Emer McLysaght
Contributor at Irish Times
My neck, my back, my stories and my snacks. Writing, mostly with @sarahjaybee. Irish Times columnist. she/her. Contact via @sheilacrowley @CBGBooks
Articles
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1 week 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.
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2 weeks 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.
Emer McLysaght: Two decades after Weight Watchers, I still have unhealthy attitudes to certain foods
3 weeks 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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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Emer McLysaght
My best friend watches the sun like a hawk. Every spring she tracks it as it creeps around her side garden wall. She reports on its progress as it inches towards the far end of her clothesline and when it hits a certain spot she announces, like a 40-something Dublin 7 groundhog, that summer is on its way. She, like so many Irish people, lives for a sunny day. Particularly a sunny day with any bit of heat in it.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Emer McLysaght
During Covid someone in my neighbourhood invested in a can of spray paint and used their two-kilometre allowance to indulge in some street art. Their work wasn’t aesthetically pleasing. Rather it was in the “doom-laden chicken scratching” genre of graffiti. Among the warnings about killer jabs and Chinese conspiracies, though, was one portent that stuck with me. It warned about the dangers of “sleepwalking into a cashless society”.
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