Seán Moncrieff: It’s that time of the year when parents commit school fraudEveryone wants their child to get into the ‘good’ school, even if that means using a false addressSat Jan 25 2020 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: Growing up is all about knowing when to say ‘f**k’We’re not teaching Daughter Number Four not to swear. We’re hoping she’ll learn when it is and isn’t appropriateSat Jan 18 2020 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: Like Brad Pitt, I have a genetic advantage. I’m skinnyI’m asked how much I run or who my yoga teacher is, but the truth is, I’m just luckySat Jan 11 2020 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: My new year’s resolution is to prepare for my deathI’ve always known that I’d like to be buried, and I’d also like ice cream at my funeralSat Jan 04 2020 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: Your family or mine? Christmas puts relationships to the testIf your relationship survives, you will spend every Christmas driving between housesSat Dec 21 2019 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: I met a friend 40 years on, in strange circumstancesDecades after we played on building sites, I met Frank again. His story was an inspirationSat Dec 14 2019 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: Can people change? Yes. No. MaybeIf you’re 50, can you honestly say you’re the same person you were at 30?Sat Dec 07 2019 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: My four-year-old daughter doesn’t understand televisionWhen they are older, our kids may laugh about all the crap they used to watch onlineSat Nov 30 2019 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: Not OK boomer. It’s time to apologise to millennialsMillennials and Generation Z are inheriting a world we have permanently damagedSun Nov 24 2019 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: The planet is cooking for all of us, no matter our politicsWhy is climate change pompously owned by the left and dismissed by the right?Sat Nov 16 2019 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: I’m switching to another phone. My daughter is outragedDespite what they are desperate to tell you, phones are pretty much all the sameSat Nov 09 2019 - 06:01
Seán Moncrieff: Is there such thing as the perfect present?We want or need far less than the amount of birthdays or Christmases we live throughSat Nov 02 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: What does your house say about you?We invest so much energy into what our homes look like, in search of validation when the friends call in and tell us how lovely it isSat Jul 27 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: My daughter looks awful in picturesIn real-life she resembles Shirley Temple. In the picture she’s more like Mattress MickSun Jul 21 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: The news is always grim, but it’s still necessary readingIncreasingly, I don’t want to know the injustice in the world; I also don’t want not to knowSat Jul 13 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: Stop saying Perfect. Nothing is PerfectWhy do we say things are ‘perfect’ when they clearly aren’t?Sat Jul 06 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: No matter how old they get, my kids will always be my babiesPart of the job of being a parent is letting them go. But I still wish it lasted a little longerSat Jun 29 2019 - 06:02
Seán Moncrieff: Judging others about their money is a thrillThere’s something delightfully righteous about tut-tutting over the money habits of othersSat Jun 15 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: Dublin is lovely. Why can’t we say that?The bad things about Dublin are true. As are the good things. It’s the essence of city lifeSat Jun 08 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: How many people actually like their job?Daughter number two thinks she might do law but knows how risky any career choice isSat Jun 01 2019 - 06:00
Séan Moncrieff: What do we mean when we talk about ‘Irishness’?Voting to protect Irish identity by keeping others out might actually destroy itSat May 18 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: ‘If you believe anti-vaxxers, something is very wrong. With you.’How do I protect my child from other people who don’t believe in scienceSat May 11 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: Blokes like me have to err on the side of cautionWhy? Because of the way men have treated women for millenniumsSat May 04 2019 - 06:03
Seán Moncrieff: Talking about television is a social minefieldSpoilers are a triple mortal sin, most people would prefer you gave them gonorrhoeaSat Apr 27 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: My first summer job was in a headstone factoryI loved that job. Not because of the work, but because every Friday I got paid in cashSat Apr 13 2019 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: Don’t worry about not sleeping – it will keep you awakeWe are constantly prey to the booming sleep industry yet we know very little about insomniaSat Apr 06 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: Never been to Coppers? That’s no bad thingHaving unfulfilled ambitions makes the fulfilled ones all the more valuableSat Mar 30 2019 - 06:00
Séan Moncrieff: We don’t hate the Brits the way we used toBrexit and the discussion around it has illuminated Ireland’s progression as a countrySat Mar 23 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: I bore the anger out of peopleWe could be mortally offending people we like without even realising itSat Mar 16 2019 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: Daughter #2 is this year’s Leaving Cert victimYou can't blame kids for thinking: The Leaving Cert? Why bother?Sat Mar 09 2019 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: I don’t care how much politicians are paid, and neither should youIf we paid them more, or paid them less, would that make a difference?Sat Mar 02 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: The world is full of Holden CaulfieldsTruth can be a complex, slippery thing, and the lack of it can cause us to lash outSat Feb 23 2019 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: ‘When does spring start? I don’t know and neither do you’The seasons are a personal thing. You have to choose the spring that’s right for youSat Feb 16 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: Cannabis oil seems to be taking Ireland by storm, but no one knows the dangersThere’s little scientific data on what effect, if any, CBD has on people and in Ireland, it is unregulatedSat Feb 09 2019 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: When your child is sick you don’t ring around for a few quotesWho of us at some point hasn’t witnessed the human value of a nurse?Sat Feb 02 2019 - 06:00
Why am I not active on Instagram? It would be one more thing I had to doI don’t remember creating an account. There may have been drink involvedSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: Welcome to the death of satireThe likes of Trump and Boris Johnson have made it impossible to satirise politics because politics is now satireSat Jan 19 2019 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: ‘Oh no, the boom may be back’If this boom talk proves anything it’s that we’ve learned nothingSat Jan 12 2019 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: Being a grown-up is really hardI’m selling my house and the process seems predicated on the idea I have something to hideSat Jan 05 2019 - 06:00
One handy aspect of being Irish is the ability to be two-facedSeán Moncrieff: I find myself in pointless rows where neither of us will change our mindSat Dec 29 2018 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: Santa is back, babyThe magic part isn’t for the kids. That’s for the grown-upsSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: ‘The Irish love a good death. Actually no, bad deaths are even better’Like a car crash, I can’t stop looking at BrexitSat Dec 15 2018 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: Bad (fake) news for devoted conspiracy theoristsAre the new dark ages returning? And might we be the light?Sat Dec 08 2018 - 06:00
Seán Moncrieff: My computer broke. It’s like part of my house burned downIt’s almost impossible to function without an electronic device. They have left us powerlessSat Dec 01 2018 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: ‘Organised fun gives me the skin-crawling heebie-jeebies’I don’t understand whimsySat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: ‘Being part of the elite isn’t as elite as it used to be’The ‘elite’ accusation is all too often a rhetorical trick, the main purpose of which is to get other people to shut upSat Nov 17 2018 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: ‘The avocado is an environment-destroying, murder-promoting, barely-fruit’I’ve never eaten an avocado. Deal with itSat Nov 10 2018 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: Peter Casey has done the State some service but not as he intendedThanks to him, we now have an idea what the rest of us really think of TravellersSat Nov 03 2018 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: In life, you’re going to your debs. Over and over againAt every posh do, a bit of you is your teenage self, entering the adult world againSat Oct 20 2018 - 06:00
Sean Moncrieff: ‘If you can’t have a home, then what’s the point?’Land and a sense of place are encoded into our DNASat Oct 06 2018 - 06:00
