And Just Like That … the TV show that defined a generation has broken my heart.
Praise the Lord!
In the chip-wrapper business, we have this thing that is known as ‘green-ink’ letters.
Eighty is an important milestone for me. I genuinely believed I’d die at 70, like my father and my brother did. I am grateful to be alive and healthy enough at 80 to work all the hours God sends. Three Cs have helped me get here: Choices, Chances, …
Hi, my name is Deirdre - and I am a spinster.
Forget last year’s Brat Summer – Hot Catholic Summer starts here.
Fancy a frothy cappuccino without the kids this weekend?
Last Sunday, Easter Sunday, we prayed for Pope Francis – there was a quiet joy when he appeared for the Easter Blessing. Little did we know that it was his final farewell as the Bishop of Rome.
I’ve just binged Adolescence. I need a lie down and some funny cat videos.
It’s Mother Day - and I’ve yet to receive breakfast in bed, a clumsily wrapped gift or handmade card.
‘Cancel me, I’m delicious’? Garron Noone could have a new catchphrase after he spoke up about immigration this week.
Micheál Martin was applauded for giving a ‘masterclass in diplomacy’ at the White House on Wednesday, but for the weekend that’s in it, I’d say it was more of a lesson in that distinctly Irish trait of cute hoorism.
HE cut a forlorn figure in the dock of the Special Criminal Court – thin, gaunt and with a mask hiding the scars of the attack he suffered last week in Portlaoise Prison as he awaited his sentence on Friday.
Mary Lou McDonald is right when she says Trump is “catastrophically wrong’’ about Gaza.
I don’t agree with Donald Trump on many things.
Jim Gavin has been keen to stress from the outset that these FRC reforms are not actually rule changes but rule enhancements.
It was oven mitts at dawn this week as telly chef Donal Skehan and singer Samantha Mumba went for each other online over Ireland’s Eurosong competition.
The PSNI’s new recruitment campaign featured a picture of a non-white woman, and pulled the pin on a grenade of racist abuse.
Forget ‘Cindy or Naomi’, ‘Sega or Nintendo’ and ‘Neighbours or Home and Away’.
Sharing his time between his native Dublin and LA, the podcaster says the disaster has brought a sense of community to neighbourhoods considered famously detached.
On New Year’s Day, I layered and then laced up for my first ever Parkrun.
Liverpool face Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night and I think it has become their biggest Premier League match of the season.
First impressions leave a lasting mark and a year into his reign as Manchester United’s chief decision-maker, a damning verdict has been cast on co-owner Jim Ratcliffe and his Old Trafford management team.
Unionists would do well not to rest on their laurels when it comes to the question of a border poll.
It’s time to wipe the slate and welcome a new year – but what will 2025 bring?
Murder memorabilia - or Murderabilia as it’s called - is not a new concept, but it has risen in popularity in tandem with the rise of public interest in true crime.
Lily Phillips has written – for want of a better phrase - her way into the record books with her 100 man sex orgy.
Santa’s making his list, but just in case he doesn’t have time to check it twice, this week I’m giving him a dig out with a list of those who’ve been naughty, nice, and somewhere in between.
Believe me, when it comes to sports, I like to keep my emotions very much to myself.
Predictions of Conor McGregor’s demise will prove to be greatly exaggerated.
Does cancelling a celebrity truly hit them in the pocket?
Liverpool have waited a long time for this moment and they need to grasp it with both hands.
There was a time when Conor McGregor may have been considered a role model for young men and women in Ireland.
Inside Court No.24 it’s just after 9am and the media bench is already filling up. It’s Friday November 22 and the jury in the civil trial of Conor McGregor and James Lawrence are beginning their second day of deliberations.
Is life really better when you’re tall? Ask Daniel Barlow.
For the best part of 20 years, I have been waging a campaign against the deterioration and decline of the game of Gaelic football.
Surely this is the end for Erik ten Hag at Manchester United.
The shock death of Liam Payne brought into sharp focus how the demise of celebrities is both reported and regarded relative to regular folk.
In the weeks after the Regency Hotel attack which left David Byrne dead and cartel chief Daniel Kinahan under no illusion that there was a bullet with his name on it, something unusual began to happen online.
Football fans around the world will be contending with Premier League withdrawal symptoms this weekend and their angst will not go unnoticed by those counting the financial numbers that matter.
What a difference a win makes.
Kris Kristofferson was always my hero. From my student days, his music clicked with me. He put words on my feelings better than I could myself. His songs helped me navigate life differently. His music and insights for decades inspired me. Even …
I devour beauty tips like chips for a hangover, but Carol Vorderman’s are a tip too far.
Pit bulls across the country this week have gone from beloved family pets to banned ‘devil dogs’.
Here I am about to disclose some secret information about this column: guess what generates the most anger and divided opinion? I know what you are thinking – you are saying, ‘All of them’.
I recently had the privilege of launching a fascinating book about the first showband in Ireland - The Clipper Carlton Showband. It’s a brilliant book written by Patricia Shearer, the wife of the lead singer of the ‘Clippers,’ Don Shearer. It is a …
It’s safe to say you won’t find Roy Keane braving an ice bath this morning.
I’m rushing across town on a busy Friday late afternoon. I’m late, as always, delayed in the office recording podcasts about criminals and their antics in the ever-changing underworld.
Last Saturday I was interviewed on RTE Radio One by Brendan O’Connor about the scoping inquiry into sexual abuse in schools run by religious orders.
