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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.

ASK MIRIAM 18 June 2025

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Dear Miriam: 'am I mad to want to be a mother when I don't have a partner?'

Dear Miriam: 'am I mad to want to be a mother when I don't have a partner?'

ASK MIRIAM 11 June 2025

Dear Miriam: ‘my husband thinks he does the household chores ‘for me’

Dear Miriam: ‘my husband thinks he does the household chores ‘for me’

ASK MIRIAM 4 June 2025

Dear Miriam: should I take my difficult aunt up on her offer of a free holiday?

Dear Miriam: should I take my difficult aunt up on her offer of a free holiday?

Dear Miriam: should I take my difficult aunt up on her offer of a free holiday?

ASK MIRIAM 28 May 2025

Dear Miriam: how can I convince my husband we must get our affairs in order?

Dear Miriam: how can I convince my husband we must get our affairs in order?

Dear Miriam: how can I convince my husband we must get our affairs in order?

ASK MIRIAM 21 May 2025

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Dear Miriam: ‘My wife won’t live in a mobile while house is being refurbished’

Dear Miriam: ‘My wife won’t live in a mobile while house is being refurbished’

A frustrated Wexford reader asks Miriam how to talk his wife into settling for a six month stay in a mobile home on the site of a farmhouse they're refurbishing into their forever home.

ASK MIRIAM 2 April 2025

Dear Miriam: how can I convince my daughter she should finish her degree?

Dear Miriam: how can I convince my daughter she should finish her degree?

A worried mother asks Miriam for advice on how to encourage her youngest daughter to reverse the decision to abandon a college business degree course to work as a sileage contractor full-time.

ASK MIRIAM 2 April 2025

Dear Miriam: ‘my in-law’s cash gift makes me uneasy and I want to clear the air’

Dear Miriam: ‘my in-law’s cash gift makes me uneasy and I want to clear the air’

A disagreement over where the money came from to build a house leads to Miriam's advice being sought in how to solve the problem for a Munster reader and his wife.

ASK MIRIAM 2 April 2025

Ask Miriam: how do I ask my new neighbour to stop wrecking my trees?

Ask Miriam: how do I ask my new neighbour to stop wrecking my trees?

A frustrated reader whose mature trees are under threat from an inconsiderate neighbour seeks Miriam's advice on how to solve the issue.

ASK MIRIAM 2 April 2025

Ask Miriam: is it unreasonable to avoid the in-laws by skipping gatherings?

Ask Miriam: is it unreasonable to avoid the in-laws by skipping gatherings?

Miriam advises a reader to talk through her concerns with her husband as to how his family make her feel when she accompanies him to social gatherings such as family weddings

ASK MIRIAM 2 April 2025

Dear Miriam: how can I best support my distant and depressed sister-in-law?

Dear Miriam: how can I best support my distant and depressed sister-in-law?

A worried lady seeks Miriam's advice on how to support her sister-in-law who has become distant and depressed since falling out with her friends and leaving her college course.

ASK MIRIAM 2 April 2025

Dear Miriam: I won’t consider marriage unless I can get a pre-nuptial agreement

Dear Miriam: I won’t consider marriage unless I can get a pre-nuptial agreement

A Leinster reader asks Miriam's advice on the legality surrounding pre nuptial agreements after seeing several men lose 'big money' when their marriages broke down.

ASK MIRIAM 2 April 2025

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Home care an attractive alternative to nursing homes for farming families

The average person living in a nursing home under the Fair Deal Scheme pays €362.10/week in fair deal fees and an additional €53 in nursing home service charges.

Home care an attractive alternative to nursing homes for farming families

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