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Jenny McCartney

If Lyra McKee’s death is not to be in vain, Ireland must confront its past

Jenny McCartney 4 May 2019 9:00 am

Children are growing up with ‘heroic’ stories of the Troubles

The war on meat has begun – and vegans are winning comfortably

Jenny McCartney 26 January 2019 9:00 am

The battle over meat is just beginning

Tech gurus don’t let their kids have smartphones. Here’s why

Jenny McCartney 22 September 2018 9:00 am

More of us are addicted to our smartphones. But the fightback is beginning

Why Britain is lucky to have Meghan Markle

Jenny McCartney 28 April 2018 9:00 am

Thank God she’s not a spoilt Chelsea Sloane

Me! Me! #MeToo! How Hollywood hijacked feminism

Jenny McCartney 3 March 2018 9:00 am

Hollywood’s embrace of the #MeToo movement isn’t altogether convincing

The new feminist war: young women vs old women

Jenny McCartney 27 January 2018 9:00 am

The #MeToo movement is pitting young women against old

Civilised air travel? Pigs might fly

Jenny McCartney 5 August 2017 9:00 am

Does anyone actually enjoy flying     any more? I know I don’t. I realised recently, while anxiously repacking my tiny carry-on…

It's time for the DUP to rise above sectarianism

Jenny McCartney 8 July 2017 9:00 am

The newly influential DUP must disown sectarianism

Coffee break: why I’ve finally given up on the devil’s brew

Jenny McCartney 24 June 2017 9:00 am

I’ve finally quit the devil’s brew

Arlene Foster celebrates the results (image: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty)

May’s Irish bailout

Jenny McCartney 10 June 2017 9:00 am

If the election result has severely weakened Theresa May, it has correspondingly strengthened another female politician – Arlene Foster, the…

The jihadists of Isis are waging war on joy

Jenny McCartney 27 May 2017 9:00 am

The Islamist obsession with controlling girls

This election will be decisive for Northern Ireland’s balance of power

Jenny McCartney 22 April 2017 9:00 am

June’s vote will be decisive for Northern Ireland’s balance of power

Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness (Getty)

What Martin McGuinness’s eulogisers would like to forget

Jenny McCartney 25 March 2017 9:00 am

Martin McGuinness showed no remorse for the pain he caused

Star power

Jenny McCartney 4 March 2017 9:00 am

Donald Trump and the end of the age of celebrity

Can sweet seven-year-old Bana Alabed emerge alive from Aleppo’s rubble?

Jenny McCartney 3 December 2016 9:00 am

Every morning, after the children go to school, I turn on my computer to check that Bana Alabed is alive…

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and the trouble with ‘parenting’

Jenny McCartney 8 October 2016 9:00 am

Arguments about the ideology of childrearing are a recipe for anxiety, for both parents and children

Online feedback frenzy is killing the art of complaint

Jenny McCartney 26 March 2016 9:00 am

Internet surveys have killed the art of complaint

The smelly, snobbish death of the English public toilet

Jenny McCartney 12 March 2016 9:00 am

I blame Nancy Mitford: she made the English so frightened of saying ‘toilet’ that now they have hardly any left…

What stops women from having it all

Jenny McCartney 30 January 2016 9:00 am

Don’t even ask, says Anne-Marie Slaughter, law professor and former adviser to Hillary Clinton. Motherhood still means sacrifice

Domhnall Gleeson as Jim Farrell and Saoirse Ronan as Eilis in ‘Brooklyn’

Colm Toibin on priests, loss and the half-said thing

Jenny McCartney 24 October 2015 9:00 am

Jenny McCartney talks to unstoppable literary force Colm Tóibín about loss, priests and half-said things

The new sexual revolution

Jenny McCartney 17 October 2015 9:00 am

Young people today refuse to be simply gay, straight or bi

‘Early Morning at the Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India’, 1989, by Don McCullin

Don McCullin interview: ‘I take more than I bring. That’s not a role I’m proud of’

Jenny McCartney 26 September 2015 8:00 am

Jenny McCartney talks to the celebrated photojournalist about war, guilt and Aylan

The troubled ex-informers neglected by MI5

Jenny McCartney 15 August 2015 9:00 am

Is MI5 neglecting its duty towards ex-informers?

The DUP’s Nigel Dodds may soon be propping up the Tories. What does he want?

Jenny McCartney 25 April 2015 9:00 am

In a Tory-leaning hung parliament, the DUP’s Nigel Dodds may command the balance of power. So what does he want?

Belle Gibson and the pernicious cult of ‘wellness’

Jenny McCartney 28 March 2015 9:00 am

Our desperation to believe in power of lifestyle change makes us vulnerable to charlatans

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