MOLLY CANTWELL writes of her grief and anger at the death of Joe Drennan, and her heartbreak for all families bereaved by road fatalities, more of which are likely to occur this weekend

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said they plan a collaborative approach, working with families of the victims to create the memorial

Irish Examiner readers write about opiods, passion for GAA, and same-sex unions

One reader responds to Joanna Fortune's advice about helping children to learn Gaeilge, while others examine topics including Catherine Martin's trip to the Ryder Cup 

Cork City Library was forced to close after a group of protesters planned a gathering outside the Grand Parade building during the summer

One reader says our fundamental problem is not a shortage of housing, while others consider topics including the National Gender Service, and pay and conditions in the Defence Forces 

One of the most astute, albeit depressing, comments to emerge from the debacle that was the Brexit referendum was delivered by Michael Gove.

The State's long-awaited scheme to fund fertility treatment is finally in place, but it leaves same-sex couples out in the cold, say campaigners 

We need to enact the hate speech bill now. And we need to regulate the hell out of the internet access enjoyed by the haters. We should tolerate no more listening to twaddle on these subjects.

The scenes outside Leinster House last Wednesday require a swift and serious response from the criminal justice system. The harassing and attacking of public representatives and others demands no less. This was not an ordinary public order incident.

Seven revised Leaving Cert curriculums will not be introduced as planned as Normal Foley halts teacher-based assessment

The taskforce is a coalition of organisations and individuals including ALONE, Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, Disability Federation of Ireland, and Family Carers Ireland.

Concerted attempts are under way to characterise portions of the updated relationship and sexuality education curriculum as evidence of some malign agenda to corrupt or endanger our young people.

Survey reveals that 25% of primary school children have  experienced cyberbullying in the past 12 months

Ross Lahive, of Church St, Shandon St, Cork, was arrested at 6.47pm on September 4 and charged with failing to appear in Cork District Court that morning

I’m sorry to swim against the ride of conventional wisdom, but enough already. We don’t need more TDs. We need better politics. Our parliament is over-stuffed, over-male, over-middle class.

A crowd of some 300 people gathered outside the library entrance in solidarity with library staff to counter the Cork Says No rally which took place by the national monument at the other end of the Grand Parade

Justice Minister said gardaí would respond appropriately to far-right protests

Gardaí decline to comment on whether the incident relates to the alleged harassment of a serving garda

JK Rowling is portrayed as transphobic, a charge that has its roots in her comments about an article that discussed 'people who menstruate'

'The Government’s first step toward making fertility treatment more accessible shouldn’t be to exclude people in gay relationships.'

Father Ted co-creator said: 'If they apologise and put the gig on, I’ll say no more about it but otherwise I’ll be looking at legal action.'

Despite their stratospheric success, both Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are clearly publicly struggling with their masculinity

Trump was arraigned under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, introduced in the 1970s to bring down gang bosses

Request follows spate of protests over LGBT+ reading material which has forced the library to close on a number of occasions

Group campaigning against LGBT+ books target Scarriff library following protest at Killaloe library over weekend

Rainbow flags laced across shopfronts in the city centre and street hawkers sold colourful floral headbands and flags

'Telly Bingo' presenter Declan Buckley tells The Ciara Phelan Podcast there has been a 'backslide' in stamping out homophobia

The best way to fight ignorance is through information; if information is stifled, it won't get rid of LGBTQ+ youth... it will just drive us into hiding and unsafe surroundings, writes Ed Fitzgerald

Group campaigning against LGBT+ books who recently targeted libraries in Cork and Limerick, move on to Killaloe library despite it being closed for the weekend

Between 60 and 70 people stationed themselves at the library and several bookshops to halt protestors

Public funding for IVF in Ireland represents a promising step forward, opening new horizons for countless people hoping for a family, writes Helena Tubridy

The mayor of Cork City said he "will be meeting with senior gardaí this week calling for a stop to such horrific harassment".

Reports were made to police about a man with a microphone making comments on members of the LGBT+ community ahead of the Pride parade

In a country known for its social conservatism, we’ve finally found our fabulousness. But what is it really like being a draq queen in Ireland today?

"We want our people to feel seen, understood, respected and valued"

A senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which investigates and researches online misinformation, hate and extremism, says the storming of events in libraries or the destruction of copies of books, are part of a strategy that first emerged in the US

Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez called the snap election as a tactical gamble to face down right-wing parties

Libraries, and librarians, don’t just transform young lives. They offer shelter, comfort, warmth to older people, poorer people, lonely people

Staff 'shaken and upset' after protesters enter room shouting and roaring their disapproval of the LGBTQ+ event

Organisers said they also marched against a “rise in the far-right in Ireland targeting refugees, and more recently LGBTQ+ people”.

A small counter-protest attended by less than 20 people took place at the same time outside the city’s central library on Grand Parade

Library staff are set to march from Grand Parade to City Hall at 12.30pm on Friday

One of the victims was hit multiple times "with a flurry of punches to her face and head"