Now, if I forget to bring a pair to the office, I’m liable to turn the car around

The cath lab was closed when John Doherty went to UHW with chest pain on a Saturday

Election 2020: Locals keen to see who delivers on rural problems they think are being ignored

Consciously uncoupling from Harry’s family will end the couple’s Sisyphean cycle

Public and private Marian remembered at funeral mass for veteran RTÉ broadcaster

‘She will be remembered for her keen intellect, warmth, wit, and kindness,’ mourners told

Jennifer O’Connell: Against the odds, the hospice is an extraordinarily uplifting place

Greta Thunberg, Maria Bailey and vaping: A round-up of the subjects to avoid this Christmas

A lot of what needs to be done at this time of year isn’t emotional labour; it’s just labour

Patients at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross find their own way of dealing with death

Jennifer O’Connell: Our line was ‘it’s only a day, after all’, to be repeated over and over

‘The British like a slightly bumbling upper-class person. That’s part of the psyche’

Two weeks since I last visited Dudley North voters are obsessing about ‘the lesser of two evils’

One day, we’ll have to explain to young children what olde worlde phrases like ‘phone call’ and ‘customer service’ and ‘drove myse(...)

Cases follow claim of ‘psychological injuries’ by former content moderator Chris Gray

Chris Gray’s work for company entailed watching videos of stonings, torture and executions

Content moderators ‘suffering injuries’ to protect internet users from harmful material

Former content moderater claims psychological injuries from ‘graphic and violent’ posts

It is worth reminding ourselves that a phone a communication device and a productivity tool. That’s all.

Conservatives target West Midlands seat as frustration with Corbyn’s leadership builds

Marginal Seat: First-time voters in Dudley North defy the stereotype of apathetic youth

Older voters in Sedgley are deeply unenthusiastic about the Labour and Tory leaders

Jennifer O’Connell finds Brexit on the minds of Dudley North, a marginal seat in the sights of the Tories

Jennifer O’Connell: I haven’t banned the internet. I just don’t want it in my kids' pockets

General feeling is the Fine Gael byelection candidate is unscathed by recent controversy

Jennifer O’Connell’s daughter digs out old family recipes for a 1950s baking weekend

The days of ‘We’ll make it home in time for the Late Late’ are gone, and so are those audiences

Scepticism in Offaly about plans to replace jobs at Shannonbridge power plant

Rapper’s hint at running for White House may not be just a stunt. Remember Trump?

Jennifer O’Connell on how to combat violent pornography and victimisation

There were certainly notable missteps, but he gave Irish women a much-needed voice

Boys sentenced were ‘remarkable for their apparent ordinariness’ before murdering Ana Kriégel

Having navigated imposter syndrome of our 20s, and the pureed carrot and Calpol era of our 30s, we’ve arrived at a new, more terri(...)

Waterford publicans gather to tackle the increasing problem of drugs use on premises

What happens to the magic when being a grandparent becomes an obligation instead of a pleasure?

How Borrisokane and Ballinamore have reacted differently to direct provision

I met her just once – when interviewing her ex, Will Self – but she made a lasting impression

Jennifer O’Connell: Listening to an opposing view isn’t endorsing it. Civility isn’t weakness

What is it like to be one of the 114,500 British people living here in the Brexit era?

The Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran on how Ireland shouldn’t be complacent about populism

Trump tweeted an ‘insulting’ photo of Pelosi. She put it on her social media accounts

Jennifer O’Connell: I like the royal couple but I’m siding with the tabloids on this

‘The children have never heard any negative comments about our gender or relationship’

Pranks and misundertandings do occur. Just ask Toni Morrison, Alice Monro or Donald Trump

It is time we remembered all Josephs and Marys whose dignity, freedom and lives were stolen

Google is not an altruistic enterprise. Its primary responsibility is enrichment of its shareholders

Tall tales and time machines in a glistening sandstone city that is the jewel of East Lothian

Only one in every 250 teenage girls gets to school by bike. And it has nothing to do with school skirts

Hundreds gather for Irish man who was separated from his mother at five years of age

Government slow to learn lesson from Brexit and populism sweeping other countries

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

Articles of 2019: How can a 16-year-old girl in plaits inspire such 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

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

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

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?