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About 400,000 women in Ireland have this condition and don’t know

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The Cabinet Sub-Committee on Covid-19 currently has no women sitting on it. Why?

Unique families: Gay ‘throuple’ open up about landmark battle to be named their children’s fathers

The trickle of information from the Government on restrictions has made a grim situation so...

This (never-ending) pandemic is a good time for self-reflection, starting with your personal values

3 reasons you should be taking folic acid daily

By Shayna Sappington

Porn addiction: ‘It was like having another relationship. It was affecting me physically and I...

Black women still can’t find their favourite hair care products in Ireland, so they’re making...

‘Where’s Granny? She’s up in the sky. Well if I grow a pair of wings,...

By Jennie McGinn

Health & Wellness

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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 carry logistical and emotional burdens that are taking a serious toll

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About 400,000 women in Ireland have this condition and don’t know

Imagine how surprising it would be if there were another condition, a bit like IBS, but even more common, and yet one that almost no-one has heard of.

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The Cabinet Sub-Committee on Covid-19 currently has no women sitting on it. Why?

When it emerged when week that the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Covid-19 has no women sitting on it, many were disappointed but not surprised.

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The trickle of information from the Government on restrictions has made a grim situation so much worse

3 reasons you should be taking folic acid daily

By Shayna Sappington

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Porn addiction: ‘It was like having another relationship. It was affecting me physically and I was sneaking around’

One man tells Michelle Heffernan, how pornography took over his life and seriously affected his physical and mental health.

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Black women still can’t find their favourite hair care products in Ireland, so they’re making them

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Why is everyone being weird about hot chocolate on Instagram?

By Holly O'Neill

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From Evan Rachel Wood to the survivors of mother & baby homes, we must listen to women’s testimony

What happens when we demand stories of women but don't listen to or respect the answers? Lynn Enright on the power of women's testimony, and how historically — in Ireland especially — it has been ignored.

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ShareJoy: ‘At the end of the day, this is all about the love of a mother for their daughter’

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#BleedinJustice: One woman’s fight to make free period products freely available in Ireland

Senator Rebecca Moynihan on women's health in Ireland, the BleedinJustice campaign and the importance of public consultation.

By Lucy White

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This (never-ending) pandemic is a good time for self-reflection, starting with your personal values

Before you engage in an eye roll, defining your personal values is just an elaborate way of helping you identify exactly what matters to you, right now.

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Black women still can’t find their favourite hair care products in Ireland, so they’re making them

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How to cope through loss and grief, according to a psychologist who knows all too well

Psychologist and author Niamh Fitzpatrick knows only too well about loss and grief. Here, from the IMAGE 2020/2021 Annual, she shares her mental health strategies, for when life isn’t what we expected.

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Do probiotics actually work? We get the final word from an expert gastroenterologist

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Finding joy in the fourth trimester: resting and recuperating

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Hello, my name is Niamh and I am a classic overthinker

Do you replay mistakes in your head over and over, or dwell on outcomes so much that you emotionally feel like they’ve already happened? You might be an overthinker.

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How to talk to your boss and partner about juggling work, childcare and home duties

More and more women are bearing the weight of the “Covid-load”, juggling increasing work pressures with childcare and home duties, writes NIKKI WALSH. She finds out what sort of conversations we need to be having with our bosses, our partners and, most importantly, ourselves.

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If lockdown has killed your libido, you are not alone

By Lizzie Gore-Grimes

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Is a sleep divorce the key to a happy relationship? A relationship counsellor’s take on the ‘living apart together’ trend

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‘Happiness is not something that happens to you. It’s something you have to choose, everyday’

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#MindYourself: Our reader recommendations for minding yourself this month

By Lauren Heskin

Real-life Stories

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Unique families: Gay ‘throuple’ open up about landmark battle to be named their children’s fathers

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Porn addiction: ‘It was like having another relationship. It was affecting me physically and I was sneaking around’

One man tells Michelle Heffernan, how pornography took over his life and seriously affected his physical and mental health.

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Black women still can’t find their favourite hair care products in Ireland, so they’re making them

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‘Where’s Granny? She’s up in the sky. Well if I grow a pair of wings, can I fly up to see her?’

Jennie McGinn lost her mother Annie in October 2020. From an unusually large, and unusually female family, she writes about losing the centre of their family orbit and how she has managed parenting a toddler and a small baby while wanting to spend time completely submerged in her grief.

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The reality of a decade of IVF: ‘I felt like a little light had gone out in me’

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From Evan Rachel Wood to the survivors of mother & baby homes, we must listen to women’s testimony

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ShareJoy: ‘At the end of the day, this is all about the love of a mother for their daughter’

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Pandemic dating: ‘Sorry I can’t see you anymore, I’m in a bubble with my mum’

Finn McRedmond broke up with her boyfriend two weeks before lockdown 1.0. After a year of pandemic dating, this Valentine's day, she has some thoughts.

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Filomena Kaguako: Burlesque reminded me that I am sexy, and my own worst enemy

After being in a room full of strong women drawing upon the audacious confidence of burlesque, Filomena Kaguako found her confidence

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Lockdown Diary Week 2,304: I think I have a crush on the delivery men. Plural.

After a quick exit from Dublin to rural Ireland in March 2020, Edaein O’Connell has spent nearly a year locked down with family and overfamiliar cows. Here's how she's getting on...

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My husband left me with four young children, cleared out our savings account and disappeared

It's been 11 years since Alice Sommers' husband departed Ireland for unknown foreign lands leaving her with money struggles, damaged children, NAMA negotiations and the eventual loss of their family home.

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Porn addiction: ‘It was like having another relationship. It was affecting me physically and I was sneaking around’

One man tells Michelle Heffernan, how pornography took over his life and seriously affected his physical and mental health.

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Pandemic dating: ‘Sorry I can’t see you anymore, I’m in a bubble with my mum’

Finn McRedmond broke up with her boyfriend two weeks before lockdown 1.0. After a year of pandemic dating, this Valentine's day, she has some thoughts.

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My husband left me with four young children, cleared out our savings account and disappeared

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Does Only Fans take advantage of women’s economic precarity? Or give back financial power?

Finn McRedmond asks, should we raise concern over a business model that thrives on the economically vulnerable?

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Soula Emmanuel: The internet wrecked the world and saved my life

Trans writer Soula Emmanuel writes about her experience of becoming "ammunition in a culture war".

By Soula Emmanuel

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Lynn Enright: I dream about being at dinner parties in friends’ houses

In her dreams Lynn Enright goes to dinner parties with friends, and for now, that is enough

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I’m a people pleaser, is that really a bad thing?

Surely, it implies that I am essentially a good person trying to do good things for others? Not quite, explains change coach Niamh Ennis.

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The rise of the narcissist and how to recognise the signs within close relationships

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Liadán Hynes: Will Covid cost me my friendships?

Liadán Hynes on how friendship has fared during the pandemic.

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‘He’s an Aquarius and I’m a Virgo. It was never going to work’

As Finn McRedmond was living alone mid-lockdown, with little to do, and navigating an increasingly complicated relationship, astrology became a nice way to fill up some hours.

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Navigating the awkward conversation you need to have with that one friend who isn’t following COVID guidelines

By Lauren Heskin

Parenthood

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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 carry logistical and emotional burdens that are taking a serious toll