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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ‘If men gave birth maternity hospitals would be palaces and we’d get three years off’
Ó Ríordáin’s youngest daughter Róisín was born prematurely a few days ago at 26 weeks’ gestation
From toe-nail clippers to jaffa cakes: What’s the worst Christmas gift you’ve been given?
What’s the craziest, or most unexpected present you’ve ever received?
Virtual reality as a lifeline: ‘For some young people it’s the social’
Foróige GoVirtual seeks to connect vulnerable and isolated young people through virtual reality
‘It used to be you sent in something small’: Christmas presents for teachers in Ireland
‘There’s never anything about teacher gifts. It just puts unnecessary pressure on families’
‘I am the Grinch,’ one friend told me as I teased him about disliking Christmas
Jen Hogan: Plenty of people feel the season-to-be-jolly is overrated
The WFH parents balancing work and childcare: ‘I struggle with it. The two things don’t mix at all’
Some parents say they have no choice, but is working from home with no formal childminding arrangements feasible, or even acceptable?
The most annoying thing about parent-teacher meetings? Parents who hog teachers
On behalf of frazzled parents everywhere, please make a separate appointment
Richie Sadlier: ‘My kids will be sick of me mentioning the word sex’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
I’ve changed my old stance on teens and alcohol – it’s snus and vapes that are the problem
I suspect few enough of us reached 18 before having our first alcoholic drink
Tanita Tikaram: ‘The Beatles taught me to sing low’
The singer of Fijian and Malaysian descent penned her hit single, Twist in my Sobriety, when she was a ‘introverted, opinionated’ teenager
Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘We were going out six weeks when we found out I was pregnant’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
Chris Hadfield: ‘I have an Irish granddaughter and I couldn’t be more delighted’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
Women leaders at Ireland’s all-boys schools: ‘Boys love clarity, fairness and consistency’
School principals Caroline Garrett and Elaine Kelly, and head coach Tania Rosser, on changing the gender dynamic
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: ‘My mum was mortified I was breastfeeding in a restaurant’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
Boys-only Dublin private school appoints first woman principal in 190-year history
Elaine Kelly has been appointed principal of the all-boys, fee-paying Castleknock College
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