Maeve Higgins: All I want for Christmas is for nobody to comment on my body
I don’t want hate my body or worship it. The less we speak about bodies, the better
Maeve Higgins: Simone Biles wins all of my medals
So much anguish will be sidestepped by girls and women listening to Simon Biles’s words
Maeve Higgins: I loved the low-key thrill of flirting. Then lockdown killed it off
Flirting has become a victim of this socially distanced world, and I’m lost without it
Maeve Higgins: I’m bad with money, but money is worse with me
The comedian recalls a giddy night in New York that is tinged with regret
A Christmas story by Joseph O’Connor, Lisa McInerney, John Boyne, Emer McLysaght, Maeve Higgins and more...
Ten writers play a game of pass the baton to create a Christmas mystery about an elf from Elphin and a magic crystal
Maeve Higgins: ‘Sad woman ignores dead man at Christmas to go see Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 on her own’
This essay appears in the Christmas episode of The Women’s Podcast
Maeve Higgins: I fought the clock and the clock won
In an extract from her new book, the comedian reflects on her personal battle with time, which began with a public shaming in Junior Infants in Cobh
My Cork: Maeve Higgins. ‘Like Sylvester Stallone, it’s quite small but just perfect’
‘I love all of Cork ... and the people! We’re so charming’
Maeve Higgins’s guide to surviving Valentine’s day and finding love
Valentine’s Day is looming and – horror! – you’re not part of a couple. Panic not, Maeve Higgins is here and she has six fool- proof ways to find love
War is hell, but it helps to have Lena Dunham on your side
It’s not easy growing from a girl into a woman, but Dunham’s book of essays shows that the writer of Girls is one of our strongest soldiers
Synchronising cycles with New York’s queens of mariachi
The Trip: Flor de Toloache are New York’s only all-girl mariachi band. I join them for a day of music and sisterhood – and food theft – as they travel to a show in a Hispanic neighbourhood
Regrets . . . I’ve had a few
The difference between the things we should say and do, and what we actually say and do
St Pat’s For All parade in New York ‘restoring the Irish welcome’
Parade in Queens, now in 15th year, founded in response to ban on gay people marching under banner at Manhattan parade
New York, new dream
Irish comic Maeve Higgins used to play a game called ‘American Dream’ during her school days. Now she’s living it in one of America’s most iconic cities
Maeve Higgins . . . on how to swim in the sea
Disarm the waves with a smile, then watch your legs turn peach and blue as you hesitate in front of them.