Instagram without Kim Kardashian? Not likelyKim Kardashian is set to scale back on social media after her gunpoint jewellery robbery in Paris. But an internet without her would be like Buddhism without the Dalai LamaSat Oct 08 2016 - 14:30
The trouble with strong, sexy, altruistic Angelina JolieIn coverage of Brangelina split, there’s been only one bad guy – and it’s not the Brad guySat Sept 24 2016 - 06:00
Public Displays of Emotion Book by Róisín Ingle: ReviewA columnist who gives herself wholeheartedly, without inhibition, to her readersSat Oct 03 2015 - 01:05
Jennifer O’Connell: It’s not really a break-up, Ireland. It’s more of a breakIt’s much harder to put down roots when you always have one eye on home. For that reason, I’ve decided this will be my last column for The Irish TimesMon Jun 22 2015 - 03:00
Jennifer O’Connell: A pill to control female desire? Dream onIt’s not female sexual desire that needs ‘fixing’ so much as society’s notion of what’s normalMon Jun 15 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Ireland’s a great nation so long as you’re not a TravellerWhy are racism and discrimination still so widely accepted when they are directed against Travellers?Mon Jun 08 2015 - 07:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Don’t fall into the hysterical parenting trapParents being charged with neglect for letting their children walk home alone will only result in arrested developmentMon Jun 01 2015 - 04:00
Jennifer O’Connell: You’ll be sorry when the robot journalists take overThis year, computer software will produce more than a billion stories on the web. The majority will never be read, but in this era of McJournalism does anyone care?Mon May 25 2015 - 17:59
Jennifer O’Connell: I’ve lost 13lb eating shepherd’s pie and chocolateMild self-denial is the only diet for meMon May 18 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Dave Goldberg understood that feminism liberates menFar more men – maybe even the majority – would identify as feminist if there wasn’t so much confusion over what the term signifiesMon May 11 2015 - 05:45
Jennifer O’Connell: Same-sex marriage causes abortion? Now I’ve heard it allVote however you wish on May 22nd, but at least vote on the question being askedMon May 04 2015 - 10:31
Jennifer O’Connell: Men, our Lycra leggings are none of your damn businessThe trend of women wearing skin-tight yoga pants brings out the inner Taliban in some menMon Apr 27 2015 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Stalking Lillis not in public interestWhat exactly were the teams of reporters at Dublin Airport expecting Lillis to do?Mon Apr 20 2015 - 15:09
Jennifer O’Connell: In California, we pay more for water than for petrolIf we ever move back to Ireland, we will be able to run masterclasses in how to cut down on water billsMon Apr 13 2015 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: There should be no right to intoleranceAs we are the first country in the world to hold a referendum on gay marriage, we have the opportunity to reframe the debate away from farcical sideshows about cakes and flower arrangementsMon Apr 06 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: 15 things we learned from the Barrytown trilogyRoddy Doyle’s trilogy is up for this year’s Dublin: One City, One Book initiative. That’s very clever all the sameMon Mar 30 2015 - 06:00
Dwyer trial cast a light into darkest corners of Irish societyIt’s chilling to realise a woman can go missing in Ireland without an outcrySat Mar 28 2015 - 18:09
Jennifer O’Connell: Could you con yourself into eating less?If you sit by the window in a restaurant you’re 80 per cent more likely to order salad. Eat from a bigger plate and you’ll eat one third moreMon Mar 23 2015 - 12:51
Jennifer O’Connell: 37 signs that you might be IrishHave you forgiven Miley his affair? Do you know the plural form(s) of the word ‘you’? Do you have a Bono story?Mon Mar 16 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Fairy stories have no place in the classroomWhy are Irish children spending 2½ hours a week learning about heaven when they could be learning about space?Mon Mar 09 2015 - 06:00
Babies are a hazard: just ask any politician at a photo opPredictably, for Enda Kenny, Phil Hogan and Jim Bergin, their Dad-in-chief moment did not come yesterdayFri Mar 06 2015 - 09:10
Jennifer O’Connell: Men, keep your wandering hands to yourselvesUnless you’re administering CPR, there’s really no need to get handsy with women you barely knowMon Mar 02 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: I finally realised I’m an emigrant when I opened my junk mailMy notion of what home means roams around and fixates on disparate thingsMon Feb 23 2015 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Dangerous spread of the anti-vax setParents can believe what they want, but if it endangers the health of others, society must actMon Feb 16 2015 - 05:45
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’: Appalling script, dire acting, troubling message. Sounds like a hitThe film of EL James’s bestseller, starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson as Christian and Anastasia, can be vaguely titillating and unintentionally hilarious. Mostly it’s just confusingSat Feb 14 2015 - 00:01
Jennifer O’Connell: Do women sound more annoying?Vocal fry is that crackling, husky, drawly, perpetually bored, just-out-of-bed quality that is most pronounced at the end of sentences. Both genders do it, but only women get stick for itMon Feb 09 2015 - 14:36
Jennifer O’Connell: Cumberbatch gaffe pounced upon in a world convulsed with ragegasmsBenedict Cumberbatch’s inadvertent use of the historically loaded word ‘coloured’ deserved an apology, and one duly came. But wasn’t the outrage a bit overdone?Mon Feb 02 2015 - 08:13
Four cities: South Bay, California - ‘Everyone expects to be tipped’Babysitters are hard to come by, probably because most teenagers don’t need the money. So when you find a good one, you tip wellSat Jan 31 2015 - 06:00
Miley Cyrus: ‘I think my generation is in crisis’The fast-talking singer has robust views on insecurity, feminism and ‘Instagram fame’. Sinéad O’Connor needn’t have worried about her: this is one self-assured 22-year-oldFri Jan 30 2015 - 13:11
Jennifer O’Connell: A woman should have the right to choose about breastfeedingIreland is not an easy country in which to breastfeed, as mothers huddle in the middle of prudish rubberneckers on one side and the cultish fervour of some of the pro-breastfeeding lobby on the otherMon Jan 26 2015 - 11:06
Jennifer O’Connell: Advice to my teenage self about boys, my thighs and Phil CollinsIf I could have a word with her now, that angsty girl with the bad haircut and the good intentions, what would I tell her?Mon Jan 19 2015 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Worried about gun violence? Have a lollipopThere are many things I love about living in the US, but my children having to do a drill ‘in case a crazy person ever breaks into our school’ isn’t one of themMon Jan 12 2015 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Lessons from my (almost) 40 yearsBy now, I was expecting to have it all figured out but there’s a yawning chasm where I was expecting all that wisdom to have magically accumulatedTue Jan 06 2015 - 10:01
Jennifer O’Connell: how the climate changed in 2014This year, feminism went mainstream, I saw climate change up close and was bemused from afar as Ireland went mad over waterMon Dec 29 2014 - 07:27
Jennifer O’Connell: celebrities line up to peddle the fantasy of the perfect ChristmasJamie Oliver, Gwyneth Paltrow, our own adorable Donal Skehan: if you believe celebrities’ Instagram accounts, they all have Christmas wrapped. And where’s the harm?Mon Dec 22 2014 - 01:00
Don’t mind us: Jennifer O’Connell on the marvels of Hiberno-EnglishHere are nine words and phrases that only people from Ireland will understand. We’re great gas altogetherMon Dec 15 2014 - 12:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Christmas in California is just not the sameI miss calling it ‘the Christmas’. My mother’s ham and cider sauce. The long, lazy joy of Stephen’s Day...Mon Dec 08 2014 - 01:00
Please don’t run for office, Angelina JolieJennifer O’Connell: It’s one thing celebrity activists lecturing us about the things we should be concerned about, and quite another them deciding they would like to legislate on it tooMon Dec 01 2014 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Bill Cosby story highlights troubling societal attitudes to consentA woman’s taste for Jim Beam or Pinot Noir does not make her fair gameMon Nov 24 2014 - 05:45
Jennifer O’Connell: The world has serious mammy issuesMotherhood has become a high-stakes endeavour, and it seems all of society has something to say about women’s child-rearing abilitiesMon Nov 17 2014 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Boys who like Elsa, girls who like DraculaTo hell with gender stereotyping - let it goMon Nov 10 2014 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Breasts on child mannequins – what next?Target in the US uses child-size mannequins with breasts to sell tops for kidsMon Nov 03 2014 - 01:00
Jennifer O'Connell: Give Monica Lewinsky a breakJennifer O’Connell: Lewinsky was betrayed by many people, but her greatest betrayal was by a society that loves nothing more than a sexual woman to demoniseMon Oct 27 2014 - 01:00
Frisco jolly the place for gizmo geekdom’s movers and shakersEverybody who’s anybody except Bono turned up for Marc Benioff’s Dreamforce ’14 technology conferenceThu Oct 23 2014 - 01:45
Jennifer O’Connell: Side effects of Ebola include hysteria and xenophobiaUnderneath the western media’s over-reaction is the troubling suggestion that the hardest-hit African nations have brought Ebola on themselvesMon Oct 20 2014 - 13:04
Apple and Facebook’s egg-freezing policy isn’t anti-family. Quite the oppositeNo intelligent woman will freeze her eggs because her boss thinks it’s a good ideaSat Oct 18 2014 - 01:00
will.i.am enters the wearables marketPop star turns tech entrepreneur with the Puls cuff unveiled at the Dreamforce tech eventThu Oct 16 2014 - 13:00
Spot the difference: rap lyrics or serious threat of violence?The task of distinguishing between an expression of artistic creativity and a real and frightening threat will soon occupy the minds of the judges of the US supreme courtMon Oct 13 2014 - 01:00
Silicon 50 event celebrates most influential Irish people in the valleyPraise for Irish wit, optimism and tax breaks but education remains a worryFri Oct 10 2014 - 01:28
