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We are expecting twins later this year which we wish to give for adoption. However current Irish law does not allow the babies to be adopted – the law currently allows mainly babies from unmarried single ladies to be given for adoption. This is different from under countries in Europe and worldwide including the UK where children from couples can be given for adoption. The law is currently being...

Of all the things I've learned this week, by far the least surprising is that I have a Dad Bod. This isn't surprising because a) I'm a dad and b) I occupy physical space (and therefore have a 'bod'.) But apparently Dad Bod is now a thing and it has its own Twitter hashtag and everything (#dadbod0– I just can't figure out if it's a good thing or not. For those of you...

"Do you at least know what kind of car you're looking for?" Mrs. M sounded understandably exasperated. "Not really," I said, clicking on to the next page of results on the website. "Something cool." In coming to terms with what that second little blue line meant for our family and for our plans, we looked out at our little red hatchback and agreed it had to go. The days when four of us slid...

“You don’t know what you’re in for with three. Three is much harder than two.” “You’ll be grand – the change from one to two is much harder.” Ever since we announced that we were having a third child, pretty much everyone who has been down this road before us has offered one of those pieces of advice. I suspect the ‘three is much harder than two’ crowd are simply out to scare...

It started when I mentioned wanting to go to London. For a few years in my early twenties I’d gone every time I’d accumulated enough for an overnight bus and a bed for a few nights. But life and finances and a back that won’t take the bus anymore had widened the gap between trips until, bar a few hours in the city on a caravan holiday in Kent the previous year, I couldn’t remember when...