I got Limericked before I even made it out of Shannon Airport – a record, even for me
It’s a joy to be home, but sometimes I wish Ireland would just let you love it without all the complexity
Is the notion of settling down a luxury my generation can’t afford or take for granted?
When you make the decision to emigrate, you’re forced to think about your life and future in a way that you can avoid more easily in familiar surroundings
I felt an urge to ‘scroll’ past some living people. My online and offline lives had blurred
Unthinkable: We have become more interested in the representations of things than the reality of those things
Five accessible reads to begin with if you’re new to philosophy
If you’re not already an enthusiast, don’t start at Kant or Nietzsche
As an Irish person in Australia, I can try to think of myself as suave and worldly, but I’m nothing of the sort
If you’re Irish, you’re always Irish in every situation. We can’t be anonymous anywhere
Millennials are the most therapised generation yet. So why aren’t we happy?
Unthinkable: A little more pop philosophy may help with our simultaneous over-immersion and poor literacy in pop psychology
We hit a second adolescence in our 60s, when beauty isn’t skin-deep but ‘life-deep’
In our culture, beauty is synonymous with youth. But there is another kind
Laura Kennedy: ‘On the supermarket shelf, Mr Tayto felt as relatable as any other Irish immigrant in a new country. Out of place’
Mr Tayto felt as relatable as any other Irish immigrant in a new country – out of place
These are the key signs an apology isn’t sincere
Unthinkable: Don’t say ‘sorry’ the way former US secret service director Kimberly Cheatle did
For the sake of your mental health, stop trying to have an opinion on everything all the time
Unthinkable: People are panicking, theorising and condemning on social media in every imaginable direction. But it’s all right not to have a view on everything all the time. In fact, it’s healthy
Laura Kennedy: You can’t escape yourself abroad, but you can find someone you’re less eager to escape from
When you emigrate, you shed the version of yourself that others consider to be who you are
It’s no wonder so many of us are lonely. Friendship has become harder and more complex
Unthinkable: Young people now spend less time in one another’s physical company than ever before and the experience of successive lockdowns deprived them of crucial social development
Here’s what the world doesn’t need: another woman writer complaining about masculinity
We tend to discuss what men are and should be, while suggesting it is inappropriate for men to comment on femininity or womanhood
I suspect the constant talk about Australia and spiders is a conspiracy to keep the sons and daughters of Éireann at home
Irish folks are obsessed with how living in Australia means constantly coping with arachnids. Well, I am now able to say, that’s a bit mad
Cases like Natasha O’Brien’s prompt a sudden, disquieting voice in collective consciousness
Suspended sentence for Cathal Crotty has raised questions about the nature of justice. It is easier to say when we feel its absence than to define it