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# families - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
12 reasons why your damn siblings can get away with ANYTHING
GOD DAMN THEM.
# families - Friday 10 May, 2013
Column: The Ohio kidnappings bring the issue of ‘missing persons’ into sharp focus
About 4,000 people go missing for a time in Ireland each year – and the emotional impact on their loved ones, who live with ongoing uncertainty and questions, is immense. They must be given proper support, writes, Dermot Browne.
# families - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Debt advice service sees people trying to cope ‘breaking down in tears’
New Beginning have organised free, debt advice seminars across Ireland.
# families - Sunday 21 April, 2013
Column: The same-sex marriage debate shows ‘non-traditional’ families aren’t really accepted
As a single parent family, I realise we’ve only been tolerated as opposed to accepted as a proper family unit and because of the absence of the traditional set up we are somehow ‘less than’, writes Carol Redmond, who says same-sex unions are being treated in the same way.
# families - Sunday 10 March, 2013
Column: Can a long distance relationship survive?
Economic migration has forced many families to separate, leaving partners and children sometimes on two sides of the world. Tony Moore explains how you can make your relationship work even when you are so far apart.
# families - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Column: It’s easy for ministers on high salaries to ignore the importance of child benefit
An across-the-board cut to child benefit was not a good move – but ministers on big salaries are removed from the realities of the man on the street, Nessa Toale writes.
# families - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Bloody Sunday families offered €58k compensation
The families of 13 people killed by British paratroopers at a civil rights march in Derry in 1972 are continuing negotiations with the Ministry of Defence.
# families - Tuesday 12 February, 2013
Column: Social housing in Ireland has reached ground zero
Despite demand being at an all-time high, funding for social housing has almost disappeared. If we commence building and utilise NAMA properties we can reduce waiting lists and stimulate the construction industry, writes Donal McManus.
# families - Thursday 7 February, 2013
Fear of burglaries has risen over past year
Survey finds four out of ten Irish householders are “significantly concerned” that they might be robbed – and one in four men sleep with a hurley beneath the bed.
# families - Saturday 22 December, 2012
Column: ‘I try to embrace our family situation at Christmas’
Being a single mother can be messy and difficult, but it doesn’t mean that Christmas can’t still be magical for the kids, writes Nessa Toale.
Judge blocks wedding between woman and her twin sister’s killer
The mother of the girls says that her surviving daughter is mentally ill – but the would-be bride insists her betrothed was wrongly convicted.
# families - Friday 21 December, 2012
In pictures: Coming home for Christmas
There were a lot of smiles and happy tears at Dublin Airport today as people were greeted by their families and friends at arrivals.
# families - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
Column: 11 tips to avoid getting into debt this Christmas
It’s easy for spending to get out of hand at this time of year. Michael Culloty of MABS offers some tips to help rein it in.
Would you hand your wedding over to your mother and mother-in-law?
New reality show for RTÉ is asking you to do just that.
# families - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
Column: Am I worried about the budget? Of course I am.
Whatever tomorrow brings, it’s going to make a big difference to my little girl and I, writes single mother Nessa Toale.
# families - Sunday 2 December, 2012
After more than 15 years, plans for O’Devaney Gardens officially scrapped
O’Devaney Gardens was supposed to be a model for fixing an area plagued with problems – but it all went wrong.
# families - Friday 9 November, 2012
‘The Forgotten Dead’: Calls for database for unidentified remains
Families who lost their relations at sea would like the database to be created to aid in the search for missing people.
# families - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Households spend more on housing than food for first time ever
Figures from the CSO also revealed people are spending less on tobacco and alcohol and drinking more at home.
# families - Monday 1 October, 2012
Poll: Should child benefit be cut?
A new report says that if the basic rate of child benefit was cut to €100, it would save €200 million annually.
# families - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
Sweden mulls law to stop kids’ phones from ‘ruining’ parents
Case where parents held liable for €6k bill run up by their children has led to plans for new consumer protection legislation.
# families - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
Closure of asylum seekers’ centre shows “disregard” for rights
The number of asylum seekers is dropping, so Direct Provision accommodation centres are being consolidated in Ireland.
# families - Sunday 12 August, 2012
Column: Having children doesn’t define men, so why should it define women?
Maeve Binchy’s books would have been different if she’d had children, according to one newspaper. Abigail Rieley asks: Why do we put this pressure on women?
# families - Friday 10 August, 2012
Proposals for Korean family reunions ‘rejected’
Families have been separated since the 1950-53 Korean War.
# families - Monday 6 August, 2012
Benhaffaf boys’ mum the new patron of Twinfest
Fundraising event is also a place for multiple-birth siblings to meet and bond with similar families.
# families - Tuesday 24 July, 2012
Families of Colorado shooting victims plan their goodbyes
Meanwhile, a Maine man has admitted to police that he brought a gun with him to a screening of the new Batman movie.
# families - Thursday 12 July, 2012
‘There are no words’: McAreavey and Harte families respond to ‘not guilty’ verdict
Michaela’s families said there are no words which can describe the sense of devastation and desolation they both feel.
Column: Youth drinking problem? Perhaps we should look at ourselves…
The Phoenix Park concert has highlighted the problem of young people and alcohol, writes Fiona Ryan – but the problems caused by parental drinking go largely unremarked.
# families - Wednesday 11 July, 2012
Children’s beauty pageant on its way to Ireland after securing venue
Texas-based manager Annette Hill said Irish parents had shown huge interest in the event.
# families - Saturday 30 June, 2012
Open thread: Feeding a family on less than €10 a day
As new Irish book gives handy tips and recipes to help families cut their food bill, we want to hear about YOUR cost-efficient cooking…
# families - Monday 25 June, 2012
Column: Care system had been well funded – so why didn’t it work?
The Report on Deaths of Children in Care revealed horrific failures, writes Fianna Fáil’s spokesperson on Children Charlie McConalogue, but will everything be fine once we pass the Children’s Rights referendum?
# families - Saturday 23 June, 2012
The 9 at 9: Saturday
Nine things you need to know this morning.
# families - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Richard Tol: This says more about the ESRI’s professionalism than mine
The academic who co-authored the controversial article which was withdrawn by the ESRI said he stands over his findings.
# families - Sunday 10 June, 2012
VIDEO: Children of the world rejoice! The self-making bed has arrived
What took this so long? See the wonderbed in action here…
# families - Thursday 3 May, 2012
Women ask consultants to support campaign to reform abortion law
A group of women who were required to travel abroad for abortions after being diagnosed with fatal foetal abnormalities have written to all consultants to ask for their support.
# families - Friday 27 April, 2012
Column: ‘Free preschool has to be backed by strong political will’
Education and care go hand in hand, argues Irene Gunning, and the care of toddlers and preschoolers can’t be separated as two different processes.
# families - Sunday 15 April, 2012
Column: ‘Those first months were magical’ – a dad’s paternity leave plea
Statutory paternity leave would help shift the attitudes of a whole society, argues Andrew Doherty – recalling the birth of his own children.
# families - Thursday 29 March, 2012
Census shows family sizes are still declining – but at a slower pace
New data shows the average number of children in an Irish family is today 1.38.
# families - Friday 23 March, 2012
Angry Birds theme parks to be launched
The centres are expected to include spring riders, swings, sandpits, climbing towers, slides, and even a new Angry Birds arcade game.
# families - Friday 2 March, 2012
Column: Breastfeeding in public is natural, and we need to see it that way
Feeding our babies is the most normal thing in the world, writes Chris Finn – so our attitudes have to change.
# families - Thursday 23 February, 2012
Homeowners evicted and their houses demolished in Azerbaijan – report
Human Rights Watch says that homeowners have been forcibly evicted and their houses demolished in the area where the arena for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is being built.
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