Women's Health

Many women delay or avoid GP visits due to embarrassment about discussing symptoms such as changes in vaginal discharge

I’ve gone through my life believing my value is directly tied to what I can do for others and what they think of me

Sandra Kavanagh’s narrator Margo is tormented while out shopping in Belfast

Paltrow never rises to the level of monstrous during this jog through the actor and wellness guru’s life

Workplace issues ‘one of the biggest challenges’ for those undergoing IVF

Paul Muldoon and Kamala Sankaram’s new opera Custom of the Coast gives voice to Halappanavar and Bonny in powerful narratives that run alongside each other, until they collide unexpected ways

Up until his sentence hearing last week when he was taken into custody, the man had been employed by a local authority, the court heard

Three sisters were sexually abused by brothers in Rathfarnham home

Level of care in Ireland for ‘crippling’ condition that affects one in ten women ‘is not what it should be’

Endometriosis is as common as diabetes and asthma, yet in Ireland it takes eight to 10 years to get diagnosed on average. It took me 28 years

The disease affects roughly 10 per cent of women and girls of reproductive age globally, according to the World Health Organisation

The first step is to seek help in identifying the pelvic pain and managing a plan to treat it, experts say

Thirty years after the release of Jagged Little Pill in the 1990s, the singer-songwriter will play Dublin’s Malahide Castle this weekend

Women’s health in work: When you are working and raising young children, you have little time to think about your own health or your physical and mental needs

Challenges associated with late-onset menopause can affect intimacy, communication and relationship dynamics

People who drank seven small cups a day aged better than those who consumed minimal caffeine

A chillling account of psychiatrist William Sargent’s treatment of women patients in the 1960s

The HSE apologised to Macken, who has incurable cancer, over ‘failings’ of two cervical smear tests

Leona Macken (38), who has stage 4 cancer, sued the HSE over ‘failings’ of two cervical smear tests

Endometriosis is a chronic disease which affects about 10% of women and girls of reproductive age

Dr Hazel Wallace talks to The Women’s Podcast about periods, menstrual health and why women are turning away from the pill

We mourn the loss of the ‘village’ in modern times, but I think the village begins elsewhere these days

Oh, how I wish I had listened when people were talking about the importance of doing Kegels

An empathic attempt to understand the women who sought abortions, and those who assisted them

New campaign Year of Care aims to highlight the particular needs that arise in the first year of motherhood

After five ‘gruelling’ rounds of IVF, the Safe Harbor actor is enjoying being an expectant mother

More and more women are turning away from the pill, as worries grow around side-effects, stoked by misinformation on social media

Now it’s wearing activewear, and speaks with the mean but well meaning tone of a big sister sitting us down for a serious chat

From going it alone to fostering, and exhaustive rounds of IVF, women share their unusual journeys in motherhood

A taxing cycle of hope and dejection is a routine part of life for so many, playing out quietly in homes and workplaces across the country

The author on new novel City Girls Forever, a key difference between men and women and dealing with a cancer diagnosis

What the Science Says, part 10: The average age of menarche and breast development is becoming progressively lower – and genetics and the environment are only part of the story

Sonas Housing turned away 376 women and 750 children last year due to a lack of space

Women who choose not to have children still find themselves existing in a society that undermines them - but the tide is turning

You don’t need to be a feminist to take issue with the stranglehold of the wellness industry

Galway woman Elizabeth O’Reilly calls for explanation for pre-natal death of daughter Bláithín

Fear is determined by storytelling more than by data, and women have been taught to fear being outside for centuries

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

Planning application involves change of use of office development at Warrington Place in Dublin 2

Despite knowing that what I was feeling was not normal, I had somehow never quite expected others to accept this as a big problem