Joanne Hunt

Joanne Hunt

Joanne Hunt is a news and features writer with the Irish Times, writing regularly on health, property and business. Her work has also been published in the Irish Independent and The Observer and she has written and presented radio segments for RTE Radio 1. She’s a former recipient of the SMedia National Press Journalist of the Year award. Prior to The Irish Times, Joanne worked for over 10 years in the technology sector.

Parliamentary assistant to Donegal TD claims unfair dismissal

Joan Blackbyrne is taking case against Independent TD Thomas Pringle and the Houses of the Oireachtas

Health scan: Nuala Carey

Lorraine Stanley of AIB Patrick Street, Cork. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Women’s working lives

Tara Humphreys and her daughter,Olivia. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times
Women’s working lives: then and now

Communications manager Tara Humphreys (40) and former Aer Lingus employee Irene Rooney (78) tell their stories

Michelle McBride (39), retail director for Butlers Chocolates. “I work, but I am a mother too and I think that’s part of my job.” Photograph: Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Working women’s lives: then and now

Passionate about work and about parenting

Ruby Wax in Dublin: She describes mindfulness as ‘a trick’. ‘If you send your attention inside your body to feelings like your bum on the seat, nothing spiritual, your brain can’t be anxious at the same time. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Fear of failure prompts motormouth Wax to go mindful

American comedian says 24-hour nature of modern living and the constant pressure to strive is leaving many of us burnt out

Aythor Harry Browne described Bono as “an ambassador for imperial exploitation”. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
Author describes Bono as “an ambassador for imperial exploitation”

Book is scathing of how it says Bono “defended U2’s partial move to Amsterdam, avoiding Irish taxes”

Susie Hall a retired teacher who was forced to give up her job at Loreto Foxrock when she got engaged . Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons / The Irish Times
'The unfairness shocked me. It was very different for me'

Susie Hall (66), former secondary school teacher

Sam Keely: at her home in Celbridge, Co Kildare. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimon
‘Finding my first real grown-up job would be my next goal’

One woman finds that being in her 20s gives her time to think things through

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A firefighter tries to put out a fire at a plantation in Rokan Hilir district, Riau province, Indonesia. Riau authorities have deployed two fire brigade teams in Bengkalis district and Dumai to control peatland fires, Antara News Agency reported. The fires are being blamed for dense smog in neighbouring Singapore. Photograph: Aswaddy Hamid/Reuters Singaporean smog and Indonesian fires
This is Nanoweek 2013, and to mark it an exhibition, NanoArt 13, of 100 ‘nanolandscapes’ (research images, at a scale thousands of times smaller than a grain of salt) is being held at Trinity College Dublin, the Tryskell Arts Centre in Cork and the Tyndall National Institute at UCC. Here is a selection of the images. Above, 'Insect egg on a Leaf' by Patrick Carolan, Tyndall National Institute. Insect egg on underside of leaf. Stuff you never get to see

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