‘I knew ... I couldn’t stay with him any more ... I had a husband who was addicted to drugs and raping me’
‘I stood up for myself and I was believed,’ says Kathleen Correia, who was raped and coercively controlled by her then husband, Sergio Correia
Government shouldn’t be so quick to yell Gotcha! at Sinn Féin. Its record on children is shameful
When election candidates coming knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?
Had Mary Lou stuck with Fianna Fáil, she could be closer to becoming first woman taoiseach
The blizzard of scandals since the Dáil returned from summer holidays is Mary Lou McDonald’s GUBU moment
‘If she stays there, she will die’: Roscommon-based Gazan woman pleads for help to get her mother out of war-torn strip
Sherin Alsabbagh’s mother Najwa (74) has been approved for entry to Ireland to join her in Ballaghaderreen. With Gaza border crossings closed and Israel’s battle raging, she cannot get out
Why has the Hague not issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu?
Why is the International Criminal Court taking nearly five months to respond to the request for Netanyahu’s arrest warrant when it took just three weeks to grant one for Putin?
Simon Harris is not bothered by Phil Hogan’s record of PR blunders
Despite a history of public relations gaffes, Hogan’s muscular political skills seem to endear him to the party chief, with Simon Harris the fourth to entrust him with a key role
A €560 bonus for each new baby? The Green Party must be having a laugh
Even the most interfering nanny state cannot guarantee that a baby boost is actually spent on the child
It’s time the Irish stopped obsessing about being universally loved. Those days are gone
Ireland's age of innocence as a global love object is over
Apple tax: Ireland owes its lost people €13bn worth of houses
The €13bn lying in an escrow fund could help give those hit by the homelessness crisis a way back into society
If you laughed at the one about the Leinster House bike shelter, you’ll love the one about the loo rolls
Sometimes, when a problem is complex and protracted, a simple example of hubristic extravagance can become the emblem of all that is wrong
Ireland’s lousy summer: ‘The people are great,’ says the German tourist. ‘But I couldn’t live here.’ I know what she means
The Gulf Stream that once bathed our shores in mildness has turned into a giant sunblock that could be bottled and sold
Musk’s lack of interest in truth shows why Government must act on media ownership
Owning a media lodestar can be the ultimate ego trip as Elon Musk demonstrated with his travesty of an ‘interview’ with Donald Trump
Moronic marriage of loyalists and ‘Irish patriots’ revives Troubles-era nightmares
Alliance of green and orange sectarian supremacists in Belfast shows fascism is on the march and is leveraging the new global weapon of mass destruction: gullibility
Because of Lavinia Kerwick, Ireland learned about the trauma of sexual crime
The Kilkenny woman changed how the legal system deals with sexual offences
Derry O’Rourke: They called him God, and the room where he molested them the ‘chamber of horrors’
If O’Rourke’s punishment has been going on a long time, it is still shorter than the protracted injuries he inflicted on the children he assaulted and raped