Barbara Scully meets Laura Bates, author of ‘Girl Up’, a guide for girls, young women, and parents, on modern-day sexism and its insidious nature. The book has advice on how to counter the training all girls get in how not to use their voices

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Do we overshare on social media? Barbara Scully and Arlene Harris look at both sides of the argument. Have your say by taking our poll at the end of the article.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Barbara Scully wonders why she waited so long to take her family on a break to explore all that Belfast has to offer.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

It’s not easy being a teen’ and it’s not easy parenting one. So Barbara Scully and her 16 year-old daughter, Róisín, were both game to read Shine, a new guide to the terror years. But does Shine dole out the right advice?

If you want to see how women’s lives have changed, just flick through a woman’s magazine from the 1960s. Back then says Barbara Scully they obsessed with housework whereas now Irish women are sold glamour, creative careers and charmed lifestyles.

Barbara Scully discovered the wonders of a charming Atlantic outpost designed for relaxation.

Barbara Scully is, by her own admission, a full-blown Irish Mammy who travels half way round the world to see her Australian-based daughter. This time round, the family all met up in the Indonesian island of Bali for an alternative

Barbara Scully was 10 when her mother dragged her to Jesus Christ Superstar. It was a show that started a hilarious musical journey for the duo. Forty years later, they returned with Barbara’s teenage daughters

With Twiggy and Charlotte Rampling fronting fashion ads, the beauty world seems to have realised older women rock, says Barbara Scully.

When your children fly the nest, Christmas is about family coming together for the day, says Barbara Scully. But what happens when they are in Australia?

The Christmas TV commercials are an integral part of the festive season. Kelly O’Brien and Barbara Scully give their opposing views on their heartstring-tugging sentimentality.

YES, says mother-of-three Barbara Scully

The explosion in digital media has led to a growing problem of online abuse, which is frequently targeted at women, often with serious and damaging consequences.

With the Junior Cert finishing tomorrow, Barbara Scully wonders are we educating our children or merely tutoring them to get maximum results in State exams? To find out she asks the experts.

Absolutely no standing and no singing — how Barbara Scully fared as a chaperone mum at One Direction.

Barbara Scully rails against the notion that older females become invisible. What’s more, she has finally discovered her ‘inner creativity’.

The relics of St Valentine form a shrine to romance in Whitefriar St church in Dublin. The visitors’ book is filled every six weeks with people’s hopes and requests for love, says Barbara Scully

Barbara Scully headed to Laois for the ‘farmers’ festival’ and concluded that New York is easier to negotiate

A new book claims women’s desires are more varied than men’s. Are females really aroused by any kind of coupling, asks Barbara Scully

Wary of the news that Tina Turner had married a younger man, further investigation convinced Barbara Scully her hero is still simply the best

In 1981, I was a holiday rep in Playa del Ingles. My first trip back did not impress my daughters. The resort had faded, says Barbara Scully

The photos of celebrity chef Nigella Lawson being grabbed around the throat by her husband are disturbing. He said he was just being ‘playful’. It’s not acceptable behaviour, says Barbara Scully

Barbara Scully’s online hook-up for after-work drinks proved to be nothing like the real thing

Founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet on this date in 2006. I sent my first on the same date in 2009. I found my voice and a career as a media commentator, so Happy Birthday, says Barbara Scully

In listing “some things right during the Tiger years”, one item Barbara Scully omits (Irish Examiner, is the installation of a world-class sewerage system in Cork City funded by the EU.

Forget the doom and gloom about the boom. Barbara Scully reminds us of what we got right during the good times

Fancy a cheap day out to put the spark back in your relationship? Barbara Scully and her hubby skipped the piña coladas... but still got caught in the rain

The optimistic Young Farmer of the Year is keen to embrace new technology, says Barbara Scully

When Mum said she had bought her plot and organised the service,I was happy everything would be just as she wanted, says Barbara Scully

Beautiful wives and perfect lives: why do men who seem to have it all cheat on their own stunning women, asks Barbara Scully

Writer Maeve Binchy’s death has prompted consideration of notables who might be described as our national treasures, says Barbara Scully

IT was the week before Christmas.

*Barbara Scully