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Suzanne Harrington

Suzanne Harrington

Post-Trump stress disorder not enough reason to stay home — get out and protest

Post-Trump stress disorder not enough reason to stay home — get out and protest

It takes a special kind of awful to unite us, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Mon, 06 Feb, 2017

To us alcoholics, dry January is for amateurs

To us alcoholics, dry January is for amateurs

Dry January is not for proper alcoholics. We need February to December to be dry as well, without breaks for birthdays or bar mitzvahs, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 30 Jan, 2017

How not to nail a date with me in ladyland

How not to nail a date with me in ladyland

Suzanne Harrington talks about some of the new safety tacticts making the rounds in the world of dating, including asking for ’Angela’ and rape alarms.

Mon, 23 Jan, 2017

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