I walk through the meeting rooms, it's like visiting a roped-off crime scene, writes Terry prone

The best addiction in the world

Having provided Irish Examiner readers with a diary of lockdown, it struck me the other day, walking along St Stephen’s Green, masked and smiling at perfect strangers, that I might offer a Freedom Diary looking at the differences the lifting of ...

Canada's PM and Fianna Fáil are belatedly realising the bogeyman trope doesn't work. Oh, and spoiler alert — no electorate is ever grateful for your achievements in government

Ambition in women had emerged as unacceptable and as deeply threatening to men towards the end of the 19th century with the arrival of the typewriter, writes Terry Prone

It can be difficult to shake off, especially if you become famous in a way that defines a period of public life