My friend finally has a diagnosis of lipoedema, but she still feels judged when she explains it
Many young women try to cure the condition, which often starts in puberty, with diet and exercise - and lose weight everywhere but their legs (or arms)
Reformed Leaving Cert would allow too many opportunities to cheat using AI
Every step is already susceptible to AI intervention, from brainstorming ideas to generating a structure for each section, to writing the entire piece
Dogs are being treated as substitute children. How did we end up here?
By the time couples feel they are in the right place and can afford children, women’s fertility has often declined
Why are people in their late 20s and 30s so disillusioned with religion?
One in four would be happy to see the Catholic Church vanish from society – but it’s 25- to 34-year-olds, not 18- to 24-year-olds, who are the most disenchanted
Teachers are being bullied into accepting reforms that will damage education
Unethical use of AI is rampant and in danger of producing students whose degrees are essentially meaningless
Pope Leo XIV in Ireland: Unassuming and personable, he answered emails on the friary stairs
The key to understanding the former Bob Prevost, say those who met him in Ireland, is not as an American pope or a liberal or conservative one, but as a South American one
€2,000 refund for teaching graduates may just go towards their flight to Australia
Ireland's schools are facing a polycrisis
Why the next Pope should be ... Leo
No matter who emerges as Pope, the name that he chooses will be immediately analysed
How is a school with €8,000 supposed to pay €10,000 worth of bills?
If hospitals were funded like schools, nurses would have to fundraise to keep wards open
Why is mental health so much worse among Irish youths than adults?
Insta-therapy or therapy-speak should not be confused with real, very valuable therapy
Leaving Cert Oral English exam a potentially great idea but piling assessments on stressed students and teachers is not
By 2029, 41 subjects will have been redeveloped. Most will have an additional component such as a project or investigation
A year on from the failed referendums, has anything changed for carers and families?
Women can participate in the paid workforce if they want to, even if the work is often precarious and 'greedy'. What they often can’t do is afford a home within reasonable distance of family and workplace
Is it wrong to treat Lent as purely a time for self-improvement?
Most Catholic traditions have faded away, but the idea of giving something up for Lent persists. But many have lost sight of the idea that it should be about solidarity, rather than just sacrifice
Don’t be fooled by the movie poster - Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a committed pacifist
The message of a new film about his life is that heroism but can be achieved by fallible people stumbling along
As Pope Francis battled against ill health this week, the Catholic community in Ireland lost two great leaders
Bishop emeritus Willie Walsh’s simple goodness changed my view of him. Sr Máire Hickey sought to forge a connection between spirituality and the environment