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# Motherhood

This year
2024
Niamh O’Reilly: I beg you, stop marketing the menopause to me
Niamh O'Reilly
5 Feb
27.0k
20
Last year
2023
Physios: Incontinence, piles and painful sex - issues new mothers face that no one talks about
Eimear Lynch and Aoife Harvey
2 Jul 2023
27.8k
69
Parenting: 'Learning the art of resting was a gamechanger for me'
Margaret Lynch
6 May 2023
16.2k
6
Opinion: Women in work face extra challenges that men do not experience
Dr Emma Howard
8 Mar 2023
13.6k
10
All time
Author: 'Nobody told me about the loneliness that comes with having a new baby'
Andrea Mara
3 Aug 2022
25.4k
8
Opinion: Maternity leave in lockdown was no picnic, so please don't forget new parents
Patrice Hosford
17 Jul 2020
31.8k
53
Opinion: Staying sober is really hard but life without booze is magic
Elaine Benson
16 Jun 2019
59.6k
65
RTÉ received 31 complaints about a mannequin giving birth on the Late Late Show
13 May 2019
97.3k
94
Opinion: 'I wanted to pursue my acting dreams - but having kids was a huge risk. What should I do?'
Sarah Carroll
13 Apr 2019
23.3k
7
Opinion: The Supermum myth needs to be exposed
Geraldine Walsh
11 Nov 2018
45.0k
47
'Your 30s are a tricky time for women. The biological and social pressures to conform are immense'
Christiane O'Mahony
19 Sep 2018
30.1k
33
'I don't turn off from camogie but now, there’s something else there that’s more important'
18 Aug 2018
9.8k
0
My unplanned homebirth: 'You can’t help but think "what if?"'
Jessica O'Neill
29 Apr 2018
29.9k
23
Portuguese medics clear woman's bid to bear grandchild
9 Sep 2017
15.8k
5
Ireland has the worst rates in the world for drinking during pregnancy
17 Jan 2017
17.9k
46
Nicola Sturgeon opens up about miscarriage in hope of 'breaking taboo'
4 Sep 2016
24.6k
36
DUP MP says that public breastfeeding is "exhibitionism"
22 Jul 2016
146k
139
My reality as a working mother: Anxiety, guilt, baby wipes and coffee
Sharon Mannion
17 Apr 2016
1.5k
56
There was controversy over this breastfeeding magazine cover - but not why you think
22 May 2015
25.8k
18
Am I alone in Mummy Martyr stakes? (Why are parents so bad at looking after themselves?)
Claire Micks
14 Apr 2015
304
61
'I had the family I had always dreamed of, but I was plagued with self-loathing'
Elena Rafferty
13 Apr 2015
285
7
'Ireland over-medicalises birth - and it is terrifying mothers-to-be'
Dil Wickremasinghe
8 Apr 2015
3.3k
133
The longer kids are breastfed for, the more they earn when they start working
18 Mar 2015
18.4k
97
Opinion: The 'frozen eggs' debate is really a societal issue – don't vilify corporations over it
Claire Micks
25 Oct 2014
94
45
Opinion: What happens when a pregnant woman or nursing mother gets sent to jail?
Dr. Mary Rogan
21 Oct 2014
8.1k
27
Opinion: 'Egg freeze' offer is putting a metaphorical gun to young women’s heads
Carol Redmond
16 Oct 2014
138
63
Motherhood and Work: 'I accept that I'll never be Superwoman – I'll be Mediocre Mum'
Claire Micks
7 Aug 2014
249
4
Opinion: Struggling to entertain the kids over the summer holidays?
Aisling Lyons
21 Jul 2014
656
31
Opinion: Post Natal Depression – should it discourage you from ‘going again’?
Anonymous
9 Jul 2014
1.3k
31
Column: Is there really a glass ceiling for women in the workplace – or is it just for mothers?
Andrea Mara
17 Apr 2014
583
51
Column: Peaches and Paula – a mum without a mum and a photograph that spoke a thousand words.
Claire Micks
12 Apr 2014
753
26
Column: Motherhood, guilt and the fantasy of 'choice'
Emily Hourican
27 Mar 2014
286
56
Column: Motherhood, feminism and the big decision
Ann Marie O'Sullivan
9 Feb 2014
153
66
Column: Five things I swore I'd never do if I had kids...
Andrea Mara
21 Jan 2014
383
95
Burton: Maternity benefit cuts aren't a disincentive to women working
8 Dec 2013
10.4k
31
Column: Baby v Career – how to pick a path through the minefield of working motherhood
Sarah Crown
29 Sep 2013
57
30
Gender gap: Irish women pay 'high price' for motherhood
18 Dec 2012
10.4k
32
Column: The moment I met the woman having my baby
Caroline O'Flaherty
3 Dec 2012
578
19
Column: ‘I will miss you’ – a mum writes to her son starting school
Deborah McCarthy
31 Aug 2012
247
49
Column: Why shouldn’t women choose motherhood over a job?
Kate Katharina Ferguson
13 Jun 2012
673
69
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