Family
# family - Saturday 18 May, 2013
Kids have serious ‘pester power’ on family food purchases
The breakfast cereal in a family’s cupboard is often dictated by the children.
# family - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
# family - Monday 13 May, 2013
Midleton locals hold protest over ambulance service after boy’s death
The locals protested outside the office of local TD David Stanton.
# family - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
WATCH: Mum reacts after son pays off her mortgage
For his own birthday.
# family - Saturday 27 April, 2013
Meningitis: ‘We never thought it would happen to us – but it did’
Siobhan and Noel Carroll sadly lost their daughter Aoibhe at the age of four to meningitis – now they’re educating others to spot the dangers of meningitis.
# family - Monday 15 April, 2013
13 things that utterly terrified you as a kid
And maybe still do a little bit.
# family - Monday 1 April, 2013
9 things your granny did that your mam would never do
Grannies are great.
# family - Sunday 31 March, 2013
Thank your lucky stars you’re not in these family photos
Things could be worse this Easter weekend.
# family - Friday 29 March, 2013
9 things that ALWAYS happened on a family weekend away
You’d be off to the amusements right after you’d listened to your favourite tape on the way down.
# family - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
Homeless man does good deed, is reunited with family and given $188k
Billy Ray Harris handed back a valuable diamond and platinum engagement ring to its owner and has received some good karma in return – including $188k in donations.
Pieta House launches ‘Mind Our Men’ to reduce male suicide
The campaign aims to empower people in spotting and dealing with the signs and symptoms of suicide.
VIDEO: If you grew up in the 80s, you’ll like this
“Using firelighters, where’d you think we’re living in, Dynasty or something?”
# family - Saturday 23 March, 2013
ISPCA’s search for perfect home for unusual animals
From pigs to foals, these animals need the right home. Could you be the one to give them a forever home?
# family - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
Update: Missing Derry man found ‘safe and well’
Doug Main was reported missing yesterday.
# family - Monday 18 March, 2013
Column: New HSE plans will further limit women’s choices in childbirth
Last summer, the Minister for Health endorsed home birth and said more women should be offered the choice of giving birth at home – but new HSE guidelines will have the opposite effect, Eva-Louise Goussot writes.
# family - Friday 15 March, 2013
PIC: Amazing note from a dad to his gay son
This guy deserves all the high fives you have in stock.
# family - Monday 11 March, 2013
Duchess of Cambridge’s family connections to Brian Ború unveiled
Tourism Ireland said research shows Kate Middleton has connections through the Lupton family from Yorkshire with the noble Fitzmaurice family from Co Kerry.
# family - Saturday 9 March, 2013
# family - Sunday 17 February, 2013
Online petition launched to reunite thousands of immigrants separated by red tape
Family reunification is recognised in some countries as a reason for immigration because of the presence of a family member in a country.
# family - Friday 8 February, 2013
VIDEO: This toddler is the best liar of all time
Did he eat the sprinkles? Good Lord, no.
PIC: Dad pays daughter $200 in ‘Facebook deactivation agreement’
The 14-year-old suggested the idea.
Column: ‘I was in work one day and diagnosed with cancer the next’
Being told you have a tumour can be a devastating shock, but there is no need to face the battle alone, says cancer survivor Sheila Hyde.
# family - Monday 4 February, 2013
The burning question*: Do you let dishes air dry… or use tea towel?
It’s Monday, so let TheJournal.ie distract you from the ‘serious’ news with one of life’s REAL dilemmas. (*not really)
# family - Sunday 3 February, 2013
Column: Why are Ireland’s first lady and family so invisible?
In comparison to the US, first spouses and first families are well outside the political fray here in Ireland – but why so, asks Larry Donnelly.
# family - Thursday 31 January, 2013
“If you have any semblance of good in you, for God’s sake, turn these people in”
The Garda Commissioner told the congregation at the funeral of Adrian Donohoe that An Garda SÃochána will do everything in its power to bring the perpetrators to justice.
# family - Monday 28 January, 2013
Life insurance prices can vary by up to €7,500 – study
The National Consumer Agency found that smokers pay on average 90 per cent more for their life insurance.
# family - Saturday 26 January, 2013
How the best countries in the world have changed since 1988
Ireland isn’t doing too badly, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit…
# family - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
9 ways to text like your mam
Where r u? Who r u with?
# family - Monday 21 January, 2013
VIDEO: Granny has amazing reaction to baby news
T’would warm the cockles of your heart.
# family - Wednesday 9 January, 2013
PICS: Family jumps in sea to shelter from raging wildfires
The Holmes family had to shelter under a jetty to escape from the sweltering heat and flames, as wildfires raged around them.
# family - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
Average life cover payout of €101,200 ‘not sufficient’
A life assurance business said that while the money might seem like a lot, it would last some families just two years.
# family - Saturday 5 January, 2013
Polish Prime Minister embarrassed by Irish photo blunder
Prime Minister Donald Tusk launched a major initiative to promote Polish families – but used a photograph of Irish people by mistake.
Column: Why recovering my brother’s stolen bike meant so much
Colin Regan sent out an appeal on Facebook when his bicycle, which had belonged to his late brother Gordon, was stolen. The universe (and friends) conspired to reunite him with it just before Christmas.
# family - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Almost 1,000 civil partnerships in Ireland in 2012
Now almost 2,000 people have entered civil partnerships since they became available in Ireland in April 2011.
# family - Wednesday 2 January, 2013
Lawyers refuse to defend accused in Indian gang-rape case
Solicitors enrolled at the Saket district court in New Delhi will refuse, en masse, to defend the suspected culprits.
# family - Tuesday 1 January, 2013
Whole family dies in waterfall plunge
The family of three from South Africa were on holidays at the time.
# family - Monday 31 December, 2012
Family of India gang-rape victim want killers hanged
The attack on the 23-year-old medical student has led to widespread calls for rapists to be executed.
# family - Friday 28 December, 2012
Samaritans report rise in family and financial worries
Seventy per cent of respondents rated money and debt among their top five worries in 2012.
# family - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
Column: Look in on older neighbours over the holidays. It’s important.
Older people are a wealth of information, knowledge and experience, writes Seán Moynihan – so why not stop in on a neighbour over the Christmas break?
# family - Monday 24 December, 2012
Pic: Our favourite personalised Christmas decoration
You might cry. We certainly did.



























































