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Aoife Hearne: My three-year old won't give up his bottle
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (665+ words) Digital Bundle Plus Clubber TV Aoife Hearne is a CORU-registered dietitian and the founder of Nutrition Solutions. She is a lecturer and course leader for the Nutrition & Exercise Science degree programme at South East Technological University (SETU). My three-year-old doesn’t…...
Julie Jay: I’m buying Magnums for my children on the daily, like a millionaire
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (802+ words) Holding a Magnum screamed "more money than sense" Picture: iStock Julie Jay is a stand-up comedian and host of the podcast ‘Venting.’ She currently lives in West Kerry with her husband and two children Because I have absolutely no authority…...
Summertime boredom is a creative opportunity
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (1327+ words) Though boredom is often the precursor to creativity, it’s important that children are not left chronically bored or lonely. Picture: iStock It’s the tone that reaches you first — kind of querulous, complaining. And then the dreaded words: ‘I’m bored’. Over…...
My Childhood with Cormac Ó hEadhra: In a large family I had to hold my own and stand my ground
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (974+ words) Cormac Ó hEadhra, says his mother, who passed last year, was a ‘force of nature and a real ball of energy’. Cormac Ó hEadhra grew up in what he calls “two-channel land” and wonders if the lack of TV viewing…...
Dr Phil Kieran: My teenage son can’t handle the heat
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (575+ words) Dr Phil Kieran: In Ireland, periods of hot weather typically don't last long enough for anything more serious to happen. Picture: iStock Dr Phil Kieran is a full-time GP practising in Cork. He previously presented RTE's 'You Should Really See…...
Why dads matter every day of the year - not just Father's Day
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1268+ words) James de Burca was a full-time restaurant chef, but since becoming a father to Ella, he has taken a more flexible approach to work, running his own food business and offering food-training courses around his daughter’s schedule. Picture: Dylan Vaughan…...
The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast: School holidays and the motherhood penalty
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (151+ words) How are working parents meant to manage the summer holidays? It’s that time of year again. Parents are frantically trying to figure out where to warehouse their children over the next eight weeks, teachers are trying to marshall exhausted children…...
My childhood with Gearóid Farrelly: My mother had to drag me out of the closet
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (992+ words) Gearoid Farrelly: '1990s Ireland was a tough place for gay people.' GEARÓID Farrelly didn’t realise he was gay until he was 21. The comedian and podcaster jokes: “I didn’t so much come out of the closet as my mother had to come…...
Colman Noctor: A teen’s ability to adapt is more important than having a fully formed life plan
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1449+ words) We need to challenge one of the biggest myths we sell to young people — that successful adults always knew exactly what they were doing. Picture: iStock Dr Colman Noctor is a child and adolescent psychotherapist, a senior mental health lecturer…...
My Childhood with Mary Kennedy: ‘We had no money but we had fabulous times’
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (906+ words) Mary Kennedy in Connemara. Mary Kennedy has three siblings yet considers herself one of seven. That’s because the TV presenter grew up in a house in Clondalkin that was right next door to her mother’s sister’s family. “There were four…...