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Suzanne Power: A love check-list sounds perfect but lacks passion
Everyone likes to think they're going to be perfect, for a perfect partner, who treats them perfectly. Lots of 'p' sounds in that sentence. What happened to Peter Piper? He tripped over his words and turned into a tongue twister.
Suzanne Power: Young men tick all the boxes for successful women
The cougar label normally applies to women over 40, but lately a few of my 30-something friends have been waiting to pounce on the role.
Suzanne Power: A dazzling rock hides a lifetime of commitment
I'm not going to avoid the subject of love, but I'm not a Valentine's Day fan. I've never been good at being told what to do. And to be told I have to tell someone that I love them, in mass-produced manner, is like being interrupted to be told to do the job I'm already doing.
Suzanne Power: Remember it really does take two to become a parent
A friend has just left her boyfriend temporarily, because they got on too well. I'm not making this up. He is keen to start a family and she realised it isn't what she wants. So she's moved in with a friend to take some time to think it through.
Suzanne Power: If the pain is too strong it must be time to move on
January 8 is the anniversary of the M1 plane crash at Kegworth in England, when a British Midland jet bound for Belfast made an emergency landing on the motorway.
All I'd like for once is a chance to enjoy Christmas
I was never a fan of Christmas. All that pressure to enjoy life, despite the cheapness of the wine. But when I got pregnant I thought the magic would return, along with Santa's sleigh, which skipped over my roof from the age of 11 until 31. That's 20 years of vacuuming up pine needles and taking terrible socks as a testament that someone loves you.
How did Mr and Mrs Right get it all so very wrong?
I put it down to jealousy. My inability to keep up the evening class while doing a great job and making perfect love with my first-class body.
Prince Charming may still be out there but don't make Sienna's mistake
As anyone in a long-term relationship will tell you, you get to be both boring and cosy. Both are privileges.
Suzanne Power: Imperfect children and parents lay down our laws
God save me from perfect children, and parents that make them that way. I stayed over at the house of an acquaintance with two children, who I haven't seen for some time. A two-year gap between visits should have told me that instinct kept me away.
Suzanne Power: Destiny doesn't do dates, he prefers a game of chance
My great friend, who's been single for longer than she has wanted to be, has been fixed up on more blind dates than a guide dog. When the phone goes and another well-meaning pal turns persecutor by insisting she "has to meet . . ." it makes her think seriously of emigration.
Suzanne Power: Beware the slow steamer with a volcanic temper
In the same way you get signs saying 'Beware of Dog', there ought to be a similar one for: 'Beware of Seether'.
Suzanne Power: A stolen luxury can mask a life spinning way out of control
January is a fun month for clever girls who like style without bankruptcy. Sales abound but, for some, 70pc off just isn't a big enough discount. A recent survey revealed a rise in kleptomania in thirtysomething women who are apparently well able to pay for the items they'd taken.
Suzanne Power: Marriage should come with a good translator
When you first meet someone and the Cupid hormones are arrowing around inside your skull, you think you're talking in the same tongue. It's only after a month or so, you begin to notice discrepancies, and it's only after serious commitment that you get to realise that we may speak the same sentences, but they rarely have the same meanings.
Suzanne Power: Single or married, you make your own merry Christmas
It used to be that the Christmas single was something performed by Slade for the benefit of drunken workers all trying to get through another office party.
I told Frank McCourt to buy himself a Maserati
"It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head" -- Frank McCourt
So look, stranger, don't bore me with your sad life and pathetic small talk
Networking, to my mind, is something people do when they work in computers. Or fishermen. Or drag queens who mend their own stockings.
Childhood memories are made of pop and chips...not a bellyful of spinach
A couple of weeks back on the Midday show, I was outed as a bit of an organic head.
It's the future -- holidays with your ex, getting a tan as you sort out a divorce
This week I had lunch with a friend who's back from holiday with a man she enjoys spending time with.
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