Lynette Fay

1 week ago | irishnews.com | Lynette Fay

This time five years ago, resilience was fast becoming the buzz word of the pandemic. This week, the definition of resilience has been given a 2025 update. In the early hours of Monday morning we were all struggling to stay awake to watch history being made in Augusta. I know nothing about golf, but what I do know is that Rory McIlroy embodied resilience as he closed out that competition.

3 weeks ago | irishnews.com | Lynette Fay

Navigating friendships in your 40s is a strange one. There are the lifers - those who you have known since childhood, since schooldays really, and those you have picked up at various times in your life along the way. Some are constant, some drift in and out, others stay a while, then the friendship ends naturally. Some disappear for years but then find their way back. Of course there are fall outs, everyone falls out with someone at some stage in life, don’t they?

1 month ago | irishnews.com | Lynette Fay

I have become detached from posting on social media in the last few months. The busy phase of planning and building my new work life has left me with little energy to post and now I have fallen out of the habit of doing so. While I don’t feel the need to document every day or every job, every so often I take a burst at socials and I enjoy the interaction. I know that I should do it more often, and eventually I will try to ‘climb cringe mountain’ and put myself out there a bit more.

1 month ago | irishnews.com | Lynette Fay

March has certainly put a spring in our step. So far this week, in our house, we have been all about getting outdoors, Pancake Tuesday and today, World Book Day. Funnily enough, there wasn’t much enthusiasm shown for the beginning of Lent. How did our parents manage to convince us to even pretend that we wouldn’t eat sweets for 40 days and 40 nights? I can’t fathom taking on this conversation, or perhaps I should, if only to be entertained by the avoidance skills of a five-year-old.

2 months ago | irishnews.com | Lynette Fay

Beware the box set/podcast rabbit hole. How many of us are reluctant to watch a film these days but we will happily commit to watching two hour-long episodes of a box set in an evening? I do the same with podcasts. When I find one I really enjoy, I make time to get out of the house and go for a walk. In January, I caught up with the Disney series Say Nothing and the BBC Sounds podcast series Stakeknife. I had read about them, and both had been highly recommended.