“New Year is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, friendly calls...

They started back in September; even earlier in some cruel instances. The countdown to Christmas, ads and supermarket displays showing us...

“The uncanny valley” - a term coined to describe the unsettling feeling of looking at a human face that doesn’t look quite right; think...

"What is really important for a woman, more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining." If you’re wondering what great...

You might ask yourself, “who is she to pen a book on parenthood?”. Am I a doctor? No (well, I consider myself, like many others, to be...

I was quoted in an interview last year as comparing the sleep deprivation that comes with having a new baby to Guantanamo Bay. My heart...

I’ve never believed that youth is wasted on the young. If we were handed it back at a later stage, we’d be too cautious with it, too...

The last few years have seen an upsurge in “alternative Christmas dining”. As low-cost supermarkets bring in frozen lobsters for a tenner...

At any given time, you can find the longest queues in the world in one of two places; a newly opened attraction at a theme park, and in...

Ah, Father’s Day. Invented some time in the 1980s by the people who brought us such celebrations as Children’s Dental Health Week, National

I’ve been thinking a lot of late (I say “a lot”, but it’s mainly just within that spare five minutes I have at 4am) about women and...

This fine publication is much taken up with talk of new season fashion and all thing Irish this month: two things which not so many moons...

My now 13 month old baby is (for the most part) a great eater. I find myself swelling with pride if people remark on it, as they see him...

I’m so excited by the buzz The M Word has generated so far. It’s reassuring to know my random thoughts and mild panics at 4am are not...

Four decades on this planet and I have only recently learned the truth about swans. It transpires that although for the most part they do...

In the year 2015 BC (before child), I received lots of advice and tips, and even a photo of someone’s damaged vagina. Most of it I...

You know what’s worse than the days that go wrong as a parent? The days that almost went right. So close to perfect parenting you could...

When my baby was two months old, I heard those six little words that before then I had believed were a myth propagated by magazine...

Ah mother and baby groups. The very thought of them goes through me. Yes, it’s lovely for baby, good for Mum to have adult company and so...

If you’ve never flown solo with a baby and would like to know what it’s like, just put an angry cat into one of those sturdy bags for...