Our casual racism against Travellers is one of Ireland's last great shames“Trouble.” “Dirty.” “Disgusting.” “A thorn in the side of society.”Wed Feb 27 2013 - 00:00
The ghoulish spin in the Steenkamp caseRupert Murdoch knows how his newspapers’ readers like their girls (I use the word advisedly: in the world of tabloid publishing…Wed Feb 20 2013 - 00:00
Our confused relationship with foxes: cull them, feed them, hunt them, kill themUntil about eight weeks ago, I was quite clear where I stood on the fox issue.Wed Feb 13 2013 - 00:00
You wouldn't hit a partner for their own good, so why would you hit a child?Earlier this week, I conducted a grim little experimentWed Feb 06 2013 - 00:00
I told the interviewer I wasn't planning on having more children. I got the jobSheryl Sandberg strikes me as a sensible, smart, ambitious womanWed Jan 30 2013 - 00:00
Why did the chicken cross the continent? So it could go cheap, cheap, cheapWaiter, waiter – there’s a pun in my burger. And I’m failing to see the funny side.Wed Jan 23 2013 - 00:00
I'm no Rihanna fan, but it's time to stop agonising about oversexualised girlsI am on the brink of a terrible crisis, one that could arrive any time in the next four to six years, and is likely to last at…Wed Jan 16 2013 - 00:00
Politicians: try using social media before you start legislating for itWhen I was a child, I had a collection of trollsWed Jan 09 2013 - 00:00
There's something about Molly and Martha - but nothing about MaryThere’s something about MaryWed Jan 02 2013 - 00:00
We didn't need this ritual humiliation to learn that DJs can be devastated, tooThere was something unsettling about the reaction to the television appearance earlier this week of Michael Christian and Mel…Wed Dec 12 2012 - 00:00
Begrudgery hasn't worked. It's time to break our addiction to 'failure porn'Look away now, those of you revelling in our collective misery – it’s not all bad news for Ireland IncWed Nov 28 2012 - 00:00
Calling all Twitter users: if you believe in the internet, regulate yourselvesThere is a moment in Monty Python’s Life Of Brian when Brian wakes up in bed with his new girlfriend, and opens the shutters…Wed Nov 21 2012 - 00:00
Why should boys get to take it to the max while girls are left with pink play sets?Parents: if you want to curtail your daughter’s ambitions, limit her imagination, and stymie the development of her analytical…Wed Nov 14 2012 - 00:00
We need to talk about suicide, but it's not a social-media conversationWhat could have driven Erin Gallagher to take her own life? Asking this question in the aftermath of a suicide is almost always…Wed Nov 07 2012 - 00:00
I don't want James Reilly telling me what to eat, but we need a fat taxTHERE ARE many good reasons to oppose the introduction of a fat taxWed Oct 17 2012 - 01:00
Blaming the victims of sex crimes lets the perpetrators off the hook‘DEAR VICTIM,” the letter began. “To be honest I’m not bothered or sorry about the fact I burgled your houseWed Oct 10 2012 - 01:00
Kitchen confidential: my 54 closed cook books and six-dish repertoire‘ALL I have to do now is consider my meatzza,” Nigella Lawson said in last week’s episode of her new cookery series, Nigellissima…Wed Oct 03 2012 - 01:00
Adults, if you want teenagers to be civil online, first fix your own behaviourONE DAY last month, 15-year-old Ciara Pugsley logged on to the Ask.fm site.Wed Sept 26 2012 - 01:00
Fascination with Kate's breasts and Karen's clothes makes idiots of us allTHE PHOTOS, in case you haven’t seen them, show Kate standing beside a dinghy in a rolled-up wet T-shirt and a pair of bikini…Wed Sept 19 2012 - 01:00
I have had panic attacks: does this mean I had a 'mental health issue'?THERE HAVE always been two Mary RobinsonsWed Sept 12 2012 - 01:00
Fifty Shades of domestic violence, and yet some call it romanceHERE’S AN alarming thoughtWed Sept 05 2012 - 01:00
Write on, sistersThis week, I came across the product that may change the course of the rest of my life, an innovation so revolutionary it makes…Wed Sept 05 2012 - 01:00
As good as gold, but not for RTÉWHERE WERE you the night Ireland racked up three gold medals in three hours in an international sporting event, sliding ahead…Wed Sept 05 2012 - 01:00
