YES, YES, YESSUCH is the enthusiasm for Joyce's annual literary bash on June 16th that Bloomsday celebrations are now spilling into the preceding…Sat Jun 14 1997 - 01:00
Hoodwinking and housekeepingSOMEWHERE between Countess Markievicz and President Mary Robinson, Irish women seem to have lost the ability to make it into …Tue Apr 22 1997 - 01:00
Voices from over here and Down UnderFrom what primeval starting point to here?Tue Mar 25 1997 - 00:00
CHECK UPTHE just published Guide To Psychotherapy In Ireland (Columba Press, £4Mon Feb 17 1997 - 00:00
CHECK UPHEALTH Issues For Farm Women is a series of one day conferences which will deal with such specific farm related illnesses as …Mon Feb 03 1997 - 00:00
Play is a child's best day's workIT MAY be just child's play to an adult but for a child play is the most important `work' he or she can doTue Jan 21 1997 - 00:00
Breath taking news?A NEW drug free treatment for asthma which runs contrary to the established medical approach is currently gaining groundMon Jan 13 1997 - 00:00
Tales of fantasy have real benefitsIN OLDEN TIMES, when wishing still I helped, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful…Tue Dec 10 1996 - 00:00
CHECK UPTHE Rutland residential addiction treatment centre is holding two lectures on addiction and its effects on individuals and their…Mon Nov 25 1996 - 00:00
Baby TalkBABIES BEGIN learning language long before they speak it, and the first year of a child's life is now considered to be vital …Tue Nov 19 1996 - 00:00
CHECK UPDUTCH homoeopathic doctor and author Jan de Vries is giving a series of lectures on "the principles of healthy living" in Ireland…Mon Nov 18 1996 - 00:00
CHECK UP. "REAL men get heart disease - you may be one" is the theme of this year's Irish Heart Week which begins today.Mon Nov 11 1996 - 00:00
"Resources must give hope to people, not just categories their problems""IF A CHILD has low self esteem in learning, we find that this permeates throughout every aspect of the child's self conceptTue Oct 08 1996 - 01:00
Breath of life for asthmaticsTHE film opens with two teenagers getting ready for schoolMon Oct 07 1996 - 01:00
CHECK UPFLU Awareness Week begins today and the groups advised to get vaccinated against flu and pneumonia before the winter sets in …Mon Oct 07 1996 - 01:00
PART OF ME PART OF YOUCHRISTY O'Hanlon underwent heart transplant surgery 11 years ago and remembers to this day how, on waking from the operation, …Mon Sept 30 1996 - 01:00
The Rose of TraleeUNDOUBTEDLY Ireland's best known summer festival internationally, the Rose of Tralee attracts competitors from around the world…Thu Aug 22 1996 - 01:00
Children's OutingsPony and horse riding expeditions during the summer holidays are some of the most exciting and memorable trips for childrenThu Aug 15 1996 - 01:00
Boyle Arts FestivalTHIS Co Roscommon town comes out in style when it gets down to organising its' annual 12 day arts festival even the shopkeepers…Thu Jul 25 1996 - 01:00
Picking holiday outings for kids can be child's playWE can all remember the mandatory Sunday trips to the "must see" places on our parents' educational itineraries for their children…Wed Apr 03 1996 - 01:00
CHECK UPDR Joe Fitzgibbon, author of Feeling Tired All The Time, will address the Irish ME Support Group monthly meeting on Wednesday…Mon Apr 01 1996 - 01:00
Men can get it tooAT LEAST one in 10 fathers suffers from depression after his baby has been born, according to a recent study on post natal depression…Mon Mar 25 1996 - 00:00
The breastfeeding businessBREASTFEEDING mothers who run into difficulties once home from hospital can now get professional 24 hour help through Baby Matters…Mon Mar 04 1996 - 00:00
Keeping abreastWELL KNOWN for her books on pregnancy and child birth, Dr Miriam Stoppard has turned her attention onto breasts exclusively for…Mon Mar 04 1996 - 00:00
Rug addictYOU can roll around in an imaginary garden or get intimate with a tiger cat on one of Lorna Donlon's playfully designed, hand…Sat Mar 02 1996 - 00:00
Letters from the mindDO you dot your `i's and cross your `t's? Do your `g's have large underline loops or do your `l's overly extend into the line…Mon Feb 26 1996 - 00:00
Brass in pocketDO eight-year-olds learn good money management if they are given a weekly allowance from which they must save a little and buy…Tue Jan 30 1996 - 00:00
MS - caution on cure claimsFOR the past 13 months I have been able to live with no disability and no further attacks and, as far as I am concerned, I don…Mon Jan 29 1996 - 00:00
Music hath charmsMOST CHILDREN first begin to learn a musical instrument at the age of five or six, when one of their parents notices their interest…Tue Jan 23 1996 - 00:00
Three step approach on how to copeCHILDREN begin by loving their parents; after they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they, forgive themMon Jan 08 1996 - 00:00
Whitbread award goes to poet Bernard O'DonoghueTHE poet Bernard O'Donoghue has won the 1995 Whitbread award for his collection of poetry, Gunpowder.Thu Jan 04 1996 - 00:00
The case of the vanishing airport buggyDUBLIN Airport in festive times like those we've just been through is a joyous place with its throngs of homeward bound emigrants…Thu Jan 04 1996 - 00:00