Our Columnists
Those fascinating, maddening Berlin Irish
- March 10, 2016
Family Fortunes: The day Gerry Ryan made my scissors famous
- March 10, 2016
When my Auntie Mary gave me scissors, it was the start of a beautiful relationship
Coping: Awake all night, thinking about death
- March 9, 2016
Tell Me About It: I think my daughter’s boyfriend is gay
- March 9, 2016
I cannot afford to lose my daughter by making her feel I am interfering
Street harassment: Feeling intimidated familiar for women
- March 8, 2016
Men need to call out unacceptable behaviour by their friends, writes Una Mullally
Get Connected: Join a professional women’s network
- March 8, 2016
Meet role models, career-enhancing contacts and get confidence-boosting support
The Women’s Podcast: ‘Who is your favourite feminist and why’?
- March 8, 2016
On International Women’s Day, we want to know about your favourite feminists, male or female
Muggings and rape threats will not stop me travelling
- March 7, 2016
Caitríona Palmer: ‘I am my mother’s secret child’
- March 5, 2016
Missing Mammy: Emigrants on their long-distance relationships
- March 5, 2016
Irish people living abroad pay a special Mother’s Day tribute to their mammies
Our Wedding Story: Met at 14, married 14 years later
- March 5, 2016
From teenage romance to a wedding that – almost – went off without a hitch
How to make a revolutionary quilt
- March 4, 2016
Family Fortunes: A Limerick mother of 13 who ended up with none
- March 3, 2016
There was no Mother’s Day in Mary Burke’s era, but she surely deserved a bunch of flowers
A cure has been found for Irish-language phobia
- March 3, 2016
Tell Me About It: I’m worried my parents might have a drink problem
- March 2, 2016
They have what they call ‘cocktail hour’ at 5pm and then it just keeps going
'Who is the most influential woman in your world?'
- March 1, 2016
It’s question time on The Women’s Podcast and we are looking ahead to International Women’s Day
Life and death: the Rotunda and the Rising
- February 29, 2016
Broadside: Dressing down for the big awards is no rebellion
- February 29, 2016
Dr Rhona Mahony: Our maternity hospitals are falling down
- February 28, 2016
Leap year proposals: ladies pop the question
- February 27, 2016
February 29th is the day women can ask men to marry them, but can leap year love last?
Miriam O’Callaghan: Now votes are cast I can stop being tough and mean
- February 27, 2016
RTÉ broadcaster talks leaders debates, creaky floors and voting for women
Our Wedding Story: Love of musicals brings couple together
- February 27, 2016
Our Wedding Story: An engagement in London and a wedding in Bansha
- February 27, 2016
Our Wedding Story: Wedding bells ring out at Christ Church crypt
- February 27, 2016
Family Fortunes: The clock my grandfather wound
- February 25, 2016
‘The mastectomy was scary but not that bad in the end’
- February 25, 2016
Pride not prejudice: in defence of ‘women’s nonsense’
- February 24, 2016
Coping: Enjoyment of Plato and lipstick are not mutually exclusive
House of tarot cards: who will win the election?
- February 23, 2016
Question Time on The Women’s Podcast: What should a woman pack in her maternity hospital bag?
- February 23, 2016
Fashion week finds: 10 trends seen on the street
- February 23, 2016
Here are the brands, silhouettes and must-have items that will rule this season
Open letters to the next Dail from The Women’s Podcast
- February 22, 2016
The ’Dear New Dail’ letters cover health, education, abortion and more
Gender fluidity: ‘I am just me. Why do I have to have a label?’
- February 22, 2016
Kitty Holland: Childcare closures lay Ireland’s insidious sexism bare
- February 22, 2016
Broadside: As five centres closed in Clare, the official response was a shrug of the shoulders
The life of an Irish hotel worker
- February 20, 2016
Redrawing Roscommon
- February 20, 2016
Canvassing for change in Dublin Bay North
- February 20, 2016
Breda O’Brien: Pope John Paul II had many friends, including women, which proves nothing
- February 21, 2016
Our wedding story: a Canadian wedding in an Irish castle
- February 20, 2016
Our Wedding Story: international set floods into Kinsale
- February 20, 2016
Our wedding story: It started with a kiss... won in a pool game
- February 20, 2016
Are miracles happening on the streets of Coleraine?
- February 19, 2016
‘What are the tingles in my head?’ The strange subculture of ASMR
- February 18, 2016
Family Fortunes: My mortifying Flora Buttery tub lunchbox
- February 17, 2016
Coping: It’s too bad you are bitter about my comment on Twitter
- February 17, 2016
Hurt feelings are a poor reason for denying the right to free speech
Question time on The Women’s Podcast: Who’s catching your eye up the poles?
- February 16, 2016
We want to know what posters you are admiring and which ones are just annoying you
Marian Keyes: ‘I don’t want to be remembered after I die’
- February 15, 2016
Anthea McTeirnan: Sometimes it’s not that hard to be a woman
- February 15, 2016
Mary O’Rourke: Female FF candidates are subjected to sexism and ‘semi-bullying’ by male colleagues
- February 15, 2016
This week on The Women’s Podcast: election issues, pregnancy tales and domestic violence
Bad romance: we know it will end badly but it does not stop us
- February 13, 2016
You’ve met a kind, loving person but you don’t want them, you want the broody narcissist: why?
Making money from the business of love
- February 13, 2016
For a growing number of Irish entrepreneurs, the smart money is on the love industry
Our Wedding Story: A Game of Thrones themed table plan
- February 13, 2016
Our Wedding Story: From Paddywagon Tours to Venice
- February 13, 2016
Rachel Farndon and Tiernan Ennis found love in an unusual place
Our Wedding Story: Acting on impulse brings actors together
- February 13, 2016
Fairytale wedding in an Irish castle for Los Angeles-based couple
The stories of the kisses that changed lives
- February 12, 2016
Kevin Cardiff: The Brian Lenihan I knew was unselfish
- February 12, 2016
‘It’s a deep, soulful, beautiful thing’: readers’ friendship stories
- February 12, 2016
Coping: Epicurus was right about friendship
- February 10, 2016
'Friendship in Ireland was a whole new world ... it has a different meaning here'
- February 10, 2016
Nigerian woman Zeenie Summers writes about making friends in a new home for The Women’s Podcast
‘If it wasn’t for my friend’s support, my son and I would be on the streets’
- February 9, 2016
This entry to the Friendship Week reader competition is the story of a friend in need
Question Time on The Women’s Podcast: ‘What issues will you be raising with politicians?’
- February 9, 2016
'My friend powered her way across the Channel, through jellyfish and the dark'
- February 8, 2016
The first of the entries to our Friendship Week competition is a watery tale of endurance
The importance of keeping your friends close
- February 8, 2016
Ruth Fitzmaurice: Five kids, a dad who only moves his eyes and a mass of medical equipment
- February 8, 2016
Online dating: too much of a good thing?
- February 5, 2016
Family Fortunes: One flew over the convent wall
- February 4, 2016
Dating dangers: control and coercion in the online age
- February 4, 2016
Board games come out of the closet
- February 3, 2016
Coping: Yorkshire pudding as a metaphor for disgruntlement
- February 3, 2016
Are all those philosophers right that romantic love is doomed?
Question Time on The Women’s Podcast: 'What’s the best (or worst) thing your friend ever did?'
- February 2, 2016
We want know about those golden moments and the ones where it all went a bit toxic
Friendship Week: We need your stories
- February 1, 2016
Tommy Steele: ‘Show business has been one big cuddle’
- February 1, 2016
Sharon Horgan: The divorce industry feeds off people at the worst time of their lives
- February 1, 2016
Tanya Sweeney: Boys love music, girls love musicians? Change the record
- February 1, 2016
Broadside: The music industry still borders on the misogynistic
Our Wedding Story: Brought together by the MoBap Spartans
- January 30, 2016
For Amy and Karl, sports scholarships in Missouri succeeded where Finglas hadn’t
Dynamo’s promise: ‘I guarantee you – seeing is believing’
- January 30, 2016
Britain’s lord of illusions is bringing his live magical mystery roadshow to Ireland
Our Wedding Story: Married in a church overlooking the lake
- January 30, 2016
“The whole nation needs to grow up a little bit”
- January 30, 2016
Midwife tells podcast ‘whole nation needs to grow up a little bit on issue of abortion’
Snapchat: the rise of the disappearing social network
- January 29, 2016
Its profile is set to soar in 2016, but what is the photo and video-sharing app all about?
Ten Irish people to follow on snapchat
- January 29, 2016
The global march of social networking appears unstoppable, here's who to follow on snapchat
Kat and Alfie: ‘We didn’t speak for five years’
- January 29, 2016
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