Jennifer O Connell

Nuns don’t get cervical cancer. It’s impossible to sum up in a sentence everything that has been wrong with Ireland’s attitude to women’s healthcare.(...)

Is it too much to hope that this is how it ends for Katie Hopkins? The professional termagant, who came to prominence on reality TV, as a contestant, (...)

If there’s a phrase guaranteed to give me ire, it’s “working mum”. Yes, I am a mother who works, but honestly, is there any other kind? Placed in con(...)

Look at this cartoon. What do you see: a clever bit of satire, poking fun at a tennis legend’s petulant behaviour; or an image with dark resonances of(...)

There are just under three weeks to go until nominations close for the role of president, and the latest polls suggest that four out of every five Iri(...)

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, hasn’t been having a great few weeks. There was the bizarre – and totally unfounded – tweet callin(...)

The world’s biggest female tennis star gets told off for wearing too much clothing on the court. An Australian study finds that girls as young as eigh(...)

As you’ll know unless you’ve spent the last few weeks sequestered in a beehive hut on Puffin Island, the pope is due to touch down in Ireland at 10.30(...)

By now you’ll be thoroughly sick of hearing the numbers involved in Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland this weekend. 25,000: The quantity of sliced pans(...)

It is a depressingly familiar scenario. An aspiring actor or ambitious student claims they were pressurised into having a sexual relationship with a m(...)