Tanya Sweeney

1 week ago | independent.ie | Tanya Sweeney

Think you’ve had Monday-itis? Well, spare a thought for my friend who was going back into work this week with the theme tunes of Glenroe and Where In The World? seemingly blaring in her brain at full pelt. Because this particular Monday meant the influx of student placements at her workplace. The very thought of dealing with temporary, twentysomething colleagues seemed to vex her greatly. “You can instantly tell when they’ve never had a client-facing job in their life.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Tanya Sweeney

The Best of Everything follows Paulette, whose life is upended when the love of her life is killed, but the darkness is broken by her friendship with indefatigable Irishwoman MaggieThe distance between where we want to go in life and where we end up is often vast; nowhere more so than here, in Kit de Waal’s fifth novel. Paulette is madly in love with Denton and, in her late 20s, she sees their lovely life together unfolding in glorious Technicolor.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Tanya Sweeney

Karen Davis was sick of big brands overlooking women in midlife, so she retrained, wrote a book and launched a beauty box service aimed at middle-aged women. Here, she shares some of the wisdom she learned along the way Back in 2018, Karen Davis was juggling life as the owner of a beauty PR brand and mother to two sons. When they grew up and left home, she wasn’t expecting what happened next. “I’d been a working mum where the kids go to school and you’re like: ‘Boom, off you go.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Tanya Sweeney

The music icons made up recently after 20 years of insulting each other publicly – but offering an olive branch to your feuding foe is easier said than doneSome people, for reasons I wish I could fathom, absolutely love a famous-on-famous feud. It energises them to think of snide insults being traded in the press, lawsuits and counter lawsuits, froideur on the red carpet. They just can’t get enough of this toxic, acidic awfulness.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Tanya Sweeney

‘This DJ said, “Look at Imelda May, I mean, she’s a bit long in the tooth to be releasing music”’ – sexism in the Irish music industryIn her new book, activist Linda Coogan Byrne exposes the startling gender inequality in Irish music. Here, she talks about the shock statistics, female artists’ struggle to get airplay and why everyone from labels to promoters and radio bosses keep passing the buckLinda Coogan Byrne. Photo: Maria Quintero Guerrero“Men make better music than women.”