Gary Lineker’s ‘bald patch’ jibe hurt Frank Lampard - luckily, there is one treatment for hair loss
Unthinkable: Here’s a three-step programme to deal with cruel comments about your appearance
Unthinkable coumns by Joe Humphreys
Unthinkable: Here’s a three-step programme to deal with cruel comments about your appearance
Kerry writer John Moriarty, who died in 2007, called for ‘the abandonment of the western way of life’
Unthinkable: Technology is throwing up new moral dilemmas - “screen studies” may help us to answer them
Edmund Burke is associated with conservatism but his political outlook is more radical than he is given credit for
There are 193 nation states in the world, with Palestine waiting to become the 194th
Unthinkable: Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse could help treat your anxiety
Concerns are being raised about ‘conceptual inflation’ whereby ‘use of a term expands too much relative to its meaning’
Unthinkable: Procreating to ‘save the West’ is probably a bad idea, but what’s a good reason to have children?
Unthinkable: The only known photograph of such a sign is from an unknown source
Unthinkable: Individuals and society at large need a coherent storyline to give us hope for the future
‘Because structural injustices are beyond our control it is wrong to blame ordinary people for them,’ argues political philosopher Maeve McKeown
Unthinkable: It’s worth learning to spot linguistic devices to avoid plain speech, which can have real impacts on Irish society
Unthinkable: Killing of the Russian opposition leader shames all of us who merely ‘fornicate and read the papers’
Unthinkable: Powerful organisations may be trying to ‘suppress emotions that threaten capitalism’
Unthinkable: Changing morals may explain differences between age groups on the Israel-Palestine conflict
We can’t be sure technology is making people less empathetic, but the signs are not good
Unthinkable: Philosopher Iris Murdoch provides us with a model of love that is both highly demanding and devilishly complex
Unthinkable: No idea? Don't worry. There's a toolkit for that
A philosopher and a psychologist on how to know whether you’re being helpful or just interfering
Unthinkable: If SuperValu Páirc is not to your taste, what about Supermac’s University of Galway?
… Or is meritocracy just a modern version of aristocracy?
Unthinkable: Humans are loath to admit that sh*t happens – this may lie behind a multi-billion euro industry
Unthinkable: Seeking happiness in 2024? Epicurus has the answer for you
Unthinkable: The good life is not a saccharine, Christmas Day joyful experience. It’s the well-balanced life, lived with rationality and virtue, argues lecturer and MMA fighter Gaven Kerr
Unthinkable: Pushing ahead with the hate offences Bill may be a bad strategy, even if criticism of the initiative has been ‘completely misguided’
Unthinkable: The universe is ‘fine-tuned’ for the existence of life. A theory of probability suggests it is not a fluke
Unthinkable: Objectivity, trying to climb outside of our own minds, remains a noble aim
It’s not Dalkey. British anthropologist Daniel Miller calls it ‘Cuan’ but you know it by another name
Unthinkable: Søren Kierkegaard would hate this listicle. Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt might approve
Historian Joanna Bourke believes evil acts committed by women are magnified because of ‘the idea that violence is a property of men’
Friedrich Nietzsche disliked complaining but he recognised the importance of shelter
What can the lessons of psychology teach us about the Israel-Hamas war and the path to peace?
Unthinkable: The Roman philosopher Cicero can help reset your moral compass amid capitalist forces
The first 24 hours after Hamas’s attack on Israel produced probably the worst 24 hours ever on social media
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices