Your friends with school-age kids are in the trenches with nit lotion and the little comb – The Irish Times
Watching the coverage of the Oscars red carpet last Sunday night, I was struck over and over by…
I’m haunted by the time I gave tourists the wrong directions to Riverdance – The Irish Times
When I think back on the 20 years I’ve called Dublin city my home, I’m smothered in delicious,…
Hot young celebrities are smoking and I’ve got mortifying middle-aged envy – The Irish Times
I smoked my last ever cigarette on March 16th, 2017. I’m coming up on nine years as a…
Mothers of boys are worrying the most about raising ‘good men’ – The Irish Times
I’m so glad I never had children. I’d be a terrible mother. I’m old enough now to know…
I’m sorry Greta Thunberg, I have become a ‘kitchen roll’ house and it feels luxurious – The Irish Times
If there’s one thing Greta Thunberg will pry from my cold dead hands, it’s my kitchen roll. Nothing…
I got to see Catherine O’Hara as Moira Rose in the flesh – before it was too late – The Irish Times
A dear friend texted me just minutes after I heard the news. “Oh, Emer, I’m so sorry about…
Living alone in Ireland is a joy, 85% of the time – The Irish Times
That moment where you almost fall in the shower, where your foot lands on a stray sliver of…
Books from Louise Kennedy, Donal Ryan, Sebastian Barry and more – The Irish Times
The new novel by Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell will be her most Irish yet. Land (Tinder Press, June)…
A very grand room and a piece of furniture I’m now bereft to have to live without – The Irish Times
I’ve never encountered a chaise longue that I felt compelled to wilt down onto. In old paintings, women…
I’m surprised we haven’t made more out of Diane Keaton’s Irish roots – The Irish Times
It’s highly likely that the last time I truly felt drawn to parenthood was the first time I…
A clinical psychologist suggested that an ADHD assessment would be prudent – The Irish Times
I wrote my master’s thesis in a week after putting it off – and dodging my supervisor –…
‘It’s jarring to see the clothes I wore in my early twenties referred to as ‘vintage’’ – The Irish Times
Tell us about your new novel, Our Deadly Summer, due out next May? Sarah: It’s a huge departure…