"This time of year should come with a landmine warning. There is the financial burden, we are forced back into potentially fraught and complicated familial relationships, while also drinking and eating a little more than we normally would."

"It was not a demonstration, it was an assault on democracy. It was the expression, by a few, of a desire towards mayhem and disorder. We must remember that they do not represent the majority of Irish people. They are a few, but they are among us."

"The show is more about the kids you’ll interview than the products they will chat about. Half the fun is when the products fail! So don’t worry about that."

"I carried out a huge piece of research in 2018 when I was writing my book, Parenting the Screenager - I was trying to understand teenagers and their device usage, while also exploring their resilience levels."

"Gaza has become a wasteland. Images of children ripped apart, homes flattened, hospitals in ruins, fathers and mothers desperately searching in rubble for their families."

"The fact that everyone in modern society is not burnt out is a miracle. By the end of the day it can be difficult to wind the brain down after such activity."

"You put Homo Sapiens together, and you are going to get scandal and sexual transgressions - nothing quite gets our tongues wagging like the bad behaviours of others."

It is terribly troubling watching children suck thousands of unknown chemicals into their young lungs. 

Do we no longer care for conversation with people? We have things to say and by God, we don’t need others getting in the way of saying it.

Vogue magazine should not have airbrushed 1990s supermodels, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington. It would have been so empowering to show these women celebrating the aging process, unfiltered in middle age.