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
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
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
‘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
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
A day in the life of a GP: ‘It’s not broken but it’s creaking’Overworked, under-resourced and burning out, or overpaid, understretched and privileged?Sat Dec 01 2018 - 06:00
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
€350m project aims to transform Waterford’s North QuaysShops, offices, 200 apartments and train station planned for 17-acre waterfront siteSat Dec 01 2018 - 01:15
She was homeless at 12. In college at 20Five people describe the obstacles they have overcome to make it to third-levelSat Dec 01 2018 - 00:00
CBD: What’s the story with this legal cannabis constituent?Is this non-psychoactive, widely available cousin of marijuana a health godsend or a fad?Sat Dec 01 2018 - 00:00
Late Late Toy Show: The gutsiest, glitziest show on earthReview: Big dance number. Heart-wringing heroes. Ryan Tubridy’s singing. It’s all hereFri Nov 30 2018 - 22:51
Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations: Straight out of The Handmaid's Tale?The actual theme is ‘American Treasures,’ honouring ‘the heart and spirit’ and, clearly, the bodily fluids of the American peopleTue Nov 27 2018 - 13:27
Jennifer O’Connell: My week as a veganThere’s plenty of examining labels, sampling new foods and feeling hungrySat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: ‘Penneys has a special on Open To Meeting Someone underwear. Five for €3.50’It’s convenient how Official Ireland chooses whether women are to be judged from the neckline up, or the belt down, based on the contextSat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
Rape trials: weighing up the two rights that make prosecuting rape so difficultLegal observers believe we can now weigh up the right of defendants to a fair trialSat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
Lawyers concerned over public backlash after underwear comments in rape trialNew rules seeking to ensure only bona-fide journalists and lawyers may report or tweet from court cases will come into effect on MondaySat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
The ‘bearable’ commute time is 45 minutes, new study findsThose whose journey exceeds 45 minutes more likely to move houseTue Nov 20 2018 - 15:23
Living with domestic abuse: ‘Our marriage is over when I say it’s f**king over’‘He was telling me not to see my friends . . . I thought that was love’Sat Nov 17 2018 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: ‘Priced out of Dublin? Consider Down the Country’We walk to school, pubs, restaurants. The sea is 10 minutes away. What’s not to like?Sat Nov 17 2018 - 06:00
Serena Williams: GQ’s ‘woman’ of the year title sparks backlashWhy did the magazine put the word woman in quotation marks? A backhanded compliment? Or tone deaf to implications?Tue Nov 13 2018 - 14:43
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin ‘a contemporary Orpheus’, funeral toldFuneral mass organised with ‘detailed precision’ by composer prior to his deathMon Nov 12 2018 - 13:16
A handwritten recipe falls from my grandmother’s cookbook: “Pizza for 1 Person”. My heart shattersJennifer O’Connell: Food is an endlessly rich lexicon of joy, desire, friendship and loveSat Nov 10 2018 - 06:00
‘Don’t fire the woman who told me to stop kissing my girlfriend’Allyson MacIvor’s tolerance of intolerance at a Jack White gig is a social-media lesson for allFri Nov 09 2018 - 06:00
‘I used to want my parents to be shocked now I want my daughter to be impressed’Jennifer O’Connell: That's the paradox of becoming a parentSat Nov 03 2018 - 06:00
‘Sexy’ Halloween costumes: when it comes to women, scary doesn’t cut itHalloween might be your only chance to choose from ‘sexy’, ‘sexier’ or ‘phwoar’Wed Oct 31 2018 - 06:00
Fr Peter McVerry: A saint? If he is, he’s an angry one‘There are 15,000 people homeless. And much worse is coming down the road’Sat Oct 27 2018 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Rodents, romance and how I met my husbandA mouse legged it across the diningroom floor. The rest is historySat Oct 27 2018 - 06:00
If men had periods, tampons would have been made obsolete decades agoThe Tampax Cup shows the politics of periods are changing – but still too slowlyThu Oct 25 2018 - 06:00
Ambition: Why is it still a dirty word for women?Girls are chided for being pushy or bossy. But ambition should be celebratedSat Oct 20 2018 - 06:00
Renting a video together was like updating Facebook to ‘in a relationship’Jennifer O'Connell: Add slow sets to the list of things I love that are already, or about to become, obsoleteSat Oct 20 2018 - 06:00
Have yourself a Meghan Markle pregnancy, not a rigid royal oneKate Middleton acted like childbirth was no tougher than a game of croquet, writes Jennifer O’ConnellMon Oct 15 2018 - 12:22
Jennifer O'Connell: ‘He conquered the mountain and his grief, one faltering step at a time’People began to notice the old man with the neat white hair, paint-spattered cuffs and the cotton bag that held his sketchbookSat Oct 13 2018 - 06:00
If you've been gaslit or cheated on Rebecca Humphries is worth listening toStrictly star and comedian Seann Walsh’s ex-girlfriend walked away with dignity and powerTue Oct 09 2018 - 13:12
It’s not illegal to watch porn on public transport. But is it wrong?Navigating the etiquette of watching porn in public is actually pretty simple. Don’tWed Oct 03 2018 - 09:26
Jennifer O’Connell: I’m going to spend time on my own. It’s terrifyingI once scored 95% on the extrovert scale, which basically means I’m terribly needySat Sept 29 2018 - 06:00
Ireland’s trans children: ‘I didn’t know what ‘trans’ meant. I just felt that I was a woman’Four young transgender people on growing up, coming out and being acceptedSat Sept 29 2018 - 06:00
‘Nuns and prostitutes’: Ireland’s hopeless attitude to women’s healthJennifer O’Connell: Sexually censorious attitudes create stigma and cost livesSat Sept 22 2018 - 06:00
Is it too much to hope that this is how it all ends for Katie Hopkins?The undoing of hate-peddler Hopkins is the perfect parable for the age of outrageTue Sept 18 2018 - 13:09
We don’t talk about ‘career men’, so don’t call me a ‘working mum’Jennifer O’Connell: Yes, I am a mother who works, but is there any other kind?Sat Sept 15 2018 - 06:00
