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Dear Miriam: my eldest son is in Oz and I’m terrified of making the long flight
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A distraught mother in Tipperary seeks Miriam's advice on how to avoid a trip to visit her son in Australia as she cannot conquer her fear of flying.
Dear Miriam: my eldest son is in Oz and I’m terrified of making the long flight
Editorial: ‘women deserve options and to make medically informed decisions'
9 July 2025 Editorial
Editorial: ‘women deserve options and to make medically informed decisions'
Let’s be honest, what woman truly feels comfortable talking about her bladder issues and the embarrassing situation of wetting herself?
‘Moorepark Open Day – an informative event for the dairy farming community’
9 July 2025 Katherine O'Leary
‘Moorepark Open Day – an informative event for the dairy farming community’
Katherine O'Leary enjoyed the healthy debates that have followed the Teagasc Moorepark Open Day which informed the masses of the future of dairy farming.
Dear Miriam: 'my son says it’s ‘not cool’ to wear a seatbelt'
A Kerry mother tells Miriam she is petrified what will happen her son on the roads when he drives too fast and refuses to wear a seat belt now that he has passed his test and has his own car.
2 July 2025 Ask Miriam
‘I’m thinking of the influential generation that changed agriculture in Ireland’
We are losing a generation of people like the late Dan Browne, who helped to shape agriculture in Ireland.
2 July 2025 Katherine O'Leary
Editorial: ‘CRITICAL emergency medical response is often first on the scene'
When you're waiting on an ambulance, every minute matters, and CRITICAL emergency medical response are often first on the scene in rural Ireland.
2 July 2025 Editorial
'Thank you to all the people that look after me in all areas of my life'
With her radiotherapy sessions in Cork complete, I'm looking forward to the weeks ahead.
25 June 2025 Katherine O'Leary
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.
25 June 2025 Ask Miriam
Junior editorial: the future is safe with our rising stars
Meet the future of farming, we talk to 15 inspirational young rising rural stars.
25 June 2025 Editorial
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