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Suzanne Harrington

Suzanne Harrington: JK Rowling, stop explaining, start listening

I love a slogan t-shirt. You can walk around with what you want to say emblazoned across yourself, without ever having to open your mouth.

Mon, 22 Jun, 2020

Suzanne Harrington: We must remember Mia O'Neill when coming to term with Ireland's racism problem

As statues commemorating humans who dehumanised other humans for profit begin their international topple, spurred by that historic moment where a slave trader statue was chucked in Bristol harbour, and brown leaders, from Leo Varadkar to the mayor of London, talk about other statues that need to go, the Black Lives Matter movement has finally gone into #MeToo territory.

Mon, 15 Jun, 2020

Suzanne Harrington: Ireland has its own problems with racism

Let’s talk about racism. As a white person - even as the mother of two brown people - I am not and never will be qualified to talk about racism, so let’s hear from those who are.

Sun, 07 Jun, 2020

Suzanne Harrington: Assault course must be completed before start of intense gardening

It’s all about displacement activity, to distract the Teen from daytime drinking with the Kardashians, and to stop me from thinking about my adopted country of residence being run by an evil goblin and his Latin-speaking monkey.

Sun, 31 May, 2020

Suzanne Harrington: A world run by women would defeat the coronavirus

In relation to the coronavirus - because at the moment everything is - why are countries led by women having better outcomes?

Sun, 24 May, 2020

Suzanne Harrington: Choose life — not a return to the old ways

As the corporatocracy continues to freak out because its minions are all at home with their families, author and activist Arundhati Roy calls the pandemic “a portal”. A door in the back of a wardrobe to a new way of being. A hole in the space time continuum.

Mon, 18 May, 2020

Suzanne Harrington: 'Did Ireland and England swap shirts?'

Continue their public nervous breakdown, as we watch between the slits of our fingers, wincing. And trying not to laugh too loud.

Sun, 22 Dec, 2019

Intoxicated England needs to sober itself up

DEAR England, I’m worried about you, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Mon, 12 Nov, 2018

One man’s misfortune is another man’s joy

My favourite German word is not ‘kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung’,

Mon, 05 Nov, 2018

We are dressed to kill this Halloween

WHAT are you dressing up as for Halloween? Our extended household is using it as an opportunity for catharsis, a high colonic for the head, for flushing out all the hideousness that’s been flowing in front of our weary eyes so far this year (not that this year is near over, but we’ve had ten months of crap), writes Suzanne Harrington.

Mon, 29 Oct, 2018