Fionola Meredith

Should children have the same legal protection from physical assault as adults? Of course they should. Isn’t it obvious?

Fionola Meredith: Fear, isolation and the long afterlife of trauma: Why survivors like Nikki McTaggart take years to speak out

You can’t miss them. They’re like something out of a science-fiction film. Huge, sinister-looking plants, up to five metres tall, clustering around our riverbanks and canals.

Poor Prince Harry. He has just lost a £50m legal battle with the Daily Mail. Now, I can’t stand that particular newspaper and its politics, but I’m still glad Harry lost.

Question your Our Future Health invite: uncover the hidden commercial ties, data risks and consent issues before you share your DNA

It seems that we can’t get enough of reading about dead women. Disturbingly, it has emerged that nine out of 10 novels on last week’s Sunday Times paperback fiction bestseller list featured the death of a woman.

Art is supposed to provoke. However, these days, provocation is too often answered not with argument, but with abuse.

Mike Nesbitt has located the enemy — and it’s a family-size pizza lurking at the end of aisle three.

Everyone knows about the epidemic of domestic violence against women in Northern Ireland — or if they don’t, they should. The scale of it is monstrous. But what about when men are the victims, rather than the perpetrators?

There is no doubt that easyJet failed the Northern Irish holidaymakers whose flight home from Tunisia was cancelled last Saturday.