Breda O’Brien: A timid religion will die fastPope’s visit must energise Catholicism into a courageous, counter-cultural forceSat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: How products keep us in state of chronic anxietyTreated as mere consumers, we are forced into a cult of predictable valuesSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Referendum result does not override conscienceAnti-abortion medics feel threatened and fearful in a newly intolerant IrelandSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Anti-abortion movement has not given up and will not disappearIreland’s heart now closed to those not deemed human enough for protectionMon May 28 2018 - 09:00
Breda O’Brien: If you vote for choice you are facilitating abortionsEither we become a State that nudges women into making life-ending decisions for their babies or we strive to care for bothThu May 24 2018 - 01:00
Reasons to vote No in the abortion referendumBreda O’Brien: Having to travel dissuades many, and virtually none regret their living childSat May 19 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Abortion for Down syndrome looms as real threatWe are heading towards abortion for Down syndrome if we do not retain the EighthSat May 12 2018 - 05:00
Compassion’s role in voting on Eighth AmendmentBreda O’Brien: Voting for abortion is voting for despair and overt trust in HSESat May 05 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: State failing children with Down syndromeGovernment kicks legs out from under parents working on early-intervention schemeSat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Ireland is sneaking away from neutralityDáil’s decision to join EU defence framework Pesco is an abandonment of our core valuesSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
The inequality in teacher pay is divisive and wrongTeachers are expected to remedy the ills of society while younger teachers must put up with unjust rates of paySat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Consent alone will not help our childrenWe must also teach children about developing mutually respectful relationshipsSat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
Children get too much protection and not enough exerciseChildren are online at earlier ages and scarcely know spontaneous play outsideSat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
Making Leo cool is a disastrous mistakeBreda O'Brien: Varadkar was known as blunt and capable. His handlers think that is so last centurySat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
Equal time will not guarantee fairness in Eighth debatesIndependent group should rapidly adjudicate claims of bias in abortion discussionsSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Feminist oppressors rejoice at denial of rights to unbornSupreme Court ruling is a tragedy but one the people can overcomeSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: There are local solutions to the housing crisisSo-called vulture funds are seen as the obvious solution due to a flawed vision of the market solving all ills – but there are alternativesSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Bruton ignores practical problems of letting students opt out of religion classAnecdotally, the numbers opting out are tiny, but no one knows because no research has been doneSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Professor provides antidote to nihilism and identity politicsJordan Peterson’s stoical world view challenges tribalism of cultural MarxismSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Mabs forum’s defunding is deeply disturbingGovernment is continuing its silence over the damaging restructuring row engulfing the serviceSat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Making abortion safe, legal and rare is impossibleOur solution to the abuse and poverty of women cannot be ending young human livesSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Down syndrome abortion debate must be based on factsRemoving the Eighth Amendment will do nothing to increase supports for familiesSat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Housing crisis solutions really existCo-operative models like Ó Cualann’s could banish misery of housing shortageSat Jan 20 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Referendum Commission reform is vital to democracyCitizens’ Assembly should recommend a balanced and independent referendum bodySat Jan 13 2018 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Before you disagree, wait five minutes. And thinkCommitted to finding truth? Then ‘seek out the best representatives of positions you disagree with’Sat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Mindfulness not the cure for all that ails usPractice in danger of becoming another self-focused response that prevents us challenging skewed valuesSat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: No one ever asks when the foetus is dueA first step to accepting violence towards others is use of dehumanising languageSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
Breda O'Brien: Trump's pleasing of evangelicals may rain down fireBy recognising Jerusalem as Israeli capital, US president pleases few beyond his apocalypse-loving baseSat Dec 09 2017 - 05:00
Priest’s brainchild shows it’s not all bad news from KenyaShalom, devised by Fr Padraig Devine, carries out research into the causes of conflictSat Dec 02 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Get ready to worship the AI deityAs AI displaces people from jobs, its creators look to ways of taming peopleSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Consent should be minimum moral standardConsent is low bar in sexual relations amid repellent behaviour and dominanceSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: I was shouted down for 40 minutes at Oxford UniversityPro-choice students screamed to prevent anti-abortion speakers being heardSat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00
Citizens Information Board assault on volunteers is madnessDrive to replace Mabs and CIS with 16 regional structures must be stoppedSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00
Oireachtas committee’s decision on Eighth Amendment was predictableCommittee cannot now cast around for fig leaves by inviting anti-abortion advocates to address itSat Oct 21 2017 - 05:00
Justice for children is not the focus of Budget 2018If Government had prioritised the good of children, this budget would look very differentSat Oct 14 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Silencing a rape victim is never a feminist actThe destruction of posters for Unbroken event goes against the principles of feminismSat Oct 07 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Why Leo Varadkar’s tactics may be pointlessTaoiseach’s calculated attacks have no guarantee of success in an era of political volatilitySat Sept 30 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: When ‘fatal’ foetal abnormalities are not so fatalAn American expert says labelling such conditions ‘fatal’ is a self-fulfilling prophecySat Sept 23 2017 - 05:00
Don’t let the internet bring up your childrenAdults have responsibilities. So put down that smartphone and listen to your children nowSat Sept 16 2017 - 05:00
Paddy Power’s cheap Knock joke rings hollowBreda O’Brien: It’s easy to mock religion, harder to mitigate the curse of gamblingSat Sept 02 2017 - 05:00
World Meeting of Families offers chance of renewalMeeting and possible visit of Pope offer Irish Catholic Church chance to reviveSat Aug 26 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Why US needs militant, powerful non-violenceKing and Gandhi remind us alt-right violence should never be met with violence from leftSat Aug 19 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Surrogacy is a dystopian realityHorrors in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ reflect how surrogacy sees women as walking wombsSat Aug 12 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Selective outrage is a form of fake newsKevin Myers is sacked only now but had said far worse about the Catholic ChurchSat Aug 05 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Irish people need to talk about deathCapitalism seems to have left us unable to deal with suffering in a meaningful waySat Jul 29 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Why are we okay with not helping east Africa?African countries used to be on our radar because Aunty Kitty, the nun, was out there helping mothers deliver babies who would starve without our helpSat Jul 22 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Des Hanafin transcended media caricatureExtraordinary political career was driven by concern for weakest in societySat Jul 01 2017 - 05:00
Exam reforms in England and Ireland are very differentEngland has gone for long, demanding exams; we have shortened ours dramaticallySat Jun 24 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Questions remain about detained pregnant teenagerOutrage about detaining an expectant woman ignores possible consequencesSat Jun 17 2017 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Countering extremism requires new responsesReligious literacy and willingness to have difficult conversations would be a startSat Jun 10 2017 - 05:00
