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The manosphere isn’t breaking the system – it’s selling it...

Louis Theroux’s documentary reveals not a movement of rebellious men, but a business model built…

By Roe McDermott

when you’re disabled, finding love, waiting to be loved all-consumingly by another (it doesn’t have to be a movie-centric whirlwind, a quiet loveliness is just as potent), I think feels an impossible quest.
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Love and disability: “The ‘who’d have me’ thoughts almost never...

On Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, Jennifer McShane ponders one of the hardest aspects of her…

By Jennifer McShane

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Navigating the awkward conversation you need to have with that...

Tip-toeing around the issue isn't doing anyone any good, but neither are the passive-aggressive remarks…

By Lauren Heskin

Gossip
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What’s the pandemic missing? Gossip. These juicy tidbits should tide...

With almost a year of monotonous days stacked up, Megan Burns is peering backward to…

By Megan Burns

True friendship – where you can interrupt each other raucously without worrying about whether or not the room is ventilated; where you can eat off each other’s plates – exists in the past and in the future
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Lynn Enright: ‘I can’t shake the sense that the loneliness...

Having moved back to Ireland, Lynn Enright worries that her friendships will only ever be…

By Lynn Enright

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Porn addiction: ‘It was like having another relationship. It was...

Ireland is now the sixth largest consumer of pornography in the world, and while pornography…

By Michelle Heffernan

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