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RELATIONSHIPS

‘I went to a matchmaker to find love. Here’s what happened’

Is it just an expensive Tinder, or does bespoke matchmaking at a dating agency actually work? Christina McLoughlin…

By Christina McLoughlin

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SELF

Behind Closed Doors: ‘I’m an IT consultant by day and a dominatrix by night’

LA-born but living in Ireland, Clarity Mills runs an IT consultancy business. By night she works as a…

By Amanda Cassidy

SELF

If lockdown has killed your libido, you are not alone

Whether you’re in the lockdown love-in or Covid cold war camp, chances are this pandemic is having an…

By Lizzie Gore-Grimes

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SELF

‘I slept with my sister’s husband and feel awful’

"I started calling in when the kids were at nursery and only the second time we were completely…

By Rhona Mcauliffe

Moving in together

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‘My partner moved in and I feel like it’s changed everything’

Shayna Sappington thought moving in with her partner would solve all their problems. She wasn't expecting it to…

By Shayna Healy

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AGENDA

‘Puberty is a gift from God’: Ireland’s new Catholic sex education is not good enough

When it comes to sex education, children and teenagers don’t need prayers; they need to be able to…

By Lynn Enright

Is it time we threw out the book entirely, and made up our own relationship rules? 
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Sleeping in separate beds and other ‘alternative’ practices that help these relationships thrive

From being engaged to a partner 30-years your junior, to couples living apart entirely – Michelle Heffernan speaks…

By Michelle Heffernan

when you’re disabled, finding love, waiting to be loved all-consumingly by another (it doesn’t have to be a movie-centric whirlwind, a quiet loveliness is just as potent), I think feels an impossible quest.
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SELF

Love and disability: “The ‘who’d have me’ thoughts almost never leave my head”

On Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, Jennifer McShane ponders one of the hardest aspects of her disability. I should…

By Jennifer McShane

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SELF

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

Ireland is now the sixth largest consumer of pornography in the world, and while pornography can have benefits,…

By Michelle Heffernan

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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,…

By Finn McRedmond

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AGENDA, SELF

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?Covid-19 has…

By Finn McRedmond

Coercive control

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Coercive control: 10 warning signs and where to go for help

In January last year a new law was introduced to Ireland which made coercive control a crime. Yet…

By IMAGE