Jennifer O'Connell

Jennifer O’Connell: Menopause misinformation continues to have a long-term impact on women’s health

Jennifer O’Connell: Contrast in the approach of these two parties to image management could not be sharper

What makes a US politician ‘Irish’? It’s a little to do with genealogy and a lot to do with their politics

Jennifer O'Connell: Despite the theatrics, the Burkes’ adventures in court show us that the legal system is working as it should

Ireland has slid into the ignominious position of fourth biggest cocaine consumer globally

The bestselling children’s author sees herself as a victim. But she gets to put her phone down and walk away

Jennifer O’Connell: There is an end-of-days feel to recent news reports from the tech world

Ryan Tubridy has a sense of timing, but Montrose behaves as though the outside world hasn’t changed since Gaybo's heyday

There’s no evidence he or his family have done anything to encourage it, but Burke has become a hero of the far right

Astonishing thing is not that Oakeshott betrayed his confidence, it is that she ever had it in the first place. But some of the criticism of her was unfair

Why are we convinced we know something the rest of the world does not?

The time when the white, male, Mass-going, homeowning FF-voter was dominant in Irish society is long past

The ‘military-age men’ idea is a well-worn trope of right-wing rhetoric, and our politicians have fallen into the dangerous trap of reinforcing it

The hospital’s record suggests good management could be the answer to the annual trolley crisis

Politicians are human. Women politicians are human. There was a time when the public didn’t require regular reminders of that

Tate is the product of an online culture, the ‘manosphere’, that is grooming boys to not just to fear and hate women, but to loathe themselves

To many of us, this year felt like a particularly dark and dangerous time to be a woman

The war on woke isn’t about language, vaccines, live cribs, sex education in schools or why the latest series of Game of Thrones has less sex in it. It's about middle-aged male insecurity

It makes no sense for the teacher to be held in jail indefinitely when it is clear that he has no intention of purging his contempt

For a documentary series that is sugary enough in spots to rot the teeth out of your head, it is also surprisingly revealing

Efforts to speak for ‘ordinary, plain people of Ireland’ ring hollow amid homelessness and protesters blocking Port Tunnel

We need criminal prosecutions and then a deep, wide, victim-led abuse inquiry that can obliterate our culture of denial

They revert under pressure to regressive business models. Metaverse is for everyone, but some of you probably aren’t smart enough to be here

Listowel priest’s critique of homosexuality as ‘against nature’ merely a case of saying the quiet bit out loud.

For months BBC journalist Aileen Moynagh was subjected to a stranger’s horrific threats

‘It felt like a lot of people really hated me. I suppose I felt really scared a lot of the time’

Having thousands of Instagram followers does not turn the twins into medical experts

Host families are ordinary people with lives of their own. They need our help.

The dizzying collective response is a reminder that procrastination is underrated

It’s world happiness day on Sunday. We asked some people when they have been happiest

UK behaving like it just noticed its capital, nicknamed ‘Londongrad’, is full of dodgy Russian money

The big question this year in Dingle is who is going to staff the pubs, restaurants and hotels

Russian invasion shows the western world is steeped in a thick stew of colonialist tropes

Boutique festival will feature Rachel Allen, Fintan O’Toole, Blindboy Boatclub and more

A quarter-century after divorce became legal, it is still costly, traumatic and isolating

The opening of Brown Thomas’s new Dundrum mecca this week was jarring

Prince Andrew hinted he'll rebrand as as a sex abuse campaigner. How much more will British taxpayers take?

One good news initiative after another failed to cheer a disgruntled public. Until housing is fixed, nothing is fixed

Everyone knows ‘clean eating’ is just dieting rebranded for the Instagram generation

Opposition to nuclear energy is still grounded in emotion, fear and rhetoric