Person: Edel Coffey

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Edel Coffey: I’m unafraid to hide the many ways it takes just to be me

'The more OK we are with people being multifaceted and embracing all aspects of their identities the more diversity we will see'

Edel Coffey: Did you check your work emails over Christmas? You could suffer from FOSO

Edel Coffey: Often when we speak in anger, while it may feel good initially, it rarely serves us

Edel Coffey: In a world of so many non-negotiables, the first thing many of us sacrifice is ourselves

Edel Coffey: Poetry can help us understand the mystery of what it is to be alive

Edel Coffey: To age as a woman in this world really has become a kind of personal failure

Edel Coffey: September is giving people The Fear

It seems like we’ve all packed three summers’ worth of travelling/socialising/activities into the last few months and now we have all arrived at September exhausted, depleted, and drained

Sat, 24 Sep, 2022

Edel Coffey: A college reunion brought a liberating realisation last week

The need to belong is a basic part of our human nature. It operates in the same centres of our brain that react to hunger and pain. It’s why Covid played such havoc with our mental health.

Sat, 27 Aug, 2022

Edel Coffey: The village it takes to raise a child doesn’t exist anymore

I thought there was only one reason any new mother would take her baby to a stuffy talk in a quiet auditorium of an evening — desperation

Fri, 29 Jul, 2022

Edel Coffey: Ageing for men and women has always been different

It’s like we’re living life in dog years, and age seven years for every year a man ages

Sat, 23 Jul, 2022

Edel Coffey: There’s a reason why some cultures honour their elders — we used to be one of them

Somewhere in the middle of the Celtic Tiger we seemed to forget that knowledge and experience can’t be bought but has to be earned

Sat, 11 Jun, 2022

Edel Coffey: How much happier might we be, if being ourselves was good enough?

"I grew up in a very body-positive environment. The attitude was, you are what you are, so make the most of what you’ve got"

Sat, 28 May, 2022

Edel Coffey: Our hobbies reveal a lot about ourselves

I thought about all those times I had been invited to play golf and baulked — I could read a book in the time it would take to get around 18 holes; or have the whole house cleaned from top to bottom

Sat, 21 May, 2022

Edel Coffey: Sustainability is not just about the environment — it’s about respect

Some days it seems like every waking decision I make has the flavour of eco-guilt marbled through it

Fri, 13 May, 2022

Edel Coffey: Your 'right' to watch porn in public ends with others' right not to

"I have as much of a problem with people clipping their nails or applying make-up or nail polish on the bus as I do with people watching porn. It’s all about boundaries."

Fri, 06 May, 2022

Clodagh Finn: Can we cancel ‘supermum’ and embrace wonderful, messy reality instead?

In the same year that ‘supermum’ entered the vernacular, ‘wake-up call’ also became a popular phrase — that is what we need right now

Wed, 23 Mar, 2022

Emer O'Neill: ‘There has never been a black principal in Ireland’

Activist and teacher Emer O’Neill invited to speak with Department of Education after International Women's Day talk

Tue, 08 Mar, 2022

Edel Coffey: The She Can Do campaign aims to prove that anything is possible

Having failed a lot, I think failure is a really useful experience. With each failure, my fear of failing diminishes a tiny bit because I realise that I’m still here

Sat, 05 Mar, 2022

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Fri, 21 Nov, 2014

Product watch: Tousled hair

From loose and tousled to day-old curly, good hair compensates for imperfections. Blow salons open at 7am, and Brown Sugar offer ‘couture finishing’, says Edel Coffey.

Sun, 09 Dec, 2012

Face architecture

Tom Ford’s colour collection will soon be available in Cork’s Brown Thomas, for the first time. Emphasising brows and cheeks, his goal is perfect symmetry, says Edel Coffey.

Sun, 02 Sep, 2012

Deeply lippy

Edel Coffey puts the world of hair and beauty to rights with tips for autumn/winter that even the most lackadaisical of us should be able to pull off. Now that’s something to celebrate.

Sun, 12 Aug, 2012

Woman pleads guilty to slipping drugs to prisoner

ECSTASY tablets and cannabis were slipped to a prisoner as he was being escorted from a courtroom to a holding cell at Cork District Court, but gardaí observed the transaction and yesterday the woman who passed the drugs admitted the crime.

Wed, 28 Nov, 2007