Lynn Enright

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Lynn Enright: ‘It’s no wonder young women are vaccine hesitant’

We shouldn’t rush to ridicule or admonish vaccine hesitant young women. Their fears and concerns need to be…

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‘Puberty is a gift from God’: Ireland’s new Catholic sex education is not good enough

When it comes to sex education, children and teenagers don’t need prayers; they need to be able to…

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We cannot be strong and sturdy without the wild magic of hope.
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Why the hesitance to celebrate and plan, now restrictions have eased?

The British are having their hair done; the Americans are eating at restaurants; that will be us in…

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Soon enough, we will all be united in hate-watching Wild Mountain Thyme

After a year of hardship, pain and frustration, what could bring us together in joy? Wild Mountain Thyme's…

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Our current email culture creates a circle of panic that has to stop

One of the allegations levelled against Meghan Markle by former palace staff in an ongoing “bullying” row is…

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Miscarriage happens much more frequently than many of us realise or feel comfortable acknowledging
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Lynn Enright: When will Ireland introduce paid miscarriage leave?

People experiencing miscarriage should not find themselves relying on sick leave or the goodwill of employers, but will…

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‘Is this the worst bit?’ I find myself asking that question every two or three weeks

The question might be prompted by some news event – the highest daily rise in Covid cases for…

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Women’s Aid estimates that one in four women in Ireland who have been in a relationship have been abused by a current or former partner
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We are finally having a conversation about gender-based violence. But what happens next must be radical

As people wake up to the reality of women's fear, Lynn Enright writes how we urgently need to…

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‘With fertility there are no guarantees, at times that was an unbearably painful lesson’

Lynn Enright expected to come back from her honeymoon pregnant. She didn't. Three and a half years later…

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Lynn Enright: ‘With spring’s arrival, I’m finally ready to go back to real clothes’

Lynn Enright senses new beginnings, and a sign that she should start perusing bikinis online.All it took was…

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True friendship – where you can interrupt each other raucously without worrying about whether or not the room is ventilated; where you can eat off each other’s plates – exists in the past and in the future
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Lynn Enright: ‘I can’t shake the sense that the loneliness I feel is somehow my fault’

Having moved back to Ireland, Lynn Enright worries that her friendships will only ever be over ZoomI have…

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We are, we are constantly told, living in “unprecedented times” but there is something very familiar about the way some aspects of this crisis have played out.
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The Cabinet Sub-Committee on Covid-19 currently has no women sitting on it. Why?

When it emerged this week that the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Covid-19 has no women sitting on it, many…

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