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
‘Everybody is vaping because everybody else is vaping’It has become a teenage obsession and at the same time, the number of teens smoking cigarettes is rising for the first time in decadesSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Online reaction to Angelina Jolie’s allegations about Brad Pitt is all too familiarThe reaction online to Angelina Jolie’s allegations about ex-husband Brad Pitt is all too familiarSat Oct 08 2022 - 05:00
The Bella Hadid spray-on dress: Is this fashion or is she just skinny?Jennifer O’Connell: The Coperni dress felt futuristic. Fashion’s stubborn obsession with extreme thinness did notTue Oct 04 2022 - 14:28
Jennifer O’Connell: Tech workers whinging about free snacks is hard to takeElsewhere nurses, teachers and childcare workers are not quietly quitting, but desperately quitting their jobsSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Deborah Somorin: Homeless at 13. A mother at 15. An accountant at 24Deborah Somorin turned her life around thanks to finding someone who believed in herSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Irish in London in 2022: A vibrant new generation amid an ageing population New arrivals from Ireland are educated, hard-working and often female high-earnersFri Sept 30 2022 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: British media’s obsession with Meghan Markle isn’t personal, it’s existentialThey’re horrified by what she represents – multiculturalism, youth, feminism, the monarchy’s diminished standing and Britain’s waning influenceSat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
‘They’re putting Lizzie down today’: Cork’s English market pauses to remember queenSome locals held a minute’s silence while others were firmly immune to the pageantry of the dayMon Sept 19 2022 - 21:33
It would be foolish to think cult of the strongman is over. They have a habit of coming from nowhereThe future doesn’t look bright for Putin, Trump or Bolsonaro. But the wild popularity of online figures such as Andrew Tate shows strongmen haven’t lost their allureSat Sept 17 2022 - 05:10
Jennifer O’Connell: Jailed teacher Enoch Burke might have done us all a favourHe showed how those who oppose trans rights love to claim victimhood even as they are punching downSat Sept 10 2022 - 05:10
Judge Gillian Hussey: ‘I had nothing in common with my colleagues other than a job title’Even after 17 years on the criminal bench, the retired judge remains optimistic about human natureSat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00
‘Lisa, Christy and Chelsea, forever young’: Funeral hears of deep love between three siblings killed in TallaghtSurviving brother, Michael, praised for his bravery in raising the alarm as events unfoldedFri Sept 09 2022 - 13:43
Your stories of childcare costs in Ireland: ‘I am living below the poverty line to keep working’ We asked readers about their experience with the cost of childcare. Here’s what they saidSun Sept 04 2022 - 05:00
Tents and modular homes are going up - and so are the nimby hacklesWe are at a tipping point in our response to refugees and politicians need to be careful about the language they useSat Sept 03 2022 - 05:30
Ireland’s childcare cost crisis: ‘My friends in Finland pay €150 per month for creche. My husband and I pay €1,100′Despite political promises that fees will come down, parents see no evidence of it. It’s making many couples think twice about having a second childSat Sept 03 2022 - 05:00
Robert Troy’s biggest mistake was failing to see that owning one property is a privilege — never mind 11Not many can relate to Robert Troy’s struggle, but he’s right about one thing. Small landlords are not the enemySat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
Share your story: What will you pay for childcare?We’d like to hear about your experiences of the cost of childcareFri Aug 26 2022 - 16:28
Stolen Lives: 239 violent deaths of women in Ireland from 1996 to todaySome of these cases of ‘femicide’ are notorious, others almost forgottenSat Jul 23 2022 - 06:20
19 women died violent deaths in Ireland in 1996. Joyce Quinn was the firstStolen Lives: ‘I said, Where’s your mum? She should have been home,’ Ray Quinn recalls a terrible daySat Jul 23 2022 - 06:15
Lonely Planet row underlines how Dublin needs to work out who it is for‘Surprising by nature’ is Dublin’s marketing slogan. The prices are certainly shockingSat Jun 25 2022 - 05:00
Aingeala Flannery’s writing life: ‘I Airbnbed my house and we couch surfed for a summer’Writing her first novel, The Amusements, meant taking a huge leap of faith. It has paid off, writes Jennifer O’ConnellSat Jun 25 2022 - 04:00
Manufactured outrage dominated RTÉ discussion on trans issuesThe thread running through several contributions was that trans people represent a threat to womenSat Jun 18 2022 - 02:00
Employers don’t like the idea of a four-day week. Let’s cancel afternoons insteadAlmost everything we thought we knew about work was wrongSun Jun 12 2022 - 18:13
Harry and Meghan baby-photo fallout shows they were right to leave Britain and the royalsJennifer O’Connell: Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor’s birthday portrait was met with instant approval and, in some quarters, barely concealed reliefTue Jun 07 2022 - 17:54
Jennifer O’Connell: A notification flashes. Code red lockdown at my children’s schoolThe only ‘why’ that matters is why America is playing roulette with children’s lives in an epidemic deadlier than any pathogenSat May 28 2022 - 00:00
Aileen Moynagh on her teenage stalker: ‘How could somebody so young do this?’For months BBC journalist Aileen Moynagh was subjected to a stranger’s horrific threatsSat May 21 2022 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Maternity hospital row is more driven by feelings than factsGap between what politicians talk about and the issues that matter is wideningSat May 21 2022 - 01:00
Louise O’Neill: ‘My career took off. My life changed. And I fell apart’‘It felt like a lot of people really hated me. I suppose I felt really scared a lot of the time’Sat May 14 2022 - 06:05
Jennifer O’Connell: Wagatha trial shows a tabloid culture that despises womenIt is disturbing that tales of catfighting women have caused a media frenzySat May 14 2022 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Filleting of Amber Heard too late to be a cautionary taleWhat hope has any alleged victim when highest court in US has declared that women are not to be trusted?Sat May 07 2022 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: The Happy Pears’ expertise is in marketing themselvesHaving thousands of Instagram followers does not turn the twins into medical expertsSat Apr 30 2022 - 01:00
Is the pursuit of happiness making us miserable?The idea that you have to always be happy is what makes people unhappy – ironicallySun Apr 17 2022 - 06:00
The Burkes of Castlebar: Who are the high-achieving family from Co Mayo?Ammi Burke’s Arthur Cox hearing is the latest high-profile case involving a family memberSat Apr 09 2022 - 06:00
Those hosting Ukrainian refugees are not virtue-signalling do-goodersHost families are ordinary people with lives of their own. They need our help.Sat Apr 09 2022 - 01:00
Winning the fight against cancer: ‘It’s just miraculous’St James’s Hospital has made huge strides in battling common cancersSat Apr 02 2022 - 06:00
Could the Will Smith slap be the end of hot-take culture?The dizzying collective response is a reminder that procrastination is underratedSat Apr 02 2022 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Covid has taught our health system nothingMass experiment infantilised five million for two years and then let them act freelySat Mar 26 2022 - 01:00
‘She’s just like anyone else’: Camilla visits de Bromhead’s stable in KnockeenPrince Charles addresses Waterford reception in Irish as three-day trip continuesThu Mar 24 2022 - 07:40
‘I’ve written about my pubic hair and drunken adventures so there is a fear of loss of gravitas’Elizabeth Boyle’s memoir blends sex, medieval Ireland and childhood abandonmentSat Mar 12 2022 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Britain’s response to Ukraine is a stain that won’t wash outUK behaving like it just noticed its capital, nicknamed ‘Londongrad’, is full of dodgy Russian moneySat Mar 12 2022 - 01:00
Fake news from Ukraine: 7 steps to identify misinformation and disinformationIf you don’t want to be an unwitting part of sharing propaganda, follow these stepsWed Mar 09 2022 - 12:30
‘We are hiring’, but who will staff our shops, pubs and restaurants?The big question this year in Dingle is who is going to staff the pubs, restaurants and hotelsSat Mar 05 2022 - 06:00
When middle-class white people are being bombed we pay attentionRussian invasion shows the western world is steeped in a thick stew of colonialist tropesSat Mar 05 2022 - 01:00
Step by step, how to get a divorce in IrelandIf at all possible, do the hard work outside of the courtroom to avoid a costly legal battleSun Feb 27 2022 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Some ration their heating as others shop for Jimmy ChoosThe opening of Brown Thomas’s new Dundrum mecca this week was jarringSat Feb 26 2022 - 01:00
