Brianna Parkins: I won’t make my life harder. I’ll take the lift, eat biscuits, choose easy
Extreme thinness is back and a self-denial boom is on the way, I will resist
Brianna Parkins: The invisible working-class line where things are ‘not for people like us’
My father is 65, has lived in Sydney his entire life, but he has never set foot inside the Sydney Opera House
Brianna Parkins: Give me abrasive honesty over Irish plámásing any time
In Ireland there’s a sense that people and situations just need to be ‘handled’ - it doesn’t wash with Australian directness
Is it any wonder young women fantasise about becoming stay-at-home girlfriends?
We did everything feminism told us to do. We got an education. A good job. But we don’t feel free. We’re frazzled and burnt out
Brianna Parkins: I have a ‘negative entity’. Cleansing it costs €1,400
A basic cleanse ‘started’ at €1,400. The spirit was staying, then
I don’t want to be in a state of perma-annoyance, but how can I not be?
Refusal to do basic research, documentaries that are glorified ads, online entrepreneurs - it’s hard not to be annoyed at these things
‘It must be nice to have a partner who is understanding,’ my boyfriend said
People seemed more upset with a man missing a game to have a family than with a man who missed a birth for a match
Brianna Parkins: The Beckhams gifted us one of the best weeks on the internet after the Coldplay couple
The Beckham family conflict gifted us one of the best weeks on the internet - we can’t get enough of other people’s messy relationship dramas
Brianna Parkins: I hate the Dublin Bushman and his scaring of young women for money
I hate the bushman. Or rather what he does, which is scaring people, filming it and monetising it on the internet
Brianna Parkins: I’m using my house deposit to freeze my eggs
I am the only one in my family’s history to be this old without children
I have given up on self-improvement for 2026. I will be the same lumpen, bad tempered hobgoblin
I do not want to be the most optimised version of myself, with a pert Pilates bottom and the perfect slicked back bun. Instead, I want to be useful
The only way I could afford to come back to Dublin is if the Irish Government hired me for a very specific role
The only way I could afford to come back to Dublin is if the Irish Government hired me for a very specific role
Brianna Parkins: Pensions are sexy, and 33 other things I wish I had known at 15
I love that the older I get, the more I realise how little I know. But these are the 35 things I wish I knew at 15
Brianna Parkins: I don’t enjoy Christmas as much as I did as a kid
Every time we stop trying to meet invisible Christmas expectations, an elf is taken from Santa’s workshop and shot in front of his family
Brianna Parkins: The Australian ambassador to Ireland came over for dinner recently
Wherever I find myself in life, I should in theory always be able to style it out with grace and self-confidence




