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  • 3 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Emer McLysaght

    Last week, I accidentally posted my one and only hair roller to France. Why do I own just one? A fair question. During my most recent visit to the salon, I asked for a “bit of a fringe”. Knowing me as she does and knowing I absolutely did not have any at home, my incredible hairdresser Lisa presented me with a singular roller as I was leaving, so I could attempt to style it myself. The fringe has been a hit, and I have bowled over at least two gatherings with the volume I’ve created.

  • 1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Emer McLysaght

    “You’d have passed your test with that.”The words, dear readers, of a veteran teacher of the good and great of Dublin’s bus-driving community. Spoken to me, a mere mortal, after just half an hour of double-decker training after I reversed the behemoth into a bus parking space. I can die happy.

  • 1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Emer McLysaght

    When I sat down to watch Conclave, the acclaimed 2024 film starring Ralph Fiennes, I didn’t expect to find it so funny. The cardinals pulling their little wheelie suitcases across the cobbles of the Vatican, the vape breaks, the gossiping, the Machiavellian undertones. It was all so entertaining and camp.

  • 1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Emer McLysaght

    It recently came to my attention that squirrels don’t hibernate. This information, delivered by AI against my will, shook me to my core. It was a gentle shake, but a shake nonetheless. I was Googling “Is it okay to feed the squirrels?” – more on that shortly – when Google’s “AI Overview” function not only scolded me for even thinking it might be okay to feed the squirrels, but also delivered the “no hibernating” news. “Have squirrels ever hibernated?” was my next search.

  • 1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Emer McLysaght

    This article discusses food, diets, eating disorders and weight, including numerical values. The first time I went to Weight Watchers I was in my school uniform. I was not a fat child, nor was I a fat teenager. My fifth-year skirt – a hand-me-down from someone taller and naturally more willowy than me – just about fit me at the best of times. It sat more comfortably when I gently starved myself the autumn I was 17, and was tight again a few months later when my body fought to renourish itself.

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18 Apr 25

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12 Oct 24

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