Andy: There Are Bad Side Effects to Greater Student Loans
The Irish government’s funding support to universities fell from €1.6 billion in 2005 to just €939 million in 2014. This, coupled with rising student numbers, amounted to a cut of 25 percent in state...
View ArticleRoe: On Dealing with Surprising Scars and Body Shapes
Dear Roe, Twenty-nine-year-old straight man here. The problem I have isn’t new, but I’ve never known how to handle it so I’m hoping you can help. I’ve had depression since I was a teenager, and thanks...
View ArticleAndy: Console Was Bad, Corporate Tax Avoidance Is Far Worse
There has been extensive media coverage of the reported misuse of charitable funds by Paul Kelly, the founder and chief executive of Console, the suicide bereavement organization. Outrage has also been...
View ArticleSam: Here’s an Idea to Make the News Media Better
No news media organization is entitled to funding. We should all have to earn it by giving our readers or viewers or listeners something they think is worth paying for. We should not create a new...
View ArticleRoe: When Is a Blow Job a Blow Job? And Period Fear
Dear Roe, My boyfriend and I were listening to a podcast where a man was complaining about only getting a couple of blow jobs a year from his wife, and I made a face because that sounded like a very...
View ArticleSam: Who Cares How Much Sex Millennials Are Having in Idaho?
You might have heard that millennials don’t have sex as much as older generations. You might even have heard a friend going through a bit of a drought joke bitterly, “I guess I must be a millennial.”...
View ArticleRoe: On Medicine and Low Libidos, and on Talking to Teenagers
Dear Roe, I’m a 31-year-old woman, and I have been on antidepressants for about a year now. After struggling with depression for years, they have been a lifesaver, I can’t remember being this strong...
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David: Don’t Let This Lobby Group Kill the College Green Plan
A new group has been formed whose campaign, if successful, will hold Dublin back and make the city centre a less successful place. It will be bad for the city economy and will make it less attractive...
View ArticleAndy: Taxpayers Should Not Be Subsidising Fee-Paying Schools
As the summer holidays draw to a close, anxious parents find their thoughts turning to the ever-increasing costs of (ostensibly free) education. A survey by the Irish League of Credit Unions has found...
View ArticleRoe: on Private Parts and Politicians, and Trouble with Orgasms
Dear Roe, American politician Anthony Wiener has been caught in a sexting scandal again, and the media is all over it. While he was cheating on his wife, he wasn’t doing anything illegal and was...
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