‘He was telling me not to see my friends . . . I thought that was love’

We walk to school, pubs, restaurants. The sea is 10 minutes away. What’s not to like?

Why did the magazine put the word woman in quotation marks? A backhanded compliment? Or tone deaf to implications?

Funeral mass organised with ‘detailed precision’ by composer prior to his death

Jennifer O’Connell: Food is an endlessly rich lexicon of joy, desire, friendship and love

Allyson MacIvor’s tolerance of intolerance at a Jack White gig is a social-media lesson for all

Jennifer O’Connell: That's the paradox of becoming a parent

Halloween might be your only chance to choose from ‘sexy’, ‘sexier’ or ‘phwoar’

‘There are 15,000 people homeless. And much worse is coming down the road’

A mouse legged it across the diningroom floor. The rest is history

The Tampax Cup shows the politics of periods are changing – but still too slowly

Girls are chided for being pushy or bossy. But ambition should be celebrated

Jennifer O'Connell: Add slow sets to the list of things I love that are already, or about to become, obsolete

Kate Middleton acted like childbirth was no tougher than a game of croquet, writes Jennifer O’Connell

People began to notice the old man with the neat white hair, paint-spattered cuffs and the cotton bag that held his sketchbook

Strictly star and comedian Seann Walsh’s ex-girlfriend walked away with dignity and power

Navigating the etiquette of watching porn in public is actually pretty simple. Don’t

Four young transgender people on growing up, coming out and being accepted

I once scored 95% on the extrovert scale, which basically means I’m terribly needy

Jennifer O’Connell: Sexually censorious attitudes create stigma and cost lives

The undoing of hate-peddler Hopkins is the perfect parable for the age of outrage

Jennifer O’Connell: Yes, I am a mother who works, but is there any other kind?

Irish observers might be reminded of our grim history at the hands of ‘Punch’

The social media giant wants to make us less tech-dependent. Isn't it a little late for that?

Sleep is not optional. Getting only six hours a night is a form of slow euthanasia

Jennifer O’Connell: Race for the Áras is like the first round of ‘Ireland’s Got Talent’

Plus-size model Tess Holliday's cover shoot causes controversy but is obesity the real issue?

Jennifer O’Connell: Gender neutrality is all very well, but children want to fit in at school

Where can you buy his socks? Which predecessor once put a dead body on trial?

The church’s playbook for dealing with abuse in Pennsylvania is horribly familiar

The #MeToo movement is experiencing growing pains as it enters a new phase

Give Daithi a night off, and make it a show for real women who shop in Penneys, may be over 28, don’t want to marry and have opini(...)

Next time you’re moved to fury by something happening to children in Trump’s America, spare a thought for the children in Ireland

'Doing an Omarosa' is as easy as opening an app. But are you breaking the law?

Reframe your parents’ expectations. And yours. Avoid social media. If necessary, lie

Number of parents interested in exploring different approaches is growing

Jennifer O'Connell: We pretend we’re worldly Europeans, then someone goes for a cheek kiss and the pretence melts away

As a study of 25 years of Vogue cover stars shows how uniform our conception of beauty is, magazine editors say they’ll embrace mo(...)

The falsehoods, euphemisms and face-saving ruses that helped make us what we are

‘People who have a habit of moving their lips silently when they read tend to be given a wide berth’

From Sudocrem to 7Up to Marian Keyes: the best of Ireland is going into our Bosca Brexit

Sperm counts are falling across the developed world. The truth about the male fertility timebomb

Jennifer O’Connell: I love long vacations – when I’m participating in them

For the first time in living memory, families are debating how much they’re prepared to pay to not have to go on holiday

We’ve an insatiable appetite for people roaring at us about where we’re going wrong

For most, the worst result of too much time gaming is just too much time gaming

'We should have another baby, I announce. When he stops laughing, my husband reminds me that’s no longer an option'

Go, discover, dive into the ham rolls, and leave nothing behind but your footprints

Listening to the man from MacGill you might conclude women have nothing much to say, or don’t want to say it

It’s bad enough infantilising children; infantilising adults is bound to be disastrous

Is it time we looked with a more critical eye on the stories we tell about falling in love

She was in good form for someone who had nearly been killed twice in the last hour

Mini Marathon organisers reconsidering inclusion of dishwasher tablets in goody bags

‘It could be your sister, your dad, your brother. Addiction doesn’t care who you are’

Not everyone embraced the spectre of a diverse new Britain with the same enthusiasm

They’re not just tights. They’re a sign the Windsorisation of Meghan Markle has begun

‘My obsession with household appliances had reached problematic levels’

Meghan Markle has come to stand for something much more than the woman with whom the affable Prince Harry happened to fall in love

Irish royal watchers were among the Windsor crowd hailing a ‘down to earth’ Duchess of Sussex

A bluffer’s guide to the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from May 25th

I’ve learned that we don’t have to live in a state of constant, ongoing stress

Where to watch it, who to watch out for, the potential flashpoints and the after-party

I regret my kids’ missing out on the tradition. And the potato salad

Which Scandinavian country has the most Eurovision wins – after Ireland?

Those shouty slogans feel like an insult, but they make it easier to start the conversation

Comment: Recent tweets are just the latest examples of increasingly erratic behaviour

It might be one of the slowest bus services in Ireland, but none of its passengers seem to mind. ‘You get all the gossip on this b(...)

How much lovelier would it have been if she had betrayed even the smallest hint of the brutality of the experience she had just en(...)

No self-respecting mutt is without their own Instagram account these days

Jennifer O’Connell: Why does every single woman on screen look like she was ordered up from a set of customisable templates create(...)

Not only did the hearings not damage Mark Zuckerberg, on day one alone, they enriched him personally to the tune of around $3 bill(...)

Why do the uncommonly beautiful people insist it’s so tough being that good looking?

Rugby player expresses regret for ‘degrading’ messages, but it rings hollow

I have lost the high of sharing. The biggest gains have been time and privacy

France has banned street harassment and it’s time we discussed that here too

Meet the coffee shop visionaries behind an unstoppable trend

TV Review: ‘Hardy Bucks’ is crude, juvenile and blokey, but it has an irresistible swagger

TV Review: Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh explores the loneliness of the long-suffering Gaeilgeóir

TV Review: Chilling account of the murder of two British soldiers at an IRA funeral in 1988

St Patty’s Day is cultural appropriation on a grand scale. We love it, America: work away

What’s the one thing every Irish person should do before they die?

RTÉ’s ‘Stetsons and Stilettos’ throws open the barn door on a thriving Irish sub-culture

Mothers, in the world of Hallmark, are nurturing, self-sacrificing, unthreatening. They love bunnies and lavender

They smashed stereotypes, changed Ireland – yet many are forgotten by history

Jennifer O'Connell: Sex conversations with kids shouldn’t be only about ‘the talk’

Jennifer O’Connell: We’d the bags packed, fridge emptied, Taytos bought for the brother in the US

Amid a glut of dodgy online dietary advice, the show’s simple message has real value

For a nation of leavers, home can be complex, slippery notion

Eating disorders have doubled in a decade, and social media is helping to fuel the rise

Jennifer O'Connell: First rule of the Whatsapp splinter group is you don't talk about the group

Whose dark hair wove a snare around Patrick Kavanagh’s heart on Raglan Road?

‘Parent’ is no longer a noun. First it became a verb, and then a performance art

Love comes in many guises. It can start at birth, or can be for people we’ve never met. As Valentine's Day approaches we look at l(...)

Jennifer O’Connell: Will people follow in Jenner’s footsteps and reduce their online presence?

After 10 years of internet dating, she’s on a hiatus. The internet has killed the spontaneity

How much has Ireland really changed since the Joanne Hayes, Ann Lovett and X cases?

#MeToo seems in danger of dissolving into futile, inter-generational warfare between people who are supposed to be on the same sid(...)

‘I have just enough freckles and I’m never without red lipstick,’ my son read from the au pair’s application. ‘That’s off her dati(...)

Could you be cheating on your partner without knowing it? The internet thinks so

Paul Stenson’s latest stunt does not match with his own attitude towards ‘influencing’