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‘Waiting for your children to die, knowing that it can happen at any time, is crushing’
- Parenting
- October 20, 2020, 06:01
“I am not sure anyone really copes with being told that all of your children are terminally ill and that there is no treatment,” Paula Naughton, mothe(...)

Cork City FC leads tributes to man who drowned near Youghal
- Irish News
- September 21, 2020, 06:39
Warm tributes have been paid to Cork City FC stalwart and youth worker John Kennedy (56), who drowned while swimming near Youghal in East Cork at the (...)

Irish teens worry about futures, older relatives during Covid-19 pandemic
- Social Affairs
- April 6, 2020, 21:00
Irish teenagers are struggling to keep up with class work through remote learning with some unable to access a laptop or smart phone to follow lesson (...)

Teenagers and their phones: ‘I plan to spend five minutes and it ends up an hour’
- Health & Family
- September 3, 2019, 06:01
Four members of Foróige’s national youth advisory panel, who also sit on its national council, and four members of the national executive of the Irish(...)

‘Everything about a phone is fine until it is not fine’
- Health & Family
- September 3, 2019, 06:01
“They’re never off their phones.” This must be the most common gripe of the current generation of parents with teenagers. And when something goes wro(...)

Teenage GAA fan wins Foróige Youth Entrepreneur of the Year
- Irish News
- May 9, 2019, 19:49
A “Gaelic Superstore” selling bespoke gloves for clubs, schools and county teams has seen a 16-year-old from Sligo win the title of the Foróige Youth (...)

Book about friend with Down syndrome up for award
- Social Affairs
- April 11, 2019, 21:16
Katelyn Harrington (11) from Cork city wants everyone to know her best friend Grace O’Brien (12) is “just like everyone else, but funnier”. Grace, w(...)

Information technology course to offer 60 places to single mothers
- Social Affairs
- March 4, 2019, 01:37
Intelligence is classless, a leading education rights advocate has said, announcing details of a new course aimed at helping single mothers who left s(...)

Call out for emigrants to come home
- Sponsored
- December 21, 2018, 00:00
Emigration is the perennial Irish safety valve in times of recession – and reversing the flow when times are good takes the pressure off too. Right n(...)

Armed gardaí to be deployed in Rathkeale over Christmas
- Irish News
- November 9, 2018, 21:24
Armed gardaí will be deployed on the streets of Rathkeale, Co Limerick, throughout Christmas and New Year, a senior garda has told councillors, along (...)