irishtimes.com/health/your-we… 'Creating art, as a disabled person, can become a Faustian bargain of sorts whereby we trade our health to fulfil creative desires or achieve some form of tangible success. But isn’t such a bargain tragic by nature...?'

Also reviewing The Story of Tayto in this weekend’s Irish Times Books

+ a mini review of Poor Artists by Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Tickets are flying out the door for this one! Don't miss your chance to witness j. walsh's performance and participate in the workshop too. Tickets available here: tinyurl.com/3uedbubf

irishtimes.com/culture/books/… Those dubious about the potential “stage Irishness” of a book about Tayto crisps... will be gleefully surprised to find that popular historian bobby aherne has delivered a genuinely entertaining and enlightening book that celebrates the iconic Irish snack

businessplus.ie/news/40-under-… Featuring my bro Paddy O'Dea 👊

'You’ve got to learn to enjoy the glugging wine and the sizzling fat and the beautiful young friends too, without shame.' open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/… Vittles

'Philosophy cannot make other people more reasonable, saner, or less emotionally overwhelmed. It isn’t there to make the world more comfortable for us. It can, however, help all of us as individuals to be more reasonable, saner, and less emotionally overwhelmed' Laura Kennedy

My review of: Rita: A Memoir by Rita O’Hare; At the End of The Day by Jimmy Kelly; Until We Fall by Helena Sheehan ‘Memoirs of three people who committed to their take on a better world, with each subject’s political gravity falling to the left’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

‘Doran’s memoir begins, as any good book does, with boobs…one gets the sense that the synapses in Sundermann’s brain link up in unusual ways. For that, we are the lucky beneficiaries.’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

‘If I had €1 for every time a friend or family member asked when I was going to learn to drive, I’d have enough money to pay a private chauffeur…’ My driving instructor texted me: ‘Things aren’t working out. I’ll transfer you back your money’ irishtimes.com/health/your-we…

'Beep beep. We were off to a charming start.' My sister Brigid O'Dea in today's Irish Times. My driving instructor texted me: ‘Things aren’t working out. I’ll transfer you back your money’ irishtimes.com/health/your-we…

Learning to drive is a notoriously tense task, but I’m not sure – statistically speaking – how many learners have been ‘broken up’ with by their driving instructor with a text message stating: 'Things aren’t working out between us', writes Brigid O'Dea irishtimes.com/health/your-we…

Brigid O'Dea: My 33rd birthday came and there was still a big L on the licence in my purse. It was time to get creative irishtimes.com/health/your-we…

Lions must promote the players to stir up interest – the gladiatorial marketing blueprint of old requires fresh thinking ⁦Irish Independent⁩ independent.ie/sport/rugby/li…

You don’t know any disabled people? Either you don’t know many people or they don’t feel safe enough to tell you irishtimes.com/health/your-we…

irishtimes.com/health/your-we… 'But we don’t have that kind of time. If this is what death teaches us, illness adds, “and we don’t have that kind of choice”.'

irishtimes.com/health/your-we… “Annie, you don’t have that kind of time.” This month's column was inspired by a conversation between ANNE LAMOTT and Lilah Raptopoulos on Life and Art podcast, from FT Weekend I've shared the episode among friends so many times!

Brigid O'Dea: If you want your body to feel good, you need to treat it better via @irishtimeslife irishtimes.com/health/your-we…

‘Some of you love sleep more than you love success.’ Bang on! irishtimes.com/health/your-we… Brigid O'Dea