Diane O'Connor

Skip to content Image / Agenda / Business By Diane O'Connor 13th Nov 2022 Diane O'Connor is a stand-up and improv comedian from Dublin. Just after performing her new one-woman show, The Accidental Activist, this week, here she shares more about her day-to-day. Did you always want to be a comedian? No, I don’t think I always knew it was a thing. From when I was a child I always wanted to perform and loved making people laugh.

Poll: Do you think Donald Trump will run and can he win in 2024? IN TUESDAY’S MIDTERM election in the US, a ‘red wave’ of Republican victories didn’t materialise. The party way well yet have a slight majority in the House of Representatives but Democrats can be pleased overall with how they defended their seats across Congress. US President Joe Biden said as much yesterday.

Poll: When was your last pay rise? A NEW CENTRAL Bank study shows that wages are going up at more than three times their pre-pandemic rate across euro area countries. Wages in Ireland have increased by an average of 4.7% in the year to October, behind the UK’s 6.2% increase and an average of 5.2% across six European countries. However these wage increases are lower than the current rate of inflation, which was 9.5% in the same period. We want to know: When was the last time you had a pay rise?