Us adults should stop rolling our eyes about Greta ThunbergBreda O’Brien: Young people are paralysed with fear about the planet, and we must take actionSat Feb 22 2020 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Election result shows the perils of treating people as outsidersThe general election was won by outsiders who know how to listen to the excludedSat Feb 15 2020 - 01:00
Breda O'Brien: If we really valued children we would prioritise their carersSocial engineering caused by tax individualisation has come at a heavy costSat Feb 8 2020 - 01:03
Breda O’Brien: We must vote against the stifling political and media consensusPublic funding and media visibility stack the deck in favour of ensconced political partiesSat Feb 1 2020 - 01:00
Breda O’Brien: Time to smash Tweedledum and Tweedledee politicsAontú offers pro-family policies to bring much-needed real change to Irish societySat Jan 25 2020 - 01:00
Let politicians know that education mattersBreda O'Brien: Education will only become an election issue if voters choose to make it oneSat Jan 18 2020 - 01:00
What moral authority does the US have to kill Suleimani?We should question the morality of killing any person, even those supposed to be evilSat Jan 11 2020 - 05:00
Breda O’Brien: Binge-watched insights into Teutonic TV landEpisodes of Dark can make you notice stark German and Irish cultural differencesSat Dec 28 2019 - 06:00
Peloton advert a metaphor for pressure on middle-class womenAllegedly sexist commercial unwittingly reveals phenomena far worse than the offenceSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:00
Britain is now divided as never beforeResearch reveals two tribes who intensely dislike each other, and who are not terribly informed about each otherSat Dec 14 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: Genetic disability tests are misleading couplesLimitations of non-invasive, pre-natal testing are ignored by opinion-formersSat Dec 7 2019 - 06:00
Time to pay attention to the persecution of ChristiansSecular institutions need to end their neglect of 245 million Christians who face extreme persecutionSat Nov 30 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: We must honour our history and welcome the strangerBetween extremes of open borders and xenophobia, there is a generous IrelandSat Nov 23 2019 - 06:00
Breda O'Brien: A simple, dignified apology from McAleese would sufficeFormer president should say she never intended to imply Pope John Paul II endorsed marital rapeSat Nov 16 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: Time to get adult about pornEthical porn is doomed. Child protection needs legal and cultural changeSat Nov 9 2019 - 06:00
Married priests and pregnant statues distract from church’s real issuesThe Amazon synod focused on the wrong solutions to very deep problemsSat Nov 2 2019 - 06:00
‘England get out of Ireland’ does not apply to abortionSinn Féin and DUP show abortion ranks higher than nationalism or unionismSat Oct 26 2019 - 06:00
Mental health services for young people need real changeChronic underfunding and understaffing need to be addressedSat Oct 19 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: UCD to turn on canonisation of John Henry NewmanPrelate failed to establish a Catholic university and Irish education is the poorer for itSat Oct 12 2019 - 06:00
Our emergency departments are a kind of purgatoryDo we have Stockholm syndrome that makes us accept appalling conditions?Sat Oct 5 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: Euthanasia is symptom of society which does not careMedical killing is motivated not by love but cold functions of sexism, ableism and ageismSat Sep 21 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: Schools should be teaching instead of beggingPuny capitation grant deprives children of materials and forces staff to fundraiseSat Sep 14 2019 - 06:00
Breda O'Brien: Ireland is not quite as secular as it pretends to beWe now draw a distinction between the deserving and undeserving believersSat Sep 7 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: We need to mobilise our empathy to save the planetThe complicated ethics of trying to live sustainably cause some of us to just give upSat Aug 31 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: Legacy of Muckross nuns lives on foreverFar from corrupt religion, these nuns inspired as strong female role modelsSat Aug 10 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: Boris Johnson’s infidelity shows how some sexism gets a free passBritish prime minister’s living arrangements are modern sexism, not progressSat Aug 3 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: Child’s voice ignored in surrogacy debateCommittee prioritises doctors and academics over donor-conceived peopleTue Jul 30 2019 - 12:57
Parents need to grasp dangers of children’s online activityParents can unwittingly allow children wander in a treacherous online worldSat Jul 27 2019 - 06:00
Being religious is now a countercultural identityChristianity is no bulwark against new tribal identities dominating discourseSat Jul 6 2019 - 06:00
Breda O’Brien: Smartphone addiction is a great danger we must resistTechnology giants wean us on their apps and glowing screens. It is time to take actionSat Jun 29 2019 - 06:00
Questions to be answered about Holles Street casePanel to examine abortion on grounds of alleged fatal foetal abnormalitySat Jun 22 2019 - 06:00
Breda O'Brien: The pain of the Leaving Cert should be spread out over two yearsAs a teacher, I have always known how tough the exams are. Reform is overdueSat Jun 15 2019 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: Aontú’s superpower seems to be invisibilityTrump bluster mops up media coverage at expense of small social justice partiesSat Jun 8 2019 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: Irish culture needs to learn how to deal with griefWe often fail to recognise that grief can result from major losses other than deathSat Jun 1 2019 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: State must start nurturing marriagesGovernment embraces divorce when it should help low-conflict wedded couplesSat May 25 2019 - 02:00
Figures suggest surge in abortions post-repealIf the trend continues, more than 5,000 preborn children will be deadSat May 18 2019 - 02:00
Pro-life votes in upcoming elections can lay groundwork for future progressVoters who care about the right to life must send a message to smug pro-choice partiesSat May 11 2019 - 02:00
No one loves election posters but the alternatives are worsePosters have downsides but online targeted advertising has serious drawbacksSat May 4 2019 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: Persecuted Christians merit progressives’ supportWest often neglects anti-Christian bias, seeing them as unenlightened leftoversSat Apr 27 2019 - 02:00
Rebuild Notre Dame as a living church, not as a tourist attractionThe cathedral touches the longing for something more in all of us. It must be rebuilt to honour the reason it was built in the first placeSat Apr 20 2019 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: History is a pillar of society’s wellbeingEducationalists marginalise history as a subject out of short-term utilitarianismSat Apr 13 2019 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: Divestment of schools requires more to be builtDespite media messages, Catholic parishes are mainly benign presences in schoolsSat Apr 6 2019 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: GPs are ignoring democracy on abortion issuesDoctors’ group is demanding members fall into line without expressing their concernsSat Mar 30 2019 - 02:00
Even invisible illnesses deserve to be recognisedFibromyalgia sufferers want the State to recognise the many costs associated with itSat Mar 23 2019 - 02:00
Breda O'Brien: More questions than answers about Islamic radicalisationLisa Smith is emblematic of a problem facing many countries – how to integrate radicalised MuslimsSat Mar 16 2019 - 02:00
Macron is no saviour of EuropeBreda O’Brien: Macron exemplifies elitist privilege that alienates people from EUSat Mar 9 2019 - 02:00
Reform of Catholic Church must come from the topClerics in denial about abuse should learn from failures in Ireland and USSat Mar 2 2019 - 02:00
Denying women access to legitimate choices and hopeA UK council thinks women should be protected from people offering leaflets on abortionSat Feb 23 2019 - 02:00
Breda O’Brien: State hits vulnerable and elderly with more taxSupplements for gut health and macular degeneration not fair game for VAT hikesSat Feb 16 2019 - 02:00
Breda O'Brien: Pressure of mock exams reflects unhealthy societyLack of exam system reform does not explain stress levels endured by studentsSat Feb 9 2019 - 02:00