HistoryWhy have there been so few women elected in Ireland since 1918?By Yvonne Galligan and Marie Coleman
HistoryHelena Molony: A persistent fighter for working womenBy Frances Clarke and Lawrence William White
HistoryKathleen Lynn: Pioneering doctor, socialist and public-health campaignerBy Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh
HistoryCharlotte Despard: Novelist, philanthropist, friend of Soviet Russia, and lord lieutenant’s sisterBy Frances Clarke
HistorySarah Persse: Pioneering woman candidate withdrew from politics before polling dayBy Mary Clancy
HistoryJennie Wyse Power: The first president of Cumann na mBanBy William Murphy and Lesa Ní Mhunghaile
HistoryLouise Gavan Duffy: Nationalist, Gaelic revivalist, Cumann na mBan founder memberBy Mary Kotsonouris
ObituariesJohn J Moore SJ – A pioneering and inspirational botanist and environmentalistBy Michael O’Connell and David Tuohy SJ
An Irish DiaryOn the trail of Robert Louis Stevenson: An Irishman’s Diary on the novelist’s journey through southern FranceBy Paul Clements
UKTheresa May faces crucial 48 hours as MPs threaten to defeat her Brexit planBy Pat Leahy and Denis Staunton
OpinionIreland is burning its children’s futures to the ground through climate change inactionBy John Gibbons
HistoryLouisa Todhunter: Votes-for-women activist who signed her name into the history booksBy Elizabeth Crawford
Books‘Who could fail to love a woman who decides to build an aircraft in her uncle’s shed?’By Marian Broderick
Health‘A stark inequity’: People with severe depression, schizophrenia die 10-25 years earlierBy Dr Muiris Houston
EconomyEIB funding hit by Brexit, corporation tax backlog, and wind energy projects at riskBy Michael McAleer
TechnologyYour apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secretBy Natasha Singer
IrelandAbortion services may not be in every hospital in January - VaradkarBy Fiach Kelly and Marie O’Halloran
FilmActor Barry Keoghan as you’ve never seen him before (sucking his thumb in a school play)By Deirdre Falvey
Crime & LawMan shot with ‘bean-bag’ round as gardaí called to direct provision centreBy Conor Gallagher
Social AffairsJoe Schmidt urges families of seriously ill children to share their storiesBy David Raleigh