Opinion
Ditch the diet – lose weight naturally!
By Andrew McDonald – Hypnotherapist Eat breakfast! Two simple words, one easy action but something which can radically alter your relationship with food and your weight with a minimum of effort. Many people think skipping breakfast will help them to eat less and lose the pounds. Actually the complete opposite is true! By not eating …
Lower back pain: Fix the problem and you won’t have to worry about the pain
BY EOIN EVERARD It’s gotten a bit confusing how we sometimes look at our health. When pain strikes the low back we usually think we just got a new problem or injury. But why then was coughing, shaving, or doing the laundry, so different this time? These are things we do every day. Rarely is a new episode …
Collagen boost
BY: CLAIR WHITTY We can’t slow down the years but maybe we could slow the process of ageing? With hydrated skin, strong bones and muscles, and flexible joints. Wouldn’t that be great? Collagen can help. It’s the body’s most abundant protein after all. It’s found in skin, hair, bones, joint cartilage, and tendons. Collagen provides …
My Father: like some sort of unsung hero…
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS I only ever saw my Father cry once. And that was when his own father died and the word came through with a messenger from the local newsagent, the only ones in the area with a phone in those days. And he sat down at the top of …
Diets do not work
ANDREW MCDONALD – HYPNOTHERAPIST The four words in the title above will come like a hammer blow for some and perhaps as a relief for many others. There are a great many reasons why dieting does not result in achieving body goals. What may be surprising is that a great deal of those reasons are …
Risky business; 7 key points to investing
BY JOHN ELLIS, FINANCIAL ADVISOR WHEN investing, risk relates to the possibility you might get back less than you put in. Like most things in life, no investment is without risk. However, you’ll have your own ideas about the risk you’re comfortable with. It’s not only how much risk you’re prepared to take, known as …
Are school days the best days of your life?
THE FACT OF THE MATTER PAUL HOPKINS JOHN DIGHTON was a British playwright and screenwriter of minor note, among whose work was Kind Hearts And Coronets and Roman Holiday for the cinema and the stage play The Best Days Of Your Life. The 1947 production is based upon a boys’ school and girls’ one merging …
Feeling the pressure? Try Aspire Mental Performance
By: Clair Whitty Recently I was feeling some anxiety and stress. Most of it I could name and give reason for. But naming the cause or reason did not relieve the symptoms I was feeling. I have been trying to do mini meditations to relax, but I haven’t got the time (or so I tell …
Post-lockdown stress and how to beat it
Andrew McDonald – Hypnotherapist Everybody by now is familiar with the stresses of living very restricted existences. Anxiety, depression and other symptoms caused by life in a kind of open prison for the last twelve months and more are commonplace. People are itching to get back out there. More than a year is a long …
Government must not abandon workers in need of pandemic income supports and redundancy payments
KATHLEEN FUNCHION Sinn Fein TD for Kilkenny Carlow Sinn Féin is bringing forward a motion which seeks to ensure a fair calculation of redundancy entitlements for workers who have spent time on the PUP. As concern grows among those on a pandemic payment they will lose out on significant sums of money because of time …
