Tara Flynn

Writer Phillip McMahon and director Rachel O’Riordan on making a play inspired by a hidden community of gay priests

‘How did we turn ourselves from fallen women into women rising? By telling the truth. It was that simple’

Legal, medical and academic experts speak to Kathy Sheridan

In Conversation: Tonie Walsh and Brian Finnegan, friends with a GCN connection

Radio review: Presenter Matt Cooper has fractious exchanges with anti-abortion campaigner

Dublin City Council says Question of the Eighth event contravened its code of conduct

Tara Flynn’s splendid one-woman show and Stephen Sondheim’s roll-call of political killers

The Abbey Theatre director on reggae, Grayson Perry and ‘Derry Girls’

Cillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festival

The actor, comedian and writer on Frances McDormand, Rome and WeRateDogs

Tara Flynn has a brilliant new play; hide from polarised debates about the Eighth Amendment

Comedian Joanne McNally is ‘80% certain’ that she doesn’t want to have children

Also, a home-grown comedy starring comic Conor O’Toole that provides great escapism

The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre

Party member ‘deeply regrets tone and language’ in some Tweets and apologises

From entering first year to life beyond, four succesful graduates tell their stories of third-level education

The latest new shows from this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival

And all change at the Abbey and Gate – our rigid cultural venues are, at last, mixing it up

The Repeal campaign should be challenging political and economic inequalities

As part of today’s celebrations, Lewis Kenny will be writing personalised verse at Poetry Ireland’s HQ

The Women’s Podcast celebrates its 100th episode with 100 quotes by and about women in Ireland

War of words and hashtags part of building awareness ahead of potential referendum

Meet the emigrants calling on Ireland to repeal the eighth, from Melbourne to Montreal

A linguistic trick which conjures in the mind an image of impatient consumers

Passing of The Irish Times sports journalist has left a hole in hearts and minds

From the frenzied seasonal supermarket shop to spending the season away from home to the challenges of a menopausal Christmas, the women’s podcast brings you festive reflections from seven Irish writers

Attacking a woman’s appearance is part of violence against women, FemFest hears

Episode six features women who are New To The Parish, Tara Flynn on her new book ‘Giving Out Yards’ and trans rights activist Dr Lydia Foy

Episode three: Kathy Sheridan talks to Tara Flynn and Roisin Ingle about their abortion stories while Sonya Lennon and Joi Gordon discuss the power of dressing for success

‘We all owe a debt to Róisín Ingle and Tara Flynn who have written so honestly about their experiences of having abortions’

Army of campers, staff and performers on the move as festival closes for another year

Minister for Equality Aodhán Ó Ríordáin among crowd at LGBT Noise event on Merrion Square

Review: ‘Irish Pictorial Weekly’, ‘Louis Theroux: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity’, ‘Great Irish Journeys With Martha Kearney’

‘The Secret’ will tell you that you can manifest whatever you want. Well, Irish women know that you can’t

So, women aren’t funny, eh? We talk to four funny females playing the Vodafone Comedy Carnival to get their take on that lazy trope

The Irishwoman’s Secret Guide to Life

Jennifer Lopez video making things worse for every woman on planet, writes Anthea McTiernan

Only five of the 57 acts at next month’s Vodafone Comedy Festival, in Dublin, are women. Perhaps that’s because women are being funny in ways that don’t always rely on stand-up