Nigella wants our love – and Charles Saatchi will use us to hurt herForget fraud: Nigella Lawson and her ex are doing battle for custody of the public’s approvalSat Dec 07 2013 - 01:00
Gay Byrne’s punk radio: 'I’d say we’re down to about 300 doddery old fools'The Sunday show, a mixture of jazz and giving out, is becoming cult listening, mainly for the darkness of Byrne’s presentation. His subject matter takes in everything from the pope’s fitness and spitting to Pat Kenny’s moveWed Dec 04 2013 - 01:00
Memories of a mother’s drinkingValerie Farragher’s alcoholism almost ruined the lives of her family. Now four years sober, she is trying to help other women avoid that terrible fateSat Nov 30 2013 - 01:00
Boyzone: ‘A lot of our fans are guys now’Female desire has driven Boyzone across 20 years, 25 million records and six number ones. They talk about hating Ronan, feeling Stephen’s presence and still wanting to hug LouisWed Nov 20 2013 - 01:00
‘In the transport hierarchy the bus is below the bicycle’Do only losers take the bus, as Thatcher reputedly said? Loyal bus users June Shannon, Peter Murphy, David McWilliams and Bryan Dobson would all disagreeFri Nov 15 2013 - 01:00
Stephanie Roche on her wonder goal: ‘I just flicked it over her head . . . ’The Peamount United player’s turn and strike from 20 yards has had almost 1.8 million hits on YouTube. Matt Le Tissier called it the goal of the season. But what does Roche make of all the fuss?Thu Oct 24 2013 - 18:13
Letters to St JudeIn Whitefriar Street church in Dublin, people write poignant messages about their health, their families and their finances to the patron saint of lost causesSat Oct 19 2013 - 01:00
The new Bridget Jones. Pages: 386. Laughs 3. Alcohol units: 0In the new book, our lovable heroine, now a rich widow with a toy boy, is stretched far too thin by author Helen FieldingFri Oct 11 2013 - 01:00
Hurling ourselves at Shane O’DonnellWithin 19 frenzied minutes, a 19-year-old Clare hurler’s life changed forever as sportsman became showbiz starSat Oct 05 2013 - 01:00
Umbilical cord banks – a lifeline or an ethical tangle?A company is encouraging expectant mothers to freeze their babies’ umbilical cords, which are rich in stem cellsTue Oct 01 2013 - 01:00
The Michael Darragh Macauley magicMichael Darragh Macauley, hero of Dublin’s All-Ireland victory, credits the influence of his father and teachers – and his obsessive weight-watching – with his success on the pitchSat Sept 28 2013 - 01:00
Future is bleak for Pakistan’s Christians following Peshawar attackLondon-based aid worker Wilson Saraj says he has family and friends among the dead following the suicide attack on a churchThu Sept 26 2013 - 01:21
Rushed affair as pub steps up to stage contentious pageantThe hot breath of Texas can be felt everywhere in the child beauty eventMon Sept 23 2013 - 07:23
Small change, big differenceBallinasloe youth workers guide young people with the lightest of touchesSat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00
Steered away from a life of crime?The Garda’s youth diversion projects work quietly with children on the cusp of offending, helping them to stay at school and out of custodySat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00
‘If it wasn’t for this place I’d probably be on probation’What do participants say about the project?Sat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00
The slow rehabilitation of William Martin MurphyMurphy – often cast as the villain of the 1913 Lockout – is remembered more fondly in a Dublin golf club and his native west CorkThu Aug 22 2013 - 01:00
Supermarkets’ love affair with the customer ended long agoAs Superquinn moved closer to vanishing from the map last week, the supermarket wars moved up a notchMon Aug 12 2013 - 12:00
Pat Kenny’s move to Newstalk is revealing about our cultureHiring a star presenter is the quick fix in broadcasting, and we need a lot of quick fixesMon Aug 05 2013 - 12:00
Drink, drugs and death: Juanita Carberry’s Happy Valley childhoodThe unconventional writer and sailor, who died last weekend, was the teenage witness in the White Mischief murder caseSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
Summer jobs: the living ain’t easySeasonal work gives teens a taste of the adult world and the independence, responsibility and rejection that comes with it – not to mention having to deal with the general publicWed Jul 31 2013 - 01:00
Lidl has become a stealthy, unglamorous agent of changeThe budget retailer has made basic shopping fashionable and modernMon Jul 29 2013 - 01:00
Some of us aren’t too proud to say we enjoyed it immenselyJoy at royal birth makes you question if we are that different from ancestors who worshiped kingsTue Jul 23 2013 - 13:21
Banks are hunting down their live customers like dogsBanks want you at home doing all their work for them onlineMon Jul 22 2013 - 01:00
The Zara empire: where did it all go right?Massimo Dutti, Zara’s more conservative and pricier sister, has rented the old HMV building on Grafton Street, and it’s not just the business community that’s fired upSat Jul 20 2013 - 00:00
The female body can be a weapon rather than a battlegroundThe most shocking act healthy young women can perpetrate is to take their clothes off in protestMon Jul 15 2013 - 12:00
Nolans have danced their way through triumph and disasterThe late Bernie Nolan was representative of the Irish women of her generation who made their homes in EnglandMon Jul 08 2013 - 12:00
Misogyny behind Gillard’s political exit is a disgrace to every AustralianAustralia’s political landscape is bereft not only of ideology but also of ideasMon Jul 01 2013 - 12:00
Domestic suffering simmers beneath the surface of domestic goddessesNigella Lawson and Isabella Beeton had more in common than popular recipesMon Jun 24 2013 - 12:00
Leaving Cert exam on cusp of change – for past 40 years"The annual sitting of the Leaving Cert is a spectator sport for the rest of the country. It is an outlet for mainly adult hysteria"Mon Jun 17 2013 - 00:00
Anti-abortion side has grasped the importance of being well preparedSaturday’s Vigil for Life rally in Dublin shows just how much campaigners have learnedMon Jun 10 2013 - 12:00
Macho attitudes are no match for the Micra economyDublin Women’s Mini Marathon could have no finer mascot than the small NissanMon Jun 03 2013 - 01:00
Keeping it real in view of TV women’s dangerous livesColumn: In television drama, if you are a single female living alone your future is going one of two waysMon May 27 2013 - 12:00
Everything is very far from rosy in the gardenGardeners are only emerging from hibernation as the flower shows beginMon May 20 2013 - 12:00
We need to reassess our view of violence by men in the homeColumn: Domestic violence exists below the radar and causes no outcryMon May 13 2013 - 13:00
Losing patience with an unhealthy systemThe Irish health system is maddening not only for patients but for their relatives, who must withstand poor communication, baffling rules and often impersonal careSat Apr 27 2013 - 07:00
A medical conspiracy against the publicThe people not surprised by Praveen Halappanavar’s suffering are the relatives of hospital patients all over the countryMon Apr 22 2013 - 06:00
Ireland gained from Thatcher rule, as did Sinn FéinFormer British prime minister changed Republic more than contemporary taoisigh didMon Apr 15 2013 - 06:00
Why we still cannot handle the truth'A dislike of reality also certainly helps with maintaining our alcohol consumption, thank goodness'Mon Apr 08 2013 - 12:00
Compulsory shopping, screwed-up telly schedules and no news: welcome to bank holiday limboSurely bank holidays were invented so that all workers could take time off at the same time?Mon Apr 01 2013 - 11:00
Unprocessed anger makes us sitting ducks for property taxOur national psyche was on parade on St Patrick’s DayMon Mar 25 2013 - 12:01
Cleanliness and household chores are next to godlinessDomestic labour has become so unfashionable that when it makes a rare appearance in public discussion, as it did in the Vatican last week, it seems exoticMon Mar 18 2013 - 11:59
Teen idol Bieber trembles on cusp of disasterAnd the little girls are ready to move onMon Mar 11 2013 - 06:00
Peace and reconciliation since the killing of Ewart-BiggsLast Thursday, the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize was awarded at a reception at the Department of Foreign Affairs in …Mon Mar 04 2013 - 00:00
Way we treat asylum seekers will be State's next apologyI realise that we all have our individual news agendasMon Feb 25 2013 - 00:00
Meat is the norm; not to eat it is to make a fussMaybe it’s time to start considering, for about the 200th time, becoming a vegetarianMon Feb 18 2013 - 00:00
Silence on our supporting role in rendition is deafeningHow quiet can a country get? Here we are, the great communicators of Europe, the legendary talkers of national stereotypeMon Feb 11 2013 - 00:00
Tragic fate of the Niedermayers a sign of history's long reachLiving memory is a strange term. An awful lot can happen within it; an awful lot more than you would thinkMon Feb 04 2013 - 00:00
'Kindly' advice to young women lost in Lumley's chilly toneYoung people. Aren’t they dreadful? Either they’re falling over in the street and showing their knickers, or they’re lying on…Mon Jan 28 2013 - 00:00
