By Noelle Mann For the Irish Traveller community, the morning of Saturday, the 10th October 2015 will be forever associated with the tragic fire at a halting site in Carrickmines which took the lives of ten family members and an unborn child. Thomas Connors, 27, his wife Sylvia, 30, and their children Jim, five, Christy,…
Does Self-Medication Equal Self Destruction? We take a look at the balance between self-help and self-harm and ask the question – When does the substance become the presence in one’s life? By John Madden Let’s be frank, substance abuse is widespread) and there does not seem to be any end in sight. We turn on…
By Julieanne Doorley & David Lynch Fr. Paddy, tell us a little about your background? I was born in Limerick city in October 1944. I’ve two sisters, one of whom is a nun in Limerick and the other is married and living in Dublin. My mother was a Limerick woman and, my father was from…