Trials and Tribulations of a Single Parent
SO there we were watching The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford when the definition of the word ‘assassination’...
Friday, 01/05/15 - 10:34am
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SHE wanted, she said, to go to Coláiste Fiachra to start a new life. She said that she was “sick...
Friday, 24/04/15 - 11:55am
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THE waiting room was busy for that time of the day. It was as busy as a doctor’s surgery on...
Friday, 17/04/15 - 12:07pm
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A helicopter parent is a parent who pays extremely close attention to a child’s or children’s experiences and problems, particularly at...
Friday, 10/04/15 - 11:29am
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And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They’re...
Friday, 03/04/15 - 11:52am
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I OFTEN mistake the word ‘wedding’ for ‘funeral’. I don’t mean to do it and it’s a troubling trait to...
Friday, 27/03/15 - 10:06am
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SORCHA and Siobhán and the others are going drinking on Paddy’s Day,” she says, squinting up from her phone. Reader,...
Friday, 20/03/15 - 2:49pm
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“AS A woman in this family, you only have to think of a penis and you’ll get pregnant!” My mother...
Friday, 13/03/15 - 11:17am
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THERE are huge advantages to having a clatter of sisters and brothers. Not least the fact that you can go...
Friday, 06/03/15 - 12:15pm
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Scene: The sofa on Saturday night with my teenage daughter and I watching The Grammy music awards Teenage daughter: My...
Friday, 27/02/15 - 12:24pm
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“I’M so stressed. My life is so stressful. This is so stressful.” I gathered that my daughter was under some...
Friday, 20/02/15 - 11:22am
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ST VALENTINE’S night in any restaurant is different to every other night of the year. An air of expectation hangs...
Friday, 13/02/15 - 3:37pm
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MY daughter’s singing segued effortlessly from ‘shake it off’ to ‘let it go, let it go’” as she walked up...
Friday, 06/02/15 - 12:42pm
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“SERIOUSLY? You’re not wearing that, are you? You’re never going to find a man in that get-up,” my youngest sister...
Friday, 30/01/15 - 12:31pm
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“HOW are you, hon?” “Shi.” “Sorry?” “Shi.” “Come again … what do you mean ‘shi’?” “When I say shi, I...
Friday, 23/01/15 - 3:10pm
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A NEW year, a new you. 2015 has already got its feet under the table and people are detoxing left,...
Friday, 16/01/15 - 10:15am
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“SO, pet, what do you want for Christmas?” I nonchalantly asked my 15-year-old daughter a week before the big day....
Friday, 09/01/15 - 11:58am
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HE’S the type of chap that you could bring home to your mammy. He’s kind, funny, talented, loves women and...
Friday, 12/12/14 - 12:05pm
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