They’ll need to score if they want to win. That would have been a goal if it had gone in the net. To win a game, you can’t lose. They’ll want their best players on. At the end of the day. Make no mistake, mistakes will be made.

Nudity has been in my face this week — literally — and it appears to be all about context. Not just cultural context, but situational context, writes Suzanne Harrington. 

There’s probably a long German word for that feeling of creeping existential disappointment you experience when a public figure you have long admired reveals themselves to be a twat.

At last, autonomy for women living in Ireland, autonomy taken from them for so very, very long writes Suzanne Harrington.

You’re probably up to the eyeballs with abortion by now, so let’s look at another fun topic instead: The latest proclamation from right-wing internet intellectual Jordan Peterson, who says that — and I’m quoting the New York Times here, so it ain’t fake — “socially enforced monogamous conventions decrease male violence”.

SO, Ireland. This is it. This is the week where the present cleaves from the past, like those bits of rocket that fall away as the rocket gathers momentum. That rocket is the voice of Irish women.

I once received a card of a cartoon stick man standing on top of a flattened cartoon stick woman.

You couldn’t feel rage up here – or even mild irritation – no matter how hard you tried, writes Suzanne Harrington

There is a beggar in the town where I live who appeared on a BBC reality series about beggars.

It’s stress awareness month, in case any of us were unaware of what being stressed feels like.