Saturday 6 March, 2021
In around half of products examined, more than 30% of the calories in them were from total sugars.
Accepting, without ambition to change, the numbers now living in emergency accommodation is fatal to tackling the problem, writes Cliodhna O’Neill of the ISPCC.
Asthma kills one person every week in Ireland but Cat Kennedy hasn’t let the condition slow her down.
There have been “major reductions” in the number of children passing away from the disease.
So many precious items!
It ain’t easy being wheezy.
Linda O’Dwyer had to wait 18 months to get a diagnosis for her son Tommy – and that was after she went private.
Pleaaaaase can we have one.
“As long as you’re living under my roof…”
“I wish I was yellow like you and have holes in my body like you.”
“You’re an only child? That explains a lot.” OH DOES IT?
Get well messages are flooding in for Martin Aitchison.
Zion Harvey told doctors that he wanted to swing on monkey bars.
Too much nostalgia to handle.
California is the latest state in the US to move towards making it mandatory.
Melissa and Chris Nolan have been repairing dolls and teddies for over 30 years.
The new Suicide Prevention Strategy launched this week misses one essential point: preventing suicide begins in infancy.
The Department of Children and Youth Affairs has rowed back on its promise that every childcare worker will need a minimum qualification by this September.
Try not to weep with the intense nostalgia coming your way.
A new online resource has been launched to help primary school teachers deal with bereavement.
Mary Black, Johnny Logan, The Frog Chorus…
A Bishop has called for the conditions in Direct Provision centres to be improved.
The stresses and strains of life were getting me down, but then I did what we so often neglect to do: I embraced the moment.
“It’s just not good enough,” says Early Childhood Ireland.
The author of Where the Wild Things Are would have been 83 today.
But sure you knew that already.
It’s NOT FAIR. I didn’t ASK to be born.
Melting 99s, playing on the strand and getting sand in your togs.
The motion aims to ‘protect childhood from sexualisation’ and oppose further pageants in Ireland.
Is it ever ok to discipline someone else’s child? Martina Newe looks at when you should intervene – and when you absolutely shouldn’t.
‘I want you to let girls go on adventures.’
(… and guess how that worked out)
Frances Fitzgerald recently invited Irish fashion retailers to prepare a set of guidelines aimed at addressing “increasing concerns over the sexualisation of childhood and issues such as body-image”.
