Young people in Ireland should be fed-up and yet, they never really complain, or thrash about, or even protest, writes Jennifer Horgan

As All Souls’ Day approaches, Jennifer Horgan thinks about death. Talking about it, writing about it, sharing our fears of a bad death, our hopes of a good one — none of which is morbid.

Is our failure to care for gay people, and for all people suffering from HIV, linked to misogyny, as 'AIDS priest' Bernard Lynch suggests?

I love teaching, but I don't love being a teacher. It's not all about the holidays, writes Jennifer Horgan

Some people, the tiniest minority, live in the grandeur of our most spectacular hotel lobbies every single second of their lives. Meanwhile, we’re all queuing like idiots for toilets that haven’t been cleaned in hours and pouring taxes into a system that doesn’t seem to function

I am desperate, truly desperate, to hear men raging about violence against women, the same way they raged against the Irish team for not doing enough last weekend

Little Johnny in Christians or in Blackrock College does not need a voucher to go to the cinema for a few weeks on the trot, but little Johnny attending a Deis school might need a great deal more than that

A united Ireland is something to be decided upon, first and foremost, by people living in Northern Ireland. Everyone else needs to shut the hell up about it, writes Jennifer Horgan

Oprah comes to Ireland next week, smack bang in the middle of Self-Care September, with all her talk of boundaries and going no-contact. It's not for me, writes Jennifer Horgan

Women are considered the more empathetic sex but the research doesn't really bear that out, writes Jennifer Horgan