Waterford moves step closer to becoming a ‘walking city’ with launch of North Quays project‘Transformative’ €170m scheme aims to rebalance city so 30,000 can live immediately north of river with easy access to cityMon Mar 06 2023 - 20:04
Taoiseach backs inclusion of transgender identity in primary school curriculumLeo Varadkar said ‘information and facts’ should be provided but not ‘value judgment’Mon Mar 06 2023 - 15:12
Ban on evictions needs to balance rights of landlords and tenants, Varadkar saysExpectation is that three Coalition leaders will agree on Monday evening to extend ban in some formMon Mar 06 2023 - 13:51
Magdalene laundries survivor recalls a childhood of relentless abuse and neglectKathleen King is still fighting at the age of 80, frustrated that the State redress scheme refuses to accept her account of eventsSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
State accused of ‘stonewalling’ and ‘hiding evidence’ over Magdalene laundries Researchers say they were denied Freedom of Information access to archives on various grounds by Department of the TaoiseachSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
Some criticism of journalist who leaked Hancock’s messages grounded in expectations women should play nice Astonishing thing is not that Oakeshott betrayed his confidence, it is that she ever had it in the first place. But some of the criticism of her was unfairSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
A Magdalene laundry and its clients: Holles Street, Fitzwilliam Tennis Club, Captain AmericasDonnybrook Magdalene Laundry’s books include Blackrock College, Switzers, embassies and hospitalsSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
Stefanie Preissner: ‘Motherhood is so hard, and so lonely, and so mysterious’The author and broadcaster opens up about about navigating miscarriage, early motherhood, autism and anorexiaSat Feb 25 2023 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Single-sex schooling is a peculiarly Irish mash-up of Catholicism and post-colonialismWhy are we convinced we know something the rest of the world does not?Sat Feb 25 2023 - 00:00
Yes, Roald Dahl sometimes got it wrong. But it isn’t up to us to make it rightFor all the concern about cancel culture and wokewashing, critics, writers, publishers and film producers have always been mindful of changing sensitivitiesMon Feb 20 2023 - 16:45
Young voters don’t care about Bertie Ahern. They want to know if they’ll ever own a houseThe time when the white, male, Mass-going, homeowning FF-voter was dominant in Irish society is long pastSat Feb 11 2023 - 05:30
Autistic and thriving, William is one of the lucky ones ‘We still punish people for being autistic.’ It remains poorly understood, shrouded in Rain Man stereotypesSat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
This Won’t Hurt by Marieke Bigg: A quietly furious call to arms over neglect of women’s healthFrom heart attacks to female ejaculation and Goop, femininity in science has been a victim of cultural blindness and patriarchySat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Why is the Government perpetuating tropes about single male asylum seekers?The ‘military-age men’ idea is a well-worn trope of right-wing rhetoric, and our politicians have fallen into the dangerous trap of reinforcing itSun Feb 05 2023 - 06:00
Lismore: Inside a small town’s protests and counter-demonstrationsThe west Waterford town has been at the centre of protests over plans to turn its landmark hotel into a centre for asylum seekersSat Feb 04 2023 - 05:00
Medical gaslighting: ‘No man would be asked if they suffer from panic attacks while having a heart attack’Women are more likely to feel their symptoms are not being taken seriously. Why?Sat Jan 28 2023 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Waterford hospital shows the annual trolley crisis is not inevitableThe hospital’s record suggests good management could be the answer to the annual trolley crisisSat Jan 28 2023 - 00:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Response to Jacinda Ardern’s resignation was depressing and predictablePoliticians are human. Women politicians are human. There was a time when the public didn’t require regular reminders of thatSat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Jennifer O’Connell: How did Andrew Tate become a role model for a generation of lost boys?Tate is the product of an online culture, the ‘manosphere’, that is grooming boys to not just to fear and hate women, but to loathe themselvesSat Jan 14 2023 - 00:00
Spare: Harry tells us about his penis, sibling rivalry and panic attacks. Just not about why he wrote this bookAfter more than 400 pages of his memoir, is it any clearer to anybody why the prince felt he had to do this, or what he ultimately hopes to get from it?Fri Jan 13 2023 - 12:31
Prince Harry’s memoir: It’s fabulously bitchy, deliciously gossipy – and one long act of retributionSpares spares no one. What save it from being an entitled whingefest are moments of genuine poignancy and insights into an irretrievably weird familyTue Jan 10 2023 - 16:53
‘She slapped me so hard in the face she knocked me out’: Corporal punishment in Irish schoolsReaders share their experiences of emotional abuse and corporal punishment in Irish schoolsSat Jan 07 2023 - 05:00
2022 felt like a particularly dark and dangerous period to be a womanTo many of us, this year felt like a particularly dark and dangerous time to be a womanSat Dec 31 2022 - 05:00
The man shouting ‘f**king woke shite’ outside the vaccination clinic summed up 2022The war on woke isn’t about language, vaccines, live cribs, sex education in schools or why the latest series of Game of Thrones has less sex in it. It's about middle-aged male insecuritySat Dec 24 2022 - 00:00
Bono, Elon Musk and sad, beige parenting: 2022’s top 10 conversation killersGo in peace, or go in seething passive aggression. Unlike some of your nearest and dearest, we’re not here to judgeFri Dec 23 2022 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Jailing Enoch Burke serves only to make him a martyr in the culture warsIt makes no sense for the teacher to be held in jail indefinitely when it is clear that he has no intention of purging his contemptSat Dec 17 2022 - 05:00
Abuse in girls’ schools: ‘She beat the crap out of me for being cheeky. I was eight’‘We have not sought the testimony of now-adult women who had these experiences as girls. If we did, we’d have a tsunami’Sat Dec 17 2022 - 05:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Helping Harry to see how ‘weird’ the monarchy is may be Meghan’s greatest achievementFor a documentary series that is sugary enough in spots to rot the teeth out of your head, it is also surprisingly revealingSat Dec 10 2022 - 05:00
Icy cold? Don’t just whack up the thermostat. Try these 18 heat-saving hacks insteadFrom tackling draughts to going back to basics with a hot water bottle, here are some tips that may help keep the bills downThu Dec 08 2022 - 05:00
Share your story: We would like to hear about readers’ experiences in girls’ schoolsIf you have a story you’d like to share, please use the form to get in touchTue Dec 06 2022 - 17:01
Jennifer O’Connell: Fine Gael’s elitist and dangerous dabbling in populist tropesEfforts to speak for ‘ordinary, plain people of Ireland’ ring hollow amid homelessness and protesters blocking Port TunnelSat Dec 03 2022 - 00:01
Harry & Meghan’s Netflix teaser: A minute long and it still fits in a pop at KateThe trailer’s arrival is so impeccably timed it’s hard to believe it’s not the ultimate mic dropFri Dec 02 2022 - 13:08
‘She made every minute matter’: Vicky Phelan memorial remembers person behind ‘nation’s treasure’Campaigner was a fearless warrior who got the most out of every minute, community gathered at memorial service in Mooncoin hearsSun Nov 27 2022 - 19:41
Vicky Phelan: ‘A nation got to love a girl as much as our family loved her’Village of Mooncoin shares pride and grief at public memorial for CervicalCheck campaignerSun Nov 27 2022 - 16:14
Blackrock abuse stories could be Ireland’s Harvey Weinstein momentWe need criminal prosecutions and then a deep, wide, victim-led abuse inquiry that can obliterate our culture of denialSat Nov 26 2022 - 05:35
Facing hell and high water: The parts of Ireland threatened by rising floodwatersAs the sea inches higher, and the climate changes, stories playing out in Cork and Dublin will be repeated in other parts of the countrySat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Jennifer O’Connell: It’s a fantasy that nobody knew about child sex abuse in schoolsRevelations have been emerging for decades, yet we continue to assure ourselves that each new horror comes as a surpriseSat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Air fryers: Worth the hype, or a load of hot air? The air fryer is the gadget du jour, but are they really the answer to all your cooking problems? Our writers give their verdictSat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Losing my job in the Irish tech industry: ‘I received the dreaded email ...’The hiring boom across much of the tech industry came to an abrupt halt this week. But the warning signs have been there for a whileSat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
Zuckerberg and Musk are mavericks until it is time to let people goThey revert under pressure to regressive business models. Metaverse is for everyone, but some of you probably aren’t smart enough to be hereSat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
Do you work in the tech sector in Ireland? We would like to hear from youIf you would like to speak - anonymously or on the record - let us know using the form in this articleWed Nov 09 2022 - 12:42
Jennifer O’Connell: I am scared of yoga. Could a two-day retreat change my mind?I step on the teacher’s foot as she helps me with the downward dog, she’s gracious enough never to speak of it againSun Nov 06 2022 - 05:00
Jennifer O’Connell: We owe Fr Seán Sheehy grudging thanks for his repugnant screedListowel priest’s critique of homosexuality as ‘against nature’ merely a case of saying the quiet bit out loud.Sat Nov 05 2022 - 05:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Liz Truss lettuce livecam might be the moment political debate reached a nadirIf you insist on treating politics as entertainment, you are liable to get what you asked forSat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00
Jennifer O’Connell: James Corden’s omelette eruption explanation has a touch of the Will Smiths‘Sticking up for his wife’ isn’t an excuse for the TV host’s bad behaviour. It’s a symptom of an archaic view of masculinityWed Oct 26 2022 - 06:05
Jennifer O’Connell: The GAA has a cultural blindspot about violenceThe Gaelic Athletic Association is ingrained in Irish life and, as a consequence, should set an example for allSat Oct 22 2022 - 05:00
Aftermath of the Covid puppy boom: ‘A tsunami of unwanted dogs’Dog ownership went through the roof during the pandemic, but now shelters around Ireland are heaving with the falloutFri Oct 21 2022 - 08:42
I needed to save money. The answer was a €10 smartplugIt measures how much electricity individual appliances use. As a control freak, this is deeply appealingMon Oct 17 2022 - 05:00
Bressie: ‘I was quite an aggressive person, because I was repressing so much’The singer, podcaster and children’s book author has found a new contentment. But getting there hasn’t been easySat Oct 15 2022 - 05:30
Jennifer O’Connell: Voters do not care if Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is poshA line can be crossed where public interest becomes invasive; Shane Ross has galloped through itSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
