Restarting Ireland: When and how will we ‘get back to normal’?Optimists say July. Others September. We will return – gradually – to a much changed worldSat Apr 04 2020 - 06:00
Jennifer O'Connell: For some people, home is the most dangerous place of allPandemics are good for hard men. Spare a thought for their victimsSat Apr 04 2020 - 01:00
Jennifer O'Connell: Covid-19 is normalising mass surveillance of citizensTrack-and-trace strategy to contain coronavirus uses citizens’ personal dataSat Mar 28 2020 - 00:33
Coronavirus: ‘China is suddenly looking very attractive’Irish man David O’Connor’s business recruiting teachers to work in China is boomingFri Mar 27 2020 - 17:11
Waiting for a coronavirus test: Six days and one hospital visit later, and still no test‘My real problem is lack of communication. I don’t even know if the HSE received the referral’Mon Mar 23 2020 - 16:27
The coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to make the most of our childrenJennifer O'Connell: We all love our kids, but had we forgotten how to enjoy them?Sat Mar 21 2020 - 06:04
Waiting for a coronavirus test in Dublin: ‘My chest is raw. My lungs ache’Odhrán Allen is 47, a lifelong asthma sufferer who ‘ticks the box for every symptom’Fri Mar 20 2020 - 05:05
Coronavirus: How to practise social distancing while queueing and walkingShould you climb into ditches to avoid people, or hide from friends in the supermarket?Thu Mar 19 2020 - 06:04
Jennifer O'Connell: Sole weapon to beat coronavirus is our safe togethernessIf we don’t take drastic social distancing actions, no one will be safe – young or oldWed Mar 18 2020 - 01:04
St Patrick’s Day in Waterford: ‘It was eerie... There were no people on the streets’With unused festival floats and closed shops, the city had no sign of a day of celebrationTue Mar 17 2020 - 17:03
How do we preserve our empathy in the grip of coronavirus?Jennifer O’Connell: How do you navigate tightrope between responsibility and getting on with it?Sat Mar 14 2020 - 06:03
Isolation is never easy. For a person with dementia it’s especially difficultIreland’s largest dementia day care centre is rapidly adapting to coronavirusSat Mar 14 2020 - 06:00
Medics on Ireland's coronavirus frontline: ‘We got protective shields from a hardware shop’GP Geoff Plant says one difficulty for his practice is trying to keep up with changing guidelinesSat Mar 14 2020 - 01:00
How to work from home: set boundaries, bribe your kids, avoid naked partnersWorking from home is not an excuse to wear pyjamas, scoff biscuits and binge-watch TVWed Mar 11 2020 - 06:00
Laura Madden, Weinstein’s Irish victim: I was No 6 on his ‘secret hit list’The words ‘very bitter’ were by her name. Weinstein wanted her investigatedSat Mar 07 2020 - 06:00
Flooding: ‘It will be April before the floodwaters go down’Farmers in Clare and Galway fear they will be forgotten about when the water recedesSat Mar 07 2020 - 02:00
Harvey Weinstein’s Irish whistleblower: ‘I spent my life blaming myself. It was his fault’The assault on Laura Madden occurred in 1992 when he interviewed her in a Dublin hotelThu Mar 05 2020 - 21:06
Harvey Weinstein’s conviction is good. But it hasn’t changed the world‘A rape case is still extremely difficult to win ... Weinstein hasn’t changed that’Sat Feb 29 2020 - 06:00
Coronavirus: Where should you sit on a plane to avoid infection?Only the 11 people nearest an infected passenger have a high probability of getting illFri Feb 28 2020 - 16:00
Why you can’t publish a Weinstein #MeToo story in IrelandIreland’s very restrictive libel regime would have made such reporting very problematicThu Feb 27 2020 - 12:20
Jennifer O’Connell: Why are women in midlife so unhappy?Catholic Ireland told us we didn’t matter. Feminism told us we did. No wonder we’re confusedSat Feb 22 2020 - 06:04
Quizzes, influencers, IRA memes: How Election 2020 was won onlineOnline culture has reshaped the political landscape, but the quality of information variesSat Feb 15 2020 - 06:05
Gwyneth Paltrow’s genius is to recognise something the porn industry has known for yearsI have never understood why the actor gets so much grief, particularly from other womenSat Feb 15 2020 - 06:04
David Cullinane’s historic haul leaves other Waterford candidates in limboSinn Féin TD warmly embraces his biggest supporter, who forecast 20,000 first preference votesSun Feb 09 2020 - 20:59
Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald says State no longer has a ‘two-party system’Gerry Adams compares party’s election performance to vote for first Dáil in 1918Sun Feb 09 2020 - 19:46
Pragmatism beat idealism as deeply engaged voters navigated changeNational mood misread by FG as Brexit deemed less vital than health and housingSun Feb 09 2020 - 16:03
The risk of contracting mass hysteria is much higher than coronavirusJennifer O'Connell: There’s nothing quite like an emerging health crisis to bring out the horror movie fan in usSat Feb 08 2020 - 06:04
Election 2020 final debate: It’s speed-dating for coalition partners. Any hot prospects?Róisín had her moments, Eamon smiled too much, Peadar talked about a woman he knewFri Feb 07 2020 - 01:00
Election 2020: Students look for alternatives to FF and FGYoung people see chance to redraw entire political system they inherited from their parentsThu Feb 06 2020 - 20:18
Generation rent: ‘There’s no hope of any of us buying a house’A group who could decide Election 2020, on their political prioritiesThu Feb 06 2020 - 06:00
Election 2020: Unclear visions of political change on cataract busPeople travelling from Cork to Belfast for eye operations have little time for the status quoTue Feb 04 2020 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: My email is full of snippets of other people’s conversationsI collect snippets of strangers’ conversations like other people collect beer mats or vintage Pyrex dishes. It's not without its hazardsSat Feb 01 2020 - 06:04
Election 2020 in commuterville: ‘They built the houses and left the people in a vacuum’In Adamstown – a multicultural town in west Dublin – many residents cannot even voteSat Feb 01 2020 - 06:00
‘You’re moving to Ireland? God help you. I hope you never get sick over there.’In Ramsgrange Men’s Shed the election issues are health, crime and pensionsTue Jan 28 2020 - 02:00
Some get up early to go to the gym, others because they slept in a doorwayJennifer O’Connell: There are now two Irelands, co-existing within a few feet of each otherSat Jan 25 2020 - 06:04
Voters in Dún Laoghaire: ‘Every single way I look at it, it’s difficult’Parents pool their thoughts on property ownership, childcare and insurance costsSat Jan 25 2020 - 02:47
'I wouldn't vote for Greta Thunberg' - farmers have their say on Election 2020At a mart in Co Clare, farmers’ frustrations are steering them towards fatalismThu Jan 23 2020 - 01:00
Election 2020: ‘We all think the health service is a lost cause’Voters interviewed in Cork believe health service problems are institutional and that people have low expectations for ministers of healthTue Jan 21 2020 - 12:26
Jennifer O’Connell: Headphones have become our new office cubiclesNow, if I forget to bring a pair to the office, I’m liable to turn the car aroundSat Jan 18 2020 - 06:04
‘You’re on your own down here after 5pm’The cath lab was closed when John Doherty went to UHW with chest pain on a SaturdaySat Jan 18 2020 - 05:56
‘What happens if I get sick?’ Health the core issue for Waterford votersElection 2020: Locals keen to see who delivers on rural problems they think are being ignoredSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
Megxit ‘bombshell’: Why Meghan and Harry are right to strike back at the royal machineConsciously uncoupling from Harry’s family will end the couple’s Sisyphean cycleThu Jan 09 2020 - 12:25
Marian Finucane funeral: ‘The only thing I can give you are my tears’Public and private Marian remembered at funeral mass for veteran RTÉ broadcasterTue Jan 07 2020 - 18:45
Marian Finucane funeral: ‘She made the world easier to live in’‘She will be remembered for her keen intellect, warmth, wit, and kindness,’ mourners toldTue Jan 07 2020 - 17:42
What matters is not money in the bank, or cars, or working boilersJennifer O’Connell: Against the odds, the hospice is an extraordinarily uplifting placeSat Jan 04 2020 - 06:04
This year’s top 10 Christmas conversation killersGreta Thunberg, Maria Bailey and vaping: A round-up of the subjects to avoid this ChristmasMon Dec 23 2019 - 06:00
Jennifer O'Connell: We need to stop talking about women’s ‘emotional labour’ at ChristmasA lot of what needs to be done at this time of year isn’t emotional labour; it’s just labourSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:04
Life in a hospice: ‘Everything is done. The plot is bought’Patients at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross find their own way of dealing with deathSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:00
There’s a kind of homesickness only emigrants understand at ChristmasJennifer O’Connell: Our line was ‘it’s only a day, after all’, to be repeated over and overSat Dec 14 2019 - 06:00
Polling day: ‘Tactical voting could be the story of this election’‘The British like a slightly bumbling upper-class person. That’s part of the psyche’Wed Dec 11 2019 - 21:30
