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Please Elon Musk, don’t make me defend Ryanair
I am by no means a Ryanair booster. And yet I have glimpsed the possibility – remote though it may be – of the airline’s customer experience actually worsening
Strangulation porn: How it became mainstream and its distorting impact on Irish teenagers
Frontline domestic violence services, gardaí and Government officials fear a girl in Ireland could die at the hands of a boy who does not fully understand what he is doing to her
Coimisiún na Meán spends millions of euro fighting legal actions by social media giants
Bill expected to climb higher as regulator is facing 12 such cases
Stormont Minister breached ministerial code with social media post, report finds
Commissioner says Gordon Lyons’s actions had potential of ‘heightening tensions’ during rioting in North last year
Grok AI was the final straw for sports bodies fed up with online abuse
Some Irish sporting organisations did the only thing they could do to protect their athletes from the worst excesses on X
Trump claims ‘really good deal done’ on Greenland; Skerries up in arms and social media bans
Plus: What teens think of new age verification proposals for social media, Skerries residents up in arms over active travel scheme, and Emer McLysaght on the fear that plagues those living on their own
‘I’ve been online for so long. I’ve seen a bunch of stuff. I’m kind of desensitised to it’
Teenagers at a recent workshop had all witnessed violent, extreme, racist, sexist and unhealthy body image content online
Parental controls for digital platforms can protect kids from social media’s dark side
Parents worry about toxic social media and their children accessing inappropriate content but they are not powerless in limiting access
Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy
Country’s largest local authority undertakes review of social media platform use as others sign out for good
Screens, stress and the generational gap – ideas for staying well in a connected world
There is evidence to suggest that, even though we are connected to more and more people online, we are struggling greatly with loneliness and anxiety
‘I’ve not felt so insecure before’: Greenlanders prepare for crisis amid a lack of official advice
In the capital, Nuuk, people are stocking up on petrol and food as they contemplate the worst after Donald Trump’s threats
The rise and fall of Twitter: From a hub for democratic discourse to a bigoted, toxic sinkhole
Elon Musk’s site has evolved from one that influenced culture and helped foment revolution to one where users ‘get nothing back except rage’
No Instagram, Netflix or YouTube: Can I survive a four-week digital detox?
Last year, I used my phone as respite - doomscrolling, listening to podcasts in the shower and audiobooks while going to sleep
Saunas, cinemas and listening to albums: 25 ways to get off your phone
Get off your phone and out into the real world with this inspiring list of screen-free things to do in the year ahead
Dublin ‘Bushman’ defends street ‘prank’ amid criticism of online video business
A number of young women express disquiet about reactions being monetised by content creator
‘Concerns remain’ around Grok despite X’s assurances, says Minister
Coco’s Law bans sharing of intimate images but does not appear to criminalise generating them
YouTube brings in new controls for teen accounts
Parents can now limit time spent on platform’s short-form video content
Grok is awful but banning X is a betrayal of free speech
State-driven attempts to shut down a corner of the public realm are wrong
Workers at Meta subcontractor Covalen to strike for two days
Staff, who review material on social media networks for safety, seek union recognition, better redundancy terms
Gardaí investigating 200 reports of alleged AI-generated child sex abuse material on X
Social network’s tool Grok has been creating illegal images at the request of users
Capacity constraints the big challenge for AI as we head into 2026
Looking too far into the future can make fools of us, but data-centre power shortfall and social media regulatory wrangles lie ahead
Inside Venezuela: Armed groups are active. People can’t celebrate the end of the dictatorship
The voices of citizens yearning for change are being muted despite the end of Maduro’s dictatorship
Attorney General examining laws on sexualised AI images amid X backlash
Regulator, Rape Crisis Ireland and civil liberties campaigners criticise generated images using Grok
‘Stop saying yes’: Over 50 ways you can make your life easier in 2026
From daily tasks to planning for the future, here are 52 ways to make your life easier this year
Government digital wallet could be a PR disaster in the making
Patrick O’Donovan’s proposal around ID verification comes from a good place but could cause problems
What happens when a university closes its library?
Greece Letter: As physical books give way to ‘multipurpose spaces,’ students and academics fear the loss of the university’s intellectual heart
‘They’ve all found workarounds’: Irish parents in Australia on the social media ban
‘Is it bad letting the government parent our kids? It’s impossible for us to police it,’ says one mother
Media in 2025: the shadow of Trump hangs over everything
There is a sense of being caught between outdated structures and increasingly unstable new realities
Oversharing on Instagram is narcissistic. Doing it on Facebook is having a meltdown
Are we soon going to reach posting zero, the point at which people stop sharing online? I hope so
Miriam’s Lord’s week: Fianna Fáil election fiasco report bundles Jim Gavin under the bus
Micheál Martin and his team ease back on the contrition and their inept handling of the presidential election campaign
Don’t blame Gen Z, ‘financial flexing’ is nothing new
Social media has only increased the pressure to flaunt spending, but there is an alternative
‘You violated our family’: Simon Harris tells of fear caused by threats to family
Tánaiste’s victim-impact statement submitted to court as woman jailed for threatening online messages
Teenagers using AI to create deep fakes of classmates, committee hears
Artificial intelligence is compounding the pressure many teenagers face, says psychologist
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