Don’t be so cynical. It’s bad for your health
Cynics suffer more depression, drink more heavily, earn less money and die younger; hope is what helps us endure
It’s a pity more of us don’t identify with Scrooge, the skinflint who was capable of change
If even Ebenezer Scrooge can change, perhaps there is hope for the rest of us and for our planet
Norma Foley’s approach to AI in the classroom is breathtakingly naive
There is no incentive for students to admit to using AI and every incentive to cheat, while teachers have been woefully underprepared for a revolution likened to Gutenberg’s printing press
Instead of talking about assisted dying, we should prioritise palliative care
Rather than foist assisted suicide on healthcare professionals who don’t want it, why don’t we do something progressive?
Forget Bluesky and pre-Musk Twitter. Friendship is the only true antidote to polarisation
It is less easy to hate someone with baffling ideas when you know and like them as a person
Opposition to abortion is seen as a position of the right, but it’s not that simple
By embracing abortion in the 1970s, feminism accepted that pregnancy is damaging to women’s lives, rather than something fundamental to human experience
The principal can’t sleep for worrying. If she paid all the bills on her desk, she couldn’t open the school
The top five costs for schools have nothing to do with education but just keeping the buildings heated, lighted, clean, safe and insured. And they’re increasingly unsustainable
Covid-19 left deep scars in Irish society. Those whose lives were lost or upended deserve better
People need, want and deserve a proper accounting of the successes and failures of the handling of the pandemic
Men are suffering a crisis of meaning. And some are finding answers in orthodox religion
While being young and female is still no picnic, young men are struggling in multiple ways
Students from Republic missing out on UK places because of junior cycle marking
Everyone wants senior cycle reform to succeed, but if junior cycle is an indication, there are real grounds for concern
Meet the two Irish women with voting rights at the Synod of Bishops in Rome
Traditionally, the only non-bishops with voting rights were 10 members of male religious orders but Pope Francis has changed that to five men and women religious
Is inexplicably hard marking at Junior Cycle meant to prove a point to teachers?
Same students facing frustration at mediocre marks in the Junior Cycle are about to be the guinea pigs for the new Senior Cycle. This is doubly unfair
Stop framing breastfeeding versus bottle-feeding as a question of mothers at war
Our culture is not breastfeeding friendly. We should focus instead on changing that instead
Why do so many people want spiritualist wedding ceremonies?
The Catholic Church cannot and should not attempt to compete with a spirituality which is essentially whatever a couple wants it to b
Pornography is sending men to ever darker places in search of more extreme images
The proliferation of ugly, misogynistic, violent porn online is testament to the fact that sexuality without love or boundaries is damaging