The best gift you can give yourself is the word ‘no’ if you’re being asked to host too many people or being invited to visit people you don’t like, or have to buy too many gifts or cook too much food

Thanks to the grit and tenacity of an ordinary Dublin hairdresser, the dial has moved a fraction

I'm an unofficial member of the dry robe set, and will be glad of mine when I swim off the Cork coast this Christmas

"They have also done what Peig Sayers and successive generations of Irish teachers never managed: they make you want to learn Irish..."

"Hispanics voted to deport other Hispanics, white women voted to disempower themselves, their daughters and their daughters’ daughters, and black men voted against a black woman."

Self-care these days means turning your phone off and going for a walk

In the words of Trump himself this film is “a hatchet job made by human scum” — which is about as five-star a review as you could hope for

Just as older people look back on the 1950s as an extended song-and-dance scene from Grease rather than what Henry Miller termed “the air conditioned nightmare”, as a member of Gen X, I do the same in relation to the 1990s; I euphorically recall it. 

'Because is getting rat-arsed on Prosecco a human right? Or is doing your job without having to negatively navigate those rat-arsed on Prosecco more of a human right?'

We are realising that actually, giving a child a smartphone is not doing anyone – except tech companies – any favours.