
‘Stardust took me over. It turned me into a victim too’
- People
- January 23, 2021, 06:00
After her parents died in the 1981 fire, Lisa Lawlor became known as the ‘Stardust baby’

Jennifer O'Connell: Biden’s cabinet looks like America. The Dáil doesn’t look much like Ireland
- Opinion
- January 23, 2021, 01:18
People who say it shouldn’t matter are used to seeing their own image reflected back to them

Share your story: Have you lost someone during the pandemic?
- Health & Family
- January 22, 2021, 15:40
The Irish Times wants to hear from readers about their experiences of grief during the pandemic

Irish GPs fighting third-wave Covid: On the front line of the world’s worst outbreak
- Health & Family
- January 16, 2021, 06:00
Doctors in some of the worst-hit areas are noticing marked change in early symptoms

Jennifer O'Connell: Working mothers are bearing an unfair burden in lockdown fallout
- Opinion
- January 16, 2021, 01:00
Teachers and parents are stepping up to the homeschooling challenge. It is time employers did too

Jennifer O’Connell: Forget the voice of reason, Ivanka has only been the voice of Ivanka
- Opinion
- January 9, 2021, 01:00
After four years, a medium-sized insurrection must seem like a small price to pay

Jennifer O’Connell: 2020 was a tale of two Irelands
- People
- December 26, 2020, 06:00
2020 in review: Four out of five Irish people saw incomes grow or stay the same in the pandemic

Jennifer O’Connell: Even in a pandemic, it’s still a man’s world
- Opinion
- December 26, 2020, 01:00
The harsh reality is that without more women in positions of authority, women’s needs will never rank highly in a crisis – or at a(...)

Mother of Irish man held in China ‘terribly disappointed with Government’
- Irish News
- December 24, 2020, 01:00
Catherine O’Halloran believes State has done ‘little’ in trying to free her deteriorating son

10 Christmas Day conversation killers: Vaccines, skiing, Normal People, Dryrobes
- People
- December 20, 2020, 06:00
They’ll do more more damage at the festive table than an airborne Covid-particle

Jennifer O'Connell: We applaud those who stayed away this Christmas
- Opinion
- December 18, 2020, 21:15
Worrying about getting together on Christmas Day is both beside the point and the only point

Weirdest term ever: How students have coped, from primary to third level
- Education
- December 12, 2020, 06:00
Pupils and students around Ireland, and their teachers, on learning in Covid-19’s shadow

Pandemic mothers: ‘It’s been the best and the worst time’
- Health & Family
- December 12, 2020, 06:00
First year in new baby’s life can be isolating and anxious under even the best of circumstances

Why do tech giants allow anti-vaxx content? It’s the revenue, stupid
- Opinion
- December 12, 2020, 01:00
Convincing the public the Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective will be a daunting task

Jennifer O’Connell: Is it time woke culture was cancelled?
- Opinion
- December 5, 2020, 01:00
Wokeism treats us all as though we emerged into the world with fully formed views

Ireland’s teenage pariahs: ‘We are really at breaking point now’
- People
- November 28, 2020, 06:00
‘The constant narrative that it’s us that’s the problem is really really hard,’ they say

Jennifer O’Connell: GAA exceptionalism wins in a pandemic
- Opinion
- November 28, 2020, 01:00
Sport is great but why must GAA get special pass from Covid-19 restrictions?

Jennifer O’Connell: Dryrobe culture wars a symbol of change
- Opinion
- November 21, 2020, 01:00
Debate around pricey towel with hood is socioeconomics swimming against tide

How Carrie Symonds became focus of media vitriol in fallout over Downing Street meltdown
- People
- November 16, 2020, 17:05
Symonds became the victim of nasty headlines as Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain left No 10

Coronavirus vaccine: ‘By next summer, Covid will be close to a bad memory’
- Health & Family
- November 14, 2020, 06:00
‘All we have at this point is a very promising press release. But the signs are very promising’

Irish company to develop world’s first human challenge trial for Covid-19
- Health
- November 14, 2020, 01:11
Initial study by Open Orphan due to begin in January in London

Jennifer O’Connell: The Government's speculation on Christmas is infantilising
- Opinion
- November 14, 2020, 01:00
Government instruction distracts us from asking difficult questions about Level 5

The lessons for Ireland in Trump's 70 million votes
- Opinion
- November 7, 2020, 01:00
In Ireland we separate children and parents, we just don't use cages

Johnny Depp lost his libel trial. But so did Amber Heard
- Film
- November 2, 2020, 17:45
Analysis: Any lingering illusions of Hollywood as a place of glamour and sophistication are gone

Birth mothers’ stories: ‘You were pummelled psychologically’
- Health & Family
- October 31, 2020, 06:00
Many women who gave babies up for adoption in 20th-century Ireland still feel the loss

Jennifer O'Connell: Ireland's pandemic compliance is extraordinary
- Opinion
- October 31, 2020, 01:00
Assuming the public will continue to be compliant is not a strategy

Martina Cox: ‘In my eyes, Seán was always coming home’
- Books
- October 24, 2020, 06:00
Seán, back in his family home, is not defined by what he can’t do but by who he is

Why Waterford is ‘the best Covid county in Ireland’
- Health & Family
- October 24, 2020, 06:00
It’s had blips, but Waterford still has the lowest cumulative incidence of Covid-19

Jennifer O’Connell: No transparency behind swerve into severe lockdown
- Opinion
- October 24, 2020, 01:00
Lockdown gloom is permeated with questions as to process that imposed it

Covid-19 Level 5 support bubbles: Everything you need to know
- Health & Family
- October 20, 2020, 11:00
Who is allowed to form one? Can one be for childcare? How to choose who to bubble with?

‘I saved myself. I saved my children.’ How to escape an abusive relationship
- Health & Family
- October 17, 2020, 06:00
Women and one man share stories of being trapped, and breaking free

Covid-19 and financial distress: ‘What we’re seeing now is only the beginning’
- Irish News
- October 17, 2020, 05:00
Mabs helpline receiving growing number of calls from workers in sectors hit by restrictions

Jennifer O’Connell: The fascination with Ian Bailey has become an industry
- Opinion
- October 17, 2020, 01:00
As long as the Ian Bailey show goes on, Sophie Toscan du Plantier remains lost in the story

Rose McGowan, president SVP: ‘The only criteria for help is need’
- Irish News
- October 10, 2020, 01:54
Charity boss says needs are growing but pandemic has made society more empathetic

Jennifer O'Connell: We’re on a train bound for Level 5, and there’s no way off
- Opinion
- October 10, 2020, 01:00
Too much air time was sucked into the who-said-what sideshow political drama

Life after Keelin: ‘Everything else up to that one bad thing was amazing’
- Books
- October 3, 2020, 06:00
The late broadcaster and journalist’s husband on writing the final chapter of her memoir

Reopened pubs: ‘Every night is like St Stephen’s night, but the till doesn’t reflect that’
- Irish News
- October 3, 2020, 01:00
The many challenges of running a pub – and making a living – in the Covid era are becoming apparent

Jennifer O’Connell: The dark side of the remote working revolution
- Opinion
- October 3, 2020, 01:00
Covid-19 opened up new gap between those who have to go out to work, those who shielded behind screens

Jennifer O’Connell: Where are the good men in sexual harassment tales?
- Opinion
- September 26, 2020, 01:00
Enough evidence to suggest we are still trying to clean up a problem that men created

Mike Murphy: ‘I won’t do another over-70s lockdown’
- Culture
- September 19, 2020, 06:00
Broadcaster on podcasting, parenting regrets, Gay Byrne, and getting bored quickly

The five lies we told ourselves about coronavirus
- Opinion
- September 19, 2020, 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Why we are losing faith in Project Flatten the Curve

Kim Kardashian West didn’t invent body shaming, but she is building an empire out of it
- Fashion
- September 14, 2020, 13:48
Her ‘Skims Maternity Solutionwear’ is simply a new way for women to hate their bodies

‘The hardest part was getting the GP to refer me for testing’
- Health & Family
- September 12, 2020, 06:00
How does testing and tracing work? Irish Times readers share their experiences

Covid-19 testing: ‘We should have been ready for this’
- Health & Family
- September 12, 2020, 06:00
Can our system of test, trace and isolate rise to the challenge of rising case numbers?

None of it is fair and we must fix it before another ghost Leaving Cert next year
- Opinion
- September 12, 2020, 01:00
Decision in favour of calculated grades left department with an impossible task

Be outraged at the Golfgate 81. But leave the children alone
- Opinion
- September 5, 2020, 01:00
Could it be any more obvious? Young people are in trouble. Demonising them won’t help

Share your story: Do you have experience of Covid-19 testing or tracing?
- Health & Family
- September 3, 2020, 10:50
How long did it take you to get a test? What was the process like? How long for results?

Rebel Wilson’s ‘unrecognisable’ weight-loss photos are toxic and depressing
- Film
- August 31, 2020, 15:25
Best of 2020: The headlines implied she’d found a cure for Covid or won an Olympic medal, not lost 18kg

Greta Thunberg is going back to school. What has she achieved in two years?
- People
- August 30, 2020, 06:00
The teenager elicits hope, admiration and even awe in people many times her age

Thirty-two words for field, 50 for penis. What the Irish language tells us about who we are
- Books
- August 29, 2020, 06:00
‘We are on this desperate search for our psyche ... It just happens to all be contained within the language’

Golf society dinner: Why we must dismantle the boys’ club
- Opinion
- August 29, 2020, 01:00
Like-minded, powerful elites reinforce the systems that keep women at arm’s length in public life

‘My mother’s job ruined my life.’ Another thrilling episode of the Kellyanne Conway Show
- People
- August 24, 2020, 13:30
Trump’s adviser wants ‘less drama, more mama’ but her family seem to have other ideas

Jennifer O’Connell: Are we becoming an accidental Sweden?
- Opinion
- August 22, 2020, 01:00
Viral videos and Calleary’s golf buddies evidence our strategy is to tweak and fudge

Inside Meghan and Harry’s broken relationship with the royal family
- Books
- August 15, 2020, 06:00
A new biography of the couple began as a love story. It became an exercise in score-settling

Inside the O’Brien Fine Foods factory in lockdown Kildare
- Irish News
- August 15, 2020, 05:14
‘Our staff are taking a lot of heat in Kildare right now. They haven’t done anything wrong . . . we didn’t intentionally bring the(...)

Jennifer O’Connell: Why is Trump afraid of Kamala Harris?
- Opinion
- August 15, 2020, 01:00
Alpha bully boy and US president sees his demise in Biden’s ‘nasty’ running mate

Inside the dog-trafficking trade: ‘After drugs, it’s guns, then pups’
- Irish News
- August 8, 2020, 06:00
Campaigners call for strict laws on dog trade after a rise in dognapping since lockdown

Have young people stopped following Covid-19 advice on travel and parties?
- Health & Family
- August 8, 2020, 06:00
Three-quarters of new cases are among under-45s. Complacency seems to be creeping in

Was Caroline Flack ‘hounded’ to death by tabloid media or us?
- Opinion
- August 8, 2020, 01:00
The internet has made the hounding business low cost, low risk and 24/7

Grafton Street: ‘It’s like a ghost town’
- People
- August 1, 2020, 06:00
Ireland’s premier shopping street is a grim reflection of the situation facing retailers

Jennifer O’Connell: Ireland has its attitude to travel back to front
- Opinion
- August 1, 2020, 01:00
The Government needs to worry about who is flying in, not who is flying out

Green list under the microscope: Who might travel to these countries, and why?
- Travel
- July 25, 2020, 06:00
Family? Leisure? Trade? Why do people travel to these green list countries?

It would be terrible if Staycation Nation turned into Rip-off Ireland
- Opinion
- July 25, 2020, 01:00
A week in Kerry is no longer the frugal choice of the bucket-and-spade brigade

A week of eased restrictions: ‘It’s reopening way too fast’
- Health & Family
- July 4, 2020, 06:00
Irish people are surprised ‘unlocking’ happened so fast – too fast for many of us

If hairdressers ran our schools every child would be going back in September
- Opinion
- July 4, 2020, 01:00
Your children will be going back to school in September. Maybe. Possibly on a part-time basis

Sil Fox: ‘My phone went silent. Nobody rang’
- Stage
- June 27, 2020, 06:00
The comedian wants his life back after a recent sex assault case against him was dismissed

‘We’ve got a real chance to reimagine our cities’: 20 ways to improve urban life after lockdown
- Life & Style
- June 27, 2020, 06:00
Covid-19 gives us a chance to push reset, to see the space, not the things crowding into it

Defacing statues is not all mindless, but it’s all still vandalism
- Opinion
- June 27, 2020, 01:00
If we were to remove statues and rename streets in Ireland, where might we start?

Sil Fox plans to sue State after sexual assault claim dismissed
- Crime & Law
- June 24, 2020, 17:05
Comedian (87) cites ‘serious reputational damages’ caused by prosecution in letter to DPP

From Golly Bars to Eskimo Mints: The Irish brands with a race problem
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 22, 2020, 06:00
US firms are ditching racist branding. But Ireland has had its share of offensive products

Pubs are a Covid-19 risk. Why are we rushing to reopen them?
- Opinion
- June 20, 2020, 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Lobby groups are pushing pubs out of lockdown despite health risks

How Covid-19 saved a boy’s life: A day at the Mater hospital
- Health & Family
- June 13, 2020, 06:00
Staff at the Dublin hospital are treating not only coronavirus but many other ailments

The ultimate parents’ survival guide to summer 2020
- Parenting
- June 13, 2020, 06:00
Activities are curbed due to Covid-19, but there’s plenty of ways to keep kids occupied

Jennifer O’Connell: There are no winners in trans-rights culture war
- Opinion
- June 13, 2020, 01:00
JK Rowling’s tweet launched the latest salvo in a toxic war of words

School just one day a week after the summer? Joe McHugh has got to be kidding
- Parenting
- June 12, 2020, 17:15
Parents know ‘blended learning’ is no substitute for a real education. It sells us all short

Lockdown lifted: Summer finally arrives in Dunmore East
- Irish News
- June 9, 2020, 01:00
‘When customers come here for dinner, they don’t want to think about Covid’

If there is a defining American value today, it is rage
- Opinion
- June 6, 2020, 01:00
Anger is Trump’s weapon. It’s the reason his lies are not just tolerated, but embraced

Normal People Class of 2020: The nine college friends in the series
- Stage
- May 31, 2020, 06:00
Meet the ‘Lirheads’: the nine college friends who ended up cast together in Normal People

Remaking Ireland: Five positives from the pandemic
- Life & Style
- May 30, 2020, 06:00
The crisis poses huge threats but also shows us ways forward in health, housing, work and lifestyle

Jennifer O'Connell: Sil Fox has a point about #MeToo and hashtag justice
- Opinion
- May 30, 2020, 01:00
‘Believe women’ is a trite, reductive slogan that is equally offensive to everyone

Prof Luke O’Neill: ‘It’s definitely beatable, Covid-19’
- Health & Family
- May 24, 2020, 06:00
‘Black Death went away, 1918 flu went away, Swine flu went away. It’s beatable, this one’

Going anywhere nice this year? Just back to the 1970s, thanks
- Opinion
- May 23, 2020, 01:00
After 10 weeks of abnormality, a belt of the crozier will no longer be enough

Normal People: Marianne’s Italian villa is now available to rent on Airbnb
- Homes & Property
- May 21, 2020, 12:00
Could it be a perfect spot for your own lingering glances or unspeakably tense dinner party?

Face masks: The definitive guide to when to wear them, how to wash them, and the chin tuck
- Health & Family
- May 18, 2020, 15:16
Coronavirus: Now you’ve made your own fabric mask, here are the rules for using it

Jennifer O’Connell: Endless dithering on children and education is unconscionable
- Opinion
- May 16, 2020, 01:00
Covid-19 has exposed system’s shortcomings and Government has failed to act effectively

The Johnny Ronan coronavirus videos show an Ireland that never went away
- Opinion
- May 9, 2020, 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: The footage is unsettling when juxtaposed with closure of Bewley’s

When a scientist’s love life is bigger news than Covid-19 deaths, something is wrong
- People
- May 6, 2020, 13:22
Prof Neil Ferguson and his girlfriend broke UK lockdown rules. But he’s not a politician

Going for a walk today? These are the rules you need to follow
- Life & Style
- May 4, 2020, 05:00
Jennifer O’Connell has written down the unwritten rules of walking in the age of Covid-19

Fertility treatment and coronavirus: ‘The Covid-19 baby boom jokes are hard to take’
- Health & Family
- May 2, 2020, 06:00
Fertility clinics reopen next week. What does that mean for those awaiting treatment?

What happens if Covid-19 shuts off the Irish emigration safety valve?
- Social Affairs
- May 2, 2020, 05:00
The outlook for Ireland’s young people is particularly bleak

What are working parents supposed to do between now and September?
- Opinion
- May 2, 2020, 01:00
It won’t have been Cheltenham-goers or second-home owners who derailed our efforts to beat the virus, but harassed working parents(...)

Plastic snugs and seats for all: The pub after the pandemic
- Food & Drink
- April 25, 2020, 06:00
We won’t have ‘packed pubs’ anytime soon, so how will going for a socially distant pint work?

Could New Zealand’s ‘bubble’ strategy offer a way out of lockdown?
- Opinion
- April 25, 2020, 01:00
Plan might help people adhere to coronavirus restrictions as public’s patience wanes

Meghan and Harry’s tabloid ‘divorce’ won’t turn off the tap of public attention
- Life & Style
- April 20, 2020, 13:15
The trouble is, the Markle-Sussexes aren’t actually attempting to retreat from public life

After Covid-19: What kind of life will be waiting on the other side?
- People
- April 18, 2020, 06:00
People share their experience of the pandemic and their hopes for life afterwards

We need to talk about reopening schools, for everyone’s sake
- Opinion
- April 18, 2020, 01:00
We seem to be in danger of delaying the issue of schools reopening until autumn when we should be trying to follow Denmark

The Irish town trying to fight back against coronavirus
- Irish News
- April 14, 2020, 03:29
Behind the closed shutters, there is hope and resilience in Waterford

Jennifer O’Connell: Beware the benevolent tech billionaires
- Opinion
- April 11, 2020, 01:00
It is possible to act out of both compassion and self-interest simultaneously

‘Humbled’ Andrew McGinley asks supporters to help others in their communities
- Social Affairs
- April 8, 2020, 14:26
Bereaved father received more than 1,000 letters and cards after self-isolation appeal