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 2 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 2 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 2 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
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
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
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 8 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 5 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 4 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
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
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 8 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 4 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 1 2018 - 06:00
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 1 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 1 2018 - 01:15
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 1 2018 - 00:00
She was homeless at 12. In college at 20Five people describe the obstacles they have overcome to make it to third-levelSat Dec 1 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
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
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
Jennifer O’Connell: My week as a veganThere’s plenty of examining labels, sampling new foods and feeling hungrySat 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
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
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
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 9 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 3 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
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