Marty Whelan: ‘I’d like to be paid more, particularly when I see what other people are on’ – The Irish Times
“You’ve caught me reading the Daily Mail!” says Marty Whelan as I come into the radio studio. He…
I’ve remained lifelong friends with my Complete Aisling co-author. Here’s our secret – The Irish Times
Watching Hollywood A-listers promote their films, performing for the viral clips, eating the medically unwise hot chicken wings…
Imagine explaining to a Victorian child what we’re doing to our eyelids in 2026 in the name of beauty
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I’m riddled with ADHD apparently, and medication has changed my life – The Irish Times
How do you know if someone has ADHD? They’ll tell you … in three weeks’ time when they…
If I’d met Matt Damon with his SuperValu bag, I’d have jumped into the sea – The Irish Times
If you ever see me in a hastily taken selfie with a celebrity I have no business being…
My greatest fear has come true — my home of seven years is to be sold – The Irish Times
It is with great joy and relief that I announce that my clematis has come back to life.…
I live to scroll. It’s for ‘work’, I convince myself – The Irish Times
One Sunday afternoon last month, I impulsively purchased a new €900 iPhone and put it on my credit…
The TV in our Airbnb was the size of a ping-pong table hung on a wall – The Irish Times
A friend used to live across the road from a family with a preposterous television. It was a…
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…