Renting in Ireland has become the bane of many lives. Given the precarious nature of renting, there is little feeling of security with most tenancies, even after signing on the dotted line. What you can pay €750 a month for in Berlin or Eindhoven is far removed from what the same money will get you in Dublin or Cork.
In my parents' day it was Kilburn, in mine it was Clapham and for my children it's Hackney. Whether its north, south or east, the move is the same. Despite a booming local economy, record low levels of unemployment, higher wages and career opportunities that were not afforded to previous generations, young Irish people are still choosing London.
Róisín Murphy, Mogwai and CMAT are among the acts confirmed to perform at this summer's scaled-down Body and Soul festival.
I don't know whether the Will Smith slap is a symptom of his toxic masculinity, or his great love for his wife, or the end of comedy, or if the response to it was a by-product of society's racism, or the ultimate expression of cancel culture.
Every decent Irish person recognises that the mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine is a historic crisis to which we must respond. There is a genuine desire to rise gracefully and with generosity to this historic challenge.
More members of Ireland's migrant community should feel supported and empowered to run in local elections so that Irish politics properly reflects the diversity of this society, the Minister of State for Community Development has said.
There was a point in the early 1980s when Daryl Hall felt he had a target on his back. "As a journalist, you probably understand this. I was the victim of a journalistic pile-up," says the blond half of 1980s hit machine Hall and Oates, as he prepares to release a new retrospective of his solo career, Before After.
Young people are in danger. Out of sight of parental supervision, they are being preyed on by unscrupulous companies that target their psychological vulnerabilities and encourage undesirable and often self-harming behaviour. Or so we have been told for successive generations.
