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'Thank you to all the people that look after me in all areas of my life'
Katherine O'Leary
With her radiotherapy sessions in Cork complete, I'm looking forward to the weeks ahead.
'Thank you to all the people that look after me in all areas of my life'
Dear Miriam: frown lines get me down, but I’m not brave enough to go for Botox
25 June 2025 Ask Miriam
Dear Miriam: frown lines get me down, but I’m not brave enough to go for Botox
A reader in Leitrim seeks Miriam's advice as to whether or not she should have a cosmetic procedure to remedy wrinkles that area affecting her overall mood.
Junior editorial: the future is safe with our rising stars
25 June 2025 Editorial
Junior editorial: the future is safe with our rising stars
Meet the future of farming, we talk to 15 inspirational young rising rural stars.
Editorial: 'the hope is that school boards will sit up and listen on uniforms'
Althought school is now out for summer, the financial pressure of the back-to-school shop is already facing parents.
25 June 2025 Editorial
Dear Miriam: my dad wants to sell farm machinery to pay off his gambling debts
A teacher in Wicklow living at home with her parents seeks Miriam's advice on how to deal with the fallout her father's gambling addiction is having on her family.
18 June 2025 Ask Miriam
Editorial: 'I realised the sound was very distinctive – it was flapping!'
It was warm night in June, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a…bat!
18 June 2025 Editorial
The day the calves go out marks the end of a busy spring and the start of summer
The day that the calves go out marks the begining of summer and the end of the spring season's work. Now is the time to plan ahead.
18 June 2025 Katherine O'Leary
Dear Miriam: 'am I mad to want to be a mother when I don't have a partner?'
Miriam advises a Munster reader not to delay her plans to become a mother through sperm donation as her 40th birthday approaches, which has prompted the desire to have a baby.
11 June 2025 Ask Miriam
‘We don’t have to lose colour from our garden to be sustainable'
A visit to Bloom 2025 inspires Katherine O'Leary to focus on her garden for the next couple of weeks.
11 June 2025 Katherine O'Leary
Editorial: ‘we have to fix our broken system to get more young people driving'
We have to look at ways of fixing a system that is broken, without compromising road safety, to get young people on that open road.
11 June 2025 Editorial
Editorial: ‘after Bloom, many of the show gardens get a new lease of life’
When the crowds have left Bloom, many of the gardens head off to be enjoyed across the country.
4 June 2025 Editorial
Dear Miriam: ‘my husband thinks he does the household chores ‘for me’
A Sligo lady asks Miriam's advice on how to bring her husband around to believing the division of labour in running a home should be equal and that doing chores isn't a favour to bestow on his wife.
4 June 2025 Ask Miriam