Ten ways to navigate grief at Christmas
Friends and family will understand the sadness of those who have lost a parent, sibling or child during the year. But sensitivity to grief that might not be so visible is also wise
‘I had let it go too far ... but I had zero pain’: We need to talk about penile cancer
New guide aims to stop men dying due to unawareness and shame
‘It’s given me the motivation to say, I’m not just a mam stuck at home with a disability who can’t do stuff’: Social enterprise Town Scientist
Sessions developed by engineer, scientist, writer and performer Dr Niamh Shaw inspire parents to start new conversations around the kitchen table
Polish or Irish? ‘I wanted to fully integrate. But then I realised that you can be both and it’s not a problem’
Children from the ‘1.5 generation’ who were brought by their parents to live in another country, can struggle to belong, as documented in a new book
From screentime to dinner time: how parents can improve family life, diet and relationships
The Healthy Families programme helps parents to implement gradual but significant improvements to family wellbeing
How keeping astronauts healthy can tell us what on Earth to do
Dr Lisa McNamee looks to space for the benefit of terrestrial medicine
Living with a brain tumour: ‘I knew something was wrong because the radiographers would not look at me’
People with brain tumours get world-class medical treatment in Ireland – but after that there can be a big gap
MND: There has to be ‘an acceptance, a letting go and, dare I say, a surrender’
Kevin Carroll, ambassador for this year’s Walk While You Can fundraising event for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association, and his wife Margaret have been navigating continuing changes to their lives since Kevin was diagnosed with MND
DNA testing: ‘Lo and behold, there’s a half-sibling or a full sibling one or two clicks away’
Consumer testing can throw up surprises, positive and negative. It’s like toothpaste coming out of a tube: ‘You can’t put it back in’
Assisted dying: ‘If I cannot consent to my own death, who owns my life?’
Polls show most of the public are in favour of access to assisted dying in certain circumstances, but many people, including individual doctors, are in two minds
Addiction and healing: ‘All of the things that you chase for happiness don’t actually make you happy’
Síolta, co-founded by Hannah Bowler and Wayne Dignam, is a co-operative of wellbeing practitioners aimed at enabling growth and connection
XL bully dogs: Is this the end for one of the most feared breeds in Ireland?
From October 1st the importing, breeding, selling and rehoming of XL bullies will be prohibited
Explaining suicide to a child: ‘Daddy stopped himself from living’
Safe Harbour, a picture storybook, paves the way and is possibly a world first in its comprehensiveness for this specific purpose
A double hip replacement: ‘I was afraid of my life but I have no pain whatsoever now’
Recovery after joint replacement is often quicker than patients anticipate, new research shows
Childhood cancer: ‘As soon as the ultrasound was turned on, they could see the tumour – it was large’
Even the end of treatment does not spell the end of parental anxiety, and a new peer-support network is being launched to help parents cope with what comes next