Don’t manterrupt, you deplorable! Best putdowns of 2016This year gifted the world a rich array of expressions of annoyanceMon Dec 26 2016 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: have a mediocre little ChristmasWing it by channelling Gwyneth and Nigella with wrapped pebbles, soup tins and stale cakeSat Dec 24 2016 - 06:10
Meet the ‘Irish Attenboroughs’ who answer call of the wildThese four dedicated conservationists work with the planet’s most endangered speciesSat Dec 24 2016 - 06:01
Pay, feminism, water charges. What not to talk about over Christmas dinnerNavigate the minefield with our guide to the year’s top Yuletide conversational no-nosSat Dec 24 2016 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: To escape the grim reality of 2016, look to the sporting godsAn overheard conversation finally provides proof of the healing powers of sportSat Dec 17 2016 - 06:10
Madonna on the rules of the music industry: ‘Be sexy. Be cute. Don’t age’In a blistering speech, the singer says sexism is rife in the business. And it’s not all men’s faultMon Dec 12 2016 - 17:20
Listen closely and you will hear people craving connectionDon’t be held hostage by your smartphone and be the talker you were born to beSat Dec 10 2016 - 06:10
‘Influencer marketing’: honest blogging or fake endorsement?‘It’s in the interest of brands and influencers to let people know when payment’s involved’Sat Dec 10 2016 - 06:00
Barbie girl: why Amy Schumer’s wrong about how women lookThe comedian’s Instagram response to ‘fat shamers’ still fixates on the superficial. It’s time to focus on what women say and doWed Dec 07 2016 - 16:25
Jennifer O’Connell: Lovesick 19-year-olds, take it from me. He's probably not The OneCarrie Fisher's gawky reminisce of falling in lust with Harrison Ford brings back mortifying memoriesSat Dec 03 2016 - 06:10
Late Late Toy Show review: What was missing from the show was ...Jennifer O’Connell wraps up her review of Ryan Tubridy’s eighth Toy ShowFri Dec 02 2016 - 22:30
Thanks, Evan Rachel Wood, for helping lift rape’s stigmaThe ‘Westworld’ star has revealed that she was raped on two occasions. More women, both in Ireland and around the world, are going public about sexual attacksFri Dec 02 2016 - 09:00
Give your one-year-old the iPad, it might be good for them after allA leading US academy says iPads can help under-twos. So what are parents to do in an age of ‘sharenting’ and Snapchat streaks?Sat Nov 26 2016 - 06:00
Why do we spend years accumulating useless things?Living with the barest essentials can be done yet we hold on to the least important itemsSat Nov 26 2016 - 05:00
We’ve made a hygge mistake: why are we being sold such an Irish concept?Unhealthy food, alcohol and sweeping stuff under the carpet – we invented thatWed Nov 23 2016 - 16:50
Jennifer O’Connell: ‘How are victims of domestic violence supposed to seek help now?’The message Trump’s election sends to girls and women everywhere is clear: know your place. Put up and shut upSat Nov 19 2016 - 05:00
Frozen in time: what is cryogenics and how does it work?There are around 250 people cryopreserved in the US alone. As the procedure hit the headlines again this week, we look at why people are freezing their bodies after deathFri Nov 18 2016 - 15:45
‘Post-truth’ isn’t a good word of the year, to tell you the truthOxford Dictionaries’ choice does not help us understand Brexit or Trump’s electionFri Nov 18 2016 - 10:00
Jennifer O'Connell: Moving from Silicon Valley to our own wild Atlantic way‘We came home to reapply for our visas. A longish holiday. And we couldn’t quite leave’Sat Nov 12 2016 - 04:00
Terrified in Trumpland: Irish-Americans and US citizens in Ireland reactSafety, gay and immigration rights, and corporation tax under a Trump administration are some of the concerns among Americans-in-Ireland and Irish-in-AmericaWed Nov 09 2016 - 17:00
The ‘necessity entrepreneurs’: Ireland’s recession businessesTo start a business between 2010 and 2014 took courage. Five people describe how they did itSat Nov 05 2016 - 04:00
Bono, woman of the year? The latest male saviour of womankindWhat are we to tell our daughters: you can grow up to be a woman just like that man?Wed Nov 02 2016 - 15:45
Instagram without Kim Kardashian? Not likelyKim Kardashian is set to scale back on social media after her gunpoint jewellery robbery in Paris. But an internet without her would be like Buddhism without the Dalai LamaSat Oct 08 2016 - 14:30
The trouble with strong, sexy, altruistic Angelina JolieIn coverage of Brangelina split, there’s been only one bad guy – and it’s not the Brad guySat Sept 24 2016 - 06:00
Public Displays of Emotion Book by Róisín Ingle: ReviewA columnist who gives herself wholeheartedly, without inhibition, to her readersSat Oct 03 2015 - 01:05
Jennifer O’Connell: It’s not really a break-up, Ireland. It’s more of a breakIt’s much harder to put down roots when you always have one eye on home. For that reason, I’ve decided this will be my last column for The Irish TimesMon Jun 22 2015 - 03:00
Jennifer O’Connell: A pill to control female desire? Dream onIt’s not female sexual desire that needs ‘fixing’ so much as society’s notion of what’s normalMon Jun 15 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Ireland’s a great nation so long as you’re not a TravellerWhy are racism and discrimination still so widely accepted when they are directed against Travellers?Mon Jun 08 2015 - 07:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Don’t fall into the hysterical parenting trapParents being charged with neglect for letting their children walk home alone will only result in arrested developmentMon Jun 01 2015 - 04:00
Jennifer O’Connell: You’ll be sorry when the robot journalists take overThis year, computer software will produce more than a billion stories on the web. The majority will never be read, but in this era of McJournalism does anyone care?Mon May 25 2015 - 17:59
Jennifer O’Connell: I’ve lost 13lb eating shepherd’s pie and chocolateMild self-denial is the only diet for meMon May 18 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Dave Goldberg understood that feminism liberates menFar more men – maybe even the majority – would identify as feminist if there wasn’t so much confusion over what the term signifiesMon May 11 2015 - 05:45
Jennifer O’Connell: Same-sex marriage causes abortion? Now I’ve heard it allVote however you wish on May 22nd, but at least vote on the question being askedMon May 04 2015 - 10:31
Jennifer O’Connell: Men, our Lycra leggings are none of your damn businessThe trend of women wearing skin-tight yoga pants brings out the inner Taliban in some menMon Apr 27 2015 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Stalking Lillis not in public interestWhat exactly were the teams of reporters at Dublin Airport expecting Lillis to do?Mon Apr 20 2015 - 15:09
Jennifer O’Connell: In California, we pay more for water than for petrolIf we ever move back to Ireland, we will be able to run masterclasses in how to cut down on water billsMon Apr 13 2015 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: There should be no right to intoleranceAs we are the first country in the world to hold a referendum on gay marriage, we have the opportunity to reframe the debate away from farcical sideshows about cakes and flower arrangementsMon Apr 06 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: 15 things we learned from the Barrytown trilogyRoddy Doyle’s trilogy is up for this year’s Dublin: One City, One Book initiative. That’s very clever all the sameMon Mar 30 2015 - 06:00
Dwyer trial cast a light into darkest corners of Irish societyIt’s chilling to realise a woman can go missing in Ireland without an outcrySat Mar 28 2015 - 18:09
Jennifer O’Connell: Could you con yourself into eating less?If you sit by the window in a restaurant you’re 80 per cent more likely to order salad. Eat from a bigger plate and you’ll eat one third moreMon Mar 23 2015 - 12:51
Jennifer O’Connell: 37 signs that you might be IrishHave you forgiven Miley his affair? Do you know the plural form(s) of the word ‘you’? Do you have a Bono story?Mon Mar 16 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Fairy stories have no place in the classroomWhy are Irish children spending 2½ hours a week learning about heaven when they could be learning about space?Mon Mar 09 2015 - 06:00
Babies are a hazard: just ask any politician at a photo opPredictably, for Enda Kenny, Phil Hogan and Jim Bergin, their Dad-in-chief moment did not come yesterdayFri Mar 06 2015 - 09:10
Jennifer O’Connell: Men, keep your wandering hands to yourselvesUnless you’re administering CPR, there’s really no need to get handsy with women you barely knowMon Mar 02 2015 - 06:00
Jennifer O’Connell: I finally realised I’m an emigrant when I opened my junk mailMy notion of what home means roams around and fixates on disparate thingsMon Feb 23 2015 - 01:00
Jennifer O’Connell: Dangerous spread of the anti-vax setParents can believe what they want, but if it endangers the health of others, society must actMon Feb 16 2015 - 05:45
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’: Appalling script, dire acting, troubling message. Sounds like a hitThe film of EL James’s bestseller, starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson as Christian and Anastasia, can be vaguely titillating and unintentionally hilarious. Mostly it’s just confusingSat Feb 14 2015 - 00:01
Jennifer O’Connell: Do women sound more annoying?Vocal fry is that crackling, husky, drawly, perpetually bored, just-out-of-bed quality that is most pronounced at the end of sentences. Both genders do it, but only women get stick for itMon Feb 09 2015 - 14:36
Jennifer O’Connell: Cumberbatch gaffe pounced upon in a world convulsed with ragegasmsBenedict Cumberbatch’s inadvertent use of the historically loaded word ‘coloured’ deserved an apology, and one duly came. But wasn’t the outrage a bit overdone?Mon Feb 02 2015 - 08:13
