Jennifer O Connell
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Jennifer O'Connell: Working mothers are bearing an unfair burden in lockdown fallout
- Opinion
- January 16, 2021, 01:00
The work is flying in via Seesaw, Aladdin or Teams. Live classes are being streamed on Zoom. Teachers are doing their bit. Parents are doing their bi(...)

Jennifer O’Connell: Forget the voice of reason, Ivanka has only been the voice of Ivanka
- Opinion
- January 9, 2021, 01:00
In the twilight hours of a reality TV star’s presidency, during the throes of a deadly pandemic, MAGA thugs in combat gear, some waving Confederate fl(...)

Jennifer O’Connell: 2020 was a tale of two Irelands
- People
- December 26, 2020, 06:00
Four out of five Irish people saw incomes grow or stay the same in the pandemic. Covid-19 created schisms – between old and young, ill and well, ho(...)

Jennifer O’Connell: Even in a pandemic, it’s still a man’s world
- Opinion
- December 26, 2020, 01:00
A thousand years ago in May, when I was writing about why I believed it was important for schools to reopen before the summer holidays, I heard from a(...)

Mother of Irish man held in China ‘terribly disappointed with Government’
- Irish News
- December 24, 2020, 01:00
The marks, good and bad, left by the State’s history on one family line are traced through the household of Catherine O’Halloran, near the foothills o(...)

The 20 most-read stories on irishtimes.com in 2020
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 19, 2020, 11:00
Nothing says Christmas quite like the arrival of your year in music from Spotify, announcing perhaps your secret penchant for K-pop that you have had (...)

Jennifer O'Connell: We applaud those who stayed away this Christmas
- Opinion
- December 18, 2020, 21:15
So here it is, merry Christmas. Everybody’s having fun, or some paler, safer, rough approximation of “fun”. Are you waiting for the family to arrive? (...)

Weirdest term ever: How students have coped, from primary to third level
- Education
- December 12, 2020
Primary, secondary and third-level students around Ireland, and their teachers, look back on their efforts to keep learning in the shadow of Covid-(...)

Pandemic mothers: ‘It’s been the best and the worst time’
- Health & Family
- December 12, 2020
the virus Has Changed the course of newborn babies' first hours and days of life Úna Caroline Haran was born the day the World Health (...)

Why do tech giants allow anti-vaxx content? It’s the revenue, stupid
- Opinion
- December 12, 2020, 01:00
The Covid-19 vaccine intends to “eliminate large parts of humanity”. It will do this by sterilising all the women who get it, and altering our DNA to (...)