President’s daughter to stand for SeanadAlice Mary Higgins will contest seat on NUI panel on range of equality-related issuesWed Feb 24 2016 - 01:00
Gender fluidity: ‘I am just me. Why do I have to have a label?’Chris Ricketts was brought up a girl but has always felt gender-fluid and wishes that society could move beyond rigid labelsMon Feb 22 2016 - 06:00
Anthea McTeirnan: Should we vote for women because they are women?Debate over democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will have an echo in Irish election because of gender quotasTue Feb 16 2016 - 02:44
Anthea McTeirnan: Sometimes it’s not that hard to be a womanBroadside: From breasts to quotas and from knickers to periods, we women have so much to be glad aboutMon Feb 15 2016 - 06:00
Sex toys and boob jobs - check out the $200k Oscar goodie bagTreats for acting and directing nominees this year also include $30k worth of skin cream and a 15-day walking tour of JapanMon Feb 08 2016 - 13:02
Dating dangers: control and coercion in the online ageA campaign aims to help young women to recognise red flags when dating and to combat online stalking and ‘revenge porn’Thu Feb 04 2016 - 11:00
Judge female candidates on substance not looks, says women’s councilNational Women’s Council of Ireland calls for gender balance in election debatesTue Feb 02 2016 - 17:18
‘I would be scared to be a woman of reproductive age in Ireland’A new Irish organisation, Midwives for Choice, aims to give women control over how they give birth. For barrister Elizabeth Prochaska, this is a human rights issueThu Jan 28 2016 - 11:00
Cervical cancer stories: Three women (28, 40 and 61) talk to usKatie O’Brien was 25 when she had an ‘abnomal’ smear. At 28 she is cancer freeTue Jan 26 2016 - 03:31
Anthea McTeirnan: 'Star Wars brings feminism to a galaxy near you'It has taken thousands of light years, but feminism has finally made itself known in deepest spaceWed Jan 20 2016 - 06:00
‘Anorexia sucks the joy out of your life. It’s very bleak’Eva O’Connor drew from personal experience of anorexia – which is ‘like a demon on your shoulder’ – for her play OvershadowedMon Jan 18 2016 - 06:00
Breakthrough Manifesto for Women attracts 100 candidatesNational women’s council says campaign on general election ‘to end gender inequality’Thu Jan 14 2016 - 14:56
So, Jerry, what first attracted you to billionaire Rupert Murdoch?Anthea McTeirnan muses on the engagement of Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall, as well as looking at other couples where there’s a large age gapTue Jan 12 2016 - 12:59
Baby, it’s cold outside: vaginal speaker plays music to foetusesTampon speaker means babies ‘learn from the womb’, say BabypodWed Jan 06 2016 - 14:17
Candidates urged to stand up for women’s equality in electionWomen’s council calls on politicians to sign manifesto aimed at ending gender inequalityTue Jan 05 2016 - 19:32
Anthea McTeirnan: The Eighth Amendment shown up by two wise menBroadside: It was December 2014, and Christmas was coming but not to everybodyMon Jan 04 2016 - 01:00
Christmas: The most violent time of year for womenOne victim of domestic abuse explains how the festive period is particularly difficultSat Dec 19 2015 - 12:00
Star Wars: The force awakens the feministsFeminism has finally made itself known in deepest space - Anthea McTeirnan charts the bad-ass women of Star WarsThu Dec 17 2015 - 17:40
Equality street: ‘It can be the campest Christmas ever now’In the year Ireland voted Yes in the marriage referendum, two same-sex couples talk about celebrating their first Christmas feeling like equalsThu Dec 17 2015 - 10:00
Loving Crumlin: ode to a shopping centreThe unofficial Official Crumlin Shopping Centre webpage satirises big business, celebrities and jihadists. But it’s rooted in a love of Dublin 12, says its anonymous creatorSat Dec 05 2015 - 12:00
Another slice of Toast for Berry and MathewsWith a third TV series and a new book, failed actor Steven Toast is proving a big hit for his creators Matt Berry and Arthur MathewsSat Dec 05 2015 - 08:04
Kudos to Katie’s kerpows, but . . .Are sports awards that are just for women the answer?Thu Dec 03 2015 - 10:11
Anthea McTeirnan: I do take thy surname . . . Hang on a second, no I bloody don’tBroadside: Why, in 2015, are so many women still dropping their own surnames when they get married?Mon Nov 30 2015 - 07:00
The Christmas bonus: how I’ll spend itThe social-welfare Christmas bonus has been increased this year, to 75 per cent of its pre-crash level. Will it affect the Christmas plans of its recipients – or their political views?Sat Nov 28 2015 - 05:30
The Late Late Toy Show: the biggest set, the most kids. EverRyan Tubridy puts on his Christmas geansaí on Friday for the most-watched TV show of the year. Katherine Drohan is its producerSat Nov 21 2015 - 04:00
Take a Bite out of our food and drink festivalRunning until Sunday, Bite at the RDS is the new Irish Times food and drink festival. We sent Anthea McTeirnan along for a taste of the actionThu Nov 19 2015 - 17:43
Taoiseach delighted as ‘marriage equality becomes a reality’Same sex marriages in other countries are recognised under Irish law from MondayMon Nov 16 2015 - 17:25
Role of women in 1916 Rising highlighted in new campaignExplore Your Archive aims to raise awareness of importance of records in societyFri Nov 13 2015 - 18:11
Newstalk takes a Right Hook for gender balanceHearing Women’s Voices radio report shows females simply not being allowed on airTue Nov 10 2015 - 00:01
Anthea McTeirnan: Cohabiting couples are legal strangers till death us do partBroadside: When it comes to cohabitation, every which way you loseMon Nov 02 2015 - 07:33
Julie Walters taps into her inner Mayo womanThe actor, who has channelled her Irish side once more for the film ‘Brooklyn’, talks about the class divide, Irish nuns and Mo MowlamFri Oct 30 2015 - 06:00
Strictly Come Dancing: how Tristan MacManus caught the dancing bug from his grandparentsPhyllis and Joe McCann, grandparents of the Strictly dancer, put Tristan MacManus through his first stepsFri Oct 23 2015 - 14:00
Women’s Aid sets out manifesto ahead of electionKilling of Tony Golden a reminder of consequences of domestic violence, says directorTue Oct 20 2015 - 01:00
Moone Boy and Chris O’ Dowd’s adventure in a fish factoryChris O’Dowd and Nick Murphy’s new book, ‘Moone Boy: The Fish Detective’ brings Brazil to small-town RoscommonSat Oct 17 2015 - 01:00
What have you done today to make you feel kind?We humans get a bad press but a new paper by psychologists suggests that unlike chimps and other animals, we are ‘ultrasocial’ with kindness hardwired into our behaviourThu Oct 15 2015 - 15:30
Anthea McTeirnan: No-nudes Playboy is just following the moneyOnline porn has changed the girlie mag market, so the once-titillating Playboy title made the only business decision it could: abandoning naked photoshootsTue Oct 13 2015 - 14:00
Doubts about self-image hold 70% of women back, survey finds73 % of young women see themselves in leadership roles in the futureMon Oct 05 2015 - 17:20
Women’s Aid extends domestic abuse helpline to 24 hoursIt is important to be available in the middle of the night after an attack, director saysMon Oct 05 2015 - 15:26
Anthea McTeirnan: crisps and pop fuel young to fight backBroadside: The marriage equality referendum proved that young people do voteMon Sept 21 2015 - 16:59
The 'contraceptive train’ spawns a musicalThe women who went to Belfast in May 1971 to bring back illegal ‘French Letters’ are looking forward to seeing themselves on stageMon Sept 21 2015 - 06:00
Filthy and disgusting? Thank you Jackie CollinsAnthea McTeirnan on an illustrious career that brought pleasure to at least 500 million peopleSun Sept 20 2015 - 17:05
A Book For Her, by Bridget Christie: Funny in all the right placesThe comedian give us insights into parenting, breasts and wallpaper. She is an ecumenist, bringing us Mary Wollstonecraft, Katie Price and Margaret AtwoodSat Sept 19 2015 - 00:50
So 4.2 million people can’t get enough of Brooklyn Beckham. It takes all sorts . . .Do you care what Brooklyn Beckham says or does? You soon will if the marketing works and the celebrity-sucking media have our wayFri Sept 11 2015 - 14:00
Long and winding road ahead of mobile Irish coupleLaura McMorrow and Ciarán Hussey set out to travel 10,000km from Japan by bikeSun Sept 06 2015 - 15:19
Queen Elizabeth II to be Britain’s longest reigning monarchElizabeth is set to claim the crown from Victoria, after 63 years and seven monthsSat Sept 05 2015 - 01:00
Ireland should accept more refugees and migrants, says HowlinState must play role in ‘one of the most challenging issues for humankind’Thu Sept 03 2015 - 14:15
Let’s fashion a halo of laurel-leaves for Serena WilliamsUS Open favourite is shattering records but she has also shattered stereotypesMon Aug 31 2015 - 14:39
Room to roam: children’s lives are restricted by modern worldAs kids become more supervised than ever, they miss out on a vital part of lifeFri Aug 28 2015 - 01:00
Investment in women would make better communities, says NWCINational Women’s Council of Ireland calls for restoration of funds to community groupsFri Aug 28 2015 - 01:00
Room to roam case study: ‘I was a free-range child’The Smith family describe the differences between their childhood experiencesFri Aug 28 2015 - 01:00
