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Jennifer O’Connell: It should come as no surprise when anti-everything protests turn violent

Aisling O’Loughlin cut her presenting teeth on what was TV3′s now-defunct Xposé programme, gushing over Kim Kardashian makeover tutorials and...

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The Birkenstock index is soaring, a measure of the anxious times we live in

During the first lockdown, some people bought campervans. Others got outdoor meat smokers. My lockdown impulse buy was a pair of black shearling...

17.09.2023 10

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There’s Elon Musk, the second most dangerous thing known to humanity

If you find yourself in the right place on the right night in August each year, the Perseid meteor shower is an awesome sight. There is something...

09.09.2023 10

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Jennifer O’Connell: Investors are salivating over student beds like they’re the new bitcoin

It was Benjamin Disraeli who said universities should be places of “light, liberty and learning”. He did not add that they also offer some of the...

03.09.2023 10

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Jennifer O’Connell: Lucy Letby’s ‘beigeness’ has created a vacuum for lurid speculation

Lucy Letby is the most prolific child killer in modern Britain, found guilty in a Manchester court of the murder of seven infants and the attempted...

26.08.2023 10

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The relentless rain isn’t a blip. Ireland’s climate now is a year-long autumn

The data is in and it is grim. Four times more rain than last July; twice the July 2021 rainfall. In the past 12 months, we endured the wettest...

05.08.2023 20

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Jennifer O’Connell: Is rape culture real? Ask Ciara Mangan

More than one in two women in Ireland and 28 per cent of men will experience sexual violence in their lifetime. Women are more likely to suffer...

22.07.2023 7

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Ryan Tubridy may come to regret hitching his wagon to Noel Kelly’s

The relationship between Noel Kelly and RTÉ – which seems to have been stuttering along for years in a state of toxic codependency – imploded at...

15.07.2023 20

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Jennifer O’Connell: RTÉ's influencers are at the murky nexus of commercial and public interests

There is a maxim in crisis communications that it’s what you do in the first 60 minutes which determines your chance of survival. The rule of the...

08.07.2023 7

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Jennifer O’Connell: Crazy hotel prices are not just the result of Taylor Swift economics

Taylor Swift gets blamed for a lot of things, but it hardly seems fair to pin the runaway greed of Dublin hoteliers on her. During Leaders’...

01.07.2023 8

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Jennifer O’Connell: Submersible gripped world’s attention but sunken migrant boat made us look away

Why is it that we can barely look away from some maritime tragedies, while we can hardly bear to look at others? Two stories of lives lost at sea 10...

23.06.2023 5

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Jennifer O’Connell: Denaming gives false impression our worst excesses are past

The owners of the Westin Hotel in Dublin have decided not to proceed with renaming the hotel following “feedback”. The feedback seems to have...

11.06.2023 30

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Jennifer O’Connell: Irish public transport is a lesson in how to make easy things hard

We’d like to welcome you on board the 5.35pm train from Dublin to Waterford. Please do not occupy pre-booked seats. No, we’re not going to tell...

13.05.2023 20

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A single, flawed study denied a generation of women access to HRT. They deserve answers

These days, women in their 40s and 50s swap notes on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as casually as Netflix recommendations. One night over drinks...

07.05.2023 40

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With every choreographed moment, Sinn Féin look more like a party of the centre

One of the most significant publishing phenomena of the past decade is built around a gallingly simplistic notion. What you put out into the universe...

29.04.2023 10

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The less respect the Burkes show the court, the more it shows them

When I first wrote about the Burkes of Castlebar a year ago – then an only moderately notorious family of high-achieving, homeschooled, evangelical...

16.04.2023 10

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Jennifer O’Connell: JK Rowling’s ‘witch trials’ are of her own making

When we are most certain is the point at which we should most question ourselves, remarks JK Rowling sensibly in a new podcast series, The Witch...

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