A group of scholars from Dublin’s major universities will gather in full academic garb outside the Iranian embassy today to appeal to the Iranian government for the release of an Irish citizen from a Tehran jail.

On International Women’s Day, Joyce Fegan a bride-to-be, has had it with a world where women relish sneering at other women because of their appearance.

Annoyed with the pressure to look good 24/7, two female friends went ‘au naturel’ for 60 days, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler

ON the This Morning show last week, Galway woman Emer O’Toole went public about her decision not to shave her body.