For those that love an all-night diner 😍😍 My All-Nighter in a Vanishing World: the 24-Hour Diner nytimes.com/2025/01/14/din…

'We are berated for having consumed too much. You greedy, spiritually obese slobs.' If you want your body to feel good, you need to treat it better irishtimes.com/health/your-we…

A piece I wrote for TheJournal.ie in response to last week’s episode of #The42FM podcast on Irish sports people’s risk averse relationship with media.

Are our sporting heroes 'playing it safe' when it comes to their public image? (via @the42_ie) the42.ie/6600896

Gerard Howlin: A good foreign policy is one that no-one notices. Unfortunately that’s not Simon Harris’s style irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

For those that want incisive analysis over sloganeering, this is an excellent read by Cliff Taylor

'Tech’s real or potential achievements on behalf of us all might dwarf those of finance. But over a drink? Give me the FX sales-trade bod.' Janan Ganesh, Esq. Tech vs finance: the social wars ft.com/content/caee37… via @ft

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

This guy was extremely incisive on BBC Newsnight last night. New World.

‘Westerners of our generation don’t tend to expect the bad guys to win, because we were raised to believe in progress. That belief gave us a false conceptual frame for reading the world.’ Goodbye to the good guy on.ft.com/41spJGj

America needs a serious opposition ft.com/content/a2ec9e… via @ft

Jim Ratcliffe’s media strategy is admirably honest but undercooked businesspost.ie/news-focus/jim… via Business Post

Danny McCoy is always worth listening to. Very smart communicator. The US now is ‘like having a dance with a gorilla. You might want to stop, but the gorilla doesn’t’ – Ibec’s Danny McCoy on threat to Ireland as US readies tariffs independent.ie/world-news/eur…

🗣️"It's those little vignettes that help us connect with the athletes we see on the field." 🗣️"To Tadhg Furlong's credit, he's always been in that category." The Sunday Paper Review reacts to Tadhg Furlong's touching tribute to his father.

'the greatest and most dangerous lie – is “truth minus one”. “Not truth,” Francis observes, “but its contrived appearance, its comic or dramatic distortion”. Joe Humphreys: The 80/20 rule of dating is nonsense. So why do so many people believe it? irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…

My thoughts in Business Post Analysis: How Irish business leaders can ‘grasp the nettle’ as diversity programmes are scaled back businesspost.ie/analysis-opini… via Business Post

'Irish people crumpled around me like a protective shell of a car when they heard the news'. Brianna Parkins has a lovely writing style. Brianna Parkins: There are a lot of things Australians do well. Death is not one of them irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

'That also means creating space for risk – intelligent, informed, and necessary – rather than grinding everything to a halt out of fear of failure.' Mandy Johnston 👏👏👏👏 Dangerous disconnect emerging between business and politics businesspost.ie/article/mandy-… via Business Post

'The Times had 11.66 million total subscribers at the end of the first quarter' ... New York Times Adds 250,000 Digital Subscribers nytimes.com/2025/05/07/bus…

Gaza’s starving children, their eyes growing bigger as the blockade grinds on, are not fake news irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…