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Louise O'Neill: 'Sometimes I go on Twitter and I lurk'

Louise O'Neill: 'Sometimes I go on Twitter and I lurk'

You know this – I’ve said it many times before – but I’m not on Twitter anymore. My partner runs my account and I don’t even have the password, lest the temptation to return become too much. But sometimes I go on the site anyway and I lurk.

Sun, 31 Jan, 2021

Louise O'Neill: Fairytale of New York - 'every time I hear the opening chords my teeth grit'

Louise O'Neill: If I was a fat woman telling the same story, would people want to hear me?

— the reality of living in a fat-phobic culture means my thinness inherently makes the story of my eating disorder and recovery more palatable

Sun, 24 Jan, 2021

Louise O'Neill: 'January 19 is the date people are likely to give up their New Year’s resolutions'

Louise O'Neill: 'January 19 is the date people are likely to give up their New Year’s resolutions'

We need to self-soothe and for some, the habits we fall back on in times of stress are healthy. Others, perhaps less so.

Sat, 16 Jan, 2021

'The truth is a little more complicated – and a lot more clichéd – than that. So, here it is. I took up baking'

'The truth is a little more complicated – and a lot more clichéd – than that. So, here it is. I took up baking'

"...there was a period during March of last year where I put on an apron and took out the kitchen scales every day..."

Sun, 10 Jan, 2021

Louise O'Neill: Fairytale of New York - 'every time I hear the opening chords my teeth grit'

Louise O'Neill: 'What if we decided that 2021 was the year we would tell our people we loved them?'

"Why don’t we tell them about how much they mean to us, how much we enjoy their sense of humour?"

Sun, 03 Jan, 2021

Louise O'Neill: 'Meet the new addition to our family'

Louise O'Neill: 'Meet the new addition to our family'

"It’s lovely coming down to the kitchen every morning and to find Cooper waiting, turning over so I can give him a belly rub."

Sat, 26 Dec, 2020

Louise O'Neill: 'Despite everything, we will be okay. We will get through this'

Louise O'Neill: 'Despite everything, we will be okay. We will get through this'

"That gathering of the same faces every Christmas morning for as long as I can remember has marked the passage of time so precisely. What 2020 has in store for me, a quiet, muffled affair, hardly seems like Christmas at all."

Sat, 19 Dec, 2020

Louise O'Neill: The best books of 2020 - and the perfect gift to give this Christmas

Louise O'Neill: The best books of 2020 - and the perfect gift to give this Christmas

Suggestions for kids, readers of rom-coms and even something for the book snob in your life

Sat, 12 Dec, 2020

Louise O'Neill: Fairytale of New York - 'every time I hear the opening chords my teeth grit'

Louise O'Neill: Fairytale of New York - 'every time I hear the opening chords my teeth grit'

"The conversation around ‘censorship’ that comes up about Fairytale every year is tedious."

Sat, 05 Dec, 2020

Louise O’Neill: ‘If someone trusts you enough to send an intimate photo, respect that trust. Talk to your sons, rather than warning your daughters’

Louise O’Neill: ‘If someone trusts you enough to send an intimate photo, respect that trust. Talk to your sons, rather than warning your daughters’

"I have tried to explain that in criticising the patriarchy, I am not targeting individual men (#NotAllMen) but the societal structure as a whole that has benefited men over women. But I am done explaining", writes Louise O'Neill

Sat, 28 Nov, 2020