MollyMumofTwo's Blog

Since its establishment over ten years ago, National Pyjama Day has raised over €1.73 million for children’s charity across Ireland. This year, Early Childhood Ireland hopes to raise an additional €250,000 for the Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) Hospice Care for Children Programme. The annual fundraising event is now in its eleventh year and is still going strong as Early Childhood Ireland...

The latest video to go viral shows a young girl’s life being turned upside down because of war. Using the Second a Day format, taking a second of every day and creating a story, it starts on the girl’s eighth birthday and ends on her ninth. Created by Save The Children UK, it hopes to open people’s eyes to what is happening to the lives of children in Syria....

When Brooklyn Andrews was three years old, her father, Tony Andrews, gave her and her two siblings a teddy bear each before he left to serve in Iraq. Each bear was very special because whenever a button on it was pressed you could hear the father’s voice saying: “Courtney, Brooklyn and Jessy, I love you all.” Tony tragically died in 2006 while at work so the children only had the bears to...

Myles Weissleder took his daughter Summer on her very first roller coaster ride; unfortunately, after going through a whole host of emotions, the little girl was left feeling a little disappointed.

A 14-year-old girl has been killed by a train after she ran onto the tracks to save her mobile phone. Jenna Betti, a local soccer star in her Californian town, was hanging out on the train tracks with her boyfriend when they spotted a train coming . The two got off the tracks, but when Jenna realised she’d dropped her mobile phone, she ran back to received it. Tragically, the train’s operators...

For the third year in a row, the number of students who plan to take the higher-level paper for LC maths has increased. This huge change means that nearly one in three of all LC students are thinking about taking an honours paper this year, which amounts to 17,181 students. Every year, about 2,000 pupils who planned to take the paper don’t actually go ahead with it. But even if all 17,181...

Ryan Hafey shows us "what it's really like to have kids". Watch as even the family dog gets involved!

Wedding photographer Chris Thornton’s three-year-old son didn’t quite understand what his father did at work. So, in order to help him explain it to his youngster, Chris decided to get creative and staged and shot pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head dolls getting married. While the photographer took the shots himself, he admits: “decorations [were] made by [his] mum.”...

After the tragic death of fourteen-year-old allergy sufferer Emma Sload, the Minister for Health wants to look at different ways to make adrenaline pen injectors more available for people with allergies. Over 2,300 of these adrenaline pens have been recalled by the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) because of the potential quality defect that could lead to the injection not working as it should. Used by...

7-year-old Dylan Siegel shows everyone just how far the power of friendship will push you. Dylan’s friend Jonah has Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1b, a rare liver disease that cause sufferers to experience extremely low blood sugar levels. Only 500 children in the world suffer from it and unfortunately there is no cure, yet. Scientists are optimist that a cure is near to being reached so to help...