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I ‘cheated’ on my wife with an AI bot named Sharon – so was it fulfilling or creepy?
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JP O’Malley: My distant cousin, Pamela, her husband, the inspiration for Donleavy’s ‘Ginger Man’, and her defiance of the Franco regime
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Revealed: How where you live could see you having to pay out €5,200 more for your childcare

Tony Gallagher trains for the Ring of Kerry Cycle in aid of the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation
Wed 25 Jun 2025 at 06:30
‘Sophia will do Irish dancing or football but afterwards it’s like her feet are burning’ – parents of ‘butterfly skin’ sufferer tell of brave daughter’s struggle
Fri 13 Jun 2025 at 03:30
‘I am forever changed by the loss of this special man’: Sophie Grenham on grief, loss and gratitude as she faces her first father's day without her dad
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How to get the best value out of your long-awaited summer holiday
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Champions League glory with Katie McCabe was bittersweet for my family – but it has helped us in our grief
Tue 27 May 2025 at 03:30
‘Seeing Carlo in the jeans and the hoodie puts the idea of sainthood in perspective in today’s world’ – the curious canonisation of a 21st-century boy
Sun 04 May 2025 at 03:30
From solar panels to lagging jackets, here are five ways you can boost your home’s BER rating
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Irish activist Helen Joyce: ‘I’m sure I messed up sometimes, but no man saying the things that I say will be called unkind’
Sun 13 Apr 2025 at 03:30
‘I don’t know if she recognises us any more’ – Limerick woman on her mother’s young-onset Alzheimer’s disease
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Care-sector jobs attracting greater interest since the budget
Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 03:30

Family Features

I ‘cheated’ on my wife with an AI bot named Sharon – so was it fulfilling or creepy?

‘Can I claim squatter’s rights on an abandoned field I’ve been using?’

JP O’Malley: My distant cousin, Pamela, her husband, the inspiration for Donleavy’s ‘Ginger Man’, and her defiance of the Franco regime

Revealed: How where you live could see you having to pay out €5,200 more for your childcare

Tony Gallagher trains for the Ring of Kerry Cycle in aid of the Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation

‘Sophia will do Irish dancing or football but afterwards it’s like her feet are burning’ – parents of ‘butterfly skin’ sufferer tell of brave daughter’s struggle

‘I am forever changed by the loss of this special man’: Sophie Grenham on grief, loss and gratitude as she faces her first father's day without her dad

How to get the best value out of your long-awaited summer holiday

Champions League glory with Katie McCabe was bittersweet for my family – but it has helped us in our grief

‘Seeing Carlo in the jeans and the hoodie puts the idea of sainthood in perspective in today’s world’ – the curious canonisation of a 21st-century boy

From solar panels to lagging jackets, here are five ways you can boost your home’s BER rating

Irish activist Helen Joyce: ‘I’m sure I messed up sometimes, but no man saying the things that I say will be called unkind’

‘I don’t know if she recognises us any more’ – Limerick woman on her mother’s young-onset Alzheimer’s disease

Care-sector jobs attracting greater interest since the budget

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‘I remember Mum got hair extensions, and I thought: ‘Jesus, it must be fancy because she never gets that dolled up.’ Faye Shortt on when dad Pat won the IFTA for Garage

‘There was a time in my life when, if I’d had a gun, I would have killed him’ – Brighid McLaughlin on her sister’s murder

‘Are you Dan Conroy’s son? He died of shock when he saw you’ – Artist Don Conroy on losing his father when he was six months old

‘I sold the tickets, cancelled the hotel, and tried not to cry’ – giving up on my dream gig because childcare was too hard to arrange

Health and death anxiety is prevalent in new mothers, but why –and what works to control it?

Bill Linnane: Looking back, it's odd we bought my daughter dolls and prams while the boys got toy guns, swords and Lego

‘Childcare costs less than €500 a month for both children’ — the Irish raising their families in the Nordic countries

Bill Linnane: Google Maps seems to want me dead but I’d be lost without it

David Coleman: How to keep children engaged with school subjects in everyday life

Why is my toddler hitting me – and how do I get them to stop?

Why children have emotional meltdowns when they get home from school – and how you can help them

Paul O’Connell on going from player to coach: ‘I take defeats hard — but I’m older, I have kids, I know it’s not the end of the world I thought it was’

Birr Castle’s Lady Rosse: ‘I would be very sad if the castle was empty or turned into a museum’

‘I told them I’d given birth to a boy with Down syndrome. They said ‘congratulations’ – that meant a lot’

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‘Grief is like a puzzle: a piece arrives at your door every day’ – how one young widow copes with loss, pain and making new dreams

Parenting and survivorship bias: How to deal with older relatives who think they know better

Meet the Irish women who swam to Scotland: 'We all wanted it... It wasn’t just about doing it, but doing it in a good time'

Obituary: Angeles Florez Peon, a heroine of the Spanish civil war who spent half a century in exile

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The complex mother-daughter dynamic: How to solve conflicts and heal your relationship

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‘It’s hard to hear autism called a ‘superpower’ when I’m struggling with the challenges it’s brought to my five-year-old son’s life’

Left in limbo by surrogacy laws: ‘We can’t come back home to Ireland because our daughter isn’t recognised as Irish’

‘I couldn’t do my job. For months, I couldn’t open a letter coming in the door.’ Crime writer Patricia Gibney on losing her husband at 49

The Shona Project: New podcast offers advice to parents of teenage girls trying to navigate modern life

A date night every now and then isn’t enough: this is how to maintain your relationship as a couple with young kids

Parenting coaches: why Irish parents are turning to experts for help and advice on raising their kids

‘I’m a mum of seven – here are my eight key strategies I use to enjoy some time to myself’

Dr David Coleman: I know it’s hard for parents to do but we must allow kids to take risks, explore and make mistakes

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