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Pieta is encouraging people to light a candle – and to take a moment to chat to a loved one.

As we settle into the Autumn months and adjust to the turn in temperature and shorter days, we could all be more proactive when it comes to looking after…

Book review: Memoirs describe same mental health battle, but oceans apart Tina Neylon looks at two similar but also very different contributions to the discourse on mental health and depression — one a memoir by a Dublin footballer, the other by a young man from Novia Scotia in Canada Both memoirs are vivid accounts of the challenges faced by two young men to their mental health and their roads to recovery. Sat, 05 Jun, 2021 - 20:00 Tina Neylon THESE two books have a lot in common, although their authors have very different backgrounds and live on opposite sides of the Atlantic — one in ...

‘Essential Conversations’: IACP and Blindboy Boatclub host free mental health conference this week Reporter:  '); The Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) will host ‘Essential Conversations with IACP’ this Friday, a free virtual conference with podcaster, and author Blindboy Boatclub as MC and Deborah Frances-White of The Guilty Feminist as Keynote speaker. The IACP is the largest and longest-standing Counselling and Psychotherapy Association in Ireland. The conference, which marks the organisation’s 40 years in operation, will highlight the importance of spe...

It was on the eve of St Patrick's Day 2020, that the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson first announced new measures aimed at avoiding gatherings in crowded places, such as pubs, nightclubs and theatres. The huge annual parade through London, which traditionally attracts up to 50,000 people, had already been cancelled due to Covid-19 health advice. With few people yet familiar with the online world of Zoom, and with little time to organise any last-minute virtual events, the day was passed by many of the Irish in Britain and abroad, sitting at home for the first time. "It was a very strang...