Children’s Corner Advent begins this weekend and it’s officially time to embrace the Christmas spirit, starting by donning your Christmas jumper. Each year, Christmas jumpers get wackier and more distinctive. Yet sometimes it’s still hard to find the perfect jumper of your dreams. It’s very easy to upcycle an old plain jumper and decorate…
Medical Matters Skin is the largest organ in the human body and its visible appearance often reflects on our health and vitality. If eyes are the window to our souls, so too skin can mirror something deeper about our general health. We subject our skin to sun, rain, wind, deodorants and perfumes and probably…
Young people urged to take it easy with sport Too much sport can be damaging for teenagers, a leading surgeon has warned. Patrick Carton, a hip consultant at Waterford’s Whitfield clinic, has revealed he has been operating on 10 patients a week with hip problems caused by arduous training regimes. Some of these patients have…
Q: My two sons have had a falling out and are no longer talking. They usually both bring their families to our house for Christmas Day dinner. This year my wife and I are facing the devastating prospect of having no grandchildren here for Christmas day. We have already tried to get them talking, as…
I believe that viruses are the most powerful non-human creatures on the planet. I’ve never had to take a day off work in order to recover from an attack by a bear, shark, lion or wolf. Only viruses have the power to so casually disrupt our lives. Any large, fang-toothed creature you might think of has…
Science of life Motherhood should be a very special time filled with joy and love but many new mothers can labour under such a burden of expectations and pressure to perform to certain standards that they end up feeling bad about perceived underperformance or failure. This phenomenon is very marked in America and is…
November is not my favourite month. I don’t mind the darker evenings so much but the prospect of walking the dog on cold, dark mornings does little to cheer me. The new year will be well on its way before I find myself walking in the light again. That is not a great prospect but…
Worried about your kids’ texts? There’s an app for that! Parents worried about their children sending and sharing inappropriate texts and images may have a helpful answer in the form of a new app. The Oyoty app, developers claim, detects when pictures show too much exposed flesh, when texts use abusive or bullying language, and…
Sweet Treats Inspiration for this recipe came from musing about which flavours best go with pears in the autumn. You can’t beat pear and walnut, or pear and cardamom, and funnily enough, these two also bond wonderfully with coffee. So why not make a cake combining all four! You need to be keen on…
With autumn now stretching well into November and – weather dependent – possibly December, and winters getting milder and wetter, the jobs to be done to winterise your garden are changing. Waterlogging and strong wintery gales are more likely to be the problem, rather than snow or soil frozen solid. Constant heavy rain can kill…
Erin Fox
Dr Kevin McCarroll
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