The girl sprinting for the ferry in Sydney late on a Saturday night was meanly cut off, prompting an unusual display of social solidarity

Our relationship, one of the happiest of my life, was largely contingent on the fact we have the radiators on all day

Is this how it feels to have been a man for the best part of the 20th century? Because it’s been pretty great

If you’re the only person you know who’s gone to university it can be isolating trying to find your way with no one to guide you

There’s an odd sort of morality tied to doing hard things, even if they are entirely unnecessary

A rake of pints. Sure look, you know yourself. Yer man. The unique joy of Hiberno-English should be celebrated, never taken for granted

Home improvement TV breathes undeserved confidence into a generation of flippers

I’ll have to introduce my neighbours to fluffy house socks, squirty cream in a can and the cultural importance of the Real Housewives series

The Rose of Tralee is all well and good, but expecting one competition to laud all deserving Irish women might be asking a bit too much

Young Irish people don’t need an insulting €750 tax break; they need reasons to feel hopeful again

I have seen so many good women drained by men who could not or would not meet them at their level

Brianna Parkins: Sometimes, when you’re a big distance from home, it’s the small things that give you comfort

It is very crowded between me, my partner and the GAA but I’ll still be in a pub wearing an ugly bucket hat at 2am next week, watching my partner’s mistress on telly

You will need patience, resilience and the self-control required not to headbutt the public

It’s rarely a good idea to get what your young heart desires. I would have been negative craic with terrible tattoos and a vacuous existence