Ciara Kelly

Ciara Kelly: What does Nicola Coughlan have to do for it to be accepted that her weight is the least interesting thing about her?

Ciara Kelly: At Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour I witnessed a celebration of the rich, mad tapestry of highs and lows of young womanhood

Ciara Kelly: When Robin Williams said sad people try hardest to make others happy, the sentiment was right but the motivation was wrong

Ciara Kelly: Three years ago, you’d get lambasted for saying tents on city streets were a bad thing. Now the opposite’s true but the tents remain

Ciara Kelly: It might surprise you to hear that I avoid conflict. Now, in my 50s, I’m just saying how I feel – it’s a revelation

Darragh McManus: Ryan Tubridy’s old show is shedding listeners...but what we really want to know is how he’s faring outside of Montrose

Ciara Kelly: Was there ever a more frequently exchanged tissue of lies than ‘we must do coffee’?

Ciara Kelly: There was no money in the Ireland of my youth but not everything was a ‘crisis’. Is Gen X the last happy generation?

Ciara Kelly: In a western world where we’re desperate to ‘be seen’ we care more about assaults on our ego than on our person

Ciara Kelly: I suffer from name blindness. When I’m introduced to someone, I forget their name instantly

Ciara Kelly: Getting my mobility back has changed my outlook – and I love it. I’m open to new ideas, projects and challenges

Shane Ross: After shaky reshuffle, new kid on the block Simon Harris has some growing up to do

Ciara Kelly: The SocDems need to focus less on their cool merch and more on an actual agenda for running the country

Ciara Kelly: Kids faking sickness to avoid school is a problem since the pandemic. I’m using tough love to get mine out the door

Ciara Kelly on her double hip replacement: ‘My life was shrinking. I was afraid I was going to end up disabled’

Ciara Kelly: Women being held back by women, and the rules around what a girl can or should do. We could call it toxic femininity

Ciara Kelly: Women don’t magically know how to be a mother. I went from terrified on my first child to expert by my fourth

Ciara Kelly: Not all masculinity is toxic, so why are we man bashing Gen Z and pushing them towards the likes of Andrew Tate?

Ciara Kelly: If we decriminalise drugs for personal use we’ll be sleepwalking into an abyss of health problems

The Facebook effect: As social media turns 20, Taryn de Vere and Ciara Kelly share how it changed their lives for the better and the worse

New committee elected at Macra Wexford AGM

Former Louth and Armagh star Brian McCoy has never lost his Orchard identity despite strong Wee ties

Free book bag and library card for Wicklow children starting school in September

Award winning Wexford jewellery designer launches latest handmade ‘Sea of Stars’ collection

Nursing home and apartment plans for Kerry town appealed to An Bord Pleanála