Anne Walsh

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Anne Walsh with her daughter Aisling, who is anaphylactic to peanuts.
Recognising the danger of anaphylaxis

In July 2016, 15-year-old Natasha Ednan-Laperouse boarded a flight at London Heathrow airport after eating a sandwich she had just bought in Pret a Ma(...)

The Samuel family, originally from South Sudan, from left: Gabriel, Jennifer, Salome, Morgan, Emmanuel, Esther, Grace and Victoria at home in Kilkenny. Photograph: Dylan Vaughan.
Fitting in as a minority ethnic teenager in Ireland – inside and outside the home

“My parents don’t understand me” is the cry of most teenagers during the fraught years of establishing their independence from those who raised them. (...)

The National Youth Council of Ireland study aimed to identify some of the issues facing young people from minority ethnic communities. Image: iStock.
Racism, exclusion still issues for minority ethnic people in Ireland

Racism and exclusion are still issues in the lives of minority ethnic young people in Ireland, a new study has found. The National Youth Council of (...)

Fr Paddy McDonagh died in 2009 aged 80.
Parishioners in Sallynoggin angry over child abuse priest

Parishioners in south county Dublin have expressed anger at how the Salvatorian congregation handled a church report which severely criticised how it(...)