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Clare Moriarty

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Planning to join a swimming pool this January? Read this first

It has been an incredible year for Irish swimming – three Olympic medals, fantastic performances at the World Championships and short course...

05.01.2025 20

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Clare Moriarty

It was Mariah Carey’s Irish mother who imbued in her a love of all things Christmas

Like it or not, the Christmas season now begins in November. That’s a full sixth of the year earmarked for festivity. For fans, the music is a...

21.12.2024 5

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Clare Moriarty

Nikita Hand’s case against Conor McGregor challenges the myth of the ‘perfect victim’

We live in a nation that, for better or worse – as new public health statistics published this week have made clear – has normalised living to...

07.12.2024 20

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Clare Moriarty

How is childless Clare getting on, I wonder? Is she happier? Hungover?

“You’ll never regret having children, but you might regret not having them” – or so people contemplating parenthood are often advised. But is that...

02.11.2024 4

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Clare Moriarty

I went for a 13-week appointment and experienced the deafening agony of the silent sonogram

Last Tuesday was Pregnancy Loss Awareness Day and I have spent the week thinking about the history of the Irish uterus and its unusual political...

20.10.2024 5

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Clare Moriarty

Eavan Boland, who wrote about women’s lives, is a better fit for Trinity than slave-owning Berkeley

Trinity College Dublin’s largest library has been denamed and now renamed. The new dedication will celebrate Irish poet and 1966 TCD graduate Eavan...

10.10.2024 20

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Clare Moriarty

My child got burned at his check-up. It summed up our crumbling public health system

Mine is one of those giant Irish babies that is constantly flagged for his status atop the centiles. Our public health nurse referred him to our GP...

05.10.2024 2

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Clare Moriarty

I’m back at work months and my baby still doesn’t have a full-time childcare place

It has been a weird summer. Every day seems to contain every season and now we’re looking down the barrel of September wondering: was this it? My...

24.08.2024 8

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Clare Moriarty