‘We never got to properly meet, did we?’ A mother has shared a heartbreaking open letter to the daughter she miscarried. Blogger and first-time mum Phoebe Shields has said that although she never got to meet her baby, she was still there for “every moment” of the infant’s life. Writing on her blog, PS, It’s […]

8 years ago

I have just met you and I love you. … Is what a dog would say if they had just met someone and also if they could talk. Or, if you’ve seen Disney Pixar’s beautiful animated film Up, you’ll probably be more than well aware that the above is just a quote from it. Up […]

8 years ago

Class. It seems like every day that a Corrie fan favourite returns to the cobbles, doesn’t it? That’s because they do. Those writers aren’t stupid lads, they know everyone’s a sucker for a bit of nostalgia. In this case though, the character who’s returning isn’t someone from the Corrie golden age like Martin Platt. Or even […]

8 years ago

The Luas Red Line won’t be running to the city centre this weekend. Maintenence will be carried out on the line from last tram on Friday August 3 to Monday morning August 6. Services will only be running on the Red Line between Saggart/Tallaght and Blackhorse. Luas has ensured customers that a bus service will […]

8 years ago

Look at them go. You’re not yourself until you’ve gotten a blow dry. They make you feel fresh, they make you feel new, they make you feel like you’ve gotten your life together and aren’t a total and complete sham of a human being. The ultimate treat. And who among us could well and truly […]

8 years ago

After you give birth, one of two things will happen. You’ll either lick your newborn baby… or you won’t. Honestly, most of us probably won’t. We’ll hold them and say hey to them and maybe even kiss them, but generally, licking isn’t something that would happen unless it was by accident. As it turns out […]

8 years ago

Fair play to her. A few months back, Casey Batchelor gave birth to her first child, a baby girl named Florence. Since then, the new mum has shared a lot of photos of her postpartum body, emphasising that not everyone “bounces back” after giving birth. Casey has been praised by many for showing that for […]

8 years ago

The shade. You may or may not remember, but Khloe Kardashian had a baby there awhile back. It was a pretty nice time for her considering she’s wanted a child for awhile, hasn’t been having the great time of it, and also just because she was happy and stuff. But then Tristan Thompson cheated on […]

8 years ago

Boots has launched a new campaign to support people living with cancer. Their ‘Feel Like You Again’ ad features an Irish mother living a normal day with cancer. In the video, she attends her son’s GAA match, before returning home and removing her wig. The video then shows her using an eyebrow pencil and putting […]

8 years ago

Would you bothered complaining, like? If you’ve ever gone to a wedding and not at least had at least one questionable thought about the bride’s dress, then you’re lying. It happens to the best of us at the worst of times – and still, you’re probably not going to go ahead and vocalise these thoughts. […]

8 years ago

Oh, right. Everyone has big dreams for their children. You want them to be happy and healthy and wealthy. Well, maybe not so much the last one – their happiness and well being is absolutely more important. Or it should be, and yet some people remain focused on their children becoming the next property tycoon […]

8 years ago

One fifth of children in “high income” countries are never breastfed. According to a new report published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 21 percent of infants in wealthy countries are “missing out” on the benefits of early breastfeeding. This compares to four percent of children in low income […]

8 years ago

Just be faithful to your partners, plz. Now that Phelan has been taken care of and Bethany’s not being tied up in a basement, there’s a limited number of things that can happen in Weatherfield to shake things up. Sure, everyone could just live in perfect harmony and have a nice time for a while […]

8 years ago

Royal children have a load of responsibilities. They have to be on their best behaviour at all times, they have to represent their country but as children, and they also have to wear exclusively shorts and no pants. Clearly very busy, the lot of them. And from the ripe old age of five, royal children […]

8 years ago

A 13-year-old boy charged with the murder of Ana Kriegel is to be granted bail. Two juvenile males were arrested following the death of the 14-year-old Kildare girl. One was charged with her murder in May and the second was charged earlier this month. Kriegel’s body was found at an abandoned farmhouse in Lucan, Co […]

8 years ago

Genius. Being a parent is great. No, it is, it’s the best thing ever… except when your kids won’t leave you alone every second of every day and you feel like you haven’t had a second to yourself since 2004. Can be a bit grim at times. One mum thinks she has found out a […]

8 years ago

Congratulations are in order because Skepta is going to be a father. The rapper and grime artist announced the news on Instagram this afternoon, sharing a photo of a 3D ultrasound scan with a rose emoji. The scan read ‘baby Adenuga’, pointing to the artist’s real name which is Joseph Adenuga. The sonogram looks to […]

8 years ago

‘The Body Coach’ Joe Wicks and his girlfriend Rosie have welcomed their first child. The fitness social media star shared took to Instagram today to announce that he had become a father. He shared a photo of himself cradling his newborn baby girl, thanking everybody for their well wishes and congratulations. He wrote: “The very […]

8 years ago

Things gon’ get emotional. Eva Price hasn’t really been having the best time of it at all lately. She’s had her baby stolen from her, she’s lost Aidan O’Connor to suicide, she’s had to leave the cobbles. It just hasn’t really been the best time of it, to be honest. And things aren’t about to […]

8 years ago

Mac n cheese. The three words that every girl wants to hear. It’s got all the things we’re obsessed with – cheese, pasta, and sauce. What’s not to love? Heaven in a bowl. If you find yourself eating too much mac n cheese though, and the simpleness of the dish has become a bit old […]

8 years ago

Ah, god. Last night, Emmerdale fans would have been glad to know that Rebecca is still very much alive and that Lachlan hasn’t killed her just yet. Good news all round, right? Nah, not really actually though because Lachlan hasn’t been keeping Rebecca in a five star hotel in the quiet countryside, he’s had her […]

8 years ago

Harriette Harper has given birth to a baby boy after a “barbaric” 20-hour labour. The Ex On The Beach star welcomed her first son during the night via emergency C-section with boyfriend, Taser Hassan. Sharing an Instagram Story of the newborn, she wrote: “Well after 20 hours of the most barbaric labour without dilating I […]

8 years ago

Fair play to her. What had you achieved when you were five-years-old? Had you started big school? Learned to lie your laces? Been dubbed the most beautiful girl in the world on Instagram after a photographer uploaded some of your headshots thrusting you into the limelight? Yeah, same, to be honest. Or not same at […]

8 years ago

Ah, god. Bethany Platt hasn’t exactly been having the smoothest time of it recently, has she? Last year, she was testifying against her abuser and groomer, then she was having a load of trouble with Craig, and now she’s being tied up in a garage by her abuser’s daughter, Kayla, who’s also into Craig. It’s […]

8 years ago

Oh, girl. Look, there are plenty of things you should say to a woman soon after she’s given birth and ‘how did you lose all that baby weight?’ generally isn’t one of them. Consider other things like ‘wow, you look great for someone who just pushed a watermelon out of your body’ or ‘the bags […]

8 years ago

The number of children homeless in Ireland has trebled in three years. A record total of 9,872 people are now homeless across the country with new figures from the Department of Housing revealing that 3,824 of these are children (in 1,754 families). In June 2015 there were 1,318 children homeless and living in emergency accommodation. Focus […]

8 years ago

Ah, stop it. Victoria Beckham has a good few boys in her life. One of them is David Beckham, and the others are her sons, Brooklyn, Cruz, and Romeo. See? Loads of lads. And if VB’s Instagram is anything to go by, the designer splits her time evenly between working and spending quality time with […]

8 years ago

Actor Melanie Hughes died last year due to a struggle with alcohol addiction, an inquest has said. The Coronation Street actor and former Miss Wales passed away last year after a battle with fatty liver disease. She was 39-year-old when she died. BBC reports that Hughes died as a result of alcohol addiction. Her husband, Richard, also […]

8 years ago

If you have a lot of young children, you’ll probably be more than well aware of how difficult it is to keep track of all their heath care information. You’ve got vaccinations, checkups, nurse appointments, boosters, allergies, prescriptions… and that’s just in the first year. It’s all a bit much really, and it can get […]

8 years ago

The first baby born through IVF has an important message. Louise Brown, who is celebrating her 40th birthday this week, was the first baby to be born through in-vitro fertilisation. In 1978, her parents Lesley and John Brown went to the doctor to say that Lesley was suffering from depression due to her inability to […]

8 years ago

Grim. Dublin Fire Brigade has issued a warning about fires breaking out in power showers. Engines from Kilbarrack and North Strand had to attend an incident yesterday where a power shower caught fire after being left on at the isolation switch. DFB shared a photo of the scene which included a destroyed power shower and […]

8 years ago

A playground in Co Clare has closed after “human faeces” was found there three times in one week. The playground in Sixmilebridge, known colloquially as The Bridge, was apparently shut recently, due to the presence of human faeces. A Snapchat screenshot shared to Reddit yesterday pictured a sign seemingly left on the playground fence reading: […]

8 years ago

Parents have been ridiculed for allowing their four-year-old son to go to school in a pinafore. The unknown mum and dad were referenced by a woman on a parenting forum, who said she was worried about the boy as he apparently wasn’t being given a choice of what to wear. Instead, “they haven’t bought a […]

8 years ago

Is there honestly even any point in calling this a heatwave anymore? It’s just summer. It’s the weather. The humidity is our lives now and we just have to roll with it. Usually when the words “temperatures in the mid 20s” are uttered we’re absolutely delighted, but if there’s no sun and we’re just stuck […]

8 years ago

Meghan and Harry have only been together for a short while. They met a few years back and tied the knot this May, meaning that in real-life terms, they haven’t actually known each other all that long. Still though, being a member of the royal family isn’t exactly ‘real-life’, meaning that the prospect of the […]

8 years ago

Hundreds of people are missing and many are feared dead after a hydropower dam collapsed in Laos. The dam released five billion litres of water into the San Sai district of Attapeu on Tuesday, leaving at least 100 people missing and “several human lives claimed.” ABC Laos reported that the water levels were rising in the […]

8 years ago

Adorable. The other week, Kylie Jenner deleted all pictures of baby Stormi from her social media and said that she wasn’t going to be sharing anymore snaps of the newborn. This came after the reality star said she wanted her family life to remain private, not overlapping with her status and fame. Kylie has seemingly […]

8 years ago

Poor little guy. It’s hot out there lads and it’s only going to get hotter. Or maybe the temperature is levelling off now, who among us can truly say for sure? Either way, right now it’s roasting and that means that the ground is too. We don’t notice it too much because, being human beings, […]

8 years ago

Bless her. Harper Beckham has only gone and got the chop after David said that he’d never let Victoria cut his “princess’s” hair. The seven-year-old attended an open cinema in LA over the weekend with her brothers, Brooklyn and Cruz, as well as some of Gordon Ramsey’s children. She was wearing her hair in a […]

8 years ago

Grim. If you are a parent or know anybody who is, chances are you’ll be more than familiar with travel cots. They fold down, they pop up, and you can bring them almost anywhere. One mum, however, has proved how badly we all need to clean our travel cots due to all the travelling they […]

8 years ago

A writer has criticised parents who spend a lot of time on their phones and pay little attention to their children. Katharine Hill said that she believes kids are becoming “smartphone orphans” due to the the amount of time that parents spend looking at their phones. In a column for the Daily Mail, she said […]

8 years ago

A woman has said that she finds her friends “boring” now that they’ve got children. The unnamed woman – who has no children of her own – said that she doesn’t really want to spend time with her friends anymore because they are constantly being “interrupted by toddlers.” Writing on Mumsnet, she said that she […]

8 years ago

There’ll be some emotional scenes for Coronation Street this week as Kevin Webster has to deal with his son’s amputation. Kevin was told Jack was going to lose his foot after the boy contracted sepsis following a grazed knee when he was out playing. Sister Sophie sent Jack to school assuming that his feeling ill […]

8 years ago

Katie Waissel has shared the first picture of her newborn son, Hudson. The former X Factor star took to a variety of social media account this week to post a photo of herself, baby Hudson, and her partner, Andy. The new mum gave birth over the weekend. A post shared by Katie Waissel (@katiewaisselofficial) on […]

8 years ago

Just stop, Samantha. Just stop. Look, Meghan Markle’s estranged sister Samantha has been in the media a lot lately. She’s been talking sh*t about Meghan, giving out about Meghan, and telling Meghan that if her dad dies it’s apparently her fault. A lovely woman altogether, would love to meet her, seems sound. It’s absolutely abundantly […]

8 years ago

Why. Just why. At four-years-old, you tend to be pretty much set up with your name. You’ve had it for a long time, lots of people have called you by it, you’d be likely to get a bit confused if someone was to start calling you something else, in fairness. It wouldn’t really be fair […]

8 years ago

She’s not impressed.

8 years ago

Having a large family could increase a woman’s risk of having Alzheimer’s by 70 percent. New research has shown that women who give birth more than five times may be 70 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease in later life. The study of more than 3,500 women in South Korea and Greece showed that pregnancy with […]

8 years ago

Ah, god. Look, we all know it’s difficult to keep track of your dates at the best of times. After all, who among us can truly say when our last period really was or what date we became pregnant or when our baby is due anyway? Just joking, you should totally know that stuff. A […]

8 years ago

Stacey Solomon has penned an important letter about the negative effects of skinny-shaming. The presenter said that she often receives comments from strangers telling her how “skinny” she is “in real life.” Stacey said she found it strange that people were so willing to comment on a person’s weight to their face when they’re slim, […]

8 years ago