Norman Doidge

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‘Why are so many children being diagnosed with autism now compared with 20 years ago? Are we missing something?’ Photograph: iStock
Why are so many children being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders?

Why are so many more children being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) than 20 years ago? Galway-based consultant speech and language the(...)

Does the Charter for Compassion get us closer to doing unto others as we would want them to do unto us?
Rite&Reason: Charter for Compassion is a key moral compass

Last month RTÉ showed a programme called Divorcing God. Its theme was whether the decline in Catholic religious practice in Ireland was depriving soci(...)

Emer O’Toole: ‘Because I see sexuality as a spectrum, defining myself as gay, straight or bisexual is not the way to describe my sexuality.’ Photograph: Meera Paleja
‘Everybody’s queer’: life on the sexuality spectrum

Before “gay” there was “queer”. “Queer” is a word that I grew up knowing as a playground insult, although it was one I detested and never used, sin(...)