I’m not sure who won the battle of the compliments
A colleague presented me with a tastefully arranged bouquet of compliments
From Savita Halappanavar to Anne Bonny: Damning indictment of the treatment of women through the ages shows its always been this way
Paul Muldoon and Kamala Sankaram’s new opera Custom of the Coast gives voice to Halappanavar and Bonny in powerful narratives that run alongside each other, until they collide unexpected ways
I tried to get my children to busk. I’ll never learn. Vicarious living through your children does not work
The spirit of 88 lives on, the Hothouse Flowers blaring from a phone and a streaming platform my 17-year-old busking self would think was some kind of voodoo magic
I roar at my daughter so loudly for not wearing a bike helmet, a passerby asks her if she is okay
When she says even with the roaring she stills wants to spend the day with me, I’m moved almost to tears and we hit the greenway
Dave Fanning: ‘I felt very sorry for Ryan Tubridy. He was vilified’
Fanning talks about being on air seven days a week, his movie-a-night habit, Ryan Tubridy and Yoko Ono
Rosie O’Donnell: ‘People say, you moved to Ireland, just forget about Trump. I can’t. The crimes are endless’
The comedian and actor on her move to Dublin to escape Trump’s US, how she struggled to accept the death of her mother, and her surprise that Sandymount is considered posh
I read the letter a couple of times. It didn’t irritate me...it filled me with joy
This letter seemed like a sign that things were back to normal and the statute of limitations on all that cancer sympathy had expired
Golfer Leona Maguire: ‘We came from a modest background. I don’t need a lot of money to keep me happy’
Ireland’s leading woman golfer on her favourite meal, rivalry with her twin and how she spends her money
Róisín Ingle: What a gift to get married when your children are there to see it
This will be our 25th summer together. None of us know how many more summers we have left
Róisín Ingle: This new play was the best thing I’ve seen on an Irish stage in a very long time
Kevin Barry’s The Cave is the best play I’ve seen on an Irish stage in a very long time, and the c-word is used quite a lot
The bond between John Lennon and Paul McCartney: ‘For sure they loved each other... they found a way to share that love with the world’
Ian Leslie, author of John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, on the partnership at the heart of The Beatles
I thought Paul McCartney had sent me a gift after my cancer diagnosis
I rang my friend Paul Howard, a huge Beatles fan, to tell him all about it
Not caring about exams was teenage me’s bluntest form of rebellion. My kids are different
They’re self-motivated, I think you’d call it. All I know is that I can take no credit for their industry
After Dolly Alderton’s party, I decided to ditch the impostor syndrome that’s dogged me
A man introduced himself to me as Nick Hornby but I’ve interviewed Nick Hornby before and it wasn’t the same man
I call out a chat’n’cut, Larry David style. I will never live down what happens next
It all starts so well, standing in a queue for drinks, as I shut down a man attempting to cut the queue and get praised for my fearlessness