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Terry Prone

Futility of celebrities penning letters to their mythical teenage selves

Every celeb wants to demonstrate that she’s just like us which she sure as hell isn’t, writes Terry Prone.

Mon, 05 Sep, 2016

You have to be a tower of strength to open your home to the public

Then I realised they thought we just visited during the summer. ‘Uh uh’, I explained. This is our home, writes Terry Prone

Mon, 29 Aug, 2016

The hair-raising truth about those who put fame above achievement

HERE’S a quiz question. No prize, but have a go anyway. What do Donald Trump and Ryan Lochte have in common? Odd hair, I hear you say? Accurate, but not the right answer, writes Terry Prone

Mon, 22 Aug, 2016

The best advice for any situation: Close your eyes and pull like a dog

Close your eyes and pull like a dog. Fits so many situations, does it not, asks Terry Prone

Mon, 15 Aug, 2016

Forgetting about your digital life now and then could save real lives

Taking the time to film at the site of a plane which has crash is putting your life and others in danger, writes Terry Prone

Mon, 08 Aug, 2016

Donald Trump’s use of emotional truth is beyond the reach of facts

Trump talks to a target audience filled with resentful disappointment and squashed expectations, writes Terry Prone

Mon, 01 Aug, 2016

David Marcus was the lapsed Jew from Cork who did so much to encourage Irish writers

David Marcus would eat an evening meal as unexciting as a tin of salmon while reading the stories and poems, writes Terry Prone

Mon, 25 Jul, 2016

It’s time we banished the phrase ‘as a mum’ from public discourse

Terry Prone says Andrea Leadsom ‘has provided a neat case study in mumhood self-delusion, claiming an accretion of extra wisdom as a result of giving birth, which was provably absent’.

Mon, 18 Jul, 2016

Charity begins at home, but it’s finally coming to an end here

We ignore the fact that most of the services are... state services with a different sign on the door, writes Terry Prone

Mon, 11 Jul, 2016

Safety pin of sense has snapped and impaled Britain’s posterior

This novel use of the safety pin is an odd indirect outcropping of Britain’s decision to leave the EU, writes Terry Prone

Mon, 04 Jul, 2016