What To Wear According To Your Dress Size Not The Answer You Might Expect I worked in styling and costuming creating looks for shoots, film and theatre and constantly was met with the fearful answer of “I can’t wear that” coming from people who were taught to hate their bodies…

Dreaming Sleeping Waking My body is so tired. A short trip to the hospital for a scan the day before has left me so fatigued I can barely move. You saw me go to the shops, or sweep the floor, what you don’t see is that I need to crash…

Distress can be silent A descent in to madness As much as it twists and turns And trauma hauntingly screams So loud To those on the outside Might not make a sound Your Mum The guy next to you on the bus Your neighbor, brother, lover That lovely nurse All…

I live in Ireland, a country whose politicians proudly proclaim has one of the fastest growing economies and citizens now have more money in their pockets yet it is a country where the word ‘housing’ is invariably followed by the word ‘crisis’. You see, the growth and improvement for businesses…

My last published piece here was an article written in 2019 about my experience of being hidden homeless in Ireland during one of the country’s worst housing crises in decades. At that time, my husband and I had been without a home for eighteen months and we were only housed…