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Jennifer Horgan

Jennifer Horgan is a teacher, poet and columnist living in Cork City. Her areas of interest include justice, arts and culture, gender equality and care.

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Jennifer Horgan: Even The Bible tells us that 'respect your elders' is flawed life advice

The views of older men on working from home are not worth listening to if you're a mother who has made the juggle work

Fri, 28 Nov, 2025

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S Jennifer Horgan: Is it possible to maintain our friendships when we have children?

A dream highlights an unresolved feeling of jealousy, prompting Jennifer Horgan to think about how relationships change when we become parents

Fri, 21 Nov, 2025

Jennifer Horgan: Femtech has finally discovered the bleedin' obvious

The neglect of women’s health, the health of every second person, is baked into medical science, writes Jennifer Horgan

Fri, 14 Nov, 2025

Jennifer Horgan: From infidelity to conflicts of interests, our infinite choice culture has us all in a heap

I know I’m not the only one who exhausts themselves scrolling through films and series, feeling so depleted that I end up watching 'Schitt’s Creek' again

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

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Jennifer Horgan: Have we lost the ability to simply say nothing?

I was once told that you should only break silence if you can improve on it — in today's noisy world, it's difficult to live by that credo

Fri, 31 Oct, 2025

S Jennifer Horgan: Irish is a storied language and means different things to all of us

Tá Gaeilge agam, you may say, to which I ask: cén saghas Gaeilge?

Fri, 24 Oct, 2025

S Jennifer Horgan: Thank you, Diane Keaton, for teaching me one of life's important messages

'Something's Gotta Give' is one of my favourite movies — a film that is joyously, unapologetically hopeful

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

S Jennifer Horgan: We should be looking closer to home for heroes like the late Don O'Leary

Everyday heroes are all around us — look at Cork's longest serving librarian James Wilkinson, or the late Don O'Leary, who changed so many children's lives

Fri, 10 Oct, 2025

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Jennifer Horgan: When we stop reading, we limit our understanding of others

Reading, entering another person's world, can help to counter the one-dimensional view of the world we are fed by algorithms

Fri, 03 Oct, 2025

S Jennifer Horgan: 'The Traitors' should teach us to lean in to the women we trust

For a while there it seemed the Mean Girls narrative so prevalent in our lives had taken hold — but the mná overcame it

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025