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Last weekend, we experienced the most anticipated suicide awareness event on the calendar - Darkness into Light. An event where thousands of people across the country, and even the world, walk together in solidarity, as a symbol of hope for…

You’ll have to excuse the article title if it’s misleading. I’m not trying to argue that misogyny only exists in the crazed imaginations of militant, man-hating, feminists; the kind of feminist that only exist in Milo Yiannopoulos’ mind.…

The UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, went on a walking holiday in Wales, then came back to London and announced a snap election. Something fresh in the Welsh air perhaps? Or an Easter epiphany? Neither. Simply power politics at play, in the…

March’s Strike4Repeal placed another spotlight on the lack of bodily autonomy and choice afforded to pregnant people in Ireland. The lunchtime strike, followed by the March4Repeal that evening, saw thousands of people protest in support of…

“The more young people go on social media, the more they feel isolated.” The above is a quote taken from a research study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. To many, this has been obvious from the out-set. To some,…

On Friday March 3rd the news that human remains had indeed been found at the mother and baby home in Tuam broke. The Citizens' Assembly met that same weekend to debate the calls for a referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment. On Wednesday…

The greatest trick the Church ever played was convincing the Irish that it wasn’t dictating our lives. Catholicism has a way of forcing itself upon the Irish psyche, but it goes about its work with such subtlety that we still react to its…

I'm watching a “casting couch” porn video called “Latina Painal.” FYI 'painal' = painful anal. It's a massive genre (23,741 results in free-to-access Porntube). The casting couch thing is also a huge genre. There are 9,736 casting…

Two elections to the local legislative assembly, within a year, have left the political situation in Northern Ireland exactly the same. Only different. The same because the two largest parties remain the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)…

We need to talk about porn. We need to have a huge, comprehensive, massive undertaking of a conversation on the complex, contentious, divisive thing that is porn. What is not needed is relegating porn to something between children and their…