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Suzanne Harrington

Suzanne Harrington

Medieval explanation on women’s rights over their own bodies

Medieval explanation on women’s rights over their own bodies

Suzanne Harrington talks all about explaining the 8th amendment to her daughter.

Mon, 09 Jan, 2017

Any chance of resetting the Grim Reaper sat-nav in ’17?

Any chance of resetting the Grim Reaper sat-nav in ’17?

Oh 2017 thank God you’re here, says Suzanne Harrington. 

Mon, 02 Jan, 2017

St Stephen... the patron saint of headaches

St Stephen... the patron saint of headaches

Whether you call it Stephen’s Day, Boxing Day or Monday, Suzanne Harrington reckons it’ll be a day of headaches.

Mon, 26 Dec, 2016

There's still a lot to be done before Christmas

There's still a lot to be done before Christmas

Suzanne Harrington shares her Christmas to do list

Mon, 19 Dec, 2016

Humanity remains to be unearthed

Humanity remains to be unearthed

All the spark needs to ignite a full blown bonfire of humanity is empathy, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 12 Dec, 2016

Normalise mental ill-health to make the pill easier to swallow

Normalise mental ill-health to make the pill easier to swallow

I WAS a bit late filing this column today because I got held up at the doctor’s.

Mon, 05 Dec, 2016

Fathers’ ad campaign is completely ill-conceived

Fathers’ ad campaign is completely ill-conceived

SO Bus Éireann is going to run an ad campaign on the side of their buses for the pressure group Fathers 4 Justice, riffing on the Dog’s Trust slogan: “A father is for life, not just for conception.”

Mon, 28 Nov, 2016

If truth be told, this post truth trash is one big inconvenient lie

If truth be told, this post truth trash is one big inconvenient lie

Post truthism has been gestating in the underbelly of the internet for more than a decade, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 21 Nov, 2016

Bono should have been man enough to refuse ‘woman of year’ award

Bono should have been man enough to refuse ‘woman of year’ award

I AM outraged. Horrified and disgusted. Appalled and let down by the direction in which things are heading, writes Suzanne Harrington. 

Mon, 14 Nov, 2016

Right-wing shock jocks influence Americans more than the ‘corporate media’

Right-wing shock jocks influence Americans more than the ‘corporate media’

“TWO nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy,” is how Disraeli described the rich/poor divide in Britain, and could just as easily mean America mere days before we find out if they elect more of the corrupt corporate same, or go wildly off piste with the mad orange one, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Mon, 07 Nov, 2016