IMAGE The Motherload Meetup: The Dún Laoghaire Edition
IMAGE The Motherload Meetup: The Dún Laoghaire Edition

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Beyond the podium: The power of being in the room where it happens
Beyond the podium: The power of being in the room where it happens

Leonie Corcoran

Alice Jary of Rúibín Galway on the importance of being committed to making change
Alice Jary of Rúibín Galway on the importance of being committed to making change

Sarah Gill

Jess Murphy of KAI on the importance of pushing the next generation of Irish foodies forward
Jess Murphy of KAI on the importance of pushing the next generation of Irish foodies...

Sarah Gill

Real Weddings: Nnenna and Gary tie the knot at the gorgeous Glenlo Abbey in Co Galway
Real Weddings: Nnenna and Gary tie the knot at the gorgeous Glenlo Abbey in Co...

Shayna Healy

Meet the Galway craftsman capturing seaside finds in cast concrete
Meet the Galway craftsman capturing seaside finds in cast concrete

Michelle Hanley

Meet Virtue Shine, the designer behind the vivacious and vibrant Emerald & Wax
Meet Virtue Shine, the designer behind the vivacious and vibrant Emerald & Wax

Sarah Gill

Read Julie Bates’ essay in PVA’s new collection, ‘As if nothing could fall’
Read Julie Bates’ essay in PVA’s new collection, ‘As if nothing could fall’

Sarah Gill

Joyof Foods founder Eniola Salami shares her life in food

Sarah Gill

Joyful, wearable style defines S/S 2026 – shop the best pieces
Joyful, wearable style defines S/S 2026 – shop the best pieces

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Against all odds: ‘At 35, I had the fertility blood profile of a 60-year-old woman’


by IMAGE
05.04.23

When Sheilagh Foley was given a one per cent success rate of having a child of her own, she harnessed her last remaining reserve – hope. Sometimes, just sometimes, blind faith pays off, as she discovered.

Covid may have been forcing us to examine our health, but it also pushed us to look for hope. I am alive because of hope. When people threatened to take my hope away, I found new hope. Don’t be afraid to dream. If there were no hopes, no dreams, there would be no inventions, no cures, no progress. Here’s my story… At 22, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. At 30, I had developed mouth...

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