Thank you, Leo Varadkar. Thank you for acknowledging that abortion has always existed in Ireland.

AS all you moderate drinkers continue to enjoy what the ‘Daily Mash’ calls your “pretend battle with drink” — that is, Dry January — you’ll forgive all of us actual alcoholics for feeling smug, writes Suzanne Harrington. 

DADS! Do you suffer from nappy bag emasculation? No, wait, come back, this is serious, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Good morning. How’d you like your coffee? Long black? Flat white? Up your ass? No, this is not the greeting of a fatally hungover barista, but January health advice from that highly respected lifestyle website, Goop, writes Suzanne Harrington.

You know something is starting to bite when it rattles the right-wing media. 

Is 2018 the year your tween becomes a teen? Suzanne Harrington shares her top tips for navigating the hormone-addled minefield. 

When you’re a kid you write to Santa with your wish list, but who do you write to when you’re an adult? God? Hmmmm. No-one? Too depressing. Facebook? Pfffft.

SO I’M all set. The decorators have just left, the ice rink is installed in the front garden.

HERE’S a letter from Irene in Manchester, published in the free London tabloid Metro (circulation 1,475,543, owned by the pro-Brexit Daily Mail, and commonly found littering commuter train carriages).

If you ever wanted to explain the word “metaphor” to a small child, show them a photo of this year’s White House Christmas decorations.