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Nadine O’Regan: ‘Best Before’ wars in your kitchen? Put your faith in the mothers of the 1980s

M&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
  • Nadine O'Regan
  • July 30, 2022
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?
  • Kathleen MacMahon
  • July 15, 2022
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
  • Anton Savage
  • May 13, 2022

Nadine O’Regan: Impressive, wise and bang up to date? That’d be Kim Cattrall, not the infamous TV reboot she turned down

The 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
  • Nadine O'Regan
  • May 8, 2022
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
  • Esther O'Moore Donohoe
  • May 7, 2022

Edel Coffey: Women are no longer willing to remain silent – our health depends on it

Although 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
  • Edel Coffey
  • May 1, 2022

Andrea Cleary: Our unsustainable choices are going out of fashion like there’s no tomorrow

Fast-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
  • Andrea Cleary
  • April 27, 2022

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?
  • Nadine O'Regan
  • April 23, 2022

Kathleen MacMahon: We must confront the darker side of our nature and hope against hope that wisdom will prevail

The human capacity to do horrific things to fellow individuals has always been hard for us to process, now more so than ever
  • Kathleen MacMahon
  • April 22, 2022

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?
  • Nadine O'Regan
  • April 17, 2022

Anton Savage: Don’t let Le Pen and Putin ride high on anti-EU rhetoric

It is time we stopped taking Europe for granted and acknowledged all the benefits it has brought us
  • Anton Savage
  • April 17, 2022

Nadine O’Regan: Playing the poor mouth is conduct unbecoming of a billionaire

Grimes 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?
  • Nadine O'Regan
  • April 8, 2022

Susan O’Keeffe: Zelenskyy has no choice but to continue the diplomatic circus

It is profoundly disturbing that this exhausted man has to lobby country after country as Russia’s invasion continues
  • Susan O'Keeffe
  • April 8, 2022

Esther O’Moore Donohoe: Perks and recreation are only one side of tech drone life

We 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
  • Esther O'Moore Donohoe
  • April 7, 2022

Edel Coffey: It takes courage to walk away from what you thought you wanted

Many 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
  • Edel Coffey
  • April 1, 2022

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
  • Nadine O'Regan
  • April 1, 2022

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
  • Kathleen MacMahon
  • March 27, 2022

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
  • Nadine O'Regan
  • March 27, 2022

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?
  • Susan O'Keeffe
  • March 25, 2022

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
  • Anton Savage
  • March 18, 2022

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