The world has been designed by men, for men, and women have had enoughSmartphones too big for women’s hands, seatbelts couldn't have been designed by anyone with breastsSat Apr 06 2019 - 06:00
Facebook’s dirty work in Ireland: ‘I had to watch footage of a person being beaten to death’Irish moderators watch horrific videos so you don’t have to. What does it do to them?Sat Mar 30 2019 - 06:00
Jennifer O'Connell: There’s no cohesive British identity anymore, if there ever was'What is Britain, then?' the American woman asked, stumbling on the toughest existential question of allSat Mar 30 2019 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Sex education has a long way to go to compete with pornWe need to talk about sex without the words ‘when two people are very much in love…’Sat Mar 23 2019 - 06:15
Tyrone funerals: ‘All we can do now is try to get through this’Community shows solidarity with bereft families on day that will linger long in memoryFri Mar 22 2019 - 19:07
Lauren Bullock ‘living the dream’ when her life was cut shortTeenager was ‘energetic and full of life’, priest tells mournersFri Mar 22 2019 - 12:53
#MeToo or not #MeToo? Warner Bros chief resigns after sexual misconduct allegationsIf a relationship is consensual - is it part of the #MeToo movement?Tue Mar 19 2019 - 12:30
Relax, our National Performance Anxiety Day will be over soonIf it’s any consolation, St Patrick’s Day is even more pressure on the ones who got awaySat Mar 16 2019 - 06:30
Billions of euro, thousands of workers: Is Dublin ready for ‘Brexodus’?The staff of 100 financial firms are moving to Ireland due to Brexit. How will that go?Sat Mar 16 2019 - 06:00
Rose McGowan: ‘I am not defined by my rapist. I’ve talked about him quite enough’The actor on #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and why Sinéad O’Connor was ‘100% right’Sat Mar 16 2019 - 05:00
‘Marriages are messy. Our lives are messy. Convenient truths don’t exist’Taylor Jenkins Reid’s sixth novel is about a fictional rock band but explores real life brilliantlySat Mar 09 2019 - 06:00
If the only tolerable level of risk to our children is zero, we’d better call off lifeJennifer O'Connell: I suspect what we’re most scared of isn’t the daily livestream of risks. It is the censure of other parentsSat Mar 09 2019 - 06:00
International Women’s Day: ‘Being loudly confident is okay’‘I long for the day when we don’t have to celebrate how fabulous we are,’ says former rugby internationalFri Mar 08 2019 - 16:01
Make-up is no longer mandatory for Virgin Atlantic’s female cabin crew. How progressive!Comment: If this seems a reluctant shunt, rather than a leap forward – it’s because it isTue Mar 05 2019 - 13:00
He wasn’t violent or a useless sponger. He was something much worse. He was EnglishJennifer O'Connell: My friend’s father told her not to come home until she ditched her boyfriend. He wasn’t an addict – he was EnglishSat Mar 02 2019 - 06:00
Mothercare’s post-baby ads challenge ‘snapback body’ mythSqueezing into pre-pregnancy jeans is now a priority just below ‘keep baby alive’Mon Feb 25 2019 - 13:26
Jennifer O’Connell: Are selfies a form of self-harm?She is 11 years old, this selfie-taking, quietly self-loathing little girl, schooled in insecuritySat Feb 23 2019 - 06:00
What is the UK government to do about Shamima Begum?There is little sympathy for the ‘jihadi bride’ whose British citizenship is being revokedSat Feb 23 2019 - 05:55
Why are single men something to be celebrated, while single women are a problem to be fixed?The latest variation on the Rules theme is that your interior decor could be sending out the 'wrong' signalsTue Feb 12 2019 - 14:00
Jennifer O’Connell: The three little words every woman wants to hearI have erotic dreams about waking up and discovering my car has been valetedSat Feb 09 2019 - 06:00
Bullet journaling: How it sorted my life. And then I lost itNo longer was my head stuck in my phone when I should have been interacting with my familySat Feb 02 2019 - 06:00
‘After nine years in direct provision I have never stopped living’Ellie Kisyombe arrived in Ireland, terrified, in 2010. Now she is standing for local electionSat Feb 02 2019 - 06:00
Dark days in Donegal as fatal crash leaves communities shatteredAs funerals of four young victims took place, prayers were offered that people would ‘exercise extreme care on the road’Sat Feb 02 2019 - 06:00
'I now think twice about spending one-on-one time with a young female colleague'The #MeToo backlash is not an excuse for male execs to hide behindTue Jan 29 2019 - 14:00
Unable to sleep due to the porn show next door, I plotted my TripAdvisor reviewJennifer O’Connell: Sometimes I can’t resist spewing hot, angry words into the keyboardSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Transgender for beginners: Trans, terf, cis and safe spacesRead on for a better understanding of the sometimes divisive ‘transgender issue’Sat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Russell Brand: You’re not a spiritual maverick, you’re a stereotypeThe self-styled revolutionary has revealed that he is too “sensitive and awake and aware” to do anything so dull and predictable as change a nappyWed Jan 23 2019 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Having children eased my anxietyMotherhood immediately made my anxiety much worse, and eventually much betterSat Jan 19 2019 - 06:00
Brexit ‘has unleashed such a set of demons’ on the UKHow does a society that has been so badly fractured begin to heal?Sat Jan 19 2019 - 05:00
Brexit dark days coming, warn Britain’s ethnic communitiesBradford feels forgotten by rest of Britain and now sees Brexit as an elitist thingFri Jan 18 2019 - 06:00
Brexit: The students’ viewHull sixth-form pupils on what should happen next, now Theresa May’s deal has been defeatedThu Jan 17 2019 - 00:00
Brexit fatigue: ‘It’s been two or three years nearly. We’re sick of it’Wrong assumptions and flawed facts underpin Hull’s attitude to Border and BrexitWed Jan 16 2019 - 03:00
Why do Meghan and Kate hate each other? Duh! It’s Brexit, dummyJennifer O'Connell: Kate is seen taking her earrings off, while Meghan hisses and Eugenie cheers from the sidelinesSat Jan 12 2019 - 06:00
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I’d like to play Countess Markievicz, so I can use my own accent’Having worked half her life, Saoirse Ronan is finding her early 20s scary and excitingFri Jan 11 2019 - 18:26
Women aged 50 are ‘too old to love’, says French author aged 50Yann Moix might be sexist – but is he just saying what other men are thinking?Tue Jan 08 2019 - 13:00
The tyranny of my Apple watch: The notifications are verging on the passive aggressiveWhatever my Apple watch wanted me to do, I’d do uncomplainingly, even though the red flags were there from the beginningSat Jan 05 2019 - 06:00
Politicians weeping, hugging and dancing? More of this pleaseSeeing politicians weep, hug and dance was a different kind of politics to Trump’s machoismFri Jan 04 2019 - 13:00
Meghan Markle, Pope Francis, the All Blacks: 2018’s memorable visitorsIt was a year of visits, royal, papal, meteorological. Here’s what we learned from themSat Dec 29 2018 - 06:00
Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama: who is the most popular woman in America?A new poll reveals who is the most admired woman in AmericaFri Dec 28 2018 - 12:30
Rob Delaney on a ‘sad, angry, confused’ Christmas without his son HenryThe actor spoke out to destigmatise grief and to help other parents feel ‘seen, heard, loved’Thu Dec 27 2018 - 13:30
‘I flew to Chicago to buy Mrs Claus’: The families lighting up ChristmasThese Dubliners are raising festive spirits and funds with their elaborately lit homesSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: ‘The strange things we lose the run of ourselves over at Christmas’Good biscuits, dried fruit, coffee table books and the Coca Cola truckSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
Christmas conversation killers: Brexit, snowflakes, ‘Fairytale of New York’Ten subjects to avoid at the 2018 dinner table – unless you fancy a rowSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
Brexit stockpile: Favourite foods you might not know are BritishWe’re about four billion times more partial to British food than we’d like to admitTue Dec 18 2018 - 09:45
Jennifer O’Connell: I’m so confused about tipping I can never eat out againGenerally I just close my eyes and fling twenties around, and hope no one is insultedSat Dec 15 2018 - 06:00
35 of the best independent bookshops in IrelandIn the age of ebooks, these booksellers are proving print is still preferredFri Dec 14 2018 - 12:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Buying the family home needs a lot of stars to alignIreland was not easy to return to and buy a home. Then my mother asked if we’d be interested in buying theirsThu Dec 13 2018 - 06:00
Talk of birthright citizenship will spark concerns about people gaming the systemJennifer O’Connell: Personal stories have swayed the public on citizenship, as politics again lag behindSat Dec 08 2018 - 06:00
Ada Hegerberg and the twerking joke: why we shouldn’t let it slideYet another female athlete’s achievement is overshadowed by someone else’s bad behaviourTue Dec 04 2018 - 14:07
Jennifer O’Connell: ‘There’s no TripAdvisor to separate the good people from the bad’Women being more equal at work and men being more hands-on at home means we all have to learn new ways to behaveSat Dec 01 2018 - 06:00
