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Dear Louise: My husband has no interest in becoming intimate with me

Louise O'Neill: He's a handful... but Cooper is the most beautiful animal in the world

We might have rescued him but the truth is, I think he rescued me as well — and adopt, don't shop if you're getting a pet too

Sat, 23 Oct, 2021

Louise O'Neill: Jesy Nelson, 'blackfishing' accusations, apologies, and cancel culture

Louise O'Neill: Jesy Nelson, 'blackfishing' accusations, apologies, and cancel culture

— One of the first rules we were taught on the playground is that when we make mistakes, we have to quickly apologise to the people we’ve hurt. A proper apology. A sincere one.

Sun, 17 Oct, 2021

Louise O'Neill: Teaching is a vocation, not everyone can do it

Louise O'Neill: Teaching is a vocation, not everyone can do it

If there’s any teacher you wish you could have thanked all those years ago, now is your opportunity to do so.

Sat, 09 Oct, 2021

Louise O'Neill: For the whole first year of college, I felt as if I was an alien

Louise O'Neill: For the whole first year of college, I felt as if I was an alien

"My first day was… challenging, to say the least. I got on the bus in Rathmines and handed the driver a fiver, only to be told brusquely that it was “exact change only”; a queue of people tut-tutting as I pushed past them to get off again."

Fri, 01 Oct, 2021

Louise O'Neill: You can write about anything you want but remember ‘first, do no harm’

Louise O'Neill: You can write about anything you want but remember ‘first, do no harm’

Acknowledge your position of power and try your best not to hurt people who are already vulnerable or marginalised

Sat, 25 Sep, 2021

Louise O'Neill: air travel - and public speaking - in the time of the Delta variant

Louise O'Neill: air travel - and public speaking - in the time of the Delta variant

"I had forgotten what it was like to be trusted with such stories, forgotten what it was like to be witness to those sorrows. But I had also forgotten what a privilege it was, and how humbling too."

Fri, 17 Sep, 2021

Louise O'Neill: Even when the omens are ominous, it makes me feel less alone

Louise O'Neill: Even when the omens are ominous, it makes me feel less alone

I am someone who looks for signs. The number 63 has surfaced and re-surfaced in my life for such a long time now that I sneak the number into every book I write

Sat, 11 Sep, 2021

Louise O'Neill: 'Re-reading this, it sounds like I have low-level depression'

Louise O'Neill: The promise of success, and the problem with capitalism

"We are expected to work and work and work, with the promise of success, and all it will bring us ‘one day’, driving us on."

Sat, 04 Sep, 2021

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Louise O'Neill: All we wanted from Love Island was sun, sex and silliness — that's not what we got

After 18 months of lockdown, we were yearning to see a new generation of Bright Young Things in uncomfortable bikinis (they must all have yeast infections) making inarticulate declarations of love

Sat, 28 Aug, 2021

Louise O'Neill: 'I’d love to know when Piers Morgan has ever been quiet – we should be so lucky'

Louise O'Neill: alone together in Co Clare, as the 'new normal' dawns

"I can’t help but wonder if I’m still okay at making conversation, if I am talking too quickly or leaving too many silences in between sentences."

Sat, 21 Aug, 2021