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Saoirse Ronan’s subtle slap delivers a stone-cold truth about women’s safety

There’s nothing that screams Friday night quite like settling down for the evening and tuning into The Graham Norton Show - I love it. From...

03.11.2024 10

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Liam Payne and the ultimate price of fame

CELEBRITIES are often denied dignity in death, particularly when they die young or unexpectedly. There is a thriving market in morbid memorabilia –...

26.10.2024 10

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Netflix’s Nobody Wants This shows there’s an appetite for love stories that take place later in life

IT’S a quest that has dominated people’s lives since the dawn of time, yet meeting the love of your life is usually depicted as a young person’s...

20.10.2024 10

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Paul Mescal and Gladiator II: The fate of the cinema is in your hands

Last week, for the first time in a long time, I went to the cinema to watch the new Joker: Folie à Deux film. The showing was in the Avenue Cinema,...

12.10.2024 10

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Why I’m sleeping in a tent outside Stormont

Probably, like most of Generation Z, I have never camped – not in the proper sense anyway. In order to have an ‘authentic’ camping experience I...

11.10.2024 30

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Grand Central Station, traffic jams, MOT delays and L-plate dramas

I am not a very confident driver – I will openly admit that. I once arrived home and was shocked to discover several ugly brown stripes along the...

06.10.2024 10

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Netflix’s ‘Monsters’ and true crime’s false narrative

PROLIFIC American television writer and director Ryan Murphy has been courting controversy since his career began. The unique style and transgressive...

28.09.2024 10

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Why the woke are saying ‘I don’t’

OVER the last few years my social media has become increasingly inundated with Facebook and Instagram posts by old school and university chums looking...

22.09.2024 10

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Flaky friendships? Sometimes it is more about quantity than quality

Over the last few decades pop culture has popularised intense, passionate female friendship: from the ironclad connection between Sex and the City’s...

14.09.2024 10

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Chappell Roan wants to be left alone

OF all my teenage phases, my stint as a 5 Seconds of Summer mega-fan is by far the most embarrassing. After stumbling across the melancholic black and...

07.09.2024 10

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Jermaine Jenas and the fine line between self-confidence and self-sabotage

I recently wrote about the relatively new phenomenon of cancel culture but on the flip side of that is the concept of self-sabotage. This is when...

31.08.2024 10

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Why Noah Kahan lost a fan

I remember the sheer delight I felt when, many months ago, I snagged two tickets to see Noah Kahan at Belfast Vital last Saturday. I was looking...

25.08.2024 40

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They call it puppy love

AS I write, Ferdy, our black, woolly, teddy bear-esque miniature schnauzer is sprawled on the floor fast asleep next to my desk. Don’t take this,...

18.08.2024 8

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Is it time we cancelled cancel culture and its ‘virtual vigilantes’?

DURING recent times, the notion that a person can be ‘cancelled’ – a word I must regularly accessorise with frilly quotation marks for my own...

03.08.2024 10

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New AI de-ageing could be a disaster

Let’s be honest: technology has improved my life in ways that still surprise and delight me on a daily basis. My phone is also a torch, my TV...

27.07.2024 9

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Dating shows today seem to be more about the love of the limelight

It might be hard to believe but despite being a self-professed hopeless romantic, dating shows aren’t really my thing. Don’t get me wrong - there...

20.07.2024 9

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Me and my premature quarter-life crisis

I was recently scrolling through Instagram, not paying much attention – there’s only so many pictures of people in well-coordinated outfits posing...

14.07.2024 10

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Nicola Coughlan’s body shape in Bridgerton shouldn’t be a source of debate

THE Bridgerton buzz that has been reverberating through social media for the last few months is hard to ignore. But, for those of you who haven’t...

06.07.2024 10

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‘After trying Tinder, Bumble and Hinge, I wish we could do it the old-fashioned way’

Is romance a thing of the past? Does the spontaneity and excitement of a romantic gesture still exist in today’s society? I don’t know about you...

29.06.2024 10

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The Oscar nominations are in and Kenough is Kenough

When I was younger I would occasionally stand in front of the bathroom mirror, hairbrush in hand, practising my acceptance speech at the Oscars just...

27.01.2024 10

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