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.

And don't forget about deathbait and anxietybait — this stuff is happening because the system is broken. We’ve never had so much ‘content’, we’ve never paid less for it and we’ve never been more discontented

After a match like that, janey, you’d go to an extra Confession to see what the priest thought about Hungary’s time-wasting

How dare things happen so quickly!  Ten years since the marriage equality referendum, 20 years since Brokeback Mountain, 25 since the Nokia 3310. 30 years since Naff-Naff jackets, 40 years since Cork 800

For years, a winning smile has been a sign of health, wealth, success, and discipline. Crooked, discoloured teeth seem associated with bad living and untrustworthiness on TV