Our schools need to teach Arabic. The act of trying to speak another’s language is a respect, writes Victoria White

There is no natural border between Europe and Asia. Divisions between them are in our heads, writes Victoria White

NANNIES must be proven innocent, not guilty. They transgress our ideals of motherhood and raise in us fears we cannot name, writes Victoria White.

For too long people accepted the terrible toll of infant deaths like Little Nellie’s. Victoria White says we shouldn’t be trying to exhume her, but rather remember her with a fight for universal health care.

If she’d been fat, now, that would have been real news. But there won’t be a fat Rose, writes Victoria White

We have managed to overlook this huge centenary of Irish sacrifice on the world stage, writes Victoria White

IMAGINE my surprise when I saw a sign for the Gaeltacht from a roundabout somewhere deep in Dublin 18. 

SO NOW I’ve read the whole thing and I know where we’re at. Our Government is proposing to further tip the balance against families who care for their own children by pricing them out of the market, writes Victoria White.

I don’t have enough compassion for infertile couples... I will never quite know how it feels, writes Victoria White

People may not like bankers or capitalism, but they like being better-off and won’t vote to be poorer, says Victoria White