A broken heater, snow gridlock, and a partner contemplating Dorito rations—surviving winter’s polar vortex is no small feat, but it comes with its moments of wonder

Well, goodbye 2024, you’ve been mental

Dinner parties? Canapes and painting? The gym? Dear God, where did we go wrong?

I am being driven mad in different ways – trying to figure out how to negotiate the logistics of getting Christmas presents to Ireland from Brexitland

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