Roe: 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...
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...
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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 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...
View ArticleAndy: Bin Charges Shift Is Part of a Mosaic of Troubling Trends
The proposal to move to a system whereby everyone pays bin charges based on the weight of waste they generate has run into problems – in the face of popular unease about potentially rising bills,...
View ArticleRoe: A Lack of Affection, and Topless Women
Dear Roe, I’m a 31-year-old woman and have been with my boyfriend for nearly a year. We get along well, we have fun, he’s kind and thoughtful – but our sex life is major problem. He’s generally not a...
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 ArticleA Quick Q&A with Irish Times Managing Director Liam Kavanagh
When the Irish Times recently published its accounts for 2015, they showed an operating loss of €1.1 million on turnover of €83.6 million. That was bad compared to the previous year, when it made a...
View ArticleAre Irish Publications Ignoring Their Readers?
Among the talks that the Banter series presented at Beatyard on 30-31 July was one moderated by Dublin Inquirer managing editor Lois Kapila about the relationship between Irish publications and their...
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: 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 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 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: 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: How Not to Set Up a Threesome, and Hooded Clits
Dear Roe, I’m a 33-year-old woman and I’ve been with my boyfriend for over four years. I’ve known for years that he has always wanted to try a threesome with another woman, and I feel like we’re at a...
View ArticleSam: If Newcomers Can’t Be Irish, What Can We Be?
Some 21 percent of those of us who live in Dublin city aren’t white Irish or white Irish Traveller. That’s according to the 2011 census. Today, it’s probably more. We can be Somali or Brazilian or...
View ArticleAndy: Bin Charges Shift Is Part of a Mosaic of Troubling Trends
The proposal to move to a system whereby everyone pays bin charges based on the weight of waste they generate has run into problems – in the face of popular unease about potentially rising bills,...
View ArticleRoe: A Lack of Affection, and Topless Women
Dear Roe, I’m a 31-year-old woman and have been with my boyfriend for nearly a year. We get along well, we have fun, he’s kind and thoughtful – but our sex life is major problem. He’s generally not a...
View ArticleAndy: Brexit Could Open Up Space for European Left
What are the likely economic consequences for Ireland of Britain voting to leave the EU? Most obviously, the possible re-imposition of passport controls and/or customs barriers between Ireland the UK...
View ArticleFrankie: Why Are People Obsessed with “Gangland”?
Why is there such an appetite among the law-abiding public for stories about violent career criminals? Why do ordinary citizens want to hear about gangsters, guns, drugs, and murder? It’s a phenomenon...
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