Lia Hynes

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Making the leap: When leaving your ‘dream’ job is the right thing to do

What happens when the dream job is no longer living the dream? Leaving apparent career gold to leap…

By Lia Hynes

procrastination

SELF

How to handle procrastination and the dread of getting things done

Liadan Hynes explores the myriad ways a person can find their way back to themselves, including managing procrastination.…

By Lia Hynes

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SELF

‘There was very little they didn’t do to me, every day for a year’

Despite a history of horrific sexual and racial abuse growing up in a small Irish town, Chantal Kangowa…

By Lia Hynes

Rosanna Davidson and her twin boys
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SELF, EDITORIAL

Rosanna Davidson: ‘I had sort of accepted that I was a girl who couldn’t have a baby herself’

For Mother's Day Lia Hynes sits down with Rosanna Davidson, whose exceptional journey into motherhood has given many…

By Lia Hynes

Working full-time and single parenting can feel like a rather intense form of juggling at the best of times.
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SELF

Single parenting in a pandemic: ‘I cry alone in the car so the kids don’t see me’

Being a single mother has always been a juggling act, but the pandemic is forcing single parents to…

By Lia Hynes

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SELF

Liadán Hynes: Will Covid cost me my friendships?

Liadán Hynes on how friendship has fared during the pandemic.I was about 100 hundred yards away from her…

By Lia Hynes

SELF

My husband was fifty-six when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

Owen Gallagher was fifty-six when diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. On World Alzheimer's Day his wife Carolann Duggan talked to…

By Lia Hynes

AGENDA

Family of Irish man stuck in China: ‘His mental health and physical health are so low, it can’t get any worse’

Richard O’Halloran has been held in China for two years. Here, his wife Tara talks to Liadán Hynes…

By Lia Hynes

social distancing as a family of 2

SELF

There are good days and bad days: social distancing when there’s just 2 of you

Liadan Hynes on the realities of life as a single parent in Ireland. This article was originally published…

By Lia Hynes

STYLE

It’s time to consider why we’re shaming influencers

Influencers are an easy target for our ire, but maybe it’s time we considered exactly what we are…

By Lia Hynes

single parenting

SELF

Conversations about single parenting need to involve actual single parents

When Liadan Hynes' marriage fell apart she had to work on adjusting to the new reality.  I listened…

By Lia Hynes

SELF

Why your college years might not be the best years of your life, and that’s ok

Lia Hynes did not have the 'time of her life' in college. But every cloud has a silver…

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