Berna Cox discovers a new-found passion for DIY after a lifetime of ‘getting a man in’ to do all those jobs around the house When I was growing up, we were not a family who owned tools. My father, bless his soul, was not a handyman. He was a larger-than-life manly man (a county footballer [...]
Dara Gantly previews the upcoming IMT Practice Management Seminar, where GPs will learn how to maximise their IT and accounting systems. GPs should look at introducing text messaging to avoid surgery no-shows and to remind patients when they are due a check up. Using SMS messaging is just one way Dublin GP Dr Brian Meade [...]
June Shannon finds out why the festive season is one of the busiest and most stressful times of the year for many doctors around the country. Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house there was complete pandemonium. Hyperactive children strung out on Curly Wurlies refused to go to bed. Frazzled mothers tried [...]
Berna Cox writes that while a pet can be a great soul mate, she’s not prepared to go through the inevitable rupture that comes when the pet ‘retires’ to a farm in the country. For the umpteenth time, I’m coming under pet pressure. To get one, that is. My daughters were home for a weekend [...]
A recent survey published by Bord Bia stated yet another fact that we shouldn’t really be alarmed by, relating to food and eating habits in our new, ‘shocked-into-the-future’ Ireland. In urban areas of Ireland, not specified but I’m sure we can do the sums, a large percentage of families sit down to two separate meals [...]
Time is so precious in the new society that people pay to buy time. It is done in many ways and for different reasons, most of them personal. There is no time for leisure or relaxation and it seems as though time is passing by. With the new society a person is awake very early [...]
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