A certified connoisseur of crying takes us through the best and worst of cathartic weeps

Most people, contrary to popular belief, don’t want their friends to ‘solve’ them. They just want to have their lives acknowledged.

I’m going to a party this weekend. My first proper one since Covid began.  My friend Tom is planning a small garden party at his family home. I say ‘his’ garden party; it’s his parents party, really.

I can’t tell you how much I treasure the 'woman holiday'

Caroline O'Donoghue shares her thoughts on the stresses of taking responsibility for other people's property. 

I'd resisted getting a tattoo when everybody else thought I should... but now was my time.

Caroline O'Donoghue puts her advertising industry experience to use and compiles a list Christmas ad pitches for all the supermarket marketing in Ireland

I’m a millennial. Ten years ago, millennial was simply a byword for ‘young’. Now, however, Gen Z are the young and the millennials are merely not-old.  We are not their parents, who are Gen X, nor their grandparents, the dreaded boomers.

Reviews are a thorny beast. Picture your last performance review at work. Now imagine that your performance review isn’t being carried out by your line manager, but a total stranger.

Recently, I read Mr Burns, an Anna Washburn play about a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors are attempting to re-start the entertainment industry by performing half- remembered episodes of The Simpsons to paying audiences.