Hilary Fannin: A splendid week for Brooklyn Beckham and meHe has a new luxury LA pad and personal tattoo, but I have an award and a sign off of my ownFri Jul 09 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Me and the affable stranger, lying in his bed with his dogEdward had everything he needed in his life, he told me – his home, his remote job, his petFri Jul 02 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: The vet spoke quietly. I knew the cat’s number was upThough nonplussed by God and Gwyneth Paltrow, the cat was a patient listenerFri Jun 25 2021 - 06:00
That man in the vaccination line. Did we dance a slow set 45 years ago, then swig pilfered vodka?Hilary Fannin: Maybe he now has a 27-year-old girlfriend with a butterfly tattoo on her backFri Jun 18 2021 - 06:00
‘Get through your 50s in good shape and you could well live to be 90’Hilary Fannin: What age are you, the nurse asks. ‘59? You’ve almost made it through sniper alley’Fri Jun 11 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Our wedding story? Met, got a bit sloshed, missed last bus, had two kidsI fear our how-we-met story might not live up to today’s dream-wedding expectationsFri Jun 04 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: I came into town on a mission to buy books and brasI sat by the duck pond in Stephen’s Green. The seagull shat with deft precision all over meFri May 28 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Camille? Julie? Amber? Whatever happened to plain old Spot the dog?How did we become a nation of oddly named dogs with wardrobes full of rainwear?Fri May 21 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Some people barely age in their own mirrorsI’m not sure what I see these days. A grimmer version of my mother, perhapsFri May 14 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Skirmishes on the eyedrops highway with my mangy moggieA spell of cat discipline ends in a hairball verdictFri May 07 2021 - 06:00
There are some notable old ruins in Howth (I count myself among them)Hilary Fannin: I know this headland so well, yet I still feel like an outsiderFri Apr 30 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Gwyneth’s vibrator can help you find your keys in the darkI had turned to the well-moisturised Goop guru for thoughts on why we may be losing our mojoFri Apr 23 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: He banged aggressively on my window and told me I was a b*tchWe get nicer as we get older? After my supermarket run-in, you could have fooled meFri Apr 16 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: ‘Please hold. Your life is meaningless and your worldview whimsical’Maybe, as Aldous Huxley once said, this world is another planet’s hell. Or maybe it’s full blown limboFri Apr 09 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Stumbling into the grim old Good Friday vortexYou can’t have a Marietta biscuit because that’s just more salt in poor Jesus’s woundsFri Apr 02 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: A lockdown sex scene on my local beachArching her back, the hot sand mimicking the burning in her loins, the woman gazed into his eyesFri Mar 26 2021 - 06:00
Just remind yourself: ‘I’m a covetous cretin, but my generosity with gin is legendary!’Hilary Fannin: In emulation of the vernal equinox tomorrow, try my enlightenment exerciseFri Mar 19 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: The St Patrick’s Day parade taught me I was IrishI didn’t understand why people stood in the drizzle to view Massey FergusonsFri Mar 12 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: The wild night out my party jacket never hadIt could’ve ended up crumpled and pungent on my bedroom floor, smelling of beer and vinegarFri Mar 05 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Some strangers need a good slap with a mackerelI’m developing Covid anger towards a breed of impatient middle-aged manFri Feb 26 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: The veganism has gone up the spout. I lost the will to pulse a mushroomWhat are the best bits of the pandemic? ‘Art class’, ‘being outside’, ‘talking to my mother’Fri Feb 19 2021 - 06:00
I thought about the 1,013 new cases and the 94 further deathsHilary Fannin: I knew they were not statistics but individuals with lives, loves, dreamsFri Feb 12 2021 - 06:00
Is it any wonder I never ran naked along the Seine?Hilary Fannin: My favourite Netflix series and Dublin’s sunrise swimmers offer a shared messageFri Feb 05 2021 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Even procrastibaking can’t stop the days disappearingTime has sped up yet slowed down. For much of last week I thought it was one continuous TuesdayFri Jan 29 2021 - 06:00
I was homeschooled by paper dolls and an amber-eyed dogHilary Fannin: I lived in a cottage on the edge of a cliff with my warring parentsFri Jan 22 2021 - 06:00
‘I’m thinking of leaving him, as soon as I can get beyond the 5km limit’Hilary Fannin: My generally optimistic friend has begun to fade over the past few monthsFri Jan 15 2021 - 06:00
‘My life has been wonderful. I want it back’Hilary Fannin: A year ago, my friend’s future was bleak but he reclaimed his lifeFri Jan 08 2021 - 06:00
I don’t want a lot for Christmas – and maybe that’s a good thingHilary Fannin: My one piece of advice for the festive season? Lower your expectationsFri Dec 18 2020 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: The house is quiet, the turkey’s out having her nails doneIs it unreasonable to speculate calm and solitude might be an aspiration this year?Fri Dec 11 2020 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: I developed a foreboding about being released from lockdownI’m no advocate of life in Level 5, but now it has ended I lament something of its stillnessFri Dec 04 2020 - 06:00
I yearn like a hungry dog for a camouflage DryrobeHilary Fannin: The cold-weather beach accessory has plunged Dublin into class warFri Nov 27 2020 - 06:00
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Christmas gift collection is out. It doesn’t disappointHilary Fannin: It includes a perfume rollerball called ‘This Smells Like My Orgasm’Fri Nov 20 2020 - 06:00
Don’t hygge me. This is going to be a lagom winterHilary Fannin: The current Scandi trend roughly translates as moderate, balanced, enough alreadyFri Nov 13 2020 - 06:00
What would my father’s hologram have said at my 40th birthday bash?Hilary Fannin: Kanye presented Kim with something every woman simply must haveFri Nov 06 2020 - 06:00
I wanted to learn more about how sex gets better with age, but my battery was running outHilary Fannin: Over-50s are often treated by advertisers as being solely in need of multivitamins and padded knickersFri Oct 30 2020 - 06:00
Lonely in lockdown? Get yourself a bottom-snifferHilary Fannin: I’m tempted to house a Covid puppy, but a dog is for life, not just for lockdownFri Oct 23 2020 - 06:30
‘I’ve tried to take control by starting a diet ... starving myself and fooling myself’Hilary Fannin: ‘You’re pale. Are you hungry?’ my friend asked. I noddedFri Oct 16 2020 - 06:00
My glorious week in Baden-Baden. Oh darn. I’m mixing myself up with Victoria BeckhamHilary Fannin: V’n’D’s holiday snaps cheered me up. They were precisely the boot in the posterior I neededFri Oct 09 2020 - 06:00
Ireland’s young are trapped in a long queue to their own futureHilary Fannin: The young adult generation have no viable world to inhabitFri Oct 02 2020 - 06:00
Nuala O’Faolain, a feminist whose happiness was often tethered to menHilary Fannin: A film about the writer and journalist evokes sharp memoriesFri Sept 25 2020 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: I console myself with a new pair of knickersFeeling overwhelmed, I needed to kick this growing weariness in the backsideFri Sept 18 2020 - 06:00
Connemara in September: Monied Dubliners drive home in artisan-jam-stocked chariotsHilary Fannin: I found myself in a fairy tale setting of a small house in the woodsFri Sept 11 2020 - 06:10
Caitlin Moran: ‘This is still the best time in history to be a woman’The bestselling author brings her trademark wit and searing insights to a new book, More Than a WomanSat Sept 05 2020 - 06:15
‘Baggot Street swung empty, Stephen’s Green creaked open on a rusty hinge’Hilary Fannin: Saturday night, and Dublin city lay open like an empty suitcaseFri Sept 04 2020 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Will you help send these Irish children back to school?Every Child Is Your Child wants to stop the return to class causing an avalanche of stressFri Aug 07 2020 - 06:00
The 40 best Irish fictional characters – in orderFrom Nidge and Connell Waldron to Gretta Conroy, Rashers Tierney and Pegeen MikeSat Aug 01 2020 - 05:00
I was thinking of 17 brushes with death, then the supermarket queue moved onHilary Fannin: It never occured to me that I’d ever feel grateful for mundane quotidian lifeFri Jul 31 2020 - 06:00
A long winter of facemasks, sanitiser and sidestepping awaitsHilary Fannin: Am I alone in feeling a tad overwhelmed by how things are panning out?Fri Jul 24 2020 - 06:00
‘Wanted! Customers! No experience necessary. Apply within’Hilary Fannin: On a different day I would have offered my customFri Jul 17 2020 - 06:00
When our lives were measured out in Bewley’s coffee spoonsHilary Fannin: Dubliners’ emotional DNA is embroidered on to the red velvet boothsFri Jul 10 2020 - 06:00
