"I’ve been thinking about parental alienation a lot recently because of two high-profile cases: the Mia Farrow and Woody Allen case, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s divorce."

'Because his job is based in Dublin and my job is wherever I put my laptop down, that decision has to involve me leaving my beloved west Cork'

To have someone with Prince Harry's platform be so open about his experiences — the PTSD, the panic attacks, the attempts to numb his pain with alcohol and drugs — and the steps he took to heal from that, might go some way towards destigmatising these issues

Rutger Bregman's latest book, Humankind: A Hopeful History, argues that human beings, when left to their own devices, are fundamentally good

"And now I’m the person in my thirties and I want to desperately say to anyone younger than me, I’m not old, okay? I’m not."

Pat Kane and Emma Gleeson share their environmental insights with Louise O'Neill

"I can only imagine that as a nurse working on the front line, it must have been incredibly frustrating to see friends break the restrictions with such flagrant disregard and I don’t blame you for cutting certain people out of your life as a result."

— I contemplated bringing the manuscript with me but was plagued with visions of something terrible happening to it, although why anyone would want to steal a cheap ring binder is beyond me

— And all I have to do is stop and ask myself one question: do I really believe that Micheál Martin is Dr Evil from the Austin Powers movie?

Every time we discuss fatness with both explicit and implicit disgust, we are contributing to a culture that is not only making people sick, it’s literally causing them to die.