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Education

Learning Points: Post Leaving Cert holiday can be a parental dilemma

Now that the Leaving Certificate has ended and all that exam stress has dissipated and the house has returned to some semblance of normality, parents can finally start to enjoy…

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Questions Answered

Have we left it too late to unspoil our child?

I have only recently realised how spoilt my child is. Last week, my five-year-old son caused such a scene in our local shopping centre, because we didn’t buy him a…

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Learning Points: Finding ourselves among the changing tribe

It’s about refusing to allow your dreams to destroy you, writes Richard Hogan So, my time in the Philippines has come to an end. After all the long goodbyes, mango floats,…

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Learning Points: ‘Do what is fulfilling, not expedient’

There are many names for the sea gypsies of the southern island of Davao in the Philippines: Badjao, Samal Badjau, or Bayao to mention but a few, writes Richard Hogan.…

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Front Page Teenagers

Learning points: Exposure to porn corrupts young vulnerable minds

The terrible crimes that shook this country over the last number of weeks left all of us feeling a little numb and confused. Anastasia Kriegal’s murder at the hands of, what…

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Learning Points: Embrace ageing for a longer and fuller life

We all dread it, the scarecrow staring back at us in the mirror. The circles, the hollow cheeks, the thinning hair and the down turned mouth. The terrible fish that…

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Comments on society

True equality means cherishing every opinion

Our society really isn’t seeking equality. It is a society that is seeking equality as long as your notion of equality is the same as mine, writes Richard Hogan. NOTHING has…

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