Cheer up! Blue Monday is comingSMALL PRINT: SIX years ago, a PR company paid Welsh psychologist Cliff Arnall to come up with an equation to calculate the most…Mon Jan 17 2011 - 00:00
UpfrontTHIS IS MY first column of the year 2011. Time for yet another thorough life assessmentSat Jan 08 2011 - 00:00
Who got what? The presents postmortemThere were iPod Touches and personal touches, useless hankies and useful vouchers – and of course the packaging that kids found…Mon Dec 27 2010 - 00:00
UpfrontMARVELLOUS MADGE BOLGER sits drinking sparkling water in the bar of a Dublin hotelFri Dec 24 2010 - 00:00
UpfrontBEING, AS IT IS, the ultimate beautiful distraction, Christmas timed its arrival perfectly this yearSat Dec 18 2010 - 00:00
Family funAt the very first Peas and Pods Family Market in Dublin last Halloween, our two girls rambled around the heated indoor venue …Sat Dec 18 2010 - 00:00
UpfrontI WAS CRUNCHING ALONG the path, thinking how it takes the aftermath of a snow storm to get me out exercising, when I saw herSat Dec 11 2010 - 00:00
The greater spotted penguinA DECREASE in employee productivity across the country last week was being blamed on the snowMon Dec 06 2010 - 00:00
Upfront‘LOOK AROUND,” says the woman standing under the twinkling chandeliers on Grafton Street. “The world hasn’t endedSat Nov 27 2010 - 00:00
'Elections are like a candy shop'With another election inching ever closer, political junkies are in a state of high excitementWed Nov 24 2010 - 00:00
Christmas parties with a twistWith lots of companies feeling the pinch this year, many are sidelining the annual Christmas partyMon Nov 22 2010 - 00:00
Warning to all office staff: don't try this at workCompanies need strong guidelines on workplace behaviour, but those at PricewaterhouseCoopers were roundly ignored by the young…Sat Nov 13 2010 - 00:00
UpfrontI’M IN A TAXI. For budgetary reasons, I’m supposed to be reducing the number of taxis I take by roughly 100 per centSat Nov 13 2010 - 00:00
Once worn twice livedFASHION: Síona Ryan has swapped London for Dublin - now she wants you to swap like for like, at a fashion fund-raiser tomorrow…Sat Nov 06 2010 - 00:00
UpfrontIT’S 9.30PM ON a Friday night. I should be at home falling asleep on the sofa into a plate of sweet and sour porkSat Oct 30 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontIT’S NOT AS though my friend thought he was The One, but at least The Spark was thereSat Oct 23 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontI AM KNEELING on a round purple cushion – all the better to rinse the hair of the wriggliest human beings aliveSat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontBLACK THURSDAY WAS a day for thinking about things we’d rather not think about. Our own part in the country’s downfallSat Oct 09 2010 - 01:00
What's the difference between the debs and gay prom?SMALL PRINT: THE LIMOS are purring, the fake tan is streaking and the gúnas are hanging on wardrobe doors all over the country…Tue Oct 05 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontI HAVE A FRIEND who is pretty much the font of all knowledge when it comes to the blue and yellow place in Ballymun, DublinSat Sept 25 2010 - 01:00
When disobeying the boss is a good career moveIs your workplace tied up in silly rules and inefficient procedures? A new book shows you how to ‘hack’ work and make life easier…Sat Sept 25 2010 - 01:00
Clap your hands, say yeahYou don't have to love the lord to get down in the aisles with Ireland's growing gospel music choirs - but it helpsThu Sept 23 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontMY BOOK SHELVES are groaning with what I like to call EverythingHappensForAReason LitSat Sept 18 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontI HAVE A CRICK in my neck. Hang on, is crick even a word? Apparently, yesSat Sept 11 2010 - 01:00
Ballymun gets a new local heroIF THERE was an award for the most democratic piece of public art in Ireland, a magnificent new sculpture due to be unveiled …Fri Sept 10 2010 - 01:00
Standing up for our gay parentsAn Irish report into the experiences of children of gay parents reveals the closeness of such families, but also the anguish …Tue Sept 07 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontBACK FROM THE holidays, and I am feeling like I desperately need another oneSat Sept 04 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontI’M OFF FOREIGN now but it feels like my holidays started when I got the train out west recently for workSat Aug 07 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontI’VE BEEN READING a lot about hipster parents lately. Yet another thing to worry about in this parenting adventureSat Jul 31 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontIT’S THE MORNING of the wedding of my little sister to her man. Hair appointment. Make-up appointmentSat Jul 24 2010 - 01:00
Milking the momentSurprising as it seems, Ireland has never had a gay music festivalThu Jul 22 2010 - 01:00
'I was considering becoming a grill-to-hire to earn a few extra quid over the rest of the summer'I AM STANDING IN a flowery apron behind a smouldering barbecue, master of all I surveySat Jul 17 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontTEN YEARS AGO this morning I woke up in a hotel in Portadown, Co Armagh, dreading the day aheadSat Jul 10 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontIT APPEARS THE authorities might have caught the person who stole my phoneSat Jul 03 2010 - 01:00
Where the revolving door stopsSix out of 10 former prisoners are likely to reoffend within a year of their release, but a back-to-work course for ex-convicts…Sat Jul 03 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontSHEILA SAID SHE was going to Lourdes. She wanted to know had I ever beenSat Jun 26 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontWITH A CRUSHING inevitability, slow-burning scandal has begun to threaten the very existence of a hitherto infallible institution…Sat Jun 12 2010 - 01:00
UpfrontI AM STANDING on the sand at Burrow Beach in Sutton on the north side of DublinSat May 29 2010 - 01:00
'I've never met a chip I didn't like'Tomorrow is National Fish and Chips Day, when a one and one will be half price at your local chipperTue May 25 2010 - 01:00
The short life of Daniel McAnaspieDaniel McAnaspie, the first child to be killed while in State care, ran not from his family, they say, but from the system that…Sat May 22 2010 - 01:00
Upfront‘PARENTS,” SAID the man sitting opposite me over dinner, “they are just so self-righteous. And boringSat May 22 2010 - 01:00
Shake it up, babyWassim Dakik had just completed a business degree in London when it came to him that what Dublin really needed was a dedicated…Sat May 22 2010 - 01:00
'I'm not able for all that lepping around any more'As she prepares her new solo show, Jean Butler discusses the legacy of Riverdance, the loneliness of choreography and why Dublin…Mon May 17 2010 - 01:00
The bearable lightness of beingWith a church for a studio, sacred music turned up loud and nights sometimes spent in the confession box, it’s no wonder that…Sat May 15 2010 - 01:00
