Suzanne Harrington

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<p>Donal O’Gara, Virginia O’Gara, Arthur Leahy and Wayne Dunlea share tea around a quiet table at the Quay Co-Op restaurant on Sullivan’s Quay, Cork City, reflecting on its past as they prepare for My Goodness to reopen the space as a pop-up vegan restaurant for Christmas. Picture Chani Anderson.</p>

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Suzanne Harrington: Being veggie was hard work in the '80s — Quay Co-Op was the place to be

I remember the first time going up the stairs of the Quay Co-Op, and seeing all these radical flyers on the walls. Gay rights. Women’s rights. I didn’t know Cork had any gays, or that women had any rights

Suzanne Harrington: Trump has not just God-washed himself, but monetised the situation to the hilt

Suzanne Harrington: At a recent Bob Vylan gig, fans had a surreal experience

Suzanne Harrington: I’ve just conducted a one-woman experiment — I got a buzz cut

Suzanne Harrington: Is being thrown off the gravy train a harsh enough punishment?

Suzanne Harrington: From hair-do to hair-don't — I just don't care about hair-care any more

Suzanne Harrington: 'Terrorist-adjacent', hilarious, galvanising, inspirational Kneecap

That’s why the establishment wants to squash Kneecap, cancel them, restrict their movement — they, along with a handful of other vocal critics, are doing what the British government is not: loudly calling out atrocities

Sun, 15 Jun, 2025

Suzanne Harrington: The narrative of helpless man stolen by pushy woman is being wheeled out again

For those still stubbornly refusing to spend their lives online keeping up with the far grander lives of Americanbillionaire heiresses, this column is here to fill in your blanks...

Sun, 08 Jun, 2025

Asian senior man with luggage walking in Airport Terminal.

Suzanne Harrington: Cheap airlines and their baggage limits have made us packing pros

We laugh at the priority boarding eejits, their queue longer than ours, with their mimsy little wheelie suitcases making the aviation moguls richer with every flight

Sun, 16 Mar, 2025

Suzanne Harrington: Turns out that there are no valid reasons for a man to assault you

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

Mon, 02 Dec, 2024

Suzanne Harrington: I've just signed an NDA for my next job — at Glastonbury

I’m off to Glastonbury. Not as a punter, or a journalist — but as a volunteer.

Sun, 18 Jun, 2023

Suzanne Harrington: Destroying stuff for war or profit or both — always the same stupid outcome

“Just don’t think about it,” my daughter says.She says that if she allowed herself to think about the state of the world and all that’s happening in it, she would go mad

Sun, 11 Jun, 2023

Suzanne Harrington: The great irony of the year award goes to the Covid vaccine

Millions of people in rich countries are offered a free vaccine and refused it, while in poorer countries, millions are desperate for it, and can’t get their hands on it.

Sun, 26 Dec, 2021

Suzanne Harrington: What's the big deal about being a gay footballer?

"Even if you support a club based in one of the gayest towns in Europe – like Brighton & Hove Albion, with their rainbow merch and inclusive policies – there are no players queering the pitch."

Wed, 03 Nov, 2021

Suzanne Harrington: Succession shows how the media can divide and conquer

Succession reminds me of an Einstein quote from 1949

Wed, 27 Oct, 2021

Suzanne Harrington: It's time for Ireland to stop living in fear of Covid

'Why the hesitancy? Surely, it is time to do the things that make us feel most human, most alive, most connected'

Wed, 15 Sep, 2021

Suzanne Harrington: An Easter miracle! I rolled back the stone from my cave and had a garden party

And lo! As Jesus emerges from lockdown, so too are the frazzled citizens of Brexitland blearily rolling the stones from the front of their caves.

Wed, 07 Apr, 2021

Suzanne Harrington: I wouldn’t even mind sharing a sofa with someone who smells a bit funny

I want to be on a cheap nasty airplane, with my knees uncomfortably rubbing the seat in front, and the thighs of randoms warming my own

Wed, 17 Mar, 2021

Suzanne Harrington: Four of my favourite things in lockdown

Bringing out the Julie Andrews in all of us

Wed, 03 Mar, 2021

Suzanne Harrington: Have a happy remote St Patrick’s Day folks

Corona, corona, corona. You wouldn’t know whether to laugh, scream, or stockpile cyanide pills in case the mass outbreak of stupidity becomes too intolerable, no matter how much you self-isolate, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Mon, 16 Mar, 2020

Suzanne Harrington: Is ‘The Crown’ undermining my opposition to monarchy?

Can you be diametrically opposed to the concept of monarchy and still get sucked into The Crown?, asks Suzanne Harrington.

Sun, 01 Dec, 2019

Outside the box: A tale of two Calais and suffering beyond reason

In the dining room in a cheap hotel in Calais, a table of men are having breakfast. When they finish their coffee and croissants, these men – meaty, booted, uniformed, well-paid – will spend their shift driving around Calais and its bleak industrial surrounds.

Mon, 18 Feb, 2019

‘The four boys at the station are lost deer’

Heading north on the M1 on the long traffic-clogged slog from Brighton to Leicester, on a dark December Friday evening, I’m stuck in a monster tail back behind lorries and commuters fleeing London, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 17 Dec, 2018

Outside the box: Friends’ dream home almost goes up in smoke

Two friends of mine do something they’ve long dreamed of. They buy some land in rural south west Portugal, pack up their urban lives, and drive to their remote hillside in a big truck

Mon, 13 Aug, 2018

No thanks, Barbara. I’ll have what he’s having

In a charity shop, I stumble across a copy of Barbara Cartland’s 1962 socio-cultural masterpiece, Etiquette Handbook: A Guide To Good Behaviour From The Boudoir To The Boardroom.

Mon, 16 Apr, 2018

Too sexy for my yoga pants

Have you ever done Malasana — squat pose, like you are peeing in the woods — while wearing track pants, asks Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 26 Feb, 2018

Time really is up for these predators

Rose McGowan, presented as everything from a difficult woman to an unhinged harpy, has burned through such shaming, shouting her anger from the rooftops, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 19 Feb, 2018

The sweet smell of success for vegans

You know something is starting to bite when it rattles the right-wing media. 

Mon, 08 Jan, 2018

Stop now Brexit —this is just (bendy) bananas

Brexit, says Milk The Cow podcast, is “Like when Geri Halliwell overestimated her viability as a solo artist and left the Spice Girls.”

Mon, 03 Apr, 2017

High street tat is the real Halloween horror show

Trick or treat, because nobody except actual Irish people can pronounce Oíche Samhain, never mind spell it, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 31 Oct, 2016

Please Hillary, make America think again

Perhaps once President Hillary is in power, she can divert serious funding into some serious education projects, so America never again makes another Trump, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 24 Oct, 2016

A moment Frozen in time that melted my heart

Not only do we have apples, but we have gardens and houses, and freedom. And each other, writes Suzanne Harrington

Mon, 17 Oct, 2016

Kids who are over-parented have no coping skills, so try your best to back off

Wed, 13 Apr, 2016

How would we view Marilyn Monroe if she had lived to be 90?

Had Marilyn Monroe lived, she would be 90 this year. As a new exhibition of rare photos opens, Suzanne Harrington looks back at her life and legacy – and imagines the star as a 90 year old.            

Sat, 06 Feb, 2016

How social media has killed the death threat

WHEN you think of Sue Perkins, the English broadcaster who has Enid Blyton levels of spunky jolliness, you might think, ‘ah yes, cake’.

Mon, 20 Apr, 2015

The difference between suicide and homicide

AS THE Germanwings plane crash filled us all with horror, hearing that the co-pilot deliberately flew the plane into the side of a mountain doubled that horror.

Mon, 06 Apr, 2015

Suzanne Harrington returns to her hometown of Cork as a tour guide

Suzanne Harrington returns home with a boyfriend who has never visited Cork and finds there have been many changes over the years to a city which has embraced the new but hung on to the best parts of the old.

Sat, 04 Apr, 2015