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There is room in the forest for all sorts of family trees

Irish families are in rude health, embracing change and difference despite a system that discourages both

Thu Dec 22 2011 - 00:00

Necessary 'nagging' in the fight for true equality

FEMINISM: T he Equality Illusion: The truth about women and men today By Kat Banyard Faber and Faber, 285pp, £12.99

Sat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00

Game aims to prevent crisis pregnancies

A NEW online interactive game for 18-25 year olds aims to encourage correct and consistent use of contraception

Tue Dec 08 2009 - 00:00

Spoil the kids at your peril

Psychologist Aric Sigman makes no apologies for telling today’s parents how it really is

Tue Nov 03 2009 - 00:00

Look back in lamé: New Romantic poster boy writes neat social history of 1980s

BOOK OF THE DAY: I Know This Much – From Soho to Spandau By Gary Kemp, Fourth Estate 314pp, £18.99

Fri Oct 09 2009 - 01:00

The kindness of strangers who helped Irish women abandoned by the State

BOOK OF THE DAY: ANTHEA McTEIRNAN reviews Ireland’s Hidden Diaspora: the “abortion trail” and the making of a London-Irish Underground…

Thu May 07 2009 - 01:00

Like Leinster, the Girls played a blinder

IF THE prevailing wind from Croke Park was scented with testosterone, the O2 was oestrogen city on Saturday night as Girls Aloud…

Mon May 04 2009 - 01:00

Not all of us are sold on silly footwear

Tomorrow is International Women’s Day

Sat Mar 07 2009 - 00:00

Bingo, it's women's day

It's just so hard to make fighting women's oppression sound like a fun trip because first you have to give someone the bad news…

Sat Mar 08 2008 - 00:00

Uneven handed

Connect: Sandra, Noeleen, Martina, Angela, Patricia, Maura, Maura, Janet, Geraldine, Bernie, Kitty, Elizabeth, Sheila, Mary, …

Sat Jul 23 2005 - 01:00

Repeating mistakes

Connect: I was eight when Birmingham, the town where I was born and grew up, had the heart blown out of it by two IRA bombs.

Sat Jul 16 2005 - 01:00

For and against: Synchronised swimming

If you think that the lads at Laboratoires Garnier were the people you had to thank for that waterproof mascara with vitamin …

Mon Jul 24 2000 - 01:00

An Irishwoman's Diary

Some of my best friends are lesbians.

Fri Jun 18 1999 - 01:00

Gratuitous girlies

Spice Girls, Brazilian beach volleyball players with modelling contracts, British-based Swedish television personalities..

Wed Jul 08 1998 - 01:00

Ballroom glitz needs some gold trimmings

THE FUTURE of sport is here and it's wearing blue chiffon

Sat May 31 1997 - 01:00

Swimming against tide to Olympic success

LIKE all good fairytales, the story of the woman from Rathcoole, Co Dublin, who went to the Olympic Games and won three gold …

Fri Nov 22 1996 - 00:00

On top of the world

I WAS ready for a lie down by the time we got out the front door

Fri Aug 23 1996 - 01:00

Sport on television

FROM glory to disgrace, the journey is a short one - 100 metres in Ben Johnson's case

Mon Jul 22 1996 - 01:00

Speech, speech!

"MY OLDER SON was always chatting. By the time he was 18 months he running away with words," says Marian Bruton from Dublin

Tue Feb 06 1996 - 00:00

After-school - one small step for parentkind

AS ANY PARENT knows, finding high quality child care is incredibly difficult

Tue Feb 06 1996 - 00:00

Trinity extra mural course is here and "queer"

HOT ON THE HEELS of a popular series of public lectures in lesbian and gay studies, the Centre for Women's Studies at Trinity…

Tue Jan 16 1996 - 00:00
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