Mary Aiken
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Marian Finucane sounds as though an unruly guest has gatecrashed her brunch party
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 25, 2019, 05:00
A longtime fixture of weekend radio, the Sunday morning newspaper panel hosted by Marian Finucane (RTÉ Radio 1) is something of an institution. And li(...)

Deep breaths, parents, but maybe video games and screen-time are not as bad as you think
- Parenting
- September 19, 2018, 07:01
Video games are becoming more and more educational, and screen-time may not be as bad as we once thought. Deep breaths, parents. You are skeptical. (...)

Maureen Dowd: Porn culture is making sex bleak and transactional
- US
- April 8, 2018, 15:48
I’ve noticed a weird pattern, in fiction and life, about sexual encounters: women decide they’re not attracted to a guy they’re nestling with. Limeren(...)

State faces ‘tsunami’ of cyber abuse cases that will ‘only get worse’
- Social Affairs
- February 13, 2018, 18:35
Recent cases of child abuse and exploitation over the internet are just “the tip of the iceberg” and the State faces “a tsunami” of cases coming down (...)

Call for smartphone use to be banned for primary students
- Education
- January 30, 2018, 01:00
Primary teachers have played down calls for a ban on smartphones in schools on the basis that most have long-standing policies which prohibit mobile p(...)

We’re seeing an online justice revolution. That’s good. Isn’t it?
- People
- November 25, 2017, 06:00
The video starts with a camera phone pointed at the ground. White runners are pounding on a dark pavement. A woman’s voice calls out a name and her ha(...)

Concert promoter Peter Aiken’s Sandymount home for €3.8m
- New to Market
- November 23, 2017, 06:00
Following their purchase of Danes Hollow, the Howth home of Riverdance creators Moya Doherty and John McColgan for €8.2 million, concert promoter Pete(...)

We need to talk about the Irish ‘digital age of consent’
- Opinion
- July 13, 2017, 05:38
The special rapporteur for child protection recently recommended that the “digital age of consent” in Ireland be set at 13, the youngest age allowable(...)

It was close to midnight on a summer’s night in 2015 when Ronan Hughes walked into his mother’s bedroom in Tyrone and told her about his problem. Unt(...)

When the trolls come out to play on the net
- Technology
- August 27, 2015, 06:00
“I hope you drink rat poison and die,” says Prof Steven Knowlton. We are having a conversation about the often negative and often abusive comments (...)