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Aoibhín Garrihy has said that she has only seen her family “a handful of times” over the past year and that she is missing them dearly. The former Fair City actress is currently living in Ennis, Co Clare while her parents and sisters, Doireann and Ailbhe, are in Dublin. Aoibhín is unable to travel to her home county due to current Covid-19 health restrictions and has revealed that she is missing her family. Speaking on Ireland AM, she said: “I’m definitely missing the gang. They’re all in Dublin and I’m here in the west.” The 32-year-old shared that she feels that her parents ...

Seham Hamu lost her husband, son and grand-daughter on the same night in 2016 when a missile struck their home in Douma, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the civil war. Now, aged 74 and confined to a wheelchair because of a heart condition, she looks after her son’s four surviving children, a widowed daughter and a second daughter along with her husband and their children. Their plight is not unusual in a country where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed during a decade of violence and millions more forced to flee their homes ...

The pandemic has shown that most of us have a hankering to meet friends in person. The pub and restaurant trades have had their bleakest years in living memory, but they should bounce back, at least in places where they were still in demand before the pandemic. The crisis has shown us conclusively that video-conferencing services such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams cannot replace the immediacy and intimacy of the person-to-person encounter. Nevertheless, the video apps have still become part of our lives, tools we can use when we need them. More of us have also become used to online shopping, ca...

She said she was shocked this was the state of someone’s mind. “It was a really hateful thing for someone to say in response to such positive news. “When these comments get too hateful, I pull them down, I delete them. My mental health is too important to let anyone depress me.” Ms Adenuga mentors women and young people, bidding to “empower” them through the (YAMAL) Yemi Adenuga Mentorship and Leadership Program. Yet, despite this community work, she repeatedly has to block trolls. A group of around 12 trolls had repeatedly commented on all of her tweets. “Even when I blocked th...

"It's the cure for everything at the moment," says Aoibhín Garrihy.