Joseph Tuohy, who died in July, never got over being separated from his mother as a boy

She knew there was someone to be told. Someone no one else knew about. Another man

Jennifer O’Connell: Unfortunately, sometimes terrifyingly, we often get leaders we deserve

Ireland has 1,500 fewer pubs than in 2006. Nowhere has seen a steeper decline than Limerick

How can a 16-year-old girl in plaits, dedicated to trying to save the planet, inspire such incandescent rage?

Ireland’s free travel scheme is ‘an extraordinary social programme’, believe older users of bus and rail services

One described witnessing Isis executions, child exploitation and animal torture

It’s our oldest commuter town, a major port – and a planning mess. Poor little rich suburb

Who is more inane, the influencer posting about their #blessed life, or the outraged follower?

As one of the fastest growing occupations in Ireland, there are some 44,000 people working in the senior care industry

‘We just do whatever it is to keep them in their own home as long as possible’

What Roses will least likely say, and everything else you need to know about the festival

If you’ve been groped by a drunken stranger in a bar, you’ve experienced second-hand drinking

Ovarian freezing to gene editing: Babies could be made very differently in 21st century

Talent and ambition are tolerated, but notions are a no-no. Basically, it’s Ireland selecting its fantasy daughter-in-law.

What happens to all the swag? Does Brexit spell trouble? Jennifer O’Connell finds out

Jennifer O'Connell: If you thought I was fun before I had kids, the toddler-toting festival-goers brag, see me now!

Instead of being a life-stage, ‘adulthood’ has become a fraught, anxious goal for many of us

Tiger heads and brown furniture: a day at the Kilkenny auction yields lots of stories

The Philosopher says he’s going outside. This is surprising because the train is moving

‘You’ve so many fashionable and talented people in one place ... It’s great for inspiration’

Children viewing endless, sexually explicit, violent material shouldn’t be inevitable

If our starting point is that parents who use childcare are neglectful, we’re setting a low bar for the standards we expect

The 1810 mahogany house, once owned by Vivien Greene, had guide price of €3,000-€4,000

If I could go back, there’s lots of advice I’d give myself – not that I’d have listened

Sandra calculates that back to school costs for her daughter will come to €1,367 this summer

Echoes of their father’s sharp wit as eulogies delivered by each of Grace’s four children

It’s not so much that the town had a tough recession – the boom never really arrived

Sleep has become the preoccupation of my generation

Our series on challenges facing rural Ireland looks at what happens when a town doubles in size

A whole tier of Irish towns and villages need major investment. Can they be saved?

Give Up Yer Aul Screens: Minecraft was no match for Project Runway family edition

Jennifer O’Connell: Church rejection of gender fluidity was perfectly timed for Pride month

Why is it heresy to say you love your children fiercely but they don’t always make you happy?

Jennifer O’Connell: Ageing is not for the faint of heart, but it’s better than the alternative

You already know you are what you eat. But experts say you also are where you live

What do women want for summer? Clothes that fit and sandals you can walk in

Users say co-living schemes suit students and young workers – but for ‘just a few months’

Major signal fault left a yawning information chasm for passengers, writes Jennifer O’Connell

The footage was slowed down so that the US house speaker seemed to slur her words

Jennifer O'Connell on The Jeremy Kyle Show, emblem for these paradoxical times

But the recordings aren’t used to serve you ads. The industry has better ways of doing that

‘Anti-Islamic agenda’ linked to withdrawal of permission for new Kilkenny cultural centre

Jennifer O’Connell: 90% of Irish women do housework, compared with just 50% of men

We have more choice than ever, but we are still in thrall to the concept of marriage. Why?

When your 16-year-old asks you to buy them a bottle of Jagermeister, laugh in their face

Jennifer O'Connell: It takes real determination to be idle on this spectacular little rock

In Bansha and Cashel, where many suspected Quirke’s guilt, the talk is of little else

When did holy statues move? How hot was 1995? What beach was voted Ireland’s best?

Sign of the Times: Irish people are doing more and more online. We want to switch off but can’t

I’m listening to two young men doing what we think they are incapable of: having a meaningful conversation about consent

Sign of the Times: Survey suggests fear of change as 47% say we are ‘losing Irishness’

The sight of the journalist’s simple wooden coffin was too much for many of her friends

Thatcher’s hometown of Grantham is awash with anger and dismay at failure to exit EU

Jennifer O’Connell: Smug about being in the short non-priority queue? You’re type one

The Irish Times is looking to speak to couples about their experiences

Jennifer O’Connell: You don’t have to have lived in Paris to have had a visceral reaction to seeing Notre Dame gutted

Kourtney Kardashian’s Poosh is latest attempt to cash in on increasingly lucrative insecurity industry

Bereft mother still fighting to prove that Michael's killing unlawful and unjustified

Ex-Ukip leader promises ‘democratic revolution’ as he launches party

Locals in the former pit town of Shirebrook are dealing with a changing social fabric

‘Let’s just hope we fill the stadium for him,’ says wife Martina

Smartphones too big for women’s hands, seatbelts couldn't have been designed by anyone with breasts

A savage attack outside a Liverpool match in April 2018 changed Sean Cox’s life

Irish moderators watch horrific videos so you don’t have to. What does it do to them?

'What is Britain, then?' the American woman asked, stumbling on the toughest existential question of all

We need to talk about sex without the words ‘when two people are very much in love…’

Community shows solidarity with bereft families on day that will linger long in memory

Teenager was ‘energetic and full of life’, priest tells mourners

If a relationship is consensual - is it part of the #MeToo movement?

If it’s any consolation, St Patrick’s Day is even more pressure on the ones who got away

The staff of 100 financial firms are moving to Ireland due to Brexit. How will that go?

The actor on #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein and why Sinéad O’Connor was ‘100% right’

Jennifer O'Connell: I suspect what we’re most scared of isn’t the daily livestream of risks. It is the censure of other parents

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s sixth novel is about a fictional rock band but explores real life brilliantly

‘I long for the day when we don’t have to celebrate how fabulous we are,’ says former rugby international

Comment: If this seems a reluctant shunt, rather than a leap forward – it’s because it is

Jennifer O'Connell: My friend’s father told her not to come home until she ditched her boyfriend. He wasn’t an addict – he was Eng(...)

Squeezing into pre-pregnancy jeans is now a priority just below ‘keep baby alive’

She is 11 years old, this selfie-taking, quietly self-loathing little girl, schooled in insecurity

There is little sympathy for the ‘jihadi bride’ whose British citizenship is being revoked

The latest variation on the Rules theme is that your interior decor could be sending out the 'wrong' signals

‘I have erotic dreams about waking up and discovering my car has been valeted’

No longer was my head stuck in my phone when I should have been interacting with my family

As funerals of four young victims took place, prayers were offered that people would ‘exercise extreme care on the road’

Ellie Kisyombe arrived in Ireland, terrified, in 2010. Now she is standing for local election

The #MeToo backlash is not an excuse for male execs to hide behind

Jennifer O’Connell: Sometimes I can’t resist spewing hot, angry words into the keyboard

Read on for a better understanding of the sometimes divisive ‘transgender issue’

The self-styled revolutionary has revealed that he is too “sensitive and awake and aware” to do anything so dull and predictable a(...)

Motherhood immediately made my anxiety much worse, and eventually much better

How does a society that has been so badly fractured begin to heal?

Bradford feels forgotten by rest of Britain and now sees Brexit as an elitist thing

Hull sixth-form pupils on what should happen next, now Theresa May’s deal has been defeated

Wrong assumptions and flawed facts underpin Hull’s attitude to Border and Brexit

Jennifer O'Connell: Kate is seen taking her earrings off, while Meghan hisses and Eugenie cheers from the sidelines

Having worked half her life, Saoirse Ronan is finding her early 20s scary and exciting

Yann Moix might be sexist – but is he just saying what other men are thinking?

Whatever my Apple watch wanted me to do, I’d do uncomplainingly, even though the red flags were there from the beginning

Seeing politicians weep, hug and dance was a different kind of politics to Trump’s machoism