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Sylvia Thompson

Sylvia Thompson

Sylvia Thompson writes on health and environmental issues for The Irish Times.

The stresses of a hidden epidemic

Almost half of women who have given birth have problems with their pelvic-floor muscles, and the biggest problem is their silenc(...)

Kitchen medicine workshop aims to show how eating healthily can be fun

Run Clinic: Stretching and walking help ease calf cramping

Jules Evans, author of Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
How Socrates could save your life

Greek philosophy may be ancient, but it’s a razor-sharp tool for dealing with modern life, says author Jules Evans, who used philo(...)

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Visitors talk near Paul Cezanne’s ‘Les Pommes,’ during a preview of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s in New York. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters Big numbers for Impressionist art as New York auctions kick off
John Hinde postcard of children on a Connemara bog. Photograph: John Hinde Ireland. Tributes paid to ginger-haired boy immortalised in John Hinde postcard
Elizabeth Brennan, Cathy Henderson and Mary Hunter working on the 1913 Lockout Tapestry. The creative process is a collective experience, with each of the panels created by members of craft, community and prison groups. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Thing to remember about 1913 Lockout Tapestry is that it’s not a tapestry
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