Muireann O'Connell: I was told posting about my period on Instagram was 'inappropriate'

Nicole Glennon chats to well-known Irish women about ditching the shame attached to our periods 

Muireann O'Connell: I genuinely don’t know how [period] became a dirty word. 

I was 13 when I got my first period. We were at a basketball blitz that day, and I thought that I was farting all day. I didn’t know what was going on!

When I got home my mum said ‘Oh, God, it must be your period!’ She asked did I know what I was doing and I said I did and went upstairs to the bathroom.