Aisling Keenan

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Aisling Keenan

I am seeking your assistance in highlighting a serious consumer-affairs issue regarding a long-standing failure to address a health and safety hazard in my apartment. Since reporting a dangerously loose window to the management agency, late last year, I have been met with delay after delay, despite repeated follow-ups. While I was initially told a contractor would be consulted, no meaningful action has been taken, and I have been forced to arrange my own temporary fixes.

1 week ago | aislingmkeenan.substack.com | Aisling Keenan

There are bad weeks, there are chaotic weeks, and then there are weeks where you travel to another country to see Beyoncé and somehow end up with a respiratory infection, vertigo, a €150 Uber charge, a hotel mouse, and a missing passport.

3 weeks ago | aislingmkeenan.substack.com | Aisling Keenan

As I sit here writing, it’s just turned 9.21pm and it’s still as bright as it was at 3pm – I bloody love Ireland, and I love our seasons, and I love that our climate is temperate and doesn’t show off with extremes (too often). Yes, as I sit here writing, it’s just turned 9.21pm, and I’m still working, just like I was at 3pm.

1 month ago | aislingmkeenan.substack.com | Aisling Keenan

A quick note to say three things, two not important and one QUITE important. I really hope you read/enjoyed the piece earlier about the woman who cheated on her husband. I literally put a call out on Instagram and this woman’s story was so compelling and she was so good at telling it that I knew I had to write it up. There was SO much more that we talked about that I had to chop for brevity, but if it gets a good reaction, I might do a part 2?

1 month ago | aislingmkeenan.substack.com | Aisling Keenan

She’s 44, works in HR for a finance company and is from Cork but lives in Dublin. She’s a mam to two teenagers (19 and 17) and has been married to her husband for 16 years. From the outside, she had what most people would see as a happy, comfortable life. No one would’ve known to speak to her that she was anything other than a great wife and mother and a good person. Then last year, she had an affair. What follows is a conversation I had with her (over email) about the ‘why’.