Tanya Sweeney

4 weeks ago | independent.ie | Tanya Sweeney

He may be used to asking the questions, but Tommy Tiernan is rarely short of things to say. From quantum physics to parenting, buying a motorbike and banning phones at his gigs, the funnyman has a lot to say... Tommy Tiernan starts every morning with a double espresso (and, very occasionally, a cigar) and no wonder. You’d want to be fairly caffeinated to keep up with the Galway-based actor/comedian’s significant workload.

4 weeks ago | independent.ie | Tanya Sweeney

Tanya Sweeney: Is it too extreme to ban phones from any place where humans are trying to connect and meet? ‘You cannot fall into the moment fully if you’re wondering about what caption you’ll use when you post on Instagram later.’ Photo posed. An email arrived from a friend of mine who is currently on a business trip to — if you don’t mind — Panama. At one group dinner, she wrote to tell me, guests were ordered/encouraged to put their mobile phones in locked-in bags for the duration of the dinner.

4 weeks ago | independent.ie | Tanya Sweeney

Tanya Sweeney: Is to too extreme to ban phones from any place where humans are trying to connect and meet? 'We’ve all been at dinner parties where phones glint on the table.' Photo posedAn email arrived from a friend of mine who is currently on a business trip to — if you don’t mind — Panama. At one group dinner, she wrote to tell me, guests were ordered/encouraged to put their mobile phones in locked-in bags for the duration of the dinner. As a Gen Xer, she was more than down for that.

1 month ago | independent.ie | Tanya Sweeney

Carrie Bradshaw and Co were sexual libertines to women like me, but younger generations are having none of itThis week sees the return of Sex and the City’s spin-off show And Just Like That… a series that should be studied by scholars for being at once our favourite hate-watch and a critically panned ratings hit. The New York Times called it “painful”, while BBC trashed it as “awkward”.

1 month ago | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Tanya Sweeney

The possibility of weight regain is just one variable that people on medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro need to consider if they decide to stopJohn Kane always had an easy solution to being overweight: buy bigger suits. And then, came one fateful afternoon. “I remember sitting on the couch, and I dropped something and I went, ‘yeah, I’ll leave that’,” the 76-year-old from Killiney, Co Dublin recalls. It reminded him of his mother, who had mobility issues in her final years.