Print and Broadcast media

I’ve been busy – below you can find links to some of my published newspaper articles, radio, T.V. and online appearances!

My First Book!

My first book – The Real Mum’s Guide to (Surviving) Parenthood, was published by Orpen Press on the 5th September 2017.  You can buy it in all good bookshops or online:

The Real Mum's Guide to Surviving Parenthood
The Real Mum’s Guide to Surviving Parenthood

In the Press!

Check out some of my columns and articles from The Irish Times, The Irish Independent and The Irish Examiner

 

(you can also find me in Easy Parenting and Maternity and Infant magazine)

 

On the T.V.

RTEjr – Rearing to Go – Does middle-child syndrome really exist?

RTEjr – Rearing to Go – Headlice

RTEjr – Rearing to Go – Coping with Back to School chaos

and lots more…. including RTE – Claire Byrne Live , RTE – Today with Maura and Daithi, Virgin Media 1 – Ireland Am and Virgin Media 1 – The Elaine Show

On the Radio

RTE Radio 1 – The Ray D’Arcy Show – Loneliness in parenthood

RTE Radio 1 – The Ray D’Arcy Show – Playdates

RTE Radio 1 – The Ray D’Arcy Show – The very different expectations of mums and dads

RTE Radio 1   – The Ray D’Arcy Show – Non competitive school sports days

RTE Radio 1 – The Ray D’Arcy Show – Bullying in our schools

RTE Radio 1 – The Ray D’Arcy Show – Parenting as our kids become adults

RTE Radio1 – The Ray D’Arcy Show – Postnatal depression and The Real Mum’s Guide to Surviving Parenthood

RTE Radio 1 – Ray D’Arcy Show – Jen Hogan, winner of Journalist of the Year at the Friends of Breastfeeding awards

Newstalk – Lunchtime Live – should homework be banned for primary school children

RTE Radio 1 – Ray D’Arcy Show  – why I think homework for primary school children should be abolished

Today FM – The Last Word – The financial value of stay at home parents

Newstalk – Lunchtime Live – Should voluntary contributions in schools be scrapped

Newstalk – Lunchtime Live – Is 8 too young to walk to school alone

Today FM – The Last Word – one fifth of families cannot afford to involve their children in sport

Today FM – The Last Word – Ireland’s high rates teenage binge-drinking (01:05:00) in

Today Fm – The Last Word – Do the schoolday and schoolyear need reform

Newstalk – Lunchtime Live – Is it ever OK to scold other people’s children

Newstalk FM- Betweeen the Lines – The crazy costs of free education!

Today FM- The Last Word – World Breastfeeding Week

Newstalk – Lunchtime Live -should designer shoes and clothes be banned in schools

Newstalk – Lunchtime Live – The over-sexualisation of children’s clothes

Newstalk- Lunchtime Live – teaching our children about the realities of life

Today FM- The Last Word – are advent calendars contributing to the childhood obesity epidemic?

RTE Radio 1  – The Ray D’Arcy Show – Breastfeeding 

RTE Radio 1 – The Ray D’Arcy Show – Miscarriage

Newstalk -Lunchtime Live – Mum shaming and birthday parties

RTE Radio 1- The Ray D’Arcy Show – what happened this week//RTE Radio 1 – The Ray Ray D’Arcy Show – all female panel 

RTE Radio 1 – Like Family – Brenda Donohue

RTE Radio 1 – Like Family – Brenda Donohue

and lots, lots  more including Today FM, Newstalk, East Coast Radio and Cork 96fm….