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Jennifer O&x27ConnellThe Irish Times |
I’ve never bought into the idea of Dubai as a glittering oasis of fun, freedom and unfettered capitalism. Sure it has the world’s largest shopping...
The Micronesian volcanic island of Saipan – a US outpost in the Pacific with a bloody and violent past long before Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy set...
You can’t go near the internet these days without slamming into yet another front in the intergenerational culture wars. Housing, parenting styles,...
In the world of American XL bully influencers, pregnancy announcements do not aim for subtlety. On Instagram accounts with handles along the line of...
An aeroplane on its way from London to Singapore is cruising over the Irrawaddy Basin in Myanmar when it violently lurches upwards and then...
It has been almost a year since the revelations – and this story may just ring the tiniest of bells, so bear with me – that RTÉ had been...
The mild embarrassment over the Dublin-New York Portal raises the question of where Dublin City Council has been since the invention of the...
As protests go, it was quieter than Sinéad O’Connor tearing up a picture of the Pope. Ireland’s Eurovision entrant Bambie Thug, who had resisted...
Jacob Rees-Mogg – formerly best known for his winning turn as cartoon villain of Brexit, now to be seen nightly on GB News performing in the role of...
Five years ago, in the unhealthy tradition of columnists who mine their children’s lives for material, I wrote about how my then 13-year-old...
Wendy’s is an American hamburger chain famous for fare that sounds like a Young Scientist experiment: square beef patties and “Frosty”...
Simon Harris is, to use the internet parlance, extremely online. On his TikTok, where he has 98,200 followers and 1.9 million likes, he has posted 290...
In the first 48 hours after Scotland’s new hate crime legislation came into effect last Monday, complaints flooded in at a rate of one every 90...
Two-thirds of Irish people are rattling around in homes that are “too big for their needs”, new research has found. A report by the Economic and...
You stay up late binge-watching Robbie Williams’s Netflix documentary, when you really can’t stand Robbie Williams. Or, for that matter,...
If the five weeks of campaigning on the two referendums to be held on March 8th have established anything at all, it is the truth of the view stated...
Two apparently unconnected developments this week suggested the party may be coming to an end for influencers. The first was the news that the Revenue...
It used to be said that Americans don’t understand irony. Now that same deficiency is sweeping the Irish countryside faster than you can say...
A visibly uncomfortable, slightly waxen-faced Mark Zuckerberg interrupted what had been, up to that moment, some fairly robotic testimony to a US...
A few years ago, when I was working for a tech company in California, a colleague and I contrived some wheeze that got us an invitation to spend the...
In the past nine months I must have walked past Harbour Court lane more than 200 times. I have never walked through it, for reasons that will be...
After all the fevered speculation, the Epstein files have been deemed a damp squib. The release of a further tranche of documents relating to a legal...
This weekend, the moment each year when the western world briefly stops to celebrate children, and Christians celebrate a story about the birth of one...
A particular type of student prowled the campus in my college days. We referred to them as victims of Rich Daddy Syndrome (in the 1990s, there were...
A particular type of student prowled the campus in my college days. We referred to them as victims of Rich Daddy Syndrome (in the 1990s, there were...
A grim, unsettling year was juddering towards the finish line when it delivered what may be one of its most surreal moments so far: Conor McGregor...
From years basking in the glow of being the best little Europeans in the class, Ireland finds itself in the unfamiliar position of having the rest of...