The venue for a speech by Culture Minister Josepha Madigan has had to be moved because of alleged intimidation and the threat of a major protest by pro-life campaigners.

“Whatever you say, say nothing,” could be the unconscious motto of this frail State.

President Michael D Higgins has said Ireland must not treat migrants the same way it has treated members of the Travelling community.

Generation Snowflake has endured the invective of an older generation that imagines itself more robust, more emotionally and philosophically secure in its skin.

Admirers of Martin Luther King have gathered for a celebration of his final speech in Memphis.

A stammer held Margaret O’Brien back for decades until she plucked up the courage to do something about it, writes Margaret Jennings

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has delivered a rebuke to Donald Trump over his demand to renegotiate the Paris Agreement on tackling climate change.

A recent survey ranks fear of public speaking higher than death, if you are in that category you are in good company, but there is also a lot you can do to reduce and manage any nerves you have, says Annmarie O’Connor

BY any standards, US president Donald Trump’s press conference last Thursday was unhinged. 

'Rich white man f***s the entire country at once'

Donald Trump is set to make his case to America - and to the many rattled doubters within his own party.

This must have cost a bomb.

All editing is over. Speech, projected on new platforms, has become the newly authoritative medium, writes Gerard Howlin.

The Syrian president has vowed to “liberate” every inch of the country in the same way his troops recaptured the historic town of Palmyra from Islamic State earlier his year.

“We cannot accept this Logie.”

Daniel Buccheri seems to think so and to be honest, it’s emotional.

James Googan always avoided social situations and, if he had to turn up, would be described afterwards as ‘the shy’ or ‘quiet’ one. He wasn’t, he says. He was just terrified of stammering.

Donald Trump denied that he mocked a reporter with a disability in a speech, despite appearing to imitate mannerisms of the “poor guy” and make fun of him.

What a wonderful young man.

Jeremy Corbyn has admitted borrowing a tie for his big conference speech after his team said it should be a different shade of red.

Pope Francis has arrived at the United Nations for a speech that will bring his message to an international audience.

Remember the name.

Denis O'Brien has issued legal proceedings against the houses of the Oireachtas and the State in relation to Dail comments about his banking arrangements with State-owned IBRC.

Louis van Gaal produced the passion we don’t often see in the Old Trafford technical areas in a rousing, and amusing, speech at Manchester United’s awards evening.

Stammering can make a person’s life hell. Many become more introverted, with their work and social lives being affected enormously. But help is at hand, writes Ellie O’Byrne

In hindsight, maybe they should have just asked for Dáil translation headphones.