A school has banned their students from touching snow. The London school said that they have prohibited their students from coming into contact with the snow to ensure that nobody gets injured. The school’s headteacher, Ges Smith, called the move a “duty of care issue.” Speaking on Good Morning Britain, he said that snow was […]

9 years ago

A husband has told his wife to stop breastfeeding their child because he’s afraid that people will judge her. The pair welcomed their daughter three years ago, and according to mum, she loves still being breastfed once a day. However, the child’s dad thinks that his daughter is a bit old for the practice now and […]

9 years ago

The Beast from the East is coming. For all we know, when you’re reading this, it may even be here. At the time of writing, the exact intensity of the Beast remains to be seen – all we know now is that we’re expecting a lot of snow to fall tonight, a significant drop in temperatures, […]

9 years ago

Ah, Jesus. The Kardashians have a lot of money – this is no secret. And if they wanted to try and keep it a secret, they’d have a hard time doing it considering the amount of time they spend videoing each other driving Lamborghinis around the place. At the end of the day, it’s grand though […]

9 years ago

Coronation Street is on telly a lot. Like, loads. Like, about five times a week or something mad like that. Imagine for a second that you had to produce that much television content week-by-week – it’s hardly unfair to say that you wouldn’t waste time double checking every single frame for potential blunders. That’s why […]

9 years ago

The Kardashians have been having a lot of babies. Like, a lot. Over the past year, between the Kardashians and the Jenners, they’ve added about 10 new little individuals to their ever-growing family, and fair play to them because you can never have enough rich reality stars in the making running around the LA hills. […]

9 years ago

Topical. Emmerdale is not the first soap to run an abortion storyline and it certainly won’t be the last. In the past, whenever terminations were portrayed on screen, they weren’t really portrayed on screen. At least, not accurately. There was a shock pregnancy, an attempt to hide said pregnancy, an argument, a lot of tears, […]

9 years ago

Having a baby affects everyone differently. For some mums, the transition into motherhood is smooth, delightful, and essentially uneventful. For others, it’s a little more tricky, peppered with little speed bumps that may or may not affect your mind and your body. One of the things that affects a lot of women after they give […]

9 years ago

Grim. A status orange snow-ice weather warning has been issued for seven counties starting tomorrow. Met Éireann issued the warning for Dublin, Carlow, Kildare, Laois, Louth, Wicklow and Meath – the counties are expected to experience scattered snow showers later on Tuesday. Tuesday night will also lead to accumulations of 4 to 6cm of snow by […]

9 years ago

A mum has sparked a debate over an experiment she carried out using breastmilk and formula. Jessica Wilson claimed that her project proved “breast really is best” and that “boobs are magical.” The experiment involved using two petri dishes containing bacteria – one soaked in breastmilk, the other soaked in formula. Wilson said that the investigation […]

9 years ago

Bethany’s glass attack storyline is set to kick off on Coronation Street this week, leading to a possible prison sentence. The younger Platt woman will be returning to lap-dancing this week after a bit of a break when she hears that the club is under new management and that she could probably earn a bit […]

9 years ago

We know, we know. David Beckham has a lot of children and each and every one of them is lovely and adorable, etc. However, David Beckham, as we know, also has a has a new niece called Peggy who is even more lovely and adorable, etc, because she’s a newborn and newborns are actively lovely […]

9 years ago

You can’t do anything right as a parent. Whether it’s how you dress your children, what you feed them, or how you react when they throw a tantrum in the middle of the pasta aisle in Tesco, somebody somewhere is going to have a bit of a complain about it. At the end of the […]

9 years ago

A 14-year-old Kerry boy has died after sustaining an injury during a GAA match. Aodhán O’Connor was playing Gaelic football for Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne against St Brendan’s College, Killarney on Wednesday when the incident occurred. The Mirror reports that there was a clash of heads when O’Connor and another student went for the ball. The […]

9 years ago

Cassiday Proctor is a DJ from Missouri. Up until last week, Cassiday was working at a radio station, heavily pregnant, and not expecting her baby to arrive for two more weeks. However, in true unborn baby style, her son decided to arrive a bit early  – most notably, while Cassiday was working. The mum-to-be’s baby was […]

9 years ago

Sacha Parkinson said her endometriosis left her with “excruciating” period pains, anxiety, and backaches. The Coronation Street actress revealed this week that she had suffered from the condition for many years. Often, Parkinson said that her pain was so severe, she had to stay home from school, abstain from sex, and deal with feeling constantly […]

9 years ago

It’s easy to assume that people who are health-mad will have no bother losing a bit of weight after giving birth. Spend enough time on Instagram and you’ll become accustomed to influencers, bloggers, and various celebrities showing off their post-partum bodies like their was never a child growing inside there at all. Not a stretch […]

9 years ago

Robin Thicke and girlfriend April Love Geary have welcomed their first child. The Blurred Lines singer took to Instagram last night to announce that their baby, Mia Love Thicke, was born on February 22 at 13.33pm. Thicke also issued a thank you to God and to April. The video shows the singer in a hospital […]

9 years ago

Gas. One of the worst things about sending your child off to school is the prospect of bullies. They exist everywhere, sure, but they tend to be more rampant where young children are present, struggling to find ways to fit in with their peers, and figuring out who they are. As a parent, there’s no […]

9 years ago

Happy birthday! Kind of… A week ago, Coleen Rooney welcomed her fourth child – Cass Mac Rooney. Coleen and Wayne’s fourth son, he arrived on February 15 weighing in at 8lbs 10oz. Since her son’s birth, Coleen has been rife with the Instagram posts and we, of course, have only been delighted because Cass is one […]

9 years ago

A woman who begged the parents of her so-called “best friend” to let her attend her wedding has been told she can’t go. Primarily because this woman doesn’t actually appear to be best friends with this bride-to-be at all, but sure look, she obviously thinks she deserves an invite. The unknown woman said that she […]

9 years ago

Honestly, there is nothing worse. Not finding your child has wet the bed, not discovering that all your whites are now pink because you put the wrong wash on, not forgetting to pick up milk at the shops. Nothing. Finding your children playing in an “avalanche of sh*t” is not something we’d wish on our […]

9 years ago

UCD is to reclassify 170 on campus toilets as gender neutral. A number of changing cubicles will also be introduced at the university’s sports centre at Belfield to accommodate people who are transgender. The change comes as UCD attempts to make its campus more inclusive and welcoming for transgender or gender fluid students and employees. The […]

9 years ago

A cartoon drawn about the Florida school shooting has been triggering some emotive reactions online. The image, called ‘Hero’s Welcome’, depicts assisted football coach and security guard Aaron Feis being led by a little girl to a large group of other adults and children. Feis was among one of the first victims to be identified in […]

9 years ago

A French fashion designer has hinted that he may have made Meghan Markle’s wedding dress. Roland Mouret is a friend of Meghan’s, and a royal family favourite too, so it’s not entirely unlikely that the London-based designer was involved. Although speculation has been rife recently that Alexander McQueen was the one to watch in terms […]

9 years ago

Lauren Goodger has criticised mums who hire childminders while they go to work. The TV personality said that after reading a story about a hired nanny who pinched and beat the baby she was looking after, she would never choose to go to work over looking after her child. In a string of tweets, Goodger […]

9 years ago

Oddly endearing. If there’s one thing we didn’t think we needed to see in this life, it was Liam Gallagher being interviewed by a load of children. It wasn’t that high up on our agenda in terms of pressing matters, but now that we have witnessed such an event, we can confirm that it’s probably […]

9 years ago

Ah, stop. Losing a pet is tough. Not only do you have to deal with the fact that you’ll never see or spend time with that fluffy friend again, but if they’re getting put to sleep, the dread tends to be so much worse. That’s why it generally helps to have somebody there to tell […]

9 years ago

Emma Hannigan’s ‘Letters To My Daughters’ has reached no.1 in the Irish book charts. The author’s final novel outsold all others last week after Marian Keyes, Carmel Harington, and others rallied to get the book to the top of the bestsellers list. Hannigan shared an emotive Facebook post on Friday saying that doctors had told […]

9 years ago

Fair play. David O’Neal is a dad-of-two from Milton Keynes. He used to work as a banker, but after he didn’t get the promotion he was gunning for, he decided to give it all up to become a children’s hairdresser. The decision, as it turns out, was a good one, because now 32-year-old David makes […]

9 years ago

Students in India are to be banned from wearing shoes and socks to stop them from cheating in exams. Authorities in the eastern Indian state of Bihar have asked students not to wear anything on their feet where they could potentially conceal notes during an exam. Officials told the BBC that the state is “notorious” […]

9 years ago

7,000 newborn babies die every day, according to a new report published by Unicef. The mortality rate of newborns is still “alarmingly high” across the world, despite many countries in the first world having high survival rates. The report showed that Pakistan has the highest infant mortality rate, with every 1 in 22 newborns dying within […]

9 years ago

What a woman. Carlee Benear is a mum from Texas. She’s also somebody who practises breastfeeding, free-bleeding yoga though, so she’s not exactly your run-of-the-mill mum-of-three. Take a look at Carlee’s Instagram page, ‘CarleeBYogo,’ and you’ll be struck by a few different things. The first is that the woman has some serious yoga skills, an […]

9 years ago

Warning: the details of this story may upset some readers. Police are searching for a person who left a baby boy in a bin in a New York park. The infant was discovered by a resident, Devon Davis, and a friend who said they noticed an “unpleasant smell” when they were walking through the park […]

9 years ago

Khloe Kardashian has been suffering “complications” during her pregnancy. It was revealed last night that the star had been unable to walk because of the pain she has been in. A teaser for an upcoming episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians showed the mum-to-be telling her sisters about what was happening. After receiving an […]

9 years ago

Secondary school students are to be given the chance to opt out of religion class. New rules put forward by Minister for Education Richard Bruton will see religion become an optional subject for students in over 300 multi-denominational second level school across the country. A circular will be issued to schools today stating that teaching […]

9 years ago

Travis Scott has spoken for the first time about his new baby girl, Stormi. The rapper and Kylie Jenner welcomed their daughter on February 1 after months of speculation regarding the reality star’s pregnancy. Eventually, a few days after giving birth, Kylie ended her social media hiatus and announced that she had given birth to a […]

9 years ago

A true icon. After months and months of waiting, it finally happened. We were excited, enthralled, and simply desperate to know how it would all go down. There were rumours, falsities, and fake news leading up to television event of the year that everybody had been talking about… and that nobody wanted to miss. And […]

9 years ago

Students who survived the Florida school shooting are calling for gun control. 17 people were killed on Wednesday when 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland armed with an AR-15 rifle. The teenager killed 15 people inside the school, two outside, and injured 14 more. Following the incident, Cruz was detained and […]

9 years ago

Ideal. Everybody wants perfect skin. It’s the one thing we can agree on. Some people don’t might getting old, having grey hair, or watching as their body decays and becomes decrepit and essentially unusable, but god forbid they’ve got crap skin. As a nation, there are plenty of things we can do to make our […]

9 years ago

You can’t beat a classic. Or can you? There are a lot of chocolate bars out there in the world at the moment. You got your dark chocolate, your milk chocolate, your white, your almond, and your soya chocolate. There’s something to suit everybody really, but as it turns out, there’s one bar that a […]

9 years ago

A mum has revealed the question she dreads to hear as a parent who lost a child. In 2016, Susan Legg lost her five-year-old son Samuel to a car accident her whole family was involved in. Since then, Susan and rest of the Legg family have grieved the loss of the young boy, but the […]

9 years ago

Parents set up a secret camera to catch their nanny abusing their child. Anastasia Zhelyabova is facing prosecution after the footage showed her slapping, hitting, and pinching the eight-month-old baby. The infant’s parents handed the footage to Russian police after they discovered what was happening. Metro.co.uk reports that the boy’s mother, Elena Levendeeva, said that […]

9 years ago

Yas. Got any plans this weekend? You do now because Lidl is selling white wine for half price so you might as well go out or pre-drink or have a few glasses while you sit in and watch your eighth episode of The Crown in one night. Ideal. This Saturday and Sunday, Lidl is halving […]

9 years ago

It was all very emotional. It’s not every day that you casually watch a soap and witness a character be sent off to the army with only the clothes on their back. Generally, that sort of thing would be seen as a bit harsh and unnecessary unless something incredibly tragic happened to a person or […]

9 years ago

Downton Abbey’s Allen Leech has announced his engagement to his girlfriend of two years. The Irish actor has been dating Jessica Blair Herman since 2016. Herman is also an actor and has appeared in shows such as Modern Family and American Crime Story. Leech posted his announcement on Valentine’s Day but said that he had […]

9 years ago

Ah, what? Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. It was a day of love, eating food, and being excruciatingly annoying. It was also probably the busiest day of the year in terms of restaurant bookings so if you were planning to go out and hadn’t gotten anywhere reserved, what was even the point? Things, however, on Coronation […]

9 years ago

Yas, girl. Divorces are difficult at the best of times. They’re expensive, take a long time, and are very emotionally and physically draining. The whole process is probably a lot worse too if you’re trying to divorce your “worthless, cheating, abusive” husband. There is one thing you can do though to make the whole thing […]

9 years ago

Fair play to her. Growing up being a girl who’s not the biggest fan of dresses is no easy feat. These days, everybody knows that pink doesn’t equal feminity and that flowing skirts and dresses aren’t necessary for anybody with a vagina, but if you’re a girl chances are people are going to buy them […]

9 years ago

Motorists who let learner drivers behind the wheel of their car unaccompanied could face a considerable fine or prison time. A new proposed law states that car owners could be fined €2,000 or face up to six months in prison for allowing learner drivers to drive their vehicle on their own. Under current Irish law, […]

9 years ago