The people who put A Thing On In January, who light a candle rather than curse the darkness are to be lauded. In fact, they should be accorded the highest informal honour possible in Ireland — 'Fair F*cks to Them'

Do you remember Stories for Eight Year Olds — and its companions, stories for under-fives, five-year-olds, six, going all the way up to the over-10s

I know about as much about house music as a dog knows about a modem, but I know what I like

The good podcasts are great. The shit ones you can just avoid. The algorithm hasn’t found a way of going into your ear yet...

I did an event a few years ago where one panel discussion was 100% in beautiful native spoken Irish. But 90% of the room hadn’t a clue what was going on. And felt bad about it and left out. Wouldn’t it be great if those 300 people all learned one new word each?

Modern psychology theory says now that willpower is more like a muscle, it can get tired, cramped. You can tear it when reaching for a biscuit. And when willpower is injured or depleted, we reach for comfort... and another biscuit

In a bid to be taken more serif-ously US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to ditch the Calibri typeface and use Times New Roman

A small word links a book about Ballyhoura, broth bits in Croom, and a scribble on the inside cover of a 70-year-old dictionary — and I couldn't be more pleased to find this connection

I don’t think I can get across to my family how important this moment is... I need to take a photo of the car’s odometer at 299,999, and again further down the road at 300,000

There is no point in sneering at motorists for their choice. But equally there is no benefit in motorists treating cyclists badly.