For the first time in I don’t know how many decades, we are building a hospital. And a national children’s hospital at that.

It is said many thousands of internet, social media platform content moderators are liable to be traumatised after six or so months of moderation and are let go.

I am a survivor of the Irish State run Industrial Schools and I attended the event on May 11 in Trinity College. I observed that Mr Finlay was in attendance throughout but was unaware he was a columnist for your paper.

I firmly believe that the time is right in Ireland to have a border poll, ie, a referendum of whether people in all of Ireland want to: 1. Keep the border, or 2. Get rid of the border.

29,000 third-party objections have ‘disappeared’ from the online planning portal at the largest planning authority in the country.

So, what will we eat instead of meat? Vegetables? Vegetables, such as beans and lentil, will make the human race fart more. Methane (C1), a gas lighter than air, when emitted from humans is every bit as toxic as cow’s methane.

Thank you to the staff at the Irish Examiner, for helping me locate my old friend, Gerald West, from Co Cork. I wrote to the Examiner because, when I lived in Cork, in 1972, the Examiner was our regular newspaper. That’s why I thought that if the Irish Examiner wrote about my quest, Gerry would read it. How happy I am to have made that decision, because a number of your readers showed Gerry the piece you printed.

An Post has launched a touching Christmas campaign that sees Irish people who are unable to spend Christmas with their families take part in sedning their nearest and dearest a surprise message.

Helen Cullen left her job at 2FM to move to London and pursue her dream of writing. The resultant ‘The Lost Letters of William Woolf’ falls into the booming genre of ‘Up Lit’ — and yes, it showcases her love of letter writing. She talks to Rowena Walsh.

Repeated international studies have shown that in countries where abortion is legalised there tends to be lower abortion rates than in countries where abortion is illegal or restricted.

Last week, 300 people from a small community in Easkey, Co Sligo, resisted the possible closure of their post office.

In our fraught, regressing world, where, in our darkest nightmares, a nuclear war might be brought closer by an

The seventh issue of the ‘Examiner’ carried its first letter to the editor in 1841. They’re as popular as ever, but who is writing, and why? Paul McCarthy finds out

As a parent, I want children’s hospital to be renamed

The lives and loves of the Yeats family will be illuminated in letters, works of art and personal effects to be sold at Sotheby’s in London on September 27.

Few things are more heartbreaking than hearing of the suicide of a young person, as I did today.

Why is no one talking about that grey area of childbirth, that place where a real debate might happen and the two sides might even agree?

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