Jennifer O'Connell

Everyone from the World Health Organisation to wellness influencers are preaching total abstinence. But is moderate drinking that bad?

‘Only in Dubai’ goes the tourism slogan for 2025. It could hardly be more apt

Ironically, it was the actions of a vindictive US, more than anything he did himself, that resuscitated his reputation and made him a hero for press freedom

The big ideological gap is of the past seven years is between younger men and women, and the trend is remarkably consistent across disparate cultures

Things grabbing my attention this week include camogie elbows, sideline parents and how ‘woman’ still seems to be the hardest word

There is a brisk online business in breeding dogs that are best understood as snarling 65kg status symbols

Singapore Airlines flight injuries and New Delhi heat are still not enough to stop business as usual

RTÉ effectively gave presenters a choice: you can work for us or you can work for yourself, but you can’t do both. When you look at the numbers, it’s no surprise which option they’re choosing

It is worth restating that criticism of the Israeli state is not anti-semitism. But it is also the case that anti-semitism never went away, that it still exists and that it is on the rise again

There was a time when we were rightly appalled about the language used about migrants in Brexit Britain. Now it is steadily being normalised here

“She doesn’t need to be stuck inside her head on her phone. She needs to be in the real world for as long as she can,” one said

Surge dining: Would you pay more to eat a rib-eye on a Saturday than on Tuesday?

Simon Harris's social media skills have conferred on him an air of mystique among an older generation of politicians. But voters are less likely to be wowed

There was a sense they were making it up as they went along. The same can’t happen here

On paper, an inter-generational house swap made total sense. The practice was a little more difficult

Warning signs may include staying up late to watch Robbie Williams’s Netflix documentary, when you don’t like Robbie Williams – or documentaries

Article 41.2 was the scaffolding constructed around women’s lives which ensured that they remained small and confined

Revenue has its sights on social media influencers, who are about to learn there is no such thing as a free lunch. Or Air Fryer, weekend break or lifetime supply of porridge

The people to worry about aren’t the ‘unvetted males’ from Syria or Albania, but those with placards and petrol cans

Online harm is not an unintended consequence of social media. It’s baked into the design