I used to be sweating like Bertie Ahern at a CMAT concert.

With great power comes great responsibility says Esther McCarthy

It’s hard to break the booze habit in Ireland

Despite all the craving, 83% of women say actually getting hold of alone time is difficult for them

Everything seems to be blooming where you least expect it.

I have acclimatised to our new weather and have accepted the beach as my new home 

I’m sure you’ll all have your words you’d like banished, a lot of people seem to have a problem with ‘moist’ but let me tell you, since Vagifem has become part of my bedtime routine, moist is alright by me

We spent most of our free-range summers playing hopscotch with an old shoe polish tin, dodging dog turds, and peeling old chewing gum off the tarmac

When we were growing up, there was no such thing as a foreign holiday

Esther McCarthy shares some old-school stoicism from her late dad, Paddy Mac