Are 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 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 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: 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 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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