Columnists Nadine O’Regan: ‘Best Before’ wars in your kitchen? Put your faith in the mothers of the 1980sM&S's plan to remove the Best Before warning from certain products should help to keep lots of edible food out of the recycle bin, but it comes too late to save the perfectly good food that was lost before its time
Column Kathleen MacMahon: It’s a mystery how writers ever find the time to put pen to paper Is it any wonder the scraps of brilliant, unrealised ideas are piling up on my desk, with life knocking on the door every five minutes?
Comment Anton Savage: ‘If the cross-examination of Heard goes in Depp’s favour, it will provide a public victory immeasurably valuable to him’ As Johnny Depp’s legal battle rumbles on, the Hollywood megastar is drawing more and more attention to the kind of accusations no celebrity’s career could previously have been expected to bear
Nadine O’Regan: Impressive, wise and bang up to date? That’d be Kim Cattrall, not the infamous TV reboot she turned downThe former Sex and the City star decided to give And Just Like That . . . a miss. Which turned out to be a very good call on her part
column Esther O’Moore Donohoe: We must acknowledge and learn from our regrets, but then tell them to get in the sea At a certain point, you have to show your inner regrets who the boss is and cut them off at the pass. But it’s not always that easy
Edel Coffey: Women are no longer willing to remain silent – our health depends on itAlthough it was rightly criticised for its lack of diversity, the fact that a conference about women’s health in Ireland needed to be held at all told a story in itself
Andrea Cleary: Our unsustainable choices are going out of fashion like there’s no tomorrowFast-fashion retailers try to disguise environmental damage with organic cotton and buy-back schemes, but we can each make a real difference by turning to second-hand and repurposed clothes
Nadine O’Regan: You can’t ask for someone’s age in a job interview, so why do it to people we admire and for whom it may cause harm?As the years accumulate, the prospect of becoming invisible to the opposite sex and being discriminated against in the workplace increases. Is it any wonder that women are reluctant to reveal their age?
Kathleen MacMahon: We must confront the darker side of our nature and hope against hope that wisdom will prevailThe human capacity to do horrific things to fellow individuals has always been hard for us to process, now more so than ever
Nadine O’Regan: Forgive us our frivolities, we need some respite from real-world issues Between Covid, a general feeling of unease and war, who can blame us if we take occasional refuge in celebrity weddings and Derry Girls?
Anton Savage: Don’t let Le Pen and Putin ride high on anti-EU rhetoricIt is time we stopped taking Europe for granted and acknowledged all the benefits it has brought us
Nadine O’Regan: Playing the poor mouth is conduct unbecoming of a billionaireGrimes and Elon Musk want to spare us the stories of their great wealth, but wouldn’t it be better if they told it like it was?
Susan O’Keeffe: Zelenskyy has no choice but to continue the diplomatic circusIt is profoundly disturbing that this exhausted man has to lobby country after country as Russia’s invasion continues
Esther O’Moore Donohoe: Perks and recreation are only one side of tech drone lifeWe tend to envy those who’ve landed seemingly cushy jobs with Big Tech, but there’s a reason why those offices are filled with flashy freebies and distractions
Edel Coffey: It takes courage to walk away from what you thought you wantedMany people are shaking their heads at Ash Barty leaving tennis when she’s at the top of her game, but she’s absolutely right to put her own happiness first
Nadine O’Regan: Can Will Smith recover from the events of the past week? It depends on whether Hollywood likes him enough The incident at the Oscars will be a test of how Will Smith is seen by his peers
Kathleen MacMahon: When did I become a relic of an unimaginably distant past?I thought I belonged to the generation that broke the mould but, to my children, I seem as prehistoric as my parents did to me
Nadine O’Regan: Who has the right to tell us how long we may grieve our loved ones?That the US psychiatry body has just designated grief lasting more than a year as a mental illness is a disturbing indictment of our society
Susan O’Keeffe: What percentage of vital Census statistics are acted upon? The CSO does a fine job of gathering and presenting information, but how much of it is used to inform government policy?
Anton Savage: All I want is 24 hours in which nothing occurs On Friday, April 18, 1930, nothing whatsoever of news interest happened. In the increasingly insane here and now, I pine for a return to that decidedly unfateful day
