Dr Jeff Featherstone celebrates the achievements of Miss Georgina Ballantine, the inspiring fisher woman who, 100 years ago, made history when she hooked a 64lb salmon. October 7 is an important date for anyone interested in fishing and particularly why lady fishers are so prodigiously successful when it comes to […]
Health & Lifestyle
Where have the past few months gone? Summer is now well in our rearview mirror and its time to get the house ready for winter! You don’t have to spend a fortune redecorating for every season, start by making a few small changes and repurposing some décor items that you […]
Seoulista Beauty Super Serums & Seoulista Cryo Cool Elevate your daily skincare ritual with new Seoulista Super Serums, a supercharged range of three concentrated formulations designed to address specific skincare concerns, including hydration, brightening, and calming. The Brightening Super Serum with niacinamide, squalane, and bisabolol promotes a brighter, more even-toned […]
Paediatric Behaviour Analyst Sarah Murray discusses the controversial topic of punishment and managing misbehaviour in children The term ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’ has done a lot of damage in guiding healthy parenting practices. Punishment is now widely misunderstood, misused and overused when it comes to changing child […]
This month continues the story of the MENNIS family in West Cork. Having all but disappeared as a surname in West Cork, MENNIS is interwoven with local family history for more than 250 years. As my most extensive and successful West Cork genealogical and DNA project it justifies several columns. […]
Everyone knows intuitively that stress is bad for your health. It is also true that stress does manifest in real physical symptoms and changes to your physiology. In clinic, I am regularly seeing manifestations of stress in teenagers, which can potentially, over time, lead to ill health. Dilated pupils Dilated […]