Warning: bad sex may lead to a good heart
Vaseline. Prized for thickening eyebrows, healing cuts and aiding shoehorns, but a rabid pest if lobbed into rookie hands. It was 1988 and I was emigrating to London in three days and thought it might...
View ArticleOperation Beautiful
Self esteem can be a fragile thing. While some people have a strong, inbuilt sense of self-confidence and self-worth, others struggle to see the true beauty in themselves, unable to see the good, and...
View ArticleChild Benefit – Who Benefits?
Every dog in the street knows that expenditure has to be shaved and shaved till the bony bits show through, but what is happening in the UK with reforming the administration of child benefit is...
View ArticleLife in the Testosterone Zone
Once upon a time, during the mid-1980s, I was a fresh-faced and enthusiastic young undergraduate and subsequently post-graduate student at UCD. In 1987 I, along with 300 of my peers, two-thirds of them...
View ArticleThe W-Word
For my first Anti-Room post, I’m going to let loose a small rant that surfaces, on average, every few weeks. I kind of assume I’m carping to the converted, here, but even if not … well. This is my...
View ArticleSisters Doin’ It For Each Other
A few years ago a good friend of mine talked me out of my customary sloth and into agreeing to run the mini marathon with her. Seems a work colleague of hers was involved with a charity called Ruhama...
View ArticleGuest post: Women On Air (Again)
Radio producer Helen Mc Cormack offers a producer’s view of the lack of women on the air… Veronica Walsh is absolutely correct when she points out in her Antiroom post that there is a large gender...
View ArticleHow to be Caitlin Moran
The tragically paywalled Caitlin Moran, columnist and critic for The Times, has written a book called How to Be a Woman, which you also have to pay for – I know! – but which you absolutely should. The...
View ArticleFaith, weights and women
Being something of a weight lifting fanatic myself, it was with genuine consternation and confusion that I read the following article about a 35-year-old woman who wishes to compete in weight lifting...
View ArticleOne man, four wives, 16 children, and a whole lotta love
Reality TV has foisted a great number of ugly things on us – step forward, Big Brother and Jersey Shore – but it still remains the best way to journey into somebody else’s life in a totally new way....
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