Brianna Parkins

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

Case of Natasha O’Brien shows up keyboard warriors who want to frighten women, to shut us up, to stop us from calling men out on their behaviour

I recently overheard a woman utter a magic incantation that would banish having to put myself out against my own will. It changed me forever

This country teased a lightness out of me. But so many people leaving Ireland for Australia is down to more than sunshine

Brianna Parkins: You have to pay close attention to nature: young women shivering in dresses, people milling awkwardly outside pubs, lads with their tops off

Footpath etiquette and turning coworking spaces into libraries should also feature in manifestos

Brianna Parkins: Since the invention of cameras, people have been acting badly in front of them and this project was never going to be the exception

How one word can become a battle line of domestic warfare between the sexes

Scant resources and a housing crisis have made us narrow our eyes in suspicion at each other

Opportunities can come from realising that no one knows what they’re doing a lot of the time

A professional ADHD-haver offers a guide for the neurodiverse on how to deal with everyone else

This list will make you ponder what you could have done after a break-up instead of sitting around the house moping

Brianna Parkins: The kid question is not really a straight request for information. It’s asking someone ‘please justify to me why your life does not look like mine’

His face remains unimpressed on the red carpet, in press interviews and meeting members of the British royal family

Home might not be quiet or relaxing or emotionally stable but it’s still where I sleep best

The cleaning guru has given up on her teachings since becoming a mother. It’s time we bring back display cabinets filled with treasures

He doesn’t pull out his phone at a family gathering and subject the room to videos about cryptocurrency or his golf swing, but he will happily share his favourite YouTube clips about how planes land

Brianna Parkins: It’s any wonder women aren’t all screaming them into the void over the situation

It feels there’s been a gradual shift away from challenging bad behaviour in person

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Beware of the constant fear in Ireland of telling someone bad news. For example, instead of saying a restaurant is overbooked a manager might tell you they can find a table ‘in a bit’

Brianna Parkins: I’m on a slippery slope to becoming my grandmother, who has both her own room and a fierce loyalty to Lady Di

We already have a plausible explanation for Kate Middleton’s absence from UK public life: she’s playing drums with Slipknot

The usual research has been trotted out to back up marriage as the superior family structure, blurring the lines between causation and correlation

Brianna Parkins: It’s tiring hearing your inner voice say ‘do better’ every time you see a fitness blogger’s fridge or someone you went to school with go on a fancy holiday

One financial advice columnist didn’t think it could happen to her. Then it did

It might hurt to discover you’re a placeholder in a relationship, but who wants to waste years of their life not getting the partner they deserve?

Even though many have observed us up close in our natural habitat, they still don’t get our true ‘boganity’

I would once have argued for sending my hypothetical future daughter to an all-girls school. Not any more

Unlike Queen Mary, the rest of us won’t ‘marry up’ - no matter how many etiquette classes we take

Young girls on TikTok are terrified of getting older, but they have no idea how good the crone years can be

Surprise, surprise, it turns out more stuff is not what you need in your life

Like a lot of Irish people past and present, my family felt emigration was their best hope at a better life. They were right

Owning a sunbed in 2024 is a bit like insisting on using lead paint

One of the phrases I find most fascinating is ‘She really let herself go’. Go where exactly?

Brianna Parkins: While it’s easy (and fun) to dismiss the event as a mutual backslap-athon between powerful global players in the past it has allowed attendees to call each other out on issues

Even with one of the most comprehensive and expensive private healthcare plans, I could not get the medical care I needed despite living in a wealthy country

Tate didn’t invent misogyny, he just monetised it using younger, impressionable, tech-savvy boys

Trying to ‘live your best life’ could see you wasting it getting up at 4.30am - because that’s what people with self-discipline do

At a recent dinner party I told the story about the Christmas when some family member left lunch to do class-A drugs