‘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

It was a year of visits, royal, papal, meteorological. Here’s what we learned from them

A new poll reveals who is the most admired woman in America

The actor spoke out to destigmatise grief and to help other parents feel ‘seen, heard, loved’

Good biscuits, dried fruit, coffee table books and the Coca Cola truck

These Dubliners are raising festive spirits and funds with their elaborately lit homes

We’re about four billion times more partial to British food than we’d like to admit

Generally I just close my eyes and fling twenties around, and hope no one is insulted

In the age of ebooks, these booksellers are proving print is still preferred

Ireland was not easy to return to and buy a home. Then my mother asked if we’d be interested in buying theirs

Jennifer O’Connell: Personal stories have swayed the public on citizenship, as politics again lag behind

Yet another female athlete’s achievement is overshadowed by someone else’s bad behaviour

Women being more equal at work and men being more hands-on at home means we all have to learn new ways to behave

Overworked, under-resourced and burning out, or overpaid, understretched and privileged?

Shops, offices, 200 apartments and train station planned for 17-acre waterfront site

Five people describe the obstacles they have overcome to make it to third-level

Is this non-psychoactive, widely available cousin of marijuana a health godsend or a fad?

Review: Big dance number. Heart-wringing heroes. Ryan Tubridy’s singing. It’s all here

The actual theme is ‘American Treasures,’ honouring ‘the heart and spirit’ and, clearly, the bodily fluids of the American people

Legal observers believe we can now weigh up the right of defendants to a fair trial

New rules seeking to ensure only bona-fide journalists and lawyers may report or tweet from court cases will come into effect on M(...)

There’s plenty of examining labels, sampling new foods and feeling hungry

It’s convenient how Official Ireland chooses whether women are to be judged from the neckline up, or the belt down, based on the c(...)

Those whose journey exceeds 45 minutes more likely to move house

‘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’

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

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

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

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

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

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