'Dear Life' answers our questions about death without us having to ask them out loud. Junior doctor Rachel Clarke is not afraid to take...

We need to talk about love. Not romantic love, or the love of a family, or between friends. We need to talk about love as an act of...

Our lives as we knew them came to a sudden halt. Our worlds changed overnight. We had little or no warning. There probably isn't any...

Paul D’Alton brings in psychological first aid at St Vincent’s hospital as form of support Social-distancing measures have diminished the...

Fear is hard-wired into the human brain and is a completely normal response when we are in immediate danger. When fear strikes, our...

Positive psychology looks at how people survive, bounce back and thrive from the inevitable losses that no human can avoid. Trauma is a...

Aoife Abbey gives voice to the complexity of what it means to be a human being. Over the past number of years a genre in literature...

When I was five years old we were living on the 'wrong side of the tracks' in a rented house in Rialto, in Dublin 8. Late one afternoon,...

We humans are the only species with the capacity to reflect on our own mortality. The outpouring of grief for Anthony Foley touched the...

On January 7, 2015, Lassana Bathily, a 24-year-old Muslim from Mali in west Africa, was working in a kosher grocery shop in Paris. He...

The tide has turned. The image of three-year-old Aylan washed up on a beach in the holiday resort of Bodrum, Turkey, has cut through...