Jennifer O'Connell
Senior Features Writer and Opinion Editor at Irish Times
Conference Speaker and Broadcaster at Freelance
Opinion Editor @IrishTimes @IrishTimesOped.
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2 days ago |
lucianne.com | Jennifer O'Connell
Original ArticlePosted By: ladydawgfan, 5/12/2025 7:35:51 PMRemember Episcopal Bishop Marian Edgar Budde? On January 21, as presiding bishop for the National Cathedral's "Service of Prayer for the Nation," Budde decided to use a supposedly ecumenical and unifying prayer event to browbeat President Donald Trump and make her case for illegal immigrants and the LGBTQ-all-the-letters tribe.
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1 week ago |
lucianne.com | Jennifer O'Connell
Original ArticlePosted By: ladydawgfan, 5/3/2025 10:46:35 AMRowan & Martin's "Laugh-In" was regular viewing in my home, and I grew up watching the ebullient personality and quick wit of comedienne Ruth Buzzi. One of her main characters on the show was Gladys Ormphby, the spinster who used her handbag with effective accuracy. [Video] (Snip) On Friday, Buzzi's death was announced. After her long battle with Alzheimer's, the complications from the disease finally took their toll.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Jennifer O'Connell
It may seem like a truism to suggest humanity is getting stupider. We achieved the incredible goal of making smoking almost extinct in the developed world, only to replace it with vaping. We pay €400 for tickets to a gig that were originally advertised at €86.50 and justify it to ourselves on the basis that the hours spent in the ticket seller’s “waiting room” would otherwise be wasted.
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3 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Jennifer O'Connell
Of the tens of thousands of words in the six-volume Farrelly commission report, it would be easy to miss the short paragraph buried away in volume 4, under the heading: Grace’s attachment to her plastic keys and the question of punishment or discipline.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Jennifer O'Connell
Some people still see it as “career suicide” for men to take paternity leave, an employers’ conference heard this week. It is a mistake to assume that “straight white men” all enjoy the same privileges in the workplace and are getting to do “everything they want to”, Ibec’s head of skills and social policy Kara McGann said.
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