Opinion

BY CLAIR WHITTY Collagen is essential for healthy, youthful, and glowing skin. It provides firmness and structure and helps to maintain the skin’s elasticity. As well as skin it’s found in hair, bones, joint cartilage, and tendons. But once we hit our thirties, we start to lose collagen by 1.5% every year. Our skin can …

AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON IF you are worried at the prospect of chaos at airports and fearful of scorching European temperatures maybe holidaying in Ireland seems a safer bet. If so which way do you head – East or West? You must admit that the marketing brand Wild Atlantic Way has a certain …

BY ANDREW MCDONALD HYPNOTHERAPIST For every negative, there’s a positive. Most of us hated lockdown and living restricted lives for long periods wasn’t something we welcomed. It was necessary, of course, but painful too. However, we also started doing things which benefitted our health as part of a normal routine. Things that can keep us …

THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS When my Father died, my Mother knew there was no going back. She missed him so, and decided she didn’t want to go on. She was in stage four of an incurable cancer. Being of sound mind, she told the doctor she didn’t want to take any more …

BY NED EGAN Hello folks, I wrote this several years ago, for a newspaper. The golden nights, as described, Are gone forever. The Clancy Brothers, and Tullahought – a small village in the south of Co Kilkenny. It was about Halloween time, over thirty years ago, and we were all gathered in Tullahought of a …

BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR I was six months old when Sean started work in a local retail company, since gone, and 13 when he left. During some of that period he paid into the company’s pension scheme.  Over the next 50 odd years, on and off, he wondered what had become of his contributions …

BY CLAIR WHITTY I think that most of you will know that I love Bach Rescue Remedy. This is the little Bach Flower remedy in the yellow bottle that I have talked about and used now for over 25 years. It contains five of the Bach Flowers combined to provide comfort and reassurance, and support …

AS I SEE IT MARIANNE HERON This is high season for garden lovers. A time to go garden visiting, enjoy garden shows or just sit back and smell the roses. But change is underway for enthusiasts, with the move to rewilding and a more nature-friendly approach to gardening. Converts argue that we should let nature …

BY ANDREW MCDONALD HYPNOTHERAPIST A while ago I suggested you acted on what you can control and didn’t fret about what you can’t. When it comes to family budgeting, that’s a more difficult idea to get our heads around, but it is no less actionable. You can’t influence inflation. Not realistically, anyway. Technically, if everyone …

THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS On social media and elsewhere there was a lot of disquiet when the bodies of English couple Nicholas Smith (81) and his wife Hilary (79) were found at their home in Tipperary where they had been living for about eight years or so. Disquiet and dismay that their …