
Is paying someone to clean your house the last word in middle-class privilege?
- People
- January 16, 2021, 06:40
Tanya Sweeney: In Ireland, we have a funny relationship with the idea of house cleaners

Why ‘checked out’ Melania Trump has been one of her husband’s biggest enablers
- People
- January 12, 2021, 13:15
The first lady used to act as if under duress. But she remains detached even after last week’s riot

The meddling, overbearing mother-in-law stereotype is a cliche
- People
- January 9, 2021, 06:30
Tanya Sweeney: I’m officially acquiring a mother-in-law – and I couldn’t be happier

Why are we taking our frustrations out on perfect strangers?
- Life & Style
- January 2, 2021, 06:30
Tanya Sweeney: A tiny break in stride is nothing to lose the bap over

No haircuts, no manicures: this is the year that things changed
- People
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
Tanya Sweeney: To be accused of not caring about your appearance used to be a huge denigration

‘We sold them a house, now they’re coming for Christmas dinner’
- People
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
The pandemic means many people will have a very different Christmas this year

‘I cried for days’: The businesses that shut for good in 2020
- People
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
Owners of restaurants, pubs, shops and cafes on how Covid-19 closed their doors for good
![Writer and academic Emma Dabiri: “The difference with this [and other social media platforms] is that now the creator is getting paid as well as the platform. Maybe it’s a fairer model. It’s quite radical in some ways.” Writer and academic Emma Dabiri: “The difference with this [and other social media platforms] is that now the creator is getting paid as well as the platform. Maybe it’s a fairer model. It’s quite radical in some ways.”](/polopoly_fs/1.4421421.1606490337!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
‘You’re not begging for money – you’re offering a service’: can Patreon help creatives survive?
- Culture
- December 17, 2020, 05:00
Covid-19 has changed everything and makes an audience subscription model attractive

Olivia O’Leary: He said, ‘Is Olivia the only woman here? Okay boys, when’s the gang-bang?’
- People
- December 13, 2020, 10:16
The broadcaster talks sexism, ageism and Golfgate on The Irish Times Big Night In

Home alone this Christmas? It doesn’t have to be holiday hell
- Homes & Property
- December 12, 2020, 06:00
If you choose to fly solo during the festivities, here’s how to really enjoy your own company

Moving house? I've made these mistakes so you don't have to
- People
- December 12, 2020, 06:00
Tanya Sweeney: There is something inherently stressful about upending your possessions

The good gift guide: 50 inspiring Christmas present ideas
- Life & Style
- December 12, 2020, 06:00
Buy them a membership, subscription or ecologically sound product – or make your own

My toddler and I have crossed over into ‘nuclear winter’ territory
- People
- December 5, 2020, 06:00
If I knew the ‘terrible twos’ were coming, why do I feel so at sea?

Dolly Parton: ‘I’m just a person, a human being with very sensitive, deep feelings’
- People
- December 5, 2020, 06:00
Country icon on depression, weight stigma and visiting Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Co Kerry

What cinemas, museums and galleries are reopening – and when?
- Culture
- December 1, 2020, 06:00
A wealth of cultural activity resumes all over the country this week as restrictions are eased

Marie Cassidy: ‘People think they know me because I’ve a bit part on a TV show called the news’
- People
- November 29, 2020, 09:45
Working as the chief state pathologist made Cassidy very well known, something she found ‘disconcerting’

Older men’s fixation with younger women really boils my kidneys
- People
- November 28, 2020, 06:00
Tanya Sweeney: My experience of a relationship with an age difference was a disaster

Tanya Sweeney: The most dispiriting celebrity interviews I have conducted
- People
- November 21, 2020, 06:00
Leta Powell Drake’s 1970s access-all-areas savage chats with the stars have gone viral

Claire Byrne says she still suffers Covid-19 after-effects
- People
- November 14, 2020, 21:22
An ‘early adopter’ of Covid-19 in March, she continued to broadcast through the illness

The thought of having to leave our neighbourhood fills me with cold dread
- People
- November 14, 2020, 06:00
Tanya Sweeney: I doubt I’d have made it through recent months without the tribe on the doorstep

‘You seethe with resentment that your partner doesn’t know the Thai flag’
- People
- November 7, 2020, 06:00
Tanya Sweeney: A Zoom quiz invitation? I thought we’d waved that blight off for good

The Crown’s Charles and Diana years: A world of privilege, glamour and tension
- TV, Radio, Web
- November 7, 2020, 06:00
The fourth series of the much anticipated 10 episodes was reportedly produced on a €110 million) budget

No office politics: The pros and cons of starting a job in lockdown
- Life & Style
- November 1, 2020, 06:00
Starting a job at a physical remove from colleagues is challenging – but it has upsides

Caitlin Moran: ‘In middle age you lose the amount of f**ks you give’
- People
- October 31, 2020, 22:16
The writer and firebrand says the ‘maintenance shag’ vastly improved her relationship

Tanya Sweeney: Memories – good and bad – go wherever we do
- Life & Style
- October 31, 2020, 06:45
After my mother died, a weekend spent clearing out my family home brought our family closer together

Lockdown Halloween: the safe way to have grisly fun
- People
- October 30, 2020, 07:00
Even in Level 5, with a little creativity and ingenuity you can still get a a kick out of the scariest season of the year

Lockdown midterm guide: Time for some Halloween fun
- People
- October 30, 2020, 06:00
Round off the week with festive activities and a new spooky instalment of the Babysitter’s Club

Lockdown midterm guide: four tips for a happy Thursday
- People
- October 29, 2020, 06:07
Try out geocaching, make a sock puppet or take in some time-travel adventures on TV – and there’s an easy one-pot wonder to cook f(...)

Lockdown midterm guide: Beat the midweek slump with these four great ideas
- People
- October 28, 2020, 06:00
Try a family quiz show, a local nature lesson, some board-game action and a kitchen crowdpleaser

Lockdown midterm guide: Take four ideas to perk up your Tuesday
- People
- October 27, 2020, 06:00
Meatballs for dinner, a new Pixar film on TV and back to basics with indoor paper games

Lockdown midterm: what to do, watch and cook this week
- People
- October 25, 2020, 06:00
Stuck for mid-term inspiration? Here are plenty of great ideas the whole family can enjoy to get you started

Tanya Sweeney: I wish I’d kept my naked pics. I feared they’d end up in the ‘wrong hands’
- Life & Style
- October 24, 2020, 06:00
How is the naked female body something so loaded with toxic meaning?

Should women erase men from their lives? This writer thinks so
- People
- October 22, 2020, 06:00
One French feminist says women should, but is this throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

Tanya Sweeney: My female friendships are cracking under Covid
- Life & Style
- October 17, 2020, 06:45
We’re letting go of each other without much of a fight as all joy deserts our interactions

Billie Eilish: would she be body shamed if she looked like a ‘sexy young thing’?
- Music
- October 15, 2020, 13:03
Despite her groundbreaking music, opinions about her body always, always get in the way

Dominic West: ‘Our marriage is strong’ – but has he made a bad situation worse?
- People
- October 13, 2020, 17:35
West and wife Catherine FitzGerald put on a public display of affection after pictures emerge of actor kissing Lily James

The pandemic hasn’t been good for my libido
- People
- October 13, 2020, 06:00
If anyone asks how I’m doing, my first instinct is to reply, ‘Well, we’re still together, so that’s something!’ And it is

Tanya Sweeney: I've developed a lust for small pleasures. And it's wonderful
- Life & Style
- October 10, 2020, 06:50
If I try hard enough, I can feel, smell and hear my happy place: a live music gig

Elizabeth Day: ‘The way society treats women without children made me feel like a failure’
- People
- October 9, 2020, 07:50
The author and presenter of the How To Fail podcast on overcoming multiple miscarriages, reclaiming failure and counteracting the (...)

Eileen Flynn: ‘Travellers are anything but stupid’
- People
- October 3, 2020, 21:47
The Senator and Traveller was speaking at the Women’s Podcast ‘Big Night In’ live event

Tanya Sweeney: It’s not being bitchy if you don’t lift as you climb; it’s being insecure
- Life & Style
- October 3, 2020, 07:00
Sending the lift back down requires a woman to be at a certain, fairly exalted point in her career

Baby boom or baby bust? How Covid-19 has affected pregnancy
- Health & Family
- October 3, 2020, 06:00
The relaxed atmosphere of lockdown has led to a spike in pregnancies, says one hospital

Why Chrissy Teigen is right about sharing ‘deep pain’ of pregnancy loss with millions of followers
- Health & Family
- October 1, 2020, 12:00
The rawness in her words and photos are likely to make others feel much less alone

Meet ‘friluftsliv’ – the new hygge for living outdoors
- People
- September 29, 2020, 08:55
The Norwegian practice of ‘free-air life’ offers the ideal escape room during the pandemic

Tanya Sweeney: It was never my place to ask why she wanted to die
- Life & Style
- September 27, 2020, 06:45
The Dignity with Dying Bill gives hope to people whose lived experience demands a choice

The dark attic lit up by a little interior inspiration
- Interiors
- September 26, 2020, 06:00
The awkward top floor of a Dublin Georgian has been reworked as a bright city pad

What is wokefishing, the latest online dating deception?
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 23, 2020, 06:00
If he says he’s a feminist or if she adds #BlackLivesMatter to her profile, tread carefully

Katherine Ryan: ‘I definitely felt shame as a single mother, the way people word things’
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 23, 2020, 05:00
The Canadian stand-up on ‘laddish’ comedy culture, her Irish dad and flipping stereotypes in new series The Duchess

Ellen DeGeneres apology: Why do her words sound hollow?
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 22, 2020, 14:00
Apology over harassment allegations has tang of woman using right buzzwords but not really believing them

Tanya Sweeney: A part of me feels like wanting a second child is being plain greedy
- Life & Style
- September 19, 2020, 06:00
I’m already missing the newborn phase even though it felt like someone was very nicely pushing my head underwater

Getting teenagers to apply for a ‘career’ degree is a complete nonsense
- Life & Style
- September 12, 2020, 06:45
Friends in my class applied for law, physiotherapy and medicine. Not a single one of us are in any of those jobs now

She hangs up. We did our best, we tell each other. We wonder about her all evening
- Life & Style
- September 5, 2020, 07:15
Tanya Sweeney: What I learned volunteering for a mental health helpline

A family affair: The siblings working in Irish hospitality
- Ireland
- September 5, 2020, 00:00
Familiarity breeds contentment in some of our best-loved family-run hotels and country houses

Dear Matt Damon: Welcome back. This is not the cuddly, unified country you left in May
- Film
- September 2, 2020, 13:00
Warning: The Irish are suddenly not so fond of Americans coming from a Covid hotspot

The twins who broke the internet with Phil Collins video: Here’s their verdict on U2 and Hozier
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 2, 2020, 06:00
Videos of YouTubers Tim and Fred Williams listening to classic songs have racked up millions of views

Tanya Sweeney: ‘Choose to be with someone who is kind to you’
- Life & Style
- August 29, 2020, 06:45
‘We can never see contentment for what it is when we’re there, living it in that moment’

‘It wasn’t awkward – it was wonderful.’ The couples separated by Covid-19
- People
- August 29, 2020, 06:00
Abbi and Cahal had spent just a fortnight in each other’s company when Covid-19 hit

‘I loved how alcohol made me feel safe in the world’
- Books
- August 23, 2020, 06:00
Terri White’s memoir, Coming Undone, is a catalogue of violence, abuse and horror

Tanya Sweeney: ‘I am really rather jealous of influencers’
- Life & Style
- August 22, 2020, 00:00
A cold war has been brewing between traditional journalists and influencers for some time

‘The bungalow is part of the Irish landscape. We need to get over ourselves’
- Homes & Property
- August 16, 2020, 06:00
The snobbery that lingers around bungalows means there could be gems galore out there

Tanya Sweeney: There is genuine, grim theatre when it comes to celebrity death
- Life & Style
- August 15, 2020, 06:00
When a well-known person dies, the spectacle carries on for days in the news agenda

Anne Doyle: ‘Depression? I know what it is, and it’s a b*tch’
- People
- August 15, 2020, 06:00
The former RTÉ newsreader on her popularity, perks of retirement and not enjoying lockdown life

Tanya Sweeney: You get a lot of brain space back when you stop hating your body
- Life & Style
- August 8, 2020, 06:00
Reach a place of genuine body neutrality and you will find it liberating in every way

It’s not just latte-loving twentysomethings who can’t afford to buy a home
- Life & Style
- August 1, 2020, 06:00
I’m desperate to have a house with enough room for the three of us

Insta-friendly gallery walls are a quick way to update your home
- Homes & Property
- August 1, 2020, 06:00
Home Front: Arrange smaller pieces of art and photographs together to make an impact. Then think about ditching the drinks trolley

‘I do the work and he takes the bows’: The women who use fake male assistants
- People
- July 31, 2020, 07:55
Tanya Sweeney: It’s amazing how much easier life can be when people think you’re a man

I look at old photos of myself and wonder exactly what was going through my head
- Life & Style
- July 25, 2020, 06:30
We’ve all had to undergo a certain amount of trial and error in sartorial department

Drug rape leaves a haze of self-doubt that needs to be cleared up
- Life & Style
- July 18, 2020, 06:00
This most insidious of acts leaves survivors with a cloud of uncertainty over them

Samantha Power: ‘We thought: Trump’s not gonna do all that. He’s done all that’
- Culture
- July 16, 2020, 23:36
Power and Melody Barnes, both former Obama insiders, spoke to Fintan O’Toole

Imelda May delivers an ode to self-pleasure and sex toys
- Culture
- July 16, 2020, 20:00
May recited GBH (or Grievous Battery Harm) at The Irish Times Summer Nights Festival

Normal People benefited from the pandemic, says Lenny Abrahamson
- Culture
- July 14, 2020, 21:35
Abrahamson and Nadine Reid featured on day two of The Irish Times Summer Nights Festival

Cancel culture is poisonous and frightening. It needs to be cancelled
- Life & Style
- July 11, 2020, 06:00
We need to see the difference between activism and meaningless online performance

Off the charts: why this paint colour is Instagram's favourite
- Interiors
- July 11, 2020, 06:00
Home Front: The photo-sharing social media site offers clues to the latest hues

Is Kanye West’s White House bid genuine or a publicity stunt? Or could it be a bipolar episode?
- Music
- July 10, 2020, 06:00
The rapper has said a lot of odd things over the years, but this is the strangest yet

Johnny Depp trial: The hidden benefit of celebrity domestic violence allegations
- Health & Family
- July 9, 2020, 13:30
Whether the spotlight is on Bobby Brown or Tom Meighan, it can help victims seek aid

A hurley as a sex toy? Ah would you camán out of that
- People
- July 3, 2020, 11:00
A New York club is using a GAA hurl in its sex parties. It serves a variety of purposes

These viral news clips make me thank God none of my parenting is televised
- Parenting
- July 2, 2020, 16:10
Two reactions to kids interrupting their mums say much about work during the pandemic

How Adele set Laura Dockrill on path to recovery from postpartum psychosis
- Health & Family
- June 30, 2020, 06:01
Author pays tribute to singer in compelling account of her experience after son’s birth

Cinema reopens: Four families sit at far corners in the dark
- Film
- June 29, 2020, 15:10
‘You can’t live in fear,’ says one Movies@ customer as screens reopen after lockdown

I miss the swift lunchtime drink that somehow turns into a lethal, in-the-chipper-at-3am bender
- Life & Style
- June 27, 2020, 06:00
Tanya Sweeney: Picturing sitting in my local again is an image that has kept me vaguely sane

‘Hardly anyone is masked up on the bus these days’
- Ireland
- June 27, 2020, 06:00
On a Luas carrying around 80 passengers, just five are wearing masks

Beyond the glass box: which home extension would you choose?
- Homes & Property
- June 27, 2020, 06:00
The public is being asked to vote on the best buildings of the year, among them a handful of home extensions

RTÉ Does Comic Relief: Who, what, where, when and how
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 25, 2020, 05:00
The charity telethon takes over RTÉ One on Friday night. Here’s what to expect

‘With fiction, you let your character be the bad person. It’s quite cowardly, really’
- Books
- June 20, 2020, 06:00
Author Sophie White on her new book Unfiltered and being late to the Instagram party

Fathers’ say: Here’s what I know about being a Dad...
- Parenting
- June 20, 2020, 06:00
Eight different kinds of dad on how their experience of fatherhood has changed them

Black market hairdressers: ‘She called me and said blondes were a priority’
- Beauty
- June 20, 2020, 06:00
Early reopening of salons should put an end to stylists covertly visiting clients’ homes

We have unlocked the ‘argghh, me feckin’ couch’ level of parenting
- Life & Style
- June 20, 2020, 06:00
Tanya Sweeney: Is it strange to want your little one to never grow up?

I was too busy trying to keep the fizz in relationships, it never occurred to me to just be me
- Life & Style
- June 13, 2020, 06:00
Tanya Sweeney: The boring bits of our relationship have turned out to be the best bits

JK Rowling says her ex-husband hit her. Why are people trying to silence her?
- Health & Family
- June 12, 2020, 15:40
I stayed silent when I witnessed domestic violence. But we all need to speak out now

Is Gucci cashing in on Paul Mescal’s tighty-whities?
- Fashion
- June 10, 2020, 15:55
Gucci’s €550 nylon shorts look suspiciously like the Normal People star’s Maynooth kit

Comfort eating your way through the pandemic? You’re not alone
- Life & Style
- June 6, 2020, 06:00
At a time of huge uncertainty and anxiety, we’ve gone full Christmas round here

Love/Hate is returning to RTÉ on Friday nights. Why did we love it so much?
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 4, 2020, 15:00
Before Normal People, the crime drama was Irish TV’s record-breaking must-watch series

Body trouble: How to keep actors safe while filming sex scenes
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 4, 2020, 00:05
Intimacy co-ordinator Ita O’Brien has drawn up guidelines for trauma-free onscreen sex

Double Standards for Men No 253: Lynn Ruane v Paul Mescal
- People
- June 2, 2020, 14:50
As the actor jogged topless around London, Lidl asked the Senator to rethink her outfit

Do women come out much worse off from a pandemic?
- Life & Style
- May 30, 2020, 06:00
If this is the moment in history where we re-evaluate what's important, why not redress the domestic balance

Tanya Sweeney: Nostalgia isn’t the opiate of the masses you think it is
- Life & Style
- May 23, 2020, 06:00
Is looking back at simpler times really that heartwarming?

Small weddings can happen in July? Finally, the bridechilla has an out
- People
- May 21, 2020, 06:00
A lockdown nuptials could be perfect for all of us with no taste for big-day ostentation

Candace Bushnell: ‘In New York, the powerful men have each other’s backs’
- Books
- May 16, 2020, 06:00
The author of Sex and the City is back with a call to arms for the post-#MeToo era