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<p class="contextmenu internal_Caption">Terry Prone launching her memoir, ‘Caution to the Wind’, in 2023. She says gravity can give one a sourpuss look, but that a little filler corrects that and puts you back to cheerful normality. <span class="contextmenu emphasis CaptionCredit"> Picture: Arthur Carron</span>
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Terry Prone: I get Botox not to look younger but to continue looking like myself

Botox isn't about denying my age — it's a way of avoiding ending up like a balloon you find under the stairs a fortnight after the party

STerry Prone: Advertisers pushing boundaries to get their message to consumers

STerry Prone: Abuse of nursing home patients has been going on for decades

STerry Prone: Average-looking women must work twice as hard to be successful

STerry Prone: We recall Ronald Reagan fondly but he was every bit as bad as Donald Trump

STerry Prone: Perils of the potential misuse of the media take centre stage on Broadway

Terry Prone: How a protected species has outwitted me for 20 years and cost me €10k

S Terry Prone: How a protected species has outwitted me for 20 years and cost me €10k

After removing the net from her fish pond, Terry Prone has tried scarecrows, old CDs and a kite-like contraption to keep away predators. None have worked and she is at a loss over how to fix it

Mon, 12 May, 2025

People waiting for job interview

Terry Prone: Promotion-focused women not as valued as their male counterparts

It’s easy to assume that women would prefer to be liked than corporately successful

Mon, 05 May, 2025

AI prompt chat bot. Search website to generate data, text or image. Man using computer with artificial intelligence app. Virtual

Terry Prone: Badger-licking test proves AI is not as smart as it’s cracked up to be

'AI has no oil on its feathers, no capacity to laugh at you or itself'

Mon, 28 Apr, 2025

Tom Lehrer

S Terry Prone: Remembering a 'once off' talent on a spring afternoon

To listen to one of Tom Lehrer's recordings from the 60s is to be enthralled by the uniqueness of writing and performance

Mon, 21 Apr, 2025

Terry Prone: Percy Pig’s prospects of travelling to USA rashered by Trump’s tariffs

S Terry Prone: Percy Pig’s prospects of travelling to USA rashered by Trump’s tariffs

Percy Pig sweets which are hugely popular, selling 18m bags a year, launched in the US last week but could now fall foul of the US president’s tariffs

Mon, 07 Apr, 2025

Terry Prone: Being an Age Friendly ambassador might just be useful — and fun

S Terry Prone: Being an Age Friendly ambassador might just be useful — and fun

The demeaning photographs used to characterise older people during the pandemic drove me nuts

Mon, 31 Mar, 2025

Terry Prone: They’re fine, those book clubs, but there’s a niche for a different kind of endeavour

S Terry Prone: They’re fine, those book clubs, but there’s a niche for a different kind of endeavour

An anti-book club would work the opposite way to the “buy me” clubs. It would warn potential buyers off truly God-awful offerings

Mon, 24 Mar, 2025

Terry Prone: Irish identity was riven with irony as the shame was too real to bear

S Terry Prone: Irish identity was riven with irony as the shame was too real to bear

One of the saddest threads running through Ireland's economic stagnation and abject poverty 80 years ago was the paradoxical self-esteem drawn from concealing it

Mon, 17 Mar, 2025

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Terry Prone: Taoiseach exits Oval Office stage left, with a smile. Phew

Micheál Martin's years of experience and a nice mention of Clare County Council's planning prowess gave him a win when it wasn't guaranteed

Wed, 12 Mar, 2025

Terry Prone: Michael Sheen's £1m debt payoff is more than just philanthropy

Terry Prone: Michael Sheen's £1m debt payoff is more than just philanthropy

By exposing a bizarre financial system, the actor — in a small way — is helping to reverse the generational damage debt can deliver

Mon, 10 Mar, 2025

APTOPIX Trump Zelenskyy

S Terry Prone: A shrugging dislike for Donald Trump has turned to 'terror'

It’s a fear added to by the fact that one of the US president’s close supporters — Elon Musk — responded to an event which carries profound life-and-death implications for the people of Ukraine with a laughing/crying emoji

Mon, 03 Mar, 2025

Old fashioned water pump

Terry Prone: Even water pumps were beautiful in Victorian times. What’s wrong with us?

Somewhere along the line, the notion of the public space as worthy of careful design and implicit respect for the passerby has died

Mon, 24 Feb, 2025

Terry Prone: Time for politicians to bin those bréaga phrases from vocabulary

Terry Prone: Time for politicians to bin those bréaga phrases from vocabulary

The communication of our TDs and senators would be greatly improved if they reconsidered, and in some cases removed, certain phrases from their vocabulary

Mon, 17 Feb, 2025

Evictions ban

Terry Prone: Was reverence for Fr Peter McVerry enough to turn blind eye to trust?

Mainstream media has treated him with a pally respect rarely accorded to a member of the clergy, especially one on the board of, and board secretary to, a body with a billion euro budget

Mon, 10 Feb, 2025

Derek Draper funeral

Terry Prone: Peter Mandelson abandons his principles for a magnificent Trump back-pedal

In politics, principles are often temporary. Mandelson, RFK Jr, and others show how back-pedalling is a survival strategy

Mon, 03 Feb, 2025

US JFK

S Terry Prone: While laying a conspiracy theory to rest, let’s bring back media impartiality

RFK Jr, Trump’s pick as health secretary, claims that Lee Harvey Oswald was working for the CIA when he killed his uncle

Mon, 27 Jan, 2025

Hands typing on labtop keyboard.

Terry Prone: People-pleasers are moaners who do you favours you don’t want

In their efforts to be loved, they end up making themselves markedly less lovable

Mon, 20 Jan, 2025

Winter weather Jan 9th 2025

S Terry Prone: Despite battling conditions in a Martello tower, the cold snap won

Being without central heating oil in advance of the recent cold weather proved challenging to our columnist

Mon, 13 Jan, 2025

Terry Prone: Help! I can see where my lost iPad is — but that's not going to get it back

S Terry Prone: Help! I can see where my lost iPad is — but that's not going to get it back

Hello, United Airlines: Yes I see my iPad's location. But without it, I am locked out of my passwords and the manuscripts for two books. Please...

Mon, 06 Jan, 2025

Royal Mail van, UK, London

S Terry Prone: Further reputational damage to the Royal Mail as it fails to deliver

You might think, looking at the Royal Mail, that, having caused itself such massive brand damage, it would concentrate on doing everything by the book. But no

Mon, 30 Dec, 2024

Pictures of Real Santa Claus's List He's Checking Twice

S Terry Prone: Santa’s old-fashioned parenting tricks for the naughty and the nice

Santa may be all ho ho ho and product placement but, when it comes right down to it, you know you shouldn’t cross him

Mon, 23 Dec, 2024

Harlem's hoarders Collyer Brothers

S Terry Prone: Hoarding’s hidden issues begin to emerge from the background

It’s difficult to diagnose sufferers, because the evidence for them having the disorder is concealed within their own homes

Mon, 09 Dec, 2024

Terry Prone: Nothing quite like the silent calm of career extinction for election losers

Terry Prone: Nothing quite like the silent calm of career extinction for election losers

With almost 700 candidates running in 43 constituencies there was always going to be more losers than winners in the general election

Mon, 02 Dec, 2024

Terry Prone: Election 2024 has been boring — this week, that could change

S Terry Prone: Election 2024 has been boring — this week, that could change

The danger in an election as unprecedented in its boredom level is that, towards the end, something blows up that changes the entire ballgame...

Mon, 25 Nov, 2024

Letters to the Editor: Emergency court orders for victims of stalking

Election 2024: Terry Prone — State needs to cut out high-level waste

My message to the new Dáil: Our reliance on bureaucratic procedures as a comfort blanket needs serious looking at

Listen | Thu, 21 Nov, 2024

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S Terry Prone: Sharon Osbourne manages to stay relevant at ripe old age of 72

She may not like her arms. She may yearn for the return of 10 pounds. But what a way to stay current

Mon, 18 Nov, 2024

Kamala Harris

S Terry Prone: The problem with Democrats? They like to lecture but don’t listen

What may inhibit a good reset is that Democrats, much as we may prefer them to the Republicans, are lousy at examining their own conscience

Mon, 11 Nov, 2024

Terry Prone: My virtual customer service shoots itself in the foot

Terry Prone: My virtual customer service shoots itself in the foot

An avatar with blue hair promised the issue would be escalated to their regional team and was there anything else she could help me with? 'You didn’t help with any previous queries; you’re not helping with this one.'

Mon, 04 Nov, 2024

Donald Trump

S Terry Prone: From Ivana Bacik to Donald Trump, salty language has its place in the lexicon

One 'Irish Examiner' reader who didn't approve of Terry Prone quoting an F-word may not agree — but the thought of the Labour leader's rebirth as a sweary woman was enthralling

Mon, 28 Oct, 2024

Stormont Assembly

S Terry Prone: More questions than answers after Mary Lou's interview on Brian Stanley

As a communications case study, the latest happenings in Sinn Féin are a doozy, writes Terry Prone

Mon, 14 Oct, 2024

Terry Prone: Clinic saving animals during a hurricane has plenty to crow about

S Terry Prone: Clinic saving animals during a hurricane has plenty to crow about

The Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife on Sanibel Island, Florida, made sure that injured animals in their care were safely moved from the path of Hurricane Milton. Which included sharing their hotel rooms with the rescued menagerie.

Mon, 14 Oct, 2024

Terry Prone: Celebrity guests should learn to mind their Ps and Qs on chat radio

S Terry Prone: Celebrity guests should learn to mind their Ps and Qs on chat radio

No radio interviewer ever wants to be lumped in with vox populi

Mon, 07 Oct, 2024

Labour Party Conference 2024

S Terry Prone: Well-off people get showered with freebies they could well afford

Keir Starmer, who leads a party which traditionally drew loyalty from underpaid people, should not have had his hand out like Oliver Twist asking for more

Mon, 30 Sep, 2024

Terry Prone: There are knickers at the bottom of my garden that boomerang back

S Terry Prone: There are knickers at the bottom of my garden that boomerang back

Somewhere, there’s a holidaymaker mystified by the disappearance of their sexy underwear

Mon, 23 Sep, 2024

Terry Prone: Nothing beats money as catalyst, controller, and social stimulant

S Terry Prone: Nothing beats money as catalyst, controller, and social stimulant

Commodities tell us about poverty and privilege, their use marking the uncrossable line between peasant and aristocrat

Mon, 16 Sep, 2024

2024 Republican National Convention: Day 2

S Terry Prone: JD Vance is laughing at his own jokes, but is Donald Trump?

JD Vance laughs at his own jokes, which is up there with referring to yourself in the third person

Sun, 01 Sep, 2024

Terry Prone: Note the rules of Martello tour — book in advance and don't break the gate

S Terry Prone: Note the rules of Martello tour — book in advance and don't break the gate

Many visitors spent childhood summers on the beach down below the tower, looking up at this ugly hulk

Mon, 26 Aug, 2024

Terry Prone: Competent Kamala Harris has her ear to the ground and an eye on the prize

S Terry Prone: Competent Kamala Harris has her ear to the ground and an eye on the prize

Everything has changed in ways nobody anticipated

Mon, 19 Aug, 2024

Dublin Airport, Terminal 1

S Terry Prone: Lawnmower Man was the hero we needed in the departure lounge

When Lawnmower Man told us that the plane had now landed and was being cleaned up, that won him an ironic cheer

Mon, 12 Aug, 2024

Terry Prone: A surly receptionist and shirtless clientele, but no sign of my cookie!

S Terry Prone: A surly receptionist and shirtless clientele, but no sign of my cookie!

You don’t tend to expect semi-starkers guys in the lobby, drinking in the company of their big threatening dog

Mon, 05 Aug, 2024

Woman lying in a hammock on the beach and enjoying a book reading

S Terry Prone: Dodge the duds and avoid book buyer’s remorse on long-haul trips

When you look at the tables of books in the airport shop, you need to know the hints that any particular book is a dud

Mon, 29 Jul, 2024

Terry Prone: Eamonn Casey — Man of the people with life of lies and sex crimes

S Terry Prone: Eamonn Casey — Man of the people with life of lies and sex crimes

A new documentary focuses on the worst of Casey: child abuse. But it also strips away the last remnants of a once-golden reputation

Sun, 21 Jul, 2024

2009 Booker International Prize

Terry Prone: How the truth can change the lens in which we view an entire life

Moralists, over recent days, have suggested readers should think twice about buying Alice Munro’s work

Mon, 15 Jul, 2024

Terry Prone: Jill Biden should help Joe Biden understand that quitting isn’t the same as losing

S Terry Prone: Jill Biden should help Joe Biden understand that quitting isn’t the same as losing

Jill Biden loves her husband as much as Edith Wilson loved Woodrow Wilson a century ago. But Edith's role is no longer available. The best thing Jill could do now is tell him he's got to go

Mon, 08 Jul, 2024