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Caelainn Hogan

Caelainn Hogan

The Guardian

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I’m giving birth as a battle rages over maternity care in Ireland. We shouldn’t have to pay to feel safe

I’m giving birth as a battle rages over maternity care in Ireland. We shouldn’t have to pay to feel safe

There were no chandeliers in the public ward where I spent my first days as a mother, at the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the...

31.08.2026 20

The Guardian

Caelainn Hogan

On the streets of Dublin I met fuel protesters and the people who support them – yet our leaders still don’t get it

Up in the driver’s seat of a lime green CLAAS tractor, a young man called Dylan told me he was the second tractor to arrive on O’Connell Street,...

14.04.2026 20

The Guardian

Caelainn Hogan

Ireland’s basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck

I won the lottery. Out of around 8,000 artists, my name was randomly chosen to be one of the 2,000 who the Irish government would pay a basic income....

13.03.2026 50

The Guardian

Caelainn Hogan

Why has it taken a decade to exhume the bodies of the 800 dead babies of Tuam?

17.07.2025 40

The Guardian

Caelainn Hogan