‘I am a woman in my mid 60s and I’m having fun with a flirtatious man, but I’m worried he might want sex’
Tell Me About It: ‘The body preparation involved for women at my age to consider actual sex is beyond the effort I am prepared to make’
For You
A selection of the best human interest reporting, interviews, opinion and lifestyle features.
Women keep changing their surnames to match their husband’s. Why do we normalising this symbolic control?
I know many women who say their husbands or in-laws wouldn‘t be happy if they kept their own name. To me, this is a massive red flag
Anthony has paid Eir almost €3,000 more than he had to. Is he due a refund?
The price of being switched to an out-of-contract rate when your deal term ends can be high
Non-sports summer camps 2025: From art and archaeology to technology and yoga
Here is our guide to summer camps that do not (generally) involve lots of outdoor physical activity. There is everything listed here from coding to cooking, archaeology to acting.
‘Those two weeks felt like two months’: Kilkenny captain Katie Power reveals overwhelming toll of skorts protest
Power doesn’t regret taking a stand, but she said the attention that followed was mentally draining
Smoking ban has important lessons for Ireland’s approach to climate issues
Overhaul needed in the presentation of climate policies to help bypass ‘nanny state’ criticisms
I was 12. I remember the burn of the floor on my bare feet as my dad climbed up a drainpipe to save me
How a young educator gave a child refuge by introducing her to the healing power of writing
Boots ‘extremely remorseful’ after pleading guilty over misleading Black Friday prices
Breach was identified by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
‘Come to Ireland, get well paid and a holiday’: The GPs lured from the UK to Ireland
An increase in UK doctors seeking work in Ireland is being linked to geographical proximity and difficulties in the NHS
Cooking a whole chicken in an airfryer? It might save you money
Researchers have found that the device often uses less than half the electricity of an oven
Why are Kneecap facing consequences when Israel is not?
When protesting is policed, but the legitimate reasons for protest are not, then people lose trust
‘I’ll be grand,’ I reassured my concerned child and headed on my merry way
It’s not something I’ve ever enjoyed – my own company, or walking for no reason
Would you work 32 hours over seven days?
One boss thinks giving staff freedom to organise work over seven days might be better than the ‘traditional’ four-day week
Fashion’s future stars: Student designers create playful, sustainable collections
At NCAD and LSAD, the graduate show collections are inspired by family, heritage, craft, identity and sustainability
Wages for housework: If your job is working in the home, should you be paid a salary?
Old and emotive debate has resurfaced, but the system would break if every exhausted mother was on the payroll
Why are people in their late 20s and 30s so disillusioned with religion?
One in four would be happy to see the Catholic Church vanish from society – but it’s 25- to 34-year-olds, not 18- to 24-year-olds, who are the most disenchanted
‘Menstrual health affects everything - our work, our relationships, our mental health. Yet it’s still whispered about’
Dr Hazel Wallace – aka The Food Medic – on leaving medicine, offering credible advice online, and her new book about periods
Workman’s Club heyday: Where we rubbed shoulders with Paul Mescal, Fontaines DC and Morrissey
The Dublin club has been a creative hub for regulars who have gone on to write books, star in Love/Hate or the Meteor ad, or become a movie star
‘I said awful things about a friend while drunk – and I’m panicking that she might have overheard’
Ask Roe: ‘I have no idea why I said these things other than it being alcohol-fuelled bitchiness’
I showed my friends in Israel this photo of a starving baby in Gaza and asked them if they knew
Just 70km from where we live in Tel Aviv, an Israel-manufactured famine is unfolding in Gaza. I ask my friends how much they know about it
Vogue Williams: ‘Spencer ran towards me with red flags hanging off him in every direction’
The royal-adjacent Irish entrepreneur, podcaster and former model talks about men, her new memoir and her desire to age disgracefully
Sorry, kids. We blew your climate budget - but we really love our SUVs
We in Ireland are disproportionately contributing to the climate disasters of the present and future beyond our shores
Ireland’s rising rents: ‘Our budget would have been €1,300 a month, there isn’t even anything listed for that’
With rents across the State rising at the fastest rate in decades, people tell us about the challenges tenants face
‘Through that nightmare of a tunnel’: the long wait for autism assessment in Northern Ireland
Almost 16,000 children in the North await assessment, new figures show - the longest delay is more than four years
Sirens review: An anaemic White Lotus cover that hits the right notes but has no tune of its own
Sirens, starring Julianne Moore and Kevin Bacon, exists in a heightened reality
Leo Varadkar has more to offer than reality TV shows or doling out PR advice to mega-rich clients
Mary Robinson and Jimmy Carter are exceptions. The political system cultivates the ideology that money is the measure of the man
Moving to Ireland helped me understand my mother, her peculiarities and weird secrecy
Love in Irish families is more of a doing word than a saying one
Why is the housing crisis Ireland’s most enduring failure?
The home ownership rate among those aged 25-39, once considered a prime homeowning age, has dwindled to just 7%
Under cover of flimsy filler, Ray D’Arcy gets political
Radio: Radio 1 host’s show lays it on thick and thin, while former boxer Bernard Dunne hears compelling tales of sporting highs and lows
The best beauty minis to buy for travel this summer
Clever travel-sized beauty buys which enable you to pack light and do more
Alleged display of Hizbullah flag at Kneecap gig may prove costly for rapper
Flag associated with Lebanese armed group alleged to have appeared at one of the band’s gigs in Kentish Town, north London, last November
‘I can’t wait any longer’: Couples with one child await budget pledge on free IVF
It was announced in October’s budget that access to State scheme would be expanded this year
Quentin Tarantino understood something Joe Biden did not - how to quit while you’re ahead
The director understood people will remember how you left with grace just as much as they remember how you performed at your peak
Working from home is here to stay despite what some bosses think
Do you trust your people? If you don’t, then you have much bigger things to worry about than where they work
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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