But women are every where now — a man once exclaimed to the journalist Caroline Criado Perez.

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly”

“Olé, Olé, Olé,” chanted the crowd (there were a few scowling hold-outs). “F***ing hell,” replied Healy. “This isn’t a Charlatans gig….Why are you all singing in Spanish?”

It was at very much at this time of the year — an early March Saturday — 87 years ago that Franklin D Roosevelt, as the 32nd president of the United States, gave in his inaugural address a warning. “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is ... fear itself.”

When we go to the polls today, we will be voting in the third change election in a decade.

Hundreds of school children took to the streets today to highlight what they describe as a lack of inaction on climate change.

Séamus Hickey, 20, is from the Lough in Cork. He studies viola at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and chamber music with the Nederlandse Strijkkwartet Academie and various quartets.

Her nominators have described her work as “an act of making peace”.

Actress and playwright Jody O’Neill remembers being four years of age and copying everything her best friend did. It was a survival strategy for O’Neill, who was diagnosed with autism last year at the age of 39.

US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin challenged Greta Thunberg to study economics, knowing it is incompatible with rebalancing the environment, says Yanis Varoufakis

It’s not only a new year but also a whole new decade. As we enter the 20s it can be tempting to be savage with our spring-cleans especially when it comes to our wardrobes.

German chancellor Angela Merkel says she’s worried about the growing conflict between young campaigners for a cleaner planet and those who reject global warming.

Sorting out Cork people for ages

Cork County Council hopes to save €18 million over the next 20 years by replacing all existing street lighting with energy-efficient bulbs.

This is the day many of us will access the Christmas aftermath, focusing our efforts on packing away the decorations for next year and carting the tree to a recycling facility.

If 2018 was the year of the activist, then 2019 was the year of the climate. From Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg sailing to America to talk at the United Nations, to two more damning reports from the UN and countless headline grabbing demonstrations from Extinction Rebellion, the climate is now on most people’s minds.

Ronan Farrow is pivotal to the pursuit of film producer Harvey Weinstein on sex allegations, writes Terry Prone.

Well-known figures such as Fiona Shaw, Joe Duffy and Sonia O’Sullivan tell Richard Fitzpatrick about the reads they’ve been most impressed with in 2019.

UN secretary general António Guterres’s stark warning about climate change was ignored by the media in favour of the US president’s mocking of the Swedish activist. Our priorities are all wrong.

Greta Thunberg has been named Time's Person of the Year.

The European Union has said it is likely to miss its target for reducing greenhouse gases by 2030, dealing a blow to the bloc’s efforts to be a leader in the fight against climate change.

For over a year, children and young people from around the world have been striking for the climate.

When will governments and other global decision makers finally listen to the concerns of millions of people everywhere about the ravaging effects of climate change?

Bjork's magnificent show in Dublin was a mix of arena concert and left-field Broadway musical, writes Ed Power .

Ireland’s tourism sector is on the crest of a wave. It had a record year in 2018.