Breda O’Brien: Armagh kerfuffle highlights church leaders’ work for reconciliationPresident’s refusal to attend NI service may have focused more attention on work for reconciliation carried out by the Church Leaders’ GroupSat Oct 16 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: This is no time to let Irish cinemas dieIs the tentative recovery of movie theatres thanks to blockbusters or a more nuanced audience desire?Sat Oct 09 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Bloomberg ranking a mere snapshot of progressWe must measure our real Covid-19 record without defensiveness or demonisationSat Oct 02 2021 - 01:00
Facebook's negative impact affects far more than teenage girlsBreda O’Brien: Facebook does very little about the cartels and traffickers it hostsSat Sept 25 2021 - 01:00
Strangulation is not just some private kinkViolence towards women during sex is just good old-fashioned misogynySat Sept 18 2021 - 01:00
Crisis in recruitment and retention of school principals will only worsenResponsible for everything from drains to contact tracing, why would anyone want to be a principal?Sat Sept 11 2021 - 01:00
Ireland can rise above shameful EU response to Afghan refugee crisisWe must learn the lessons of history and show generosity to AfghansSat Sept 04 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Pregnant teachers and SNAs should be allowed work from homeGoing to school has potentially catastrophic consequences that could easily be avoidedSat Aug 28 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: I am breaking up with Gretchen Rubin, her world is too tidyBeing human is not a project with one self-improvement experiment at a timeSat Aug 14 2021 - 01:00
Ireland needs to fully embrace community-led housingIrish meitheal tradition has potential to help solve the crisis – with State supportSat Jul 31 2021 - 01:00
Why younger Catholics are attracted to the Latin MassBreda O'Brien: Pope's presumption of bad faith on part of those who attend the Mass is worryingSat Jul 24 2021 - 01:00
Jill Biden is thriving as Kamala Harris languishesMany of the US president’s signature proposals have long been priorities of his wifeSat Jul 17 2021 - 01:00
Breda O'Brien: Media not doing its job properly when covering abortionBAI upheld some complaints about radio coverage but there is a systemic problemSat Jul 10 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Smaller parties up against it in the byelectionCoverage of important democratic moments must reflect diversitySat Jul 03 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Independent review crucial in Baby Christopher caseSystemic failures at clinic leading to catastrophe must be fully examinedSat Jun 26 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Leaving Cert lessons to be learned from the pandemicTo reform the exams, let’s start with the Covid-19 concessions given this yearSat Jun 19 2021 - 01:00
Underfunding of universities leading to blind spots on human rightsBusiness-led utilitarianism and closer China links resulting from underfundingSat Jun 12 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Foley must explain the delay in Leaving Cert resultsTeachers fear exam results will be used to adjust accredited gradesSat Jun 05 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Foetus’s pain should be a focus for both sides of abortion debatePeople of goodwill must agree to relieving foetal pain with anaesthesiaSat May 29 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: The work of feminism is far from doneWomen are shamed for being women not only when it comes to menopauseSat May 22 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: As churches reopen it cannot be service as usualLoss of religion as lip service has opened opportunities to do things differentlySat May 15 2021 - 01:00
Breda O'Brien: There is a great deal of ageism in Irish societyOne example is older people being inappropriately placed in nursing homesSat May 08 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Constitution clause ignores parents in homeCitizens’ Assembly rightly values carers but is letting economics edit out parental roleSat May 01 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Government treats religion as whimsical hobbyState ban on public worship is unjust and labyrinthine regulations fool no oneSat Apr 24 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Healthcare students bullied into taking AstraZeneca vaccineDespite having legitimate concerns, they were mocked and painted as anti-vaxxersSat Apr 17 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Crowdfunding creates excellent Christian seriesThe Chosen bypasses entertainment industry with fresh dramatisation of JesusSat Apr 10 2021 - 01:00
State needs to stop taking schools for grantedTime to treat pupils and teachers better if schools are essential to societySat Apr 03 2021 - 01:00
Show some faith in religious communitiesAccess to worship should be restored long before Level 2Sat Mar 27 2021 - 01:00
Decisions on AI displacing workers can’t be left to eliteHuman greed for profit is more to be feared than artificial intelligence itselfSat Mar 20 2021 - 01:00
Euthanasia: Not so much a slippery slope as a push off a cliffConference hears providing for euthanasia inevitably leads to problems for vulnerableSat Mar 13 2021 - 01:00
Breda O'Brien: Our healthcare workers need care, tooPaying student nurses and midwives would help solve recruitment and retention issuesSat Mar 06 2021 - 01:00
The perils of parenting in the screen ageHow to have a much-needed conversation about sexting with your childrenSat Feb 27 2021 - 01:00
Breda O'Brien: Let public land be for social and affordable housingCentral Mental Hospital site should have been given to a body like Ó CualannSat Feb 20 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Time to question our tech billionaire overlordsMoronic conspiracy theories about Bill Gates wanting to microchip the world only detract attention from the vast, unaccountable power he already wieldsSat Feb 13 2021 - 01:00
Challenges ahead for the Archbishop of DublinProblems are enormous but new archbishop has track record of being undauntedSat Feb 06 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Joe Biden is not a ‘seamless garment’ CatholicWe have not advanced as far as we like to think in terms of religious toleranceSat Jan 30 2021 - 01:00
Coronavirus cannot be subdued unless it is controlled everywhereLow-income countries are being sacrificed to secure vaccines for richer countriesSat Jan 23 2021 - 01:00
Breda O'Brien: It took almost 100 years to hear Alice Litster shouting stopAn inspector between 1922 to 1957, there are 447 references to her in the mother and baby homes reportSat Jan 16 2021 - 01:00
Time for real educational consultation and forward planningThe debacle this week in education shows a dangerous weakness in governmental planning for educationSat Jan 09 2021 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: We must acknowledge those we lost during Covid-19Planning rituals to acknowledge loss would be a sign of hope and resilienceSat Dec 26 2020 - 01:00
Breda O'Brien: Does charity perpetuate unjust systems?Without radical societal change, charity will always be inadequateSat Dec 19 2020 - 01:00
Sexual ethics are about more than consentVlogger posting a video of her naked three-year-old self demonstrates the limits of this approachSat Dec 12 2020 - 01:00
Time for bigger dreams in a post-Covid worldAusten Ivereigh has produced an unusual collaboration with Pope FrancisSat Dec 05 2020 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Data collection on abortion is a travestyAnalysis of complications in women and trauma of foeticide specialists vitalSat Nov 28 2020 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: Students, teachers and management are exhaustedHigh time for a slightly longer break over the festive period as it would give everyone a liftFri Nov 20 2020 - 14:44
Joe Biden needs to prioritise families on the wrong side of the wealth divideDemocrats did badly in congressional elections as they are perceived as elitists in thrall to woke valuesSat Nov 14 2020 - 01:00
Coney Barrett unfairly targeted in attacks over childcareNew US supreme court judge subjected to personalised attacks over family dutiesSat Oct 31 2020 - 02:00
Travellers’ mental health needs proper attention and researchTravellers and their concerns only seem to rise to surface of Irish consciousness when there is a controversy or tragedySat Oct 24 2020 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: Calls for euthanasia fuelled by ageism and ableismNo compassion when those with terminal illness made wonder if they are burdenSat Oct 17 2020 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: What if children are a key source of Covid spread?Troubling studies from other countries suggest we might be behind the scienceSat Oct 10 2020 - 02:00
