She Walked Away Before I Could Say Sorry
I met Niamh on a wet Thursday outside Connolly Station, both of us trying to shelter under the same useless strip of awning while the rain came sideways across Amiens Street. She…
The Person I Couldn’t Forget Didn’t Remember Me
I met Ciarán on a Tuesday night in Whelan’s, which is probably the most Dublin way to begin a story I spent years pretending was unusual. My friend had dragged me there…
We Stayed Together Long After Love Had Gone
By the time I realised love had left us, we were still paying the electricity bill together. That’s the thing nobody tells you. Love can go quietly, without slamming a door, and…
I Chose My Career Over the Love of My Life
I met Niamh on a wet Tuesday evening outside Connolly Station, both of us pretending we were fine with the rain while clearly losing the battle. She was trying to open an…
The One Night That Changed Two Lives Forever
I met Daniel on a wet Thursday night outside Whelan’s, though neither of us had planned to be there. I was twenty-nine, newly single, and carrying around the kind of sadness that…
She Was the Right Person at the Wrong Time
I met Aoife on a wet Thursday in Dublin, the kind of evening when the city seems to lean in close under umbrellas and bus shelters. I was standing outside the Abbey…
The Secret I Kept Destroyed Our Marriage
I used to think betrayal had to look dramatic. A suitcase by the door. A lipstick mark. A phone lighting up at midnight. Mine came in plain white envelopes from the bank,…
I Fell in Love With Someone Who Was Already Healing
I met Aoife on a wet Tuesday evening outside Hodges Figgis, both of us pretending the rain wasn’t soaking through our coats. She was standing under the narrow shelter by the door,…
The Weekend We Pretended to Be Strangers
By the time we decided to pretend we had never met, we had been together eight years and had become very good at silence. Not the peaceful kind. The kind that sits…
The Weekend We Pretended to Be Strangers
We were together nine years when we decided to meet for the first time. That sounds like something a couple says when they are trying to be cute, but we were not…