Sarah Harte

There are young men out there seeking connection in the wrong places, and we have to help them because it’s a problem for us all.

My column today on divorce stigma, Ireland’s post-Catholic identity & Maria Steen’s role in the presidential debate.

The current TERF v Trans debate is toxic. What about attentive free speech?

Women’s second and third acts have changed

Contraceptive advice from the vast army of undereducated, over-confident influencers to cognitively underdeveloped young people via AI. You can see the problem

Sarah Harte: When positivity meets reality, sometimes you have to choose Sarah Harte: When positivity meets reality, sometimes you have to choose : A comprehensive series of articles on this topic

Setting realistic professional goals and surviving eating an executive steak
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“Ireland for the Irish.” Who counts as Irish? Thankfully, that answer has changed.

Sarah Harte: Are we living in the age of rage? We are at a clear societal turning point, when collectively at a familial, community, and national level, we have to fight back against misogyny, social media, the degradation of public discourse and ...

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Sarah Harte: Are we living in the age of rage? We are at a clear societal turning point, when collectively at a familial, community, and national level, we have to fight back against misogyny, social media, the degradation of public discourse and ...

Men raged because I mentioned men's anger
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Recent tragedies expose a violent continuum of misogyny in Ireland - from verbal abuse to fatal domestic control and coercion

Sarah Harte: The Gen Z stare is real, and we've all seen it The voices of adults don’t matter more than those of children, but Gen Z need guidance and boundaries that make them feel more secure and help them navigate life

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The Gen Z stare is real, and we've all seen it

Sarah Harte: The GPO deserves more than offices and retail — it needs cultural investment Turning the GPO into shops and offices isn’t progress — it’s a sign of cultural insecurity. We owe our history better than that

Proud revolutionary history of the GPO deserves better than shops and offices
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Limiting freedom of speech is a threat to a functioning democracy

Sarah Harte: Motherhood is not the default anymore — and the reasons why are eye-opening From housing to childcare, cost and cultural shifts are reshaping how Irish women think about motherhood and family

Young women are saying no thanks to motherhood....
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Sarah Harte: Same old crap being served up with a veneer of feminist empowerment Two images led Sarah Harte to think about developments since the #MeToo movement and the whole sex positive idea for women

Sex positivity seems groovy but it’s ultimately regressive. #MeToo #SabrinaCarpenter #TimesUp
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Sarah Harte: The Government has bottled it on gambling — our young people will pay The watered-down Gambling Regulation Act, which still allows gambling companies to advertise and offer free bets, means thousands of people, many of them too young to understand what they are getting ...

Gambling: How the government bottled it
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Sarah Harte: The murky international surrogacy racket needs to be spotlighted We must reconcile an adult's desire to have children with the rights of those children or we risk repeating mistakes of the past

Surrogacy is a complex issue where the rights of the child must be paramount
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Sarah Harte: Ireland gave Israel 10 Eurovision points. Did we forget what a green mouth once meant? While millions tuned in to Eurovision, Gaza starved. Ireland and Europe must stop normalising genocide through silence and spectacle

There are no words to describe the depravity on our screens.
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Sarah Harte: Anxious generation needs to be faced with academic challenge of Leaving Cert A bit of healthy stress is good for our development, so it's up to parents to tell children the truth that anxiety, failure, making mistakes and solving them are part of life, along with joy and hope

Unless we stop overparenting, society will pay a very heavy price. @irishexaminer.bsky.social
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Sarah Harte: Camogie skorts row exposes deep-rooted sexism in Irish sport Despite growing participation, women in Irish sport still face entrenched inequality, outdated dress codes, and institutional resistance to change

Time to let Camogie players wear shorts? Radical in 2025.
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Sarah Harte: Our broken food culture is driving us towards weight loss drugs Weight loss drugs are a revolution for people who are seriously obese, but shouldn't we take a look at the ultra-processed foods causing our health problems first?

Funding weight loss injections for a large group rather than fixing broken food culture is profoundly ignorant.
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Sarah Harte: Why are we letting the richest men in the world steal our ideas? I might be a Luddite when it comes to AI, but writers' work should not be stolen, no matter who's doing it

AI steals writers' work. I hope the many class action lawsuits brought by well-known authors against OpenAI the company behind ChatGPT succeed
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Sarah Harte: Why Ireland still fails to learn from domestic homicides — and how we can change that Ireland urgently needs domestic homicide reviews to learn from preventable partner killings and close gaps in frontline responses

Why are so many Irish women killed by their partners?
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Sarah Harte: Useless automated systems make every transaction a struggle When it comes to carrying out basic life admin, even the most capable of us struggles with the useless systems that are now the norm

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... April Fools Call centres and chatbots suck. At what cost to companies? And older generations are essentially roadkill

Sarah Harte: Why dismissing Conor McGregor’s presidential dreams is a mistake – and a warning Conor McGregor’s presidential hints are laughable — but Ireland’s shifting political landscape makes his populist appeal worth watching

Conor McGregor as President? A ridiculous notion, yet in today’s political climate, dismissing his populist appeal outright would be a mistake. Chaos thrives when people feel abandoned. My latest on why we shouldn’t ignore the warning signs. #McGregor
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Sarah Harte: Mandatory national service could help foster a sense of togetherness for Gen Z As Europe debates rearmament, cutting social welfare for military spending risks undermining the very values the EU was built on

Time to conscript all young Europeans into national service. #ProjectEurope irishexaminer.bsky.social
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Sarah Harte: Race to re-arm means avoiding groupthink has never been more crucial This anxious time of turmoil threatens to sweep us all into a new wave of militarism. We must avoid being caught up in the tide

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Should we automatically endorse the idea that EU defence spending should be increased? Remember Iraq?

Sarah Harte: People are trying to figure out if they can live in a log cabin. How did we get here? Our politicians' priorities in a time of polycrisis are alarmingly off. Is this distance between them and us how societal breakdown begins?

People are trying to figure out whether to live in a log cabin. How did we get here?
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