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Hi all there will be a support meeting for parents/carer and individuals living with autism at Galway Autism Partnership Wed July 8th at 11am . All welcome !

I can remember, I must have been about eight or so when I figured that I had narrowly missed out on having sallow skin. Skin without freckles or red patches that actually turned brown in the sun. Brown. God, I wanted to be brown SO badly. And at that age it was becoming apparent that it was never, ever going to happen. I was a child of a fair, freckled father and a dark haired, sallow skinned...

To my friends who had children before me.... I understand why the baby is your favourite topic of conversation. I now understand completely why you didn't make that hen weekend. I understand why you left the wedding early even though the babysitter didn't have to leave for another hour. I understand why you just want to sit and look at their sleeping faces. I understand why you have no...

I met my best friend in MAC the other day. That corner of Brown Thomas has been our meeting spot for quite a few years now. So long that I was thinking, as I was heading down Grafton Street(rushing, as I'd just got her text "I'm in bits!" which turned out to mean "I'm in B.T.'s!), maybe at our age we should be meeting at the Clarins counter? Its only when I think about it, (which is not a very...

One of my sons is not very sociable. He is a unique and wonderful and clever and funny boy, but the knack of making friends is a little late in coming. He's happy but as any mother can imagine, it worries me. Less now than in the past, I am pleased to say. I can see now that while he does not have any close friends in school, he has finally got the maturity to make some in the future. He did...

After spending the last week potty training my son, I’ve started to wonder who is potty training harder for, is it the child or the parents? Of course it’s hard for the child, after all they have only ever known nappies,but as I’ve witnessed here this week once it clicks into place and they get it they really fly at it and gain more confidence every time they successfully go but what about...

We had a choice. Drive to Ikea and buy a new chest of drawers and spend an hour or two assembling them and cursing all flatpack furniture. Or not drive to Ikea and fix our current, worn out chest of drawers. We chose the latter. That is how I ended up in our bed, reading stories to my four year old while his nine and twelve year old brothers pootered about, as we waited until their dad finished...

We've been getting the ferry to France for a few years now. Prior to that for Summer holidays we rented a house in the West of Ireland. Which was lovely, but so wet and windy. I think it was the year we bought thermal vests for our kids, or maybe the year we got a half hour of sunshine in two weeks that prompted us that it might be time for a change. So, we bought a tent and booked the ferry...

We cook a lot in our house. Of course we do – there are six of us. A Mum, a Dad, and four sons ranging from four years to thirteen. We roast chickens, boil the bones for stock and actually use said stock for soup. We knead our own pizza dough, peel our own carrots and bake fish in tin foil. But, we’re normal too. Our kids, as well as eating healthy dinners, guzzle Nutella like drunks at...

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