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Dara: In Dublin’s Art Spaces, Our Voices Are Getting Louder
Social media has helped to create a more porous society, whereby, for example, I have access to academics, scientists, economists, artists — a whole world of people who society would ordinarily have...
View ArticleAndy: We Subsidise Climate Change, and It’s Not Funny
Ireland is falling behind in its commitments to combat climate change. We are supposed to have cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020 (relative to 2005) but the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleSam: At the Irish Times, Ads Sometimes Masquerade as Journalism
The Irish Times has run things in its print edition that appear to be independent journalism, but are in fact advertiser-sponsored content. This is very sad for both the Irish Times and for journalism...
View ArticleRoe: No Might Not Mean Never, and Open Relationships Revisited
Dear Roe, I’m having a bit of an issue with my boyfriend, which has also led to a debate with a friend. I’m 24 and have been with my boyfriend for nearly four months. I was with my last boyfriend for...
View ArticleAndy: The Vulture Funds Are Picking Our Bones
They destroyed our families, factories And they took our homes They left our bodies on the plains The vultures picked our bones –Bruce Springsteen, “Death to My Hometown” Vulture funds, which I have...
View ArticleMick: Housing Inequality Means Eternal Renting for Some, Profits for Others
For many people, Ireland’s housing bubble was a home-ownership bubble. According to this myth, we were all corrupted by the dream of home ownership and indebted ourselves excessively to get on the...
View ArticleAndy: Trees Are Political – They Grow Near Money and Power
In 1982 Fianna Fail Taoiseach Charles Haughey tried to pull a stroke aimed at shoring up his slim Dáil majority. He offered Ireland’s EU commissionership to the sitting Fine Gael TD for Dublin West,...
View ArticleSam: Steal This Article
One of the great things about publishing news online is that it spreads. People share it on social media, then various news sites pick it up, then newspapers, then maybe the radio. And then thousands...
View ArticleRoe: On Trusting Your Date, and Learning to Say “They”
Dear Roe, I have a lot of problems with trusting the people that I date. So in the beginning I keep them at arms length and I am really casual. Recently, I met a guy on and he seemed genuine and nice....
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...
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 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: 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 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 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 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: 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...
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