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Caroline O’Donoghue

How a trip to Cork at a difficult time inspired Caroline O'Donoghue's latest novel

Caroline O'Donoghue: Quitting - cutting loose from something that is weighing you down - is its own kind of victory

The lightness in your step will be reward enough

Sat, 03 Jul, 2021

Caroline O'Donoghue: How to get back that teenage feeling when you feel old

Caroline O'Donoghue: How to get back that teenage feeling when you feel old

— good God, haven’t so many unreasonable requests been made of us, in the last two years?

Sun, 27 Jun, 2021

Caroline O'Donoghue: Four tips for moving into your new home

Caroline O'Donoghue: It boggles my mind now, to think about the stuff that was advertised to us but that we didn’t have

We were in a state of always watching the British, but of never being watched back

Sat, 19 Jun, 2021

How a trip to Cork at a difficult time inspired Caroline O'Donoghue's latest novel

Caroline O'Donoghue: Were we all mentally unwell, or was our job making us sick?

Is it your childhood trauma, I think, or is your boss just a dickhead?

Sun, 13 Jun, 2021

Caroline O'Donoghue: Four tips for moving into your new home

Caroline O'Donoghue: 'I still watch Riverdance’s interval act performance from 1994 about, oooh, ten times a year'

"If you love a good crying jag, as my sister and I do, there’s really nothing better than Riverdance. It’s the Veuve Clicquot of crying."

Sun, 30 May, 2021

Caroline O'Donoghue: Four tips for moving into your new home

Caroline O'Donoghue: 'There is no way to leave a WhatsApp group without upsetting everyone in it'

"Calling someone ‘obsessed’ with social media when it is one of few outlets that helps them remain visible feels a little cruel."

Sun, 16 May, 2021

Caroline O'Donoghue: 7 things about long relationships

Caroline O'Donoghue: Who am I, with my tote bag, to even think I can change anything

— I met a group of boys in their early 20s who dedicated their every working day to replanting the coral reef. They did not dither, or blither, or make excuses.

Sun, 09 May, 2021

Columnist - Caroline O'Donoghue in London.

Caroline O'Donoghue: A year indoors, sticking to close friends and family, makes you weird

We’ve all been trying to build up these concrete social personalities for ourselves since our teens, and now it’s all shot to shit

Sun, 25 Apr, 2021

Caroline O'Donoghue: Tennis —the speed of it, the physics, the fact that you could get hit in the face at any moment

Caroline O'Donoghue: Tennis —the speed of it, the physics, the fact that you could get hit in the face at any moment

— and if you are bad at tennis everyone can see straight away

Sun, 18 Apr, 2021

Caroline O'Donoghue: My month-by-month recap of Covid-19 and lockdown

Caroline O'Donoghue: My month-by-month recap of Covid-19 and lockdown

'He says, “Remember last summer when we went to Dublin!” We pause and realise that he means 2019. His memory has skipped out a whole year'

Sun, 28 Mar, 2021