Improve your chances of living longer, do what the Ikarians doHilary Fannin: The Ikarians who live 10 years longer than other Europeans have it rightThu Mar 23 2017 - 06:00
'It's hard to celebrate Irishness in the face of recent revelations'Hilary Fannin: 'We were the chosen ones but St Patrick did not protect the babies who died at Tuam’Thu Mar 16 2017 - 06:00
More sex please, we’re in our 80sHilary Fannin: Sexually-active oldies leaving exhausted 30-somethings in shadeThu Mar 09 2017 - 06:00
‘I’m panicking about all the things I haven’t done, like going to a rave’Hilary Fannin: Demented morning pick-me-up did little to quell my TorschlusspanikFri Mar 03 2017 - 06:00
‘In fashion week and every week I’m happy to be Dumpy from Ireland’Hilary Fannin: It’s liberating to not be caught up in a model lifestyleThu Feb 23 2017 - 06:00
Calling all feminists/mixed race/trans ladies: please enter the Rose of TraleeHilary Fannin: Let’s hope this oddly quirky, uniquely Irish organisation will some day shunt itself into the contemporary world and celebrate all our daughtersFri Feb 17 2017 - 05:55
A routine mammogram at 60 – and life changes overnightA shock cancer diagnosis has taken Hilary Fannin's coolest friend through hell and backThu Feb 09 2017 - 13:00
My husband is turning 60 – decades are collapsing like deckchairsOccasional forays into mindfulness websites make me want to buck the trend and dwell savagely in the pastThu Feb 02 2017 - 08:30
Swap your mini dress for a crisp white shirt, and other useless advice on ageingHilary Fannin is on the cusp of resentment of youth and yearning for slippers and camomile teaFri Jan 27 2017 - 06:00
The lousy reality of fat-porn TV programmesNew-year schedules are sagging under the sheer density of unwanted flesh that we seem to have accumulated over the festive seasonFri Jan 20 2017 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: ‘Don’t wait to do what it is you want to do’Time’s arrow points to wisdom of not putting off important thingsFri Jan 13 2017 - 06:00
Reasons to be cheerful: Brent geese, sunsets and a carved tree overlooking Dublin bayHilary Fannin: Tonight is Nollaig na mBan, a last dance, a chance to regroupFri Jan 06 2017 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: New Year’s party etiquette eludes meYou must ideally bring something that pops (no, not your waistband fasteners)Fri Dec 30 2016 - 04:00
Hilary Fannin: I’ve a nasty feeling about where I might have put the gibletsAlthough the notion of matching plates, or indeed glasses, finding their way on to my table is about as alien as Donald Trump on an ashram, I’m actually kind of looking forward to the dayFri Dec 23 2016 - 06:00
‘How can it be Christmas? Again? It was Christmas about 20 minutes ago, wasn’t it?’They’re not joking about time speeding up the older you getFri Dec 16 2016 - 06:00
‘Chop your own wood and it will warm ya twice’ and other gems from Sarah PalinHilary Fannin: The Alaskan’s Yuletide book feels more frightening in the Trump eraFri Dec 09 2016 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Yes, I am feeling overwhelmed. Aren’t you?In the wake of the American election I feel like I’m waiting for a horror show to startFri Dec 02 2016 - 15:00
‘I’d never seen anything like the Ivanas in Trump Plaza’With the clack of wealth on bruise-coloured marble nothing seemed real, just like nowFri Nov 25 2016 - 06:00
Sharon Stone’s advice for empty nesters is ... not bad actuallyHilary Fannin: There is a world of possibility beyond the creaking gateFri Nov 18 2016 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: No hygge please, we’re IrishThe cosy concept has a natural fit with Danes but shiny premature Christmas is more usFri Nov 11 2016 - 06:00
Rosaleen McDonagh: A woman who broke the mould of our paralysing lack of ambition for disabled people‘Mainstream’ includes actors who have at various times been ignored and marginalised because of disability and ethnicityFri Nov 04 2016 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Give me that old time virginity‘Re-virginising’, all the rage, makes as much sense as carrying a dog in a handbagSun Oct 23 2016 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: On the Camino’s uplifting Gore-Tex trailMy pilgrimage was entirely secular, but no less meaningful for thatSun Oct 16 2016 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: The most important quality in a second husbandWomen's writing for Women's Day: The water pipe spurted merrily as my present husband googled ‘how to stem a flood’Thu Oct 13 2016 - 06:00
Hillary Fannin: Brangelina tiff smacks of ‘parenting’ differencesWe weren’t parented; just given an occasional boiled egg and left to the wolvesFri Oct 07 2016 - 06:00
Teenage boys are the new beauty fanaticsHow to be a Man: The male grooming industry is expanding at a rate of knotsFri Sept 30 2016 - 08:00
Hilary Fannin: Elderly women of the gym are a powerful tribeMy enthusiasm for the gym fell apart when I realised I could go for a walk for freeFri Sept 23 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: Calling women fat will always make the newsTimes may change, but ‘cosmetically unfit’ birds will never be allowed to flyFri Sept 16 2016 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: All relationships could do with a confidentiality clauseCheryl Fernandez-Versini’s stance on the gagging clause with her young lover is to be laudedFri Sept 09 2016 - 06:00
Last night’s TV: ‘Cold Feet’ should have remained an old feat13 years on, it’s hard to see the new Cold Feet defining fiftysomethings the way the original series did for thirtysomethingsTue Sept 06 2016 - 10:00
Hilary Fannin: Sex is hard to come by on planet airbrushApparently there is a whole generation out there too exhausted to gird their loins for some loin-girdingFri Sept 02 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: How do we live? The answer is not in the laundryIt’s easier to focus one’s frustrations on stain removal than to admit to impotent rage at the worldFri Aug 26 2016 - 01:00
Rose of Tralee TV review: It’s all about retro stardustHilary Fannin: ‘A sense of how moving it might be for emigré families to see young women breathe new life into their ancestry’Wed Aug 24 2016 - 07:24
Rose of Tralee TV review: ‘About as sexy as a plate of Mariettas’Hilary Fannin: We just don’t seem to be able to get enough of this ‘celebration of Irish women and their achievements’Tue Aug 23 2016 - 00:09
'If I said I was within the safe drinking limit, I’d be lying'Hilary Fannin: Recently I read with a frisson of fear and recognition about the number of Irish women dying from alcohol-related illnessesFri Aug 19 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: Shame among the graves at LetterfrackIn one row, four brothers are buried side by side, their deaths occurring at two-year intervalsFri Aug 12 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: What I learned about love from Winston ChurchillThe Churchills' domestic arrangements sprang to mind when I was looking at a list of American bestsellers for 2016, which included The Five Love LanguagesFri Aug 05 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: Coping mechanisms for this fiftysomething lifeFriends occasionally hit on small mantras, dropped clues in the forest of our shared decade, which they polish and hew to get them through the restless nightFri Jul 01 2016 - 07:14
Hilary Fannin: wasps congregated and school smelled like a rotting bananaWe would disembark from the train at Killarney, my mother and I, around the same time every year, for our annual summer visit to Kells Bay in Co KerryFri Jul 01 2016 - 07:04
Hilary Fannin: You don’t need a pony to play cricketI had thought cricket grounds would feel exclusive, tight. I was wrongFri Jun 17 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: The cat’s motherAs her memoir, Hopscotch, comes out in paperback, the Irish Times columnist recalls having to overcome an aversion to the word ‘I’ drilled into her by nuns to write the bookSun Jun 12 2016 - 07:50
Hilary Fannin: An immaculately modern conceptionMy neighbour, who had always wanted a child, was told that she had about six months to conceiveFri Jun 10 2016 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: This brave new world makes it damn hard to be slovenlyI'm envious of our youth. Envious and scaredFri Jun 03 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: My first gathering inspired by hormonal fluctuationsI am suspicious of assumptions of like-mindedness, but I thought I’d give the menopause meeting a goFri May 27 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: No wedding is complete without a dog at the top tableIf you really want your wedding to be on-trend, you should factor in a canine ring-bearer or a doggy usher. ApparentlyFri May 20 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: The one census question that gave me pauseWell of course I have ‘a long-lasting psychological or emotional condition’. Doesn’t everyone?Fri May 13 2016 - 09:00
Hilary Fannin: The unbridgeable distance to the Kinnegad of my youthI loved Kinnegad, despite the disparaging rhyme my father taught me about it 100 years ago as we spluttered home along the road to DublinFri May 06 2016 - 06:00
Hilary Fannin: Steaming vaginas, how has it come to this?Why am I drawn to the sun-kissed, horrendously expensive and nauseatingly exclusive lifestyle advice on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop?Fri Apr 29 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: At ease with the singing witches of BaldoyleThe atmosphere at Baldoyle Musical Society is simultaneously familiar and deeply unfamiliar; old-fashioned maybe, gently arcaneFri Apr 22 2016 - 01:00
Hilary Fannin: Resurrection Sunday in a hospital waiting roomTwo beach-ready girls sat on the floor of the blue corridor; restless young men with chalk-white faces loomed around the plastic seats, eyes alert to danger and opportunityFri Apr 15 2016 - 01:00
