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Áilín Quinlan: How to spot the type of man who sets out to control your life

Áilín Quinlan: How to spot the type of man who sets out to control your life

Another day, another case before the Irish courts. A man had battered his pregnant partner. The details of the attack, just one more in the long...

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Áilín Quinlan: I may have dodged a bullet.. but encounters have stayed with me

Áilín Quinlan: I may have dodged a bullet.. but encounters have stayed with me

Phew. Dodged a bullet there, I thought. Two bullets, even. We’d switched on Netflix to watch Apex, starring Charlize Theron. Theron plays the part...

17.06.2026 20

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Áilín Quinlan: Face facts, ladies, and abandon this desire for an eternal youth

When someone first mentioned to me that girls in their mid-teens were getting Botox injections in a bid to pre-empt ‘ageing’, I didn’t believe...

10.06.2026 20

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Áilín Quinlan: Mother’s experience led her to the manosphere...it’s here too

I could report on her experience, the mother said, if I kept it anonymous. Fair enough, I said, intrigued. It was the phrase “dish pig,” that had...

03.06.2026 30

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Áilín Quinlan: Parents - learn about AI, and steer your child into a safe job

There’s change in the air. Don’t you just love that comforting roar of the lawnmower; a sound that’s always signalled the arrival of summer?...

27.05.2026 20

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Parents... A guide on how to make your home party-proof

Everybody groaned. Everybody had a horror story. As we sat at the café table, our festively patterned Christmas shopping bags piled up around us, the...

25.12.2025 40

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I felt like a Queen for a day... then reality intruded big time!

Well, hasn’t life a way of taking you down (in your own view, at least) a completely unnecessary peg or two. You return from an awards ceremony...

18.09.2025 30

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Why I’m on the side of school secretaries and caretakers in dispute with government

Whether or not it’s stepped up to the plate by now and done the decent thing for school secretaries and caretakers, the fact that this strike even...

04.09.2025 30

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We throw jabs at Israel and U.S and rely on others to defend us

Sometimes, it’s hard to figure out what’s really going on behind the scenes. On the one hand, there’s all this sound and fury over the Occupied...

24.07.2025 20

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So long, salad days: Please can we have our heatwave back?

And so, after about five weeks – socks. I couldn’t believe it. They felt so strange on my feet. And unnecessary - ’til I took them off again......

29.05.2025 30

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