Unlike in the US, March 17 in the UK used to be a small thing that happened in a handful of Irish pubs in immigrant postcodes... that has changed

I’m not in the business of harming things, never mind killing them. But I can’t stand in the garden for the next three days.

You'd be forgiven for questioning their judgement on removing 'free Palestine' but retaining that slur

Coming back from three months fannying around Thailand with your laptop feels like recovering from a brain injury. You have to relearn the basics from scratch

Ireland may be small and not terribly important to a megalomaniac monster, but we have core values. We have core principles. We don’t like bullies. We don’t need to appease a rogue regime out of fear, or out of tradition, or out of anything

What the conversation around the Irish Traitors and swearing fails to acknowledge is class.

Maybe we could be more like those Dunnes Stores workers in the 80s who wouldn’t handle the apartheid oranges, writes Suzanne Harrington

You have been providing monetised content for the brand since conception. It's just that... well, the thing is, Brooklyn, if it wasn’t for your nepo-ness, it’s unlikely you’d have problems involving couture wedding dresses. It’s unlikely you’d have married the daughter of a Trumpy billionaire

A nibbling noise, all around me. Like the sound that sheep make when they’re eating grass. Is something chewing through the canvas? Am I about to be eaten alive, feet first?

To a malignant narcissist, everything is personal — even the Venezuelan leader mocking Trump’s dance moves