Jennifer O Connell

The one thing you can do to improve your life right now. The two simple rules for a life with no regrets. The three things that make a relationship gr(...)

I’m on the train again, and I’m trying not to earwig, but she is very loud, this woman whose privacy I’m trying not to invade. I have my headphones i(...)

This isn’t going to be easy Saturday morning reading. These are things that are difficult to talk about, difficult to think about. The boy was 14 yea(...)

I must be doing something wrong, because here I am again: back at the GP’s surgery. I was never going to be one of those parents – uptight, overwrough(...)

In keeping with the mood of our times, I am sleepless. The supply of little blue pills I bought over the counter in America is running low. I could b(...)

Give Up Yer Aul Screens is a summer series in which Irish Times writers share their experiences of the challenge of reducing screentime. Get involved (...)

It was in a beautiful little church by the sea in Italy that I very nearly didn’t get married 16 years ago. While my wedding plans were falling apart(...)

I have just passed my favourite sight in the whole of Ireland when my son calls to ask me to pick up ketchup. My favourite sight on the island – bette(...)

And so, just like that, it is once again the June Bank Holiday weekend, the real beginning of the season I refer to as “Goodbye, beloved 80 denier tig(...)

If there was a single sight to encapsulate the dramatic changes to the fabric of the capital city over the past two decades, I suspect I’m looking at (...)