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Ask Miriam: 'my daughter is freezing me out'
Jacqueline Hogge
A concerned mother, who fears her daughter is suffering delayed grief from the death of her father, seeks Miriam's advice on how to rebuild their relationship.
2 October 2024 Features
Living Life: pumpkin picking
With the spooky antics of Halloween just around the corner, now is the time to organise some pumpkin picking fun, writes Deirdre Verney.
2 October 2024 Speakers
Cooking with the Seasons
Ahead of his appearance at the Women & Agriculture conference, Rory O’Connell talks about the women that influenced his cookery career and his love of teaching, writes Ciara Leahy.
Ready-to-go farm near coast suits any enterprise
A turnkey residential farm in south Co Wexford is sure to attract plenty of interest ahead of auction in early October, writes Tommy Moyles.
2 October 2024 For Sale
Milking 500 dairy cows on a GEA rotary
From a high-tech dairy farm in the Netherlands to a large-scale pig unit in Germany. Sarah McIntosh was in conversation with ASA Travel Bursary recipient Emily Mangan.
2 October 2024 Education
Health: more funding is needed for breastfeeding specialists
While breastfeeding rates in Ireland remain low, support is growing. Mother-of-three Lianna Reidy says ‘reaching out’ to feeding specialists made all the difference, writes Margaret Hawkins.
2 October 2024 Health
Food brings people together
The kitchen table has an important role in family life; not only a place to eat but often as the best spot for conversations, writes Nessa Robbins.
25 September 2024 Recipes
‘We’d like our dad to be more sociable’
This week, a reader seeks Miriam's advice as to how to encourage her father to be more sociable now that he lives alone following his wife moving in to a nursing home.
25 September 2024 Ask Miriam
‘Focus on what you can control – and become empowered’
Irish Country Living’s Women & Agriculture Conference is back. Health and performance coach Gerry Hussey will be speaking about building an empowering mindset, and more, writes Sarah McIntosh
25 September 2024 Features
New Family Farm programme launched
A first-of-its-kind education programme aimed at farm families has been launched in the midlands, writes Deirdre Verney.
23 September 2024 Education
Ask Miriam: ‘how do I say no to her babysitter offer’?
This week, Miriam offers advice to a new Mammy who is uneasy with the offer of free childminding from her sister-in-law due to differences in parenting styles.
18 September 2024 Ask Miriam
Legal: if there is a liability – who has to pay the family debt?
When someone dies and leaves a debt, what can the will tell us about who has to pay? Aisling Meegan answers your queries.
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