Today marks the beginning of a week long eczema awareness campaign introduced by the Irish Skin Foundation and supported by skincare brand La Roche-Posay. Eczema Awareness Week will host a detailed programme of events to raise awareness for the chronic skin condition that affects 1 in 5 children and 1 in 12 Irish adults. While…
Summer is over and the school days have rolled around one again. (Yipeeeeee) Whether your miniature scholar is stepping into the world of education for the first time or they’re returning to the classroom, there’s five phrases that they’re guaranteed to have let slip in the past weeks. “I don’t want to go” …
Headache! While some linger relentlessly around your temples like an irritating bee disrupting your day, others feel as though a surgical knife has cracked your cranium in two. If you’re a chronic headache sufferer you’ll know that sometimes a prescription of two painkillers and a thick pair of ear plugs takes too long to…
Growing a baby in your body gives mums a head start on bonding with a new baby. And that’s before breastfeeding leaves you permanently attached to them (or so it seems sometimes in the early days!). But what about the daddies? With a bit of smart planning, dads can catch up quickly and form their own…
In our long fight for equality we can sometimes forget that the pendulum swings both ways. Yet, thanks to Minister of Social Protection Leo Varadkar, and former Minister Joan Burton, expectant fathers can now experience some of the parental benefits that mothers have enjoyed for decades. More specifically, this refers to the new paternity…
Expecting a baby this autumn, why not take inspiration from these gorgeous autumn names? Us Irish can be quite respectful when it comes to choosing baby names. Plenty of us abide by family traditions for at least one child, but when you have free rein, why not go for something a little unusual? If you’re…
It feels like the world has been taken over by Pokémon Go. It’s not your typical mobile app game, where your child is glued to a screen and doesn’t move for hours on end. Pokémon Go gets its users outside into the great outdoors, this can only be seen as a good thing, surely? It’s…
