Apr 11, 20213 minBook Review: Dear Life'Dear Life' answers our questions about death without us having to ask them out loud. Junior doctor Rachel Clarke is not afraid to take...
Jan 1, 20213 minWe have had a glimpse of who we can be as individuals and a society – we cannot afford to lose it 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...
May 22, 20202 min8 little podcasts about life and love in a time of coronavirusOur 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...
May 13, 20203 minInterview: How hospitals are trying to protect staff’s mental health in social distancing era Paul D’Alton brings in psychological first aid at St Vincent’s hospital as form of support Social-distancing measures have diminished the...
Apr 28, 20203 minWe're so much more than our fear - as brave frontline staff are showingFear is hard-wired into the human brain and is a completely normal response when we are in immediate danger. When fear strikes, our...
Dec 10, 20194 minWhat positive psychology teaches us about resiliencePositive psychology looks at how people survive, bounce back and thrive from the inevitable losses that no human can avoid. Trauma is a...
Dec 8, 20193 minSeven Signs of Life review: Bold, courageous and most welcomeAoife 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...
Dec 3, 20194 minHow a corporation house saved me from life on wrong side of the tracksWhen 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,...
Dec 3, 20195 minThe death of a loved one breaks open the heart and strips us back to our most tender selvesWe humans are the only species with the capacity to reflect on our own mortality. The outpouring of grief for Anthony Foley touched the...
Nov 29, 20195 minTerror's true threat: the 'us' and 'them' feelingOn 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...
Nov 28, 20194 minHow the death of a child breaks open the human heartThe 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...