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<p>Is it possible that the tenets of Western thought, which encourage us to view ourselves in highly individualistic terms, often in a win-lose mentality, hamper our ability to look beyond ourselves and feel content?</p>

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Sarah Harte: Feeling more content in 2026 can start with looking beyond yourself

As another year turns, maybe abandoning punishing resolutions and practising gratitude offers a more humane path to contentment

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Sarah Harte: Christmas Eve Mass is uniquely beautiful — rampaging kids or not

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Sarah Harte: Lily Allen's album is resonating with women for a reason

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Sarah Harte: Being proactive and vocal is key to women's health outcomes

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Sarah Harte: It's nobody's idea of a good time, but divorce is a fact of life

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Sarah Harte: Graham Linehan's part in toxic debate puts freedom of speech limits into focus

Commissioner lauches new report on transforming An Garda Siochana 2018-2024

Sarah Harte: Are we living in the age of rage?

We are at a clear societal turning point, when collectively at a familial, community, and national level, we have to fight back against misogyny, social media, the degradation of public discourse and porn, writes Sarah Harte

Wed, 06 Aug, 2025

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Sarah Harte: The Gen Z stare is real, and we've all seen it

The voices of adults don’t matter more than those of children, but Gen Z need guidance and boundaries that make them feel more secure and help them navigate life

Wed, 23 Jul, 2025

1916 Easter Rising commemoration

Sarah Harte: The GPO deserves more than offices and retail — it needs cultural investment

Turning the GPO into shops and offices isn’t progress — it’s a sign of cultural insecurity. We owe our history better than that

Wed, 16 Jul, 2025

John McCain Holds Large Campaign Rally In Dayton, Ohio

Sarah Harte: We need an educated president with moral authority and a clear vision

Countries are not corporations that can be run like pure businesses by CEOs focused solely on the bottom line. Nor should celebrity and a high-profile spot on television be considered an essential attribute

Wed, 09 Jul, 2025

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Sarah Harte: Limiting freedom of speech is a threat to a functioning democracy

Bad things like this happen incrementally, until one day you get a knock on the door and think 'Jesus, how did we end up here?'

Wed, 02 Jul, 2025

Food Distribution in Gaza

Sarah Harte: The Gaza catastrophe is testing Ireland’s conscience — and its credibility

Ireland’s shared history of colonisation and famine compels more than sympathy for Gaza — it demands decisive political action

Wed, 11 Jun, 2025

Close Up Of Person With Addiction To Online Gambling Or Shopping Using Credit Card And Mobile Phone

Sarah Harte: The Government has bottled it on gambling — our young people will pay

The watered-down Gambling Regulation Act, which still allows gambling companies to advertise and offer free bets, means thousands of people, many of them too young to understand what they are getting into, will pay a high price

Wed, 04 Jun, 2025

France Kardashian Heist

Sarah Harte: The murky international surrogacy racket needs to be spotlighted

We must reconcile an adult's desire to have children with the rights of those children or we risk repeating mistakes of the past

Wed, 28 May, 2025

Daily Life In Gaza

S Sarah Harte: Ireland gave Israel 10 Eurovision points. Did we forget what a green mouth once meant?

While millions tuned in to Eurovision, Gaza starved. Ireland and Europe must stop normalising genocide through silence and spectacle

Wed, 21 May, 2025

Sarah Harte: Camogie skorts row exposes deep-rooted sexism in Irish sport

Sarah Harte: Camogie skorts row exposes deep-rooted sexism in Irish sport

Despite growing participation, women in Irish sport still face entrenched inequality, outdated dress codes, and institutional resistance to change

Wed, 07 May, 2025

Processed foods

Sarah Harte: Our broken food culture is driving us towards weight loss drugs

Weight loss drugs are a revolution for people who are seriously obese, but shouldn't we take a look at the ultra-processed foods causing our health problems first?

Wed, 30 Apr, 2025

2025 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

Sarah Harte: Why are we letting the richest men in the world steal our ideas?

I might be a Luddite when it comes to AI, but writers' work should not be stolen, no matter who's doing it

Wed, 16 Apr, 2025

Sarah Harte: Why Ireland still fails to learn from domestic homicides — and how we can change that

Sarah Harte: Why Ireland still fails to learn from domestic homicides — and how we can change that

Ireland urgently needs domestic homicide reviews to learn from preventable partner killings and close gaps in frontline responses

Wed, 09 Apr, 2025

Conor McGregor court case

Sarah Harte: Why dismissing Conor McGregor’s presidential dreams is a mistake — and a warning

Conor McGregor’s presidential hints are laughable — but Ireland’s shifting political landscape makes his populist appeal worth watching

Wed, 26 Mar, 2025

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Sarah Harte: Gen Z won’t fight for Europe — and maybe they have a point

As Europe debates rearmament, cutting social welfare for military spending risks undermining the very values the EU was built on

Wed, 19 Mar, 2025

Belgium Europe Summit

Sarah Harte: Race to re-arm means avoiding groupthink has never been more crucial

This anxious time of turmoil threatens to sweep us all into a new wave of militarism. We must avoid being caught up in the tide

Wed, 12 Mar, 2025

Sarah Harte: At the risk of sounding like a character from Father Ted, hands off our Angelus

Sarah Harte: At the risk of sounding like a character from Father Ted, hands off our Angelus

Progress should seek to embrace our different traditions rather than trying to make everyone the same

Wed, 26 Feb, 2025

If I had a daughter, I would take her to a Bridget Jones movie and say: 'Don’t be like Bridget'

If I had a daughter, I would take her to a Bridget Jones movie and say: 'Don’t be like Bridget'

The central message of the four movies is, broadly speaking, that it’s enough for Bridget to flap around in her pyjamas with tousled hair, hoping to be rescued by a younger man, an older man, or any man

Wed, 19 Feb, 2025

Neil Gaiman

Sarah Harte: Should we discard works of artists accused of unthinkable things?

Terry Prone wrote an interesting article on Monday about the problems arising from the veneration of public figures.

Wed, 12 Feb, 2025

Sarah Harte: Stand down, boys — masculine hierarchies are far from being neutered

Sarah Harte: Stand down, boys — masculine hierarchies are far from being neutered

Men remain positioned to influence policies, ideologies, working culture, and practices, and they do so in a way that is far from neutered and not always in female colleagues' interests or arguably even their own, writes Sarah Harte

Wed, 05 Feb, 2025

Sarah Harte: Cabinet appointments compound the gender imbalance in Leinster House

Sarah Harte: Cabinet appointments compound the gender imbalance in Leinster House

Leinster House is a workplace with asymmetrical gender power arrangements, and it’s a terrible example

Wed, 29 Jan, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg

Sarah Harte: Meta smart glasses are shady new tools for predatory behaviour

What is the ultimate point of introducing new legislation to combat harmful behaviour if we simultaneously allow tech companies to roll out this technology?

Wed, 22 Jan, 2025

Smoking Marijuana Joint

Sarah Harte: Decriminalise dope use but only if public health message is managed

The strong and compelling advantage of decriminalisation of cannabis use is that people caught in possession of a small amount of drugs won’t end up in the criminal justice system

Wed, 15 Jan, 2025

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Sarah Harte: We need to change how juries operate to modernise the courts

Instead of juries in sexual assault cases, we should have specially trained judges

Wed, 08 Jan, 2025

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Sarah Harte: Set the bar reasonably low when making new year’s resolutions

Rather than crashing into the new year with barely-achievable goals, let's ease into 2025 with things we can achieve. Let's do this

Wed, 01 Jan, 2025

Sarah Harte: We would do anything to avoid hospital emergency departments. How did we get here?

Sarah Harte: We would do anything to avoid hospital emergency departments. How did we get here?

Logistically, something is very wrong in our healthcare system. It’s not like we don’t spend on health, only Luxembourg and Denmark spend more per person than us on health within the EU, writes Sarah Harte

Wed, 18 Dec, 2024

Sky Women In Film And Television Awards 2024

Sarah Harte: We need more wonderful women who will speak up for themselves

The fact that many men between 18 and 29 feel ‘real men shouldn’t have to care about women’s feelings’ shows the amount of work to be done regarding attitudes

Wed, 11 Dec, 2024

Assisted dying bill

Sarah Harte: Our ageing voters deserve dignity and respect

Our infrastructure is creaking, and our population is expanding fast

Wed, 04 Dec, 2024

Sarah Harte: We need to re-write the script where victims are blamed

Sarah Harte: We need to re-write the script where victims are blamed

We over-expect from the legal system — the reality is that while we call out the law, we don’t call out the culture

Wed, 27 Nov, 2024

Sarah Harte: Young men need an ideology of ‘positive masculinity’ as guidance

S Sarah Harte: Young men need an ideology of ‘positive masculinity’ as guidance

We now appear to live in a lurid Marvel universe with blow-hard, misogynist, villainous characters

Wed, 20 Nov, 2024

Trump Goes Back To Butler Assassination Site To Bolster Campaign

Sarah Harte: Here are some of the issues behind Trump's win that may come into play here

As electoral candidates pound the streets, patronising people or not understanding the real pressures in normal people’s lives should be avoided, writes Sarah Harte

Wed, 13 Nov, 2024

Small Things Like These

Sarah Harte: The small things that went ignored were our biggest issues in the past

As 'Leathered' and 'Small Things like These' demonstrate, so much of what was visited on Ireland's children in the past has repercussions in the present, writes Sarah Harte

Wed, 06 Nov, 2024

Sarah Harte: Should there be signs in men's bathrooms asking: 'Are you a sexual predator?'

Sarah Harte: Should there be signs in men's bathrooms asking: 'Are you a sexual predator?'

We must educate boys and men on how to interact healthily with girls and women and must spotlight harmful attitudes

Wed, 16 Oct, 2024

Tough Times

S Sarah Harte: We seek diagnostic terms too often to address regular problems

The heretical thought that pops into my mind is whether there is any young person left in the country without an autism, ADHD, dyslexia, or anxiety disorder diagnosis

Tue, 08 Oct, 2024

Sarah Harte: The Catholic Church can still act as a lifeboat to the disenchanted

Sarah Harte: The Catholic Church can still act as a lifeboat to the disenchanted

The international image of the Roman Catholic Church remains one of a powerful, authoritarian, conservative, patriarchal, wealthy, and corrupt organisation that has presided over systematic sexual abuse, covered it up and sought to avoid paying for redress.

Wed, 02 Oct, 2024

Obesity levels

Sarah Harte: There isn’t a light touch solution to tackle weighty issue of obesity

It’s clear we urgently require robust new cross-departmental policies to tackle what has been described as an epidemic

Wed, 25 Sep, 2024

Pat Finucane death

Sarah Harte: Let’s hope the family of murdered Pat Finucane finally get justice

Back in the 90s in some strata of Irish society, there was a whiff of cordite about the Finucane family

Wed, 18 Sep, 2024

Oasis reunion

Sarah Harte: Oasis reunion gives Gen X a chance to look back in nostalgia

Music can bring us together, bridging gaps between cultures, beliefs, and languages

Wed, 04 Sep, 2024

Capital Jingle Bell Ball 2014 - Sunday

Sarah Harte: Men need to partner with women to create political gender equality

One of the main challenges of our era is to make men realise that sexism isn’t just a women’s issue

Wed, 28 Aug, 2024

Sarah Harte: Jools Lebron’s demure world highlights cracks in trad wife vision

Sarah Harte: Jools Lebron’s demure world highlights cracks in trad wife vision

True freedom of choice means women establishing the parameters of their femininity

Wed, 21 Aug, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Day 15 - Athletics

Sarah Harte: Edna O’Brien has passed the baton on to other brave, brilliant women of Ireland

On the day Edna O'Brien was buried in Clare, four of our brightest and best stepped onto the track at the Stade de France and did Ireland proud at the highest level

Wed, 14 Aug, 2024

Rhasidat Adeleke ahead of the race 5/8/2024

Sarah Harte: Our Olympians are the embodiment of true patriotism

Patriotism or civic nationalism creates a sense of solidarity with values of equality, freedom and tolerance. It’s what we are seeing daily at the Olympics, writes Sarah Harte

Wed, 07 Aug, 2024

Sarah Harte: We must ask: When we are fed an origin story, what lies beneath it?

Sarah Harte: We must ask: When we are fed an origin story, what lies beneath it?

Your life story may be a valuable asset if you decide to go into politics — but only if it has trauma or adversity in it

Wed, 24 Jul, 2024

Sarah Harte: Aged 21, I was traumatised by my arrest in the Middle East

Sarah Harte: Aged 21, I was traumatised by my arrest in the Middle East

Not wanting to minimise Tori Towey's nightmare, aspects of her experience have chimed with me. Because I too have run afoul of state/religious authorities in the Middle East

Wed, 17 Jul, 2024