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Liz Kearney

Liz has been Features Editor of the Irish Independent and The Herald since 2015. She joined Mediahuis in 2002 and has previously worked as a reporter, sub-editor, and senior production executive. She lives in Co Wicklow.

Andrew McGinley with his three children Conor, Darragh and Carla

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Liz Kearney Opinion By dropping Andrew McGinley, the ‘Late Late Show’ has turned its back on its powerful legacy

Down through the decades, The Late Late Show has been many things. It has been a late-night debate club where an emerging modern Ireland clashed with church and s tate. It has been pure showbiz, with everyone from U2 to Sinéad O’Connor to Hozier entertaining us. And it has been riotously funny too – from a hyper Tommy Tiernan setting the stage alight to Russell Crowe berating the audience to Oliver Callan hamming it up as Daniel O’Donnell.

Scary times: There’s no harm in going big on Halloween for the kids this year (stock photo)

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Liz Kearney Opinion It's Lockdown: The Sequel - and no one agrees about anything anymore

There was a last haircut for the husband, who doesn't trust me with the scissors. A last walk with a friend, filling up on gossip and laughter before we say our goodbyes for a bit. There was a last playdate for the boys. And a last trip to their favourite place - which, weirdly, is the local garden centre, where they drink hot chocolate with marshmallows amid shelves stacked high already with Christmas decorations.

Youthful exuberance: ‘It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that a nation half-crazed from six months of cancelling everything was never going to react well to other people refusing to cancel, well, their youth.’

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Liz Kearney Opinion Student parties are not reckless - as long as they don't ask granny to come along

They say that the camera doesn't lie. But it rarely tells the full story either. The amateur videographer who filmed the by- now infamous footage of crowds of young revellers at Spanish Arch in Galway captured a moment in time: a perfect tableau of youth, freedom and normality that set the stage for the rest of us, locked away in our houses with only Netflix, a bottle of hand sanitiser and a spiralling sense of self-righteousness for company, to spontaneously combust with rage.

Go away: Actors Gal Gadot, Natalie Portman, and Will Ferrell in images taken from their soporific rendition of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’, in response to self-isolation in the wake of Covid-19

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Liz Kearney Opinion Reasons to be cheerful - celebs given the elbow as we look to life's simple pleasures

Yes, we know there's a pandemic going on, and if we think too hard or too much about it we'd never get out of bed in the morning. But equally, it's impossible to escape the fact that the lockdown is bringing with it some entirely unanticipated benefits. And if we were the type of person to keep a gratitude journal (we're definitely not the kind of person to keep a gratitude journal) this is what we'd be grateful for:

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