I remember where I was when I first heard the song Somebody That I Used to Know by Goyte. I was lying in a gorgeous bed in a cosy house in a really rough part of Dublin. This area was so dangerous that Google maps were afraid to zoom into...

Since I was reluctantly put on this earth, no celebrity has died that has made me stop obsessing over myself and think sadly about their departure from this planet. Obviously it's horrifically tragic when most people die, but I've never been genuinely upset when somebody famous has passed away. All...

They say that you never forget your first love. They, the ones who say that you can't teach an old dog new tricks and that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. I say that you can't hate someone until you truly hate yourself. I also...

I recently decided to take a comedy holiday. I just wanted to have a few weeks in my life where I wasn't trying to find the funny in everything. Where I could read some books, listen to music and just relax. I wanted to think less intensely for a while,...

Lately I've been encountering a lot of fantastic people with one thing in common; a burning desire to know how I do it. So I decided to write a piece explaining my secrets so that you can also do it.
I like to start my mornings with a...

I have fake laughed a few times in my life. I have faked orgasms to please and faked no orgasms to displease. I have forged my date of birth on various documents. I have feigned illness to get out of school and simulated enjoyment in school, to get out of...

Dear Beyonce,

My name is Carol Tobin and I am from a small town in Ireland called Tralee. Now that I have your attention, I was wondering just how crazy in love you really were when you sang about being crazy in love? I would love to know what...

My name is Carol and I'm an arachnophobe. Just recently I turned five carefree children, who previously found spiders cute, into arachnophobes too. I was babysitting, a spider appeared out of nowhere as usual and my screams became contagious. I feel painfully guilty as now, these kids have a lifetime...

I am a self diagnosed insomniac. I didn't need a doctor to inform me of my condition. I had plenty of spare time to diagnose myself as I lay in my bed wide awake for yet another night. Insomnia is torture. The feeling I hate the most is when I've...

Many years ago an old friend of mine used to listen into other people's voice-mails. Life and phones were simpler back then. But it isn't until now, writing this piece that she was in no way simpler, yet ahead of her time in a creepy sense. March of this year...