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Project proposals sought for farm safety funds
Noel Bardon
The funding call will be see successful projects awarded funding from the Department of Agriculture's €2.5m farm safety budget for 2025.
16 April 2025 Ask Miriam
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
16 April 2025 Features
Supporting abusers who want to change their ways
A 400% increase in calls to MOVE Ireland, which educates and counsels men who abuse their partners, shows the need to support perpetrators who seek help in living a non-violent life.
Donegal farmers are men on the move
An initiative aimed at encouraging rural men to exercise has both health and social benefits, writes Sarah Mcintosh.
9 April 2025 Features
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.
9 April 2025 Ask Miriam
Heydon wants farmer mental health to be addressed at ‘every engagement’
Martin Heydon was responding to a question from Fianna Fáil TD Aindrias Moynihan in relation to available supports and programmes for farmers around mental health and well-being.
6 April 2025 News
Niall McNamee: ‘betting companies need to do better in their duty of care’
A report by Jacqueline Hogge and Rosalind Skillen examines problem gambling, and the role the new Gambling Authority of Ireland and addiction treatment centres have to play in tackling the issue.
2 April 2025 Features
Minding yourself, as well as your horses
Breeding and rearing horses is not a game for the faint-hearted, it's long days and hard graft, as a breeder herself, editor Helen Sharp offers some advice for keeping your mind and body in shape.
26 March 2025 Breeding
Request for views from farmers: mental health matters
'The experiences of members of Ireland’s farming families need to be heard.' - Dr Siobhán O'Connor, associate professor, School of Health & Human Performance, Dublin City University.
5 March 2025 Letters
‘Women do a lot of caring – and there is a cost to that’
Psychologist Allison Keating insists that the chronic levels of stress and anxiety we are experiencing on a daily basis are not normal, writes Rosalind Skillen.
5 March 2025 Health
Editorial: ‘all by myself – it felt liberating to enjoy my own company'
I was a bit self-conscious going to the cinema on my own but it was totally worth it.
19 February 2025 Editorial
Developing good health habits to live well later
In part one of a three-week series, we ask medical experts what your health focus should be between the ages of 20 and 39.
12 February 2025 Health