There is usually the nugget of something clever in them, albeit shielded behind layers of opacity

My father had an iron will and refused to be fobbed off. In his honour, I too refuse to yield to the automated voices

Back in Dublin with my Londoner children, I tried out my old tour guide routine in the one place they begged us to visit

How does a writer include so much detail, and so many sensitive issues, without making something everyone will hate?

My father tires of me asking whether dogs should eat so much human food, and rejects any accusation he’s gone soft

Newsreaders and Elon Musk aside, people generally don’t change accents on purpose

Radio: The presenter has a deeply moving discussion with Phil Coulter, while Second Captains Saturday also dives deep

My daughter prefers her mother to me so much that to suggest anything else really would be laughable

Radio: Haunting radio on RTÉ, while Anton Savage’s guest warns against retinal burns and Claire Brock talks soft-launches

I have yet to be convinced that the current zeal for AI is anything more than a bubble

Séamas O’Reilly: I’ve no need for ChatGPT to help me write - I’ve got the family WhatsApp

Dogs on Dates, by Luke Healy; The Woodchipper, by Joe Ollman; Fault Lines, by Rob Cullen; Dear Historian, by Joff Winterheart; and Children of Light, by Jean Pleyers

For the past school year, I’ve been spending two mornings each week helping four- and five-year-olds to read

Modern birthday parties have a way of ruining the memory’s illusion of our own childhood celebrations

Newstalk host gives Chalkie White the space to describe the complexity of his reaction to an ordeal that, with George Gibney’s conviction, may finally be near its end