Emer McLysaght: The very mention of the ‘W’ word sends me into a mini-rageAfter two years of pandemic-enforced walks, isn’t it enough to just lie on the couch letting episodes of Yellowjackets wash over me while playing Wordle?Sat Feb 05 2022 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: I’m fascinated by Leo Varadkar’s grim aestheticThat birthday cake post on social media was just the latest example of his domestic austeritySat Jan 29 2022 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: TikTok is good for me. I’ve stopped giving myself a hard time about itThe app is bringing me hope and joy at a time when it’s really thin on the groundSat Jan 22 2022 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: I’m a driver, but the cyclist is always right‘The second time I cycled in Dublin city I was screamed at by a taxi driver for daring to share the road’Sun Jan 16 2022 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: No home improvement show is too bonkers for me to watchTinie Tempah’s Extraordinary Extensions? Healy Rae’s Cow Shed? I’m inSat Jan 08 2022 - 06:00
Runny pudding and a megalomaniac Garth Brooks lead my 2022 predictionsEmer McLysaght dares to look at the year aheadSat Jan 01 2022 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: I haven’t been to a Christmas Mass in yearsThat doesn’t mean I don’t miss it, and that I don’t feel like a hypocrite for missing itFri Dec 24 2021 - 00:00
Emer McLysaght: In defence of being a Crazy Cat LadyI used to hate the misogynistic cliché, but now I’m leaning into itSat Dec 18 2021 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: Why are men so bloody hard to buy presents for?With Christmas looming I beseech the men of Ireland to tell us what they wantSat Dec 11 2021 - 06:00
Nothing says festive warmth like The Muppets, Home Alone and some psychological horrorEmer McLysaght: Netflix knows all too well that I am a divil for a Christmas comfort filmSat Dec 04 2021 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: I am never more of a Complete Aisling than when I’m on holidaysI just took my first flight in two years, so obviously I was in an organisational flapSat Nov 27 2021 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: My sparkling water addiction is getting out of handCarbonated water initially tastes of TV static or liquid pins and needles, but now I’m hookedSat Nov 20 2021 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: Ireland’s eating disorder treatment is a national disgrace, and I should knowI was granted that almost mythical HSE funding but I had a number of things in my favourSat Nov 13 2021 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: ‘A phone call without warning is an act of aggression’A ringing phone means bad news, or somebody wants something from meSat Nov 06 2021 - 06:00
We need to calm down about Irish people and their accentsEmer McLysaght: We have an odd national obsession with how our celebrities speakSat Oct 30 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: I’m a climate terrorist and I feel guilty and confusedWe must see the value in both daily change and civil resistanceSat Oct 23 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: Will you turn off the Big Light there?It’s a necessary foe and autumn means it’s the big fella on the ceiling’s time to shineSat Oct 16 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: After three decades of period pain I want a medal, or at least to be taken seriouslySometimes it’s hard to be a woman, especially if you want quality medical careSat Oct 09 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: How I learned to stop hating Sundays4.45pm on a Sunday was the beginning of the end. The descent into oblivionSat Oct 02 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: Turns out I was right to be terrified of quicksand all alongIt haunted my childhood and now the soupy sand has made a reappearanceSat Sept 25 2021 - 01:00
An exclusive extract from Aisling in the City, the new Complete Aisling bookAisling’s off to a fancy new job in New York, but first she’s flying business classSat Sept 18 2021 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: Please, Great British Bake Off, heal our pandemic wounds with your creamy hornsThe show returns on Tuesday and while it might not fix the world at least it brings joySat Sept 18 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: Please stop acting as if liking coffee is a personality trait‘Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my first cup.’ Don’t talk to me, everSat Sept 11 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: Welcome to Ireland, where you get away with nothingSlagging is a national bonding pastime. Laughing at ourselves is where we shineSat Sept 04 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: I’m convinced I’m going to win a house in a raffleTrying for a mortgage is too traumatic so I’m going to win a home using old-fashioned good luckSat Aug 28 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: When will we just leave trans people to get on with their lives?The ‘debate’ is redundant, because you cannot deny that trans people existSat Aug 21 2021 - 01:00
Love Island is struggling. I know how to save itEmer McLysaght: It hurts to admit it, but they are ‘dragging the proverbial a**e’ out of Love IslandTue Aug 17 2021 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: Only an animal would take two rolls from a bread basketThe rules of bread basket politics are nuanced and many; never more so than at a weddingSat Aug 14 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: I’m absolutely furious at my dad for going and dyingToday is my parents’ golden wedding anniversary, and we don’t even get to have a partySat Aug 07 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: I was a bogger at Trinity, maybe the world needs my novel tooStand aside Snowflake and Normal People, I’m here with tales from the science blockSat Jul 31 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: I’m a smart and suspicious person, and I fall for Love Island every timeWarmth, humour, empathy and even love – they’re all there beneath the tans and the undulating duvets. Take it from a super fanSat Jul 24 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: I’m child-free by choice and I don’t blame you if you hate meThe path to the normalisation of child-free living is paved with resentment and fearSat Jul 17 2021 - 01:00
Emer McLysaght: The seven people you will certainly meet on your holiday in IrelandThe old man on a bike, the person you are loosely connected to – we’ve seen them allSat Jul 10 2021 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: Apparently I’m a ‘Geriatric Millennial’. I have found my peopleI fell between two generational marketing terms – a textbook First World Millennial gripeSat Jul 03 2021 - 06:00
Emer McLysaght: I spend my week wondering what my therapist thinks of meIf there’s a league table of patients, then I want to be number oneSat Jun 26 2021 - 08:08
Never Greener review: A tale of sad lives where redemption is hard to findRuth Jones’s gripping debut novel centres on two marriages under threat by an old affairSat Apr 07 2018 - 06:00
My mam and the 30-year-old dishwasher that never diedThey do not make appliances the way they used to, and the same could be said for my mamFri Feb 02 2018 - 06:00
A Christmas story by Joseph O’Connor, Lisa McInerney, John Boyne, Emer McLysaght, Maeve Higgins and more...Ten writers play a game of pass the baton to create a Christmas mystery about an elf from Elphin and a magic crystalSat Dec 23 2017 - 06:00
Operation Trumpsformation review: Rosser’s on form againRoss O’Carroll-Kelly rugby-tackles class, gender, sexual and actual politics in his new bookSat Sept 23 2017 - 06:00
What a Complete Aisling: The story of a very particular type of Irish girlShe started off as a Facebook page by friends Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght. It turned out everybody knows an Aisling, or is an Aisling. Read an extract of Aisling, the novelSat Sept 09 2017 - 06:00
John Player Tops, a cigarette-sponsored talent show to rival X FactorFor decades, Tops of the Town, in which companies entered thousands of staff in a giant talent competition, obsessed the nationThu Aug 10 2017 - 05:00
