Hilary Fannin: Here it’s beaten into us to worry about a clean soul, not a sock drawer

Hilary Fannin: In the domestic arena, boilers and their idiosyncrasies can represent the last frontier between sanity and full-blo(...)

Hilary Fannin: An MRI scan made me realise what we accept about death

At the beach, the dog would sniff out swimmers’ carefully tucked-away underwear and eat it

Hilary Fannin: In the intensity of the moment one thing began to lead to another, my friend said

I’m on the frontline. In the past few years we’ve lost an entire generation

Hilary Fannin: Does great age make death easier? Of course it does. How could it not?

Hilary Fannin: I no longer gaze, slack-jawed and pinched with envy, at beautiful young couples entwined on matching beach towels

Hilary Fannin: My mother looked at me as if from a great distance . . .

This time I’m serious about finishing with Gwyneth Paltrow’s online lifestyle magazine

Hilary Fannin: So many friends tied the knot in their early 20s. How are they still hitched?

Hilary Fannin: When I look back I see a cloudless blue sky above our suburban road

Hilary Fannin: The image of Alan Kurdi’s body, washed up on a Turkish beach in 2015, was, for many of the students, emblematic of (...)

Hilary Fannin: My mother never really played tennis, just randomly lobbed rubber balls around the grassy courts, turning young men(...)

Hilary Fannin is getting fed up with Goop's white cotton shirts and irony-free advice

Hilary Fannin: Catching peace in communion with the past on a warm day in June

Hilary Fannin: I thought this while surrounded by bejewelled women drinking wine on a flight to Malaga

Hilary Fannin: Informing women of their breast density could save lives

A friend coming home from London reminded me that the past does not recede

Hilary Fannin: I marvel at how any woman in her 40s could spend time with a kid who produces more sebum than cash

Hilary Fannin: Home-hunting in Dublin these days is not for the faint of heart

Hilary Fannin: Young writers’ work is punching its way onto the Abbey stage

Hilary Fannin: They used to emerge when I brought food back to the house. Now it’s just me and the cat

Hilary Fannin: A&E is an oil slick of ailing humanity the State seems unable to absorb

Hilary Fannin: The fight that parents in Ireland face on behalf of their autistic children is exhausting

Hilary Fannin: At a push, I could be a tolerable dog-walker, but that’s about as far as my altruism extends

Hilary Fannin: If you are a woman the media is more likely to critique your footwear - just ask Amal Clooney

Hilary Fannin: The Ikarians who live 10 years longer than other Europeans have it right

Hilary Fannin: 'We were the chosen ones but St Patrick did not protect the babies who died at Tuam’

Hilary Fannin: Sexually-active oldies leaving exhausted 30-somethings in shade

Hilary Fannin: Demented morning pick-me-up did little to quell my Torschlusspanik

Hilary Fannin: It’s liberating to not be caught up in a model lifestyle

Hilary Fannin: Let’s hope this oddly quirky, uniquely Irish organisation will some day shunt itself into the contemporary world an(...)

A shock cancer diagnosis has taken Hilary Fannin's coolest friend through hell and back

Occasional forays into mindfulness websites make me want to buck the trend and dwell savagely in the past

Hilary Fannin is on the cusp of resentment of youth and yearning for slippers and camomile tea

New-year schedules are sagging under the sheer density of unwanted flesh that we seem to have accumulated over the festive season

Time’s arrow points to wisdom of not putting off important things

Hilary Fannin: Tonight is Nollaig na mBan, a last dance, a chance to regroup

You must ideally bring something that pops (no, not your waistband fasteners)

Although the notion of matching plates, or indeed glasses, finding their way on to my table is about as alien as Donald Trump on a(...)

They’re not joking about time speeding up the older you get

Hilary Fannin: The Alaskan’s Yuletide book feels more frightening in the Trump era

In the wake of the American election I feel like I’m waiting for a horror show to start

With the clack of wealth on bruise-coloured marble nothing seemed real, just like now

Hilary Fannin: There is a world of possibility beyond the creaking gate

The cosy concept has a natural fit with Danes but shiny premature Christmas is more us

‘Mainstream’ includes actors who have at various times been ignored and marginalised because of disability and ethnicity

‘Re-virginising’, all the rage, makes as much sense as carrying a dog in a handbag

My pilgrimage was entirely secular, but no less meaningful for that

Women's writing for Women's Day: The water pipe spurted merrily as my present husband googled ‘how to stem a flood’

We weren’t parented; just given an occasional boiled egg and left to the wolves

How to be a Man: The male grooming industry is expanding at a rate of knots

My enthusiasm for the gym fell apart when I realised I could go for a walk for free

Times may change, but ‘cosmetically unfit’ birds will never be allowed to fly

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini’s stance on the gagging clause with her young lover is to be lauded

13 years on, it’s hard to see the new Cold Feet defining fiftysomethings the way the original series did for thirtysomethings

Apparently there is a whole generation out there too exhausted to gird their loins for some loin-girding

It’s easier to focus one’s frustrations on stain removal than to admit to impotent rage at the world

Hilary Fannin: ‘A sense of how moving it might be for emigré families to see young women breathe new life into their ancestry’

Hilary Fannin: We just don’t seem to be able to get enough of this ‘celebration of Irish women and their achievements’

Hilary Fannin: Recently I read with a frisson of fear and recognition about the number of Irish women dying from alcohol-related i(...)

In one row, four brothers are buried side by side, their deaths occurring at two-year intervals

The Churchills' domestic arrangements sprang to mind when I was looking at a list of American bestsellers for 2016, which included(...)

Friends occasionally hit on small mantras, dropped clues in the forest of our shared decade, which they polish and hew to get them(...)

We would disembark from the train at Killarney, my mother and I, around the same time every year, for our annual summer visit to K(...)

I had thought cricket grounds would feel exclusive, tight. I was wrong

As her memoir, Hopscotch, comes out in paperback, the Irish Times columnist recalls having to overcome an aversion to the word ‘I’(...)

My neighbour, who had always wanted a child, was told that she had about six months to conceive

I'm envious of our youth. Envious and scared

I am suspicious of assumptions of like-mindedness, but I thought I’d give the menopause meeting a go

If you really want your wedding to be on-trend, you should factor in a canine ring-bearer or a doggy usher. Apparently

Well of course I have ‘a long-lasting psychological or emotional condition’. Doesn’t everyone?

I loved Kinnegad, despite the disparaging rhyme my father taught me about it 100 years ago as we spluttered home along the road to(...)

Why am I drawn to the sun-kissed, horrendously expensive and nauseatingly exclusive lifestyle advice on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop?

The atmosphere at Baldoyle Musical Society is simultaneously familiar and deeply unfamiliar; old-fashioned maybe, gently arcane

Two beach-ready girls sat on the floor of the blue corridor; restless young men with chalk-white faces loomed around the plastic s(...)

This handy guide will lead you to the premium seats and your very own shoebox full of studded Miu Mius ... and beyond

How walking can help destigmatise an illness that used to be shoved to the back of the cupboard

It wasn’t the first time I had had a call-back for further investigation after a mammogram

The sweet Spanish woman I met on the flight home was looking forward to seeing the Giant Goose Way

We needed puberty in the 1970s. Good God, we needed any help we could get, crawling over the line to our sexual selves

We are about as cheery and Zen as a brace of lightly spiced battery-fed chickens in the run-up to barbecue season

‘There were women, friends, who genuinely didn’t know each other were gay,’ says my friend Janice as she prepares to get married

I recently had a reunion with a Dutch friend who had immigrated here when change was in the air

The friendship of the four of them, their gang, their cabal, spanned the decades

Great news: ‘Moderate consumption of Champagne has the potential to influence cognitive functioning, such as memory’

I bet Jerry Hall never goes out with her underwear stuck to her raincoat

I’ve almost convinced myself that with a little effort, a little less vino, this year just might unravel more energetically and gr(...)

I can’t stand the Christmas-fatty-New-Year-skinny tripe that we swallow down like a laxative every year

The rapacious old tart of a tree was the thing that drew me to this house, and now the chainsaws were out for her

Any pearl of wisdom compact enough to fit on a fridge magnet or the side of a coffee mug should be utterly rejected on the grounds(...)

Where’s the point in beating yourself to a stiff brandy-cream peak wondering why your Christmas is teetering on the brink of medio(...)

The dress I bought for an awards ceremony was tailored for a woman from many years ago, almost definitely before the advent of tak(...)

Three days of walking under a pale sun and red rooftops, necks craning, as instructed by the guidebook, to note the Baroque, the R(...)

‘When you’re lying face down on the bathroom floor, trying to cool the raging thermostat inside you by clutching at the cold floor(...)

What’s an unco-operative calculator compared with an unreconstructed he-man?

Who knew my lumpy old sweater would end up on Goop?

Taking kids on pilgrimage to see One Direction takes its toll

‘Ah, Dickie Rock. I think he’s past his sell-by date,’ one of the women at the swimming pool said