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Jennifer O&x27Connell

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The real life Succession is back for one last season. It’s funnier – and darker – than ever

02.03.2025 20

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Council’s all-out offensive on Airbnb lockboxes won’t solve the mess that is Dublin

15.02.2025 10

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I’ve become an accidental EV owner. There have been some nasty surprises – and a few nice ones

08.02.2025 10

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Storm Éowyn triggered a sense of pandemic PTSD - especially for parents of primary pupils

24.01.2025 7

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Enoch Burke’s lonely vigil at the school gate has not been entirely pointless

11.01.2025 10

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The vet was understanding when I phoned to say that the cat I euthanised was not, in fact, our cat

Losing a pet, they say, is a practice run for losing a human you love. But for something that’s only a rehearsal, the pain feels very real. In his...

29.12.2024 5

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Dominique Pelicot and his co-defendants are not monsters, but something more frightening

The enduring story of the rape trial that has gripped France over the last three months is not the evil of the perpetrators, but the extraordinary...

21.12.2024 5

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In a country of such staggering wealth, no one should have to queue for free food

At 4am last Wednesday, hours before sunrise, people began gathering along Bow Street in Dublin 7. At 7am, the doors of the Capuchin Day Centre...

14.12.2024 10

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Look out ladies. Elon Musk has plans for your womb

It’s hard to imagine anything less likely to encourage you to rip off your clothes and start procreating than having Elon Musk held up as a paragon...

30.11.2024 5

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Judge in Nikita Hand’s civil action against Conor McGregor delivered a masterclass in consent

Remy Farrell SC, a lawyer of precise and occasionally vivid language, chose what might have been an unfortunate phrase to describe his client Conor...

23.11.2024 10

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Gerry Hutch running for office is no joke. The media should stop treating it like one

In the bitter recriminations and soul-searching that followed Donald Trump’s first election as US president in 2016, much blame fell on the media....

16.11.2024 3

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Defending Kyle Hayes’s award takes All Star level nerve

If there was ever any doubt that Gaelic games were among the most athletically demanding of sporting disciplines, you only needed to tune into...

09.11.2024 5

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‘Organise childcare’ means two things - ask Granny or take a day off work

For weeks now there have been, or so I’m reliably told, spreadsheets and whiteboards tacked to various office walls in Government Buildings, as the...

26.10.2024 4

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Hazel Behan and Gisèle Pelicot are not victims, but survivors setting the world on fire with their truth

It has been 20 years but, when she closes her eyes at night, Hazel Behan can still see his. On that terrible night, June 16th, 2004, that’s all...

13.10.2024 6

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My meeting with Mohamed Al Fayed went well. Then I mentioned the young women in short skirts

I took two things away from the afternoon, nearly 25 years ago, that I spent in the company of Mohamed Al Fayed. The first was to prove quite...

06.10.2024 3

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The Government is blinded by rich man syndrome

Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl began the first day of the new Dáil term by publicly distancing politicians from the Selling Sunset bike shed, to...

28.09.2024 2

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Restricting access to contraception to stop people having sex: haven’t we tried that before?

If I understand him correctly, Peadar Tóibín is worried the State may be encouraging 16-year-olds to encourage other 16-year-olds to have sex....

21.09.2024 4

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Sexual abuse report: Schools were routinely places of brutal, simmering violence

For years afterwards, I thought perhaps I had dreamed it up: the narrow plank of wood, about the length of a metre stick, hacked off at an angle on...

08.09.2024 5

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What’s your parenting style? Kirstie Allsopp? Burke family? Or make it up as you go along?

Kirstie Allsopp is a television presenter best known for her love of crafting and dishing out breezy advice about the benefits of knocking two...

31.08.2024 40

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How must Daniel Wiffen’s success make Derry O’Rourke’s victims feel?

You could almost forget there was ever a time when the words “Irish swimming” didn’t evoke joy and unity and celebration, but shame and a seemingly...

03.08.2024 1

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Should I really stop drinking altogether?

It is always surprising how rarely we question the things we want to be true, especially when those things involve alcohol. By “we”, I mean “I”: my...

28.07.2024 4

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