Here are the valuable life lessons I’ve learned in nearly a decade

Extreme thinness is back and a self-denial boom is on the way, I will resist

My father is 65, has lived in Sydney his entire life, but he has never set foot inside the Sydney Opera House

In Ireland there’s a sense that people and situations just need to be ‘handled’ - it doesn’t wash with Australian directness

We did everything feminism told us to do. We got an education. A good job. But we don’t feel free. We’re frazzled and burnt out

A basic cleanse ‘started’ at €1,400. The spirit was staying, then

Refusal to do basic research, documentaries that are glorified ads, online entrepreneurs - it’s hard not to be annoyed at these things

People seemed more upset with a man missing a game to have a family than with a man who missed a birth for a match

The Beckham family conflict gifted us one of the best weeks on the internet - we can’t get enough of other people’s messy relationship dramas

I hate the bushman. Or rather what he does, which is scaring people, filming it and monetising it on the internet

I am the only one in my family’s history to be this old without children

I do not want to be the most optimised version of myself, with a pert Pilates bottom and the perfect slicked back bun. Instead, I want to be useful

The only way I could afford to come back to Dublin is if the Irish Government hired me for a very specific role

I love that the older I get, the more I realise how little I know. But these are the 35 things I wish I knew at 15

Every time we stop trying to meet invisible Christmas expectations, an elf is taken from Santa’s workshop and shot in front of his family