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21 Kids’ page
4 Dana’s back Pg 8 24 Puzzles
10 Ask the stylist 28 Knitting pattern
18 Sister Olive 33 Reader fiction
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“I feel that I
found myself
again and now

My Time Ihavetojust
start walking
RoDseamwnaitrhay forward”
Scallon
AFTER SEVEN YEARS DANA IS BACK AND
STRONGER THAN EVER WITH NEW ALBUM

I was one of many and not kept saying no. feel as though the rug is pulled “It was great because I
to mention extremely lucky “Eventually, I went in the out from under their feet. watched them all grow up.”
journalists to talk to singer says Dana. “In all the years
and Eurovision star, Dana studio and did three tracks, “I was working with since I have been singing and
Rosemary Scallon back which the company really amazing musicians, artists I’ve played the guitar since I
in November as she was liked and then they asked me in their own right, but once was very young but I never
promoting her new album to do another seven tracks. So, we got started we were really actually played the instrument
My Time. As the interview we finished the album in July simply just musicians working on any of my previous
was late in the afternoon, I and then did a photo session. together and they were recordings. So that was a great
assumed the singer would Each little bit became more of a wonderful and so supportive.” experience.”
be exhausted from her long reality but to actually have this
day; however, I couldn’t have album printed up and in my From listening My Time I Many of you reading this
been more wrong as Dana hand, I’m still taking that in.” got a sense of liberation and of interview will know Dana
was so lively and kind. What breaking free from everyday from Eurovision. The singer
was supposed to be a short Dana has had an extremely troubles. As I told Dana my and I talked ‘All Kinds of
interview turned into a long difficult time which took its feelings on the album, she Everything’ with regards
and friendly conversation. toll on the singer. The 68-year- agreed. the international singing
old bravely discussed with me competition.
I was in awe of how strong how she almost let fear prevent “Yes, thank you for your
and open Dana was with me from ever singing again. insight, I feel that I found It is hard to believe that
when I asked the singer what myself again and now I have is has been 50 years since
it was like to be back in the “I have been going for to just start walking forward. Dana ’s winning moment.
limelight, she said that it was counselling. I think the past Each song in the album is I asked her would she be of
‘scary’. eight years have been the most important to me and some the opinion that the song
stressful. I just completely lost of them even speak for me,
“It’s kind of unbelievable, confidence in myself. certainly Falling and My Time.”
Niamh” says Dana. “The
album process took a couple “When I was asked to record Dana, her son Robert
of stages. When I was first the tracks I found it very and nieces and nephews
asked to record I said no and intimating going in. from Indie-pop band, The
over a period of a year I just Rua, wrote the songs on the
“I’m not alone in this I know, album and they play guitar
I think there are periods in throughout the recording.
everyone’s life when they just

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COVER INTERVIEW

By Niamh Shields. competition today is more performance. That restored I won it was just impossible “Well I am doing a
focused on the basis of fame my faith in Eurovision.” to go back to my school as I documentary for RTÉ and
rather the power of song and became so well-known almost BBC on my 50 years since
lyrics. From being an 18-year-old everywhere.” Eurovision which is exciting
student in the process of her and in February we will begin
“I think that Eurovision A levels, to becoming what Dana spoke so fondly of her to promote this album in
always has been competitive she believed her dream job parents, Robert and Shelia, Europe which will be starting
definitely,” says Dana. would have been, a music who helped keep her grounded in Germany. I once recorded
teacher, to suddenly becoming and looked after her during in Germany so I’m looking
“Now it is a very big field to an overnight worldwide star her initial transition from forward to going back as I have
win, and of course the voting having won the Eurovision student to celebrity. such happy memories of my
makes it difficult. back in 1970, Dana revealed time there.
to me how she dealt with the “It was a hard period for a
“What restored my faith fame at such a young age. while but I got through it and “When I come back we
in Eurovision was when the thing that helped me get begin to pick up and promote
Portugal [won] with Salvador “Initially it was a very through it was my parents. Eurovision which will be in
Sobral’s song, Love For The hard change over winning They could see that I was May, so I would love to go
Both of Us in 2017. Salvador Eurovision,” says Dana. getting into a downwards to Rotterdam, Netherlands,
was a complete outsider. spiral and they said, ‘Look, we to experience Eurovision of
“I was about six weeks away got by when we didn’t have today.”
“Portugal was a country from my A levels that I studied any money and we will get by
that had not won in the whole so hard for. I felt that prior again, if you are not happy we Lastly I asked Dana what is
sixty years of Eurovison. Eurovision I was in control can get through this.’” her life motto.
with what I wanted to do
“He swept that board with my life. Suddenly, when I asked the singer what she “One thing I always find
because of the quality of the missed most about being away myself saying to people is if
song and the sincerity of his from home at such a young age you meet someone and they
and I was so touched by Dana’s seem a bit down, short or
answer as she reminisced grumpy, always remember
about her home in Donegal. we have no idea what is going
on in their lives and I try to
“I missed my friends meet people with a smile
because I was travelling most purely because you don’t know
of the time.” says Dana. “I what they’re suffering with
did love what I was doing, and what may be going on in
but I did get jealous because their lives.
I just missed the craic with
my friends. We met everyday “People that may appear to
at school but we also would not have a trouble in the world,
meet every Saturday and go may be feeling down.
to town. We would go into a
café and make a Coca Cola and “I say, we need to encourage
chocolate cake last between and support as many people
four or five of us and just chat in our lives as pressures are so
for hours. I really missed that.” great today.” WW

Having asked the singer Dana’s new album My Time is
what has 2020 has in store for available now
her, she revealed all.

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Ask the stylist Who would you love to dress?
I am asked this a lot and why I would like
LORNA WEIGHTMAN ON HER FAVOURITE JEANS AND HER STYLE PHILOSOPHY to style them never arises from their lack
of it. It’s always because they intrigue me
and I’d love to learn from them and their
experiences with style. Perhaps Helen
Mirren or Meryl Streep….

Handbags or shoes? Why? What’s your style philosophy?
I always say handbags, they last
much longer and if you choose a style There are no rules. If you look in the
that’s classic in a shade that matches mirror and you like what you are wearing
everything, you will use it for years. then that’s it.
That said, I am obsessed with shoes, but
I very rarely spend a lot of money on Do you think you can dress anyone?
them as they wear down quickly.
No! Fashion is so subjective and people
Is there one item that everyone really know what they like. When I was a
should have in their wardrobe? personal shopper, women would come to
A black tux-style blazer; it is the me and say they would like to try a style
universal jacket that works for that was totally different. I cautioned them
anything. Jeans and a T-shirt, with about this approach, I would style them
trainers makes for a chic weekend in outfits that were a huge departure from
look, as does draping this over your their everyday style and unanimously
shoulders with a cocktail dress. I have the verdict was always they same – they
two, one of which is actually a man’s preferred to balance a new piece with their
dinner jacket so it’s a little oversized existing wardrobe. We can be our own
but I love that style. stylists in our own wardrobes.

For you, fashion is... most was the original straight leg style How important is colour to a wardrobe?
A version of my personality. I love using that I’ve worn over and over again. I tuck I don’t think you can assign importance
clothes to channel ‘me’. I do tend to jumpers into them and wear with boots, to colours in a closet. I think it’s better to
stick to the same style in my wardrobe or during warmer months, I swap the look at the colours you wear the most and
and the same can be said for my boots for slip-on kitten heels. And finish like, and incrementally add new hues of
approach to life. with the trusty aforementioned blazer. those to your look. For example, bright
red is a big SS20 trend but not everyone,
What’s the difference Are you a charity shop lover? including me, is a fan. I decided to pick up
between fashion and style? I am and I do a clear out every month a knit in a soft shade of red for under €20
Fashion comes and goes, but style is of my own wardrobe which I drop off to see if I would like it before I invested in
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you, and it is shaped by fashion and ambassador for them for several years.
what you see around you. One of my favourite charity shop places Are you a fan of a capsule wardrobe?
is Dun Laoghaire in Co Dublin; I love Yes and I preach about capsule pieces all
What’s the favourite piece wandering around them on a Saturday the time on TV! Having a basic set of items
you have in your wardrobe? afternoon to see what I can find. that you can add seasonal trends to, or
I have a Christian Louboutin Paloma different prints and patterns to is a very
handbag; it’s my treasure. It’s black What’s the best thing about being a efficient way to approach your style. I
with red panelling on the side, stylist? think a capsule closet should have, again,
embellished with hand applied studs. I have been very fortunate in my career to the blazer, denim, a tapered pair of black
have worked on some cool jobs and met trousers, some basics like light blouses and
What’s the item you’ve used most in some amazing people. I love to shop, so tops. These are all neutral pieces that act as
your wardrobe? to get paid to shop is definitely a major a foundation to build on. WW
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REAL LIFE

SANDRA DUNNEA DAY IN THE LIFE OF…

AS THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF GYM PLUS, SANDRA IS ALWAYS ON THE GO

I’m an early riser and love are to the process, then I’ll arise so the fewest possible of the year is all about helping
catching the sunrise if do a full walkabout to see number of people are affected the managers run their clubs
possible. I nearly always our clubs from a customer’s by them can sometimes be a as smoothly as possible.
have breakfast with the kids perspective. I find that challenge. It’s always busy
and as they both either get a talking to members in the and but I can be working I sometimes find it tricky
lift or walk to school, I don’t clubs helps me keep in touch on lots of things at the same to switch off and unwind as
have much else to do there. with how our business is time, but I wouldn’t have it our clubs are open seven days
As the Managing Director for performing. any other way. a week so I can be always on
a chain of health and fitness call. I recently returned to
clubs, Gym Plus, my role is Helping our customers I have my favourite spots to playing golf which I adore as
demanding, interesting and get and stay healthier is my grab a bite around the clubs. I I played as a junior so have
rewarding. is involves favourite part of the job. am rarely in one place for the found it brings me back lovely
working on almost every Seeing the sheer variety of day so that means I get lots memories of being in my
area of the business to ensure goals people set and achieve, of variety. Probably twice a teens. I enjoy having to putt
we’re doing all we can to then celebrating that with week, I’ll stop for lunch but slowly and I always push my
live up to our customers’ them gives me a buzz like I often eat whilst reading trolley to get a good workout.
expectations. no other. I love that we are or reviewing something. In good weather I cycle with
quite a small Irish company Sometimes, I’ll meet a team a friend and I make sure to
As our clubs are open early, working in our communities. member for a catch up over a keep connected with friends,
it’s great to be able to start the I know that we aren’t perfect coffee at lunchtime which is a either meeting socially for a
day with a workout and beat but that we try hard to be win/win! coffee or to go for a workout.
the traffic. My work place can welcoming/non intimidating
be any of our Gym Plus clubs, and lots of our members I’ve always loved being e time I finish work can
I have a desk in our head comment on the wide range active and was sporty as a vary but I like to be home for
office but I would probably of people working out. teen. I moved to London to 7pm at the latest. With traffic,
only work there once a week. follow a boyfriend (we’re still I try plan my days so that I am
Our business is all about I always have operational married) and was lucky to get not stuck in rush hour on a
people so that’s where I spend things to do which mostly a trainee fitness club manager motorway and my job is also a
a lot of time. My role is really come in via emails so role which helped me through little flexible which is great. I
varied so if I’m out at a club, they keep me busy - this college. I’ve done all the roles have an office at home so can
I always spend time with the might include liaising with in the fitness industry and do emails/planning there if I
team as they are the face of suppliers, planning for the think this helps understand need to. I don’t really watch
the business. I try to bring months ahead, marketing how our teams might feel. any telly but I try to have
our member journey to life and finding solutions to any some catch up time with the
by helping each member of problems. I work closely Our clubs are at their kids in the evening time. I go
the team understand how with my boss and if we’re busiest in the first three to bed early, often as early as
important and special they not at a club together we months of the year so making 10pm. WW
would catch up on the phone sure that all our members get
“I find that most days. Finding the time the support they need from us For more information about
talking to to make sure I’m on top of and helping them start to feel Gym Plus visit www.gymplus.ie
members in the everything and making time at home in our clubs really
clubs helps me to attend to issues as they quickly is what I’m working
keep in touch with on right now. e first quarter
how our business
is performing” By Michelle Newman

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TELL US ALL SEX SURVEY 2020

SHARE YOUR VIEWS WITH THE TEAM TWYHTEOHILNLUAUKTS

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in their lives or even in their
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otherwise. We appreciate your time and your honesty. vital part of self-phobic response that comes He is only a er one thing
lovfrom years of shaming around “I learned during tantric
The feedback we receive will go to shaping relationship/sex- e and self-vaginas and it has such a training that for women to
based articles in Woman’s Way so thank you in advance. exploration”strong effect on how they are be interested in sex, they
sexually. There is a shyness need a level of safety and a
All fully completed online surveys will be entered into a draw and protection that filters sense of being desired and
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All entries must be received by March 2, 2020. therapy, often she will hear woman’s heart, and an open
her partner say lovingly and heart opens the vagina.
impassionately, ‘I love it, it’s For men, their heart opens
so beautiful,’ but they aren’t through sexual intercourse,
able to receive it. The way to so at the moment of orgasm
overcome it is a ‘flooding’ of in penetrative sex, a man’s
sorts. You spend time with chaenarhtawppillenbuervsetnopifeint’,sacnadsutahlis
your vagina, looking at it sex. For that moment, the
and gradually desensitising icsownnheactttihoenythareeylgoeotkdinugrifnogr.s”ex
yourself to the look of it.”
libido becomes a pulse. It’s means it requires way more.”
easy to feel that because you
don’t have lust like you used Masturbation is for singletons
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level, it’s still there, you just masturbation is only for people
need to go and find it.” who aren’t having sex with a
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“In medieval times, women “There is a sense that it isn’t or bathing together, and of sex, and that it’s just to relieve
were considered to have the real sex if you are using toys, course, kissing and cuddling.
stronger sex drive and failing or that you are a failure. It’s “It may not be as quick and palneaeseudr.iInpgr.eTfoersptheendtetrimmeself-
to satisfy a woman’s sexual a prudishness and a belief people can give up. In long being erotic with yourself is a
iTnsheseetdrmosnywgtaehsrtgthhraoatunmnwdeonsm’fsoesrnedx’sivdhorarivcsee. that everything should be term relationships, couples vital part of self-love and self-
denied them permission to completely natural, when in are used to each other and exploration. Your capacity to
have a strong libido and for fact using a vibrator can help that can make it feel like a bring yourself
it to be important to them to restore elasticity of the chore. Use this as a time to relationship is sexually into a
in relationships. Women are vaginal walls and can help learn more about interacting about knowing
with penetration.” with each other, there is more yourself sexually.
to sex than penetration and “It can be experienced
you still have the capacity to as shameful if your partner
orgasm. And don’t forget to catches you, that you are
expected to hold the emotional uMpydsuerxindgrimveewnoilpl dauryse duoseeslnas’ht pinrgosviodfeluitbaen, yyomuorrbeody excluding the other person.
strand of the relationship.” “For some women, the drop and the sensitivity of your skin yInosutresaedlfysoeuxucaalnlyutsoegiettthoebr,ring
in oestrogen and the resulting
Daly points out that desire higher levels of testosterone
for sex varies from person can lead to an increase in your
to person, for both men and desire. For other women, the that both of you can be
masturbating and witnessing.”
women, and can wax and
wane depending on the time See www.fionadaly.com
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THE CHILDREN’S BOOK WITH A MESSAGE SO POWERFUL,
EVEN ADULTS CAN LEARN A THING OR TWO

“I’ve a quiet house all the “I think our achieve their goals and reach covering at the moment;
children are in school,” Fiona society is based their full potential. We’re very matching and patterns and
told Woman’s Way when we on inclusion now grateful for all the help and counting and sorting and
spoke to her one morning late and that’s a very assistance that we’ve received ordering and all of that sort
last year. It wasn’t long after important part from the various hospitals and of thing. And he really enjoys
the release of But Really… of the country organisations.” art as well, he loves gluing
Adventures with a Difference that we’re all and pasting and cutting and
– the book her husband David After starting school in sticking and then he loves story
King wrote and one that was living in” September 2019, Fiona says that books, he really enjoys reading
inspired by their five-year-old Junior Infants is going really and looking at picture books
son, Adam, who was born with treatment would be he receives well for the youngster, who and all of that so he’s a happy
osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a a drug intravenously and particularly enjoys maths. little boy,” she says.
brittle bone condition. it would have been every
12 weeks up until recently “He keeps telling me he “When he sees the siblings
“Adam has type three, it is but he has just moved onto really likes maths, he loves heading off, he’s delighted to be
the most severe type of OI, a new medication and the elements of what they’re
what the condition is called for that medication can be
short, it is the most severe form administered intravenously
of OI that is compatible with every six months, so that will
life. It’s characterised by fragile hugely improve the quality of
bones that fracture easily, the his life that he won’t have to
child is usually of short stature spend as much time in hospital
and generally will always, with or do as many trips and he
type three, the child would be would receive that medication
a wheelchair user. Adam has a at Temple Street.
wheelchair which he would use
for school and [when he is] out “He is also a patient of Enable
and about in the community. Ireland where he receives
physiotherapy, occupational
“At home he can crawl so he therapy and hydrotherapy.
would crawl around the house Early intervention would be the
a lot and he can take some steps key with all of these conditions,
independently but he wouldn’t to be able to avail of [these
be able to cover any distance therapies] at an early age really
so walking for the future really ensures that the child will
is not something that he will
be able to do and [uses his
wheelchair] to get out and
about, particularly outdoors,”
she explains.

“ e main part of his

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By Michelle Newman But Really… Adventures with a Katie, Adam, Danny, accepting and inclusive and I own, other people are going
Di erence by David King is available Robert and Sarah would just hope that, that will through the same thing,’ but
now at Easons, independent books continue as Adam grows up and it’s also a beautiful book for
stores and Amazon.co.uk to ‘modify’ games or play so moves on in life.” any other child.”
that he can be included in
part of the group and wearing all of the fun. Adam is ‘really Keen to impart this Along with the book’s
the same uniform. For his involved’ in the community, message of inclusivity and heartfelt message, the artwork
younger years he would have playing soccer with his local understanding, Adam’s dad, is just as unique. Illustrator
watched them every morning club Youghal United AFC, David, came up with an idea Jesse de la Cour spent time with
going through the school gates taking part in the GAA with that would perfectly marry the Kings to capture a sense of
and now he’s delighted to be Killeagh GAA Club and he is education and fun. Describing who they were and ‘brought
finally joining them.” also a member of the Sinéad his idea to create But Really… the family to life on a page.’
Sheppard School of Dance. Adventures with a Difference
Noting that whilst he may as a ‘lightbulb moment,’ Fiona “Part of the proceeds are
not be able to do things exactly “He’s constantly out and says he wrote the book in a going towards BUMBLEance,
like other children his age, about and his own little friends matter of weeks. the national children’s
Fiona explains that Adam would be fantastic with him; ambulance service which Adam
‘doesn’t ever view things as they don’t view him any “He just wanted to first would available of regularly and
impossible or out of reach’ and differently, they don’t see the of all highlight disability, it’s just lovely to tie in with a
over the years he has learned disability, they see his ability that disability is part of wonderful children’s charity,
and they see him as part of our community, part of we would have been lost
the group and they never our everyday lives and [to] without them. BUMBLEance
treat him any differently. I highlight within the disability has been a huge source of
think our society is based on the ability and to also bring support to us since Adam
inclusion now and that’s a very it to people’s attention; what was a tiny baby. Adam would
important part of the country a child with a disability goes available of the BUMBLEance
that we’re all living in and that through on a daily basis. All of several times a year to take
our children are all growing the various equipment and aids him from home to his hospital
up in so that’s evident from that they would use to allow admissions or his hospital
an early age. Children are just them to access the world and to outpatient appointments in
do the things that all of us take Temple Street, so it’s a fantastic
for granted.” source of support for us.

Looking back Fiona says that “I’m so proud of him for
without realising it, she and something that just came from
her family would often create concept to reality and it all
games for Adam to encourage happened quite quickly and
him to use things such as the end product is just beautiful
‘his walking frame or use his and something that we will
orthotic shoes’ on the days always have as a family and
when these things were a bit will be there for ever more to
more ‘daunting’ than others. educate people and to broaden
their horizons on disability,”
“We would always make it a Fiona says,before adding that
game: that we were going on Adam is equally amazed. “He
an adventure, we were putting will often say, ‘Daddy, you’re
on boots to go to space or we the star of the book because
were going out to help the you wrote the book!’” WW
fairies so a lot of it was sort of
accessed through the world of
imagination to make it fun and
playful and to make it appealing
and enticing.

“David wanted to highlight
that yes, Adam uses all of
these aids and equipment
everyday but he’s just like any
other child. He’s imaginative
and playful and he goes on
his own little adventure every
day. I think the book is really
useful, certainly for children
with disabilities that they
can identify, ‘I’m not on my

WOMANSWAY.IE 17

Sister Olive Cooney
outside the Welcome

Organisation

A HELPING heart when I think of it.
HAND WOMAN’S WAY MEETS SISTER OLIVE, A WOMAN “To be handed clean

WHO HAS DEDICATED HER LIFE TO HELPING clothes, neatly folded gives
OTHERS AND SERVING THE COMMUNITY people a sense of dignity.
Many of them say that it is
Working in a busy laundry, It’s back-breaking work “People can become the only time they have ever
is not what most people see and Sr Olive works alone homeless for all sorts of been handed clothes that are
themselves doing in their old from 8am till 4pm, sorting, reasons, family break- folded.
age, but every Wednesday, washing, drying and folding ups, addiction problems,
88-year-old Sister Olive every item. unemployment. “It makes me feel very, very
Cooney, sets off for the sad to think there are people
Welcome Organisation’s Drop- A member of the Dominican “No matter what their out there who have nobody to
in Centre in Belfast, where she Covent on the Falls Road, circumstances, the men love them, to care for them.
spends all day washing clothes, Sr Olive approached the and women who bring their
towels and sleeping bags for the organisation a decade ago clothes into the laundry “It’s heartbreaking to
homeless. and asked what she could do are very gracious and very see people in such difficult
to help. grateful and always thank me situations, and I thank the
She’s the longest serving when I give them their clothes Lord that I have the privileges
volunteer at the charity “I think it’s important if back. that I have.”
which offers shelter, food and people have the time, if you
support to vulnerable people are retired and in good health, “When they hand me their Sr Olive’s work at the
and those living on the city’s why not give some part of sleeping bags and say they Welcome Centre is just a small
streets. your life to those who are less had slept under the stars in part of an extraordinary life.
fortunate,” she says. cold weather, it does go to my
In the summer of 1949,
at the age of 18, having just
completed her secondary

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education at Dominican “If you are Sister Olive Cooney in to help others, just like my
College in Dublin, Olive retired and in the Welcome Drop-in parents had always done.
Cooney from Co Westmeath, good health why
made the decision to join the not give some Centre laundry “Mother taught me that the
Dominicans herself. part of your life comforts we take for granted
to those less man food and a bed for the everyday are far more than
Her parents – and her seven night, she had harboured many people can dream of
brothers and sisters – all gave fortunate” a desire to help those less and that giving to the needy
their blessing and Olive joined fortunate than herself. is one of our most important
the Dominican Order as a Hospital and, once that duties in life.”
novice on October 9, 1949. was completed, became a “My parents had a vagrant
chaplain at Musgrave Park pass one evening who had Now aged 88 and having
In 1964, Sr Olive moved Hospital, offering friendship, no place to stay, so my mum spent her entire adult life
to Belfast where she took up counselling and consolation to made up a bed for him in one serving God, the church
position as a home economics patients. of the barns as there were and the community, she not
teacher at St Mary’s College eight of us in the family home only works in the Welcome
on the Falls Road. “ is was a time of great so there was no room at the Centre laundry, she also
sadness and great joy for me,” inn,” she explains. spends two days every week
“ is was a very challenging she says. “It was difficult getting shopping for, and
time for me,” she says. “But to see people in pain and “ e next morning he was helping pensioners in the local
the things that I had missed suffering, but I got a great deal invited in for breakfast and community.
by joining a religious life, of satisfaction and peace of mum said for him to have as
such as family, relations and mind knowing that I had been much porridge as he liked. I “I’ve no intention of
friends, were all now there for there for them when they was seven or eight at the time stopping. I’ll be volunteering
me but in a different way. needed someone to talk to, or and when I came down, there at the Welcome Centre and
just to see a friendly face.” was no porridge left, he had helping people until the day I
“Working with young eaten the whole lot. die,” she laughs.
people and being a part of After, her role as a chaplain
their enthusiasm for life and ended, instead of putting “My mother said to me, Asked if she has ever had
learning made every day feel her feet up, Sr Olive offered ‘Do not worry, you will have any regrets about the path
worthwhile,” she recalls. her services to the Welcome enough food today, those her life has taken, she replies:
Centre. who are without food need “ ere hasn’t been a single
During some of the worst nourishment now.’” day that I have regretted
periods of the Troubles, Sr Ever since the 1930s, when becoming a nun.
Olive remained on the Falls, her mother gave a homeless Sr Olive added: “I may have
teaching and providing gone hungry for one morning, “I have been blessed
pastoral care to children but it taught me a lesson throughout my life, meeting
under the most trying of for a lifetime. It was at that so many wonderful people. I
circumstances. moment that I realised it was don’t feel like I have missed
my duty to be charitable and out on anything, far from it. I
She then embarked on feel like I have a huge family.
another chapter of her life,
as the superior sister at e people that come to the
Queen’s University’s Aquinas Welcome Centre are family
Hall, providing support and to me and the love that they
assistance for students. show me only confirms my
faith in my choices, in human
In 1993 and aged in her nature and in God.
early sixties, Sr Olive decided
on a career change. “Every day has been
filled with love and happiness.
She enrolled on the My life has been truly
Clerical Pastoral Education blessed.” WW
Course at the Royal Victoria

By Audrey Watson ‘A truly “Sr Olive is one of around our Floating Support they are the beating heart of
inspirational lady’ 50 volunteers who dedicate service and our Welcome The Welcome Organisation.
their free time to helping the Home furniture project, the “On behalf of everyone
“Sister Olive is a truly Welcome Organisation deliver volunteers make a real and involved with The Welcome
inspirational lady,” says its vital and potentially life- positive difference to our Organisation I would like to
Kieran Hughes of Belfast saving support to people work and in turn to the lives say a huge thanks to Sister
Welcome Organisation affected by homelessness. of the people we help. Olive for her unwavering
(www.homelessbelfast. support of the charity
org). “Her dedication and “Working in our Drop- “We couldn’t deliver and for her dedication to
support to helping people is in Centre, our Street the level of service we do helping people affected by
remarkable. Outreach service, our Crisis without Sr Olive and those homelessness in Belfast.”
Accommodation for Women, inspirational volunteers –

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PARENTING to me?

listeningAre you
SOMETIMES WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR TEENAGERS
IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO GET IMPORTANT MESSAGES ACROSS

How many times have you meal gathered around the your teenager about important know that they are loved and By Una Rice
wanted to begin or have a kitchen table. This may be the stuff - there’s nothing wrong supported, and that there are
conversation with your more difficult for families who with leaving leaflets and other people they can turn
teenager about something are working long hours, with booklets on their bedside to if they need to confide in
vital, but you’re shut out different schedules, but studies someone. WW
with headphones, music, have been conducted on the table. It might become
‘stop nagging, Mum’, ‘I importance of the kitchen table a standing joke that Does every chat turn
know it all, Mum, you’d dynamic, where everyone feels you’re always dropping into an argument
be amazed what I know,’ safe to open up and talk about information leaflets in your with your teen?
or a plethora of avoidant what’s going on in their lives, teenager’s environment, TRY THESE TIPS...
behaviours or comments? without being judged. but at some point these will
be picked up and read. And So there may be a
Sometimes we give our How you respond is always very often they contain the disagreement or a more
teens advice, warnings, going to be recorded in information you want to get heated subject to be talked
instructions, but still we your teenager’s brain. If you across using the language you about. But arguments can
wonder if they are hearing the completely jump the gun and may not have. go round in circles. It’s
concern in our voices. lose it when your teen confides Another way you can far better to have open,
in you about something major, communicate an important constructive chats and
How can we be certain the if you start interrupting and message to your teenager is to diffuse more negative
message is getting through? dishing out unsolicited advice, through using the media. outbursts...
How do know they’re going that’s what they’ll remember. Recently a Dundalk mother
to remember what you said went public with a story about 1 Your teen is picking up on
about taking care, sexual Your teenager already has how her teenager was given a body language cues from
relationships, substance an idea programmed inside 1 per cent chance of survival you. If you present yourself
abuse, risky behaviour, their brain of how their mum after taking a €2 drug which in a confrontation manner
and, awareness of their or dad will react - or overreact. had been laced with poison. with a frown or crossed arms
environment and any possible If you want to be that person The teenager survived the the engagement won’t be
dangers when they are out and that your teenager can come to horrific ordeal but the trauma received well. Try open body
about. We don’t want to terrify again and again to ask advice inspired the mum to warn language and a smile to
our teenagers, but we have or talk about what’s going on others. Showing a teenager a show demonstrate no threat
a parental duty to care and in their lives, think about your newspaper cutting of a story and create trust.
inform and we’re doing them responses, reserve judgements like that, with the pictures 2 Avoid using accusatory
a disservice if we’re not being and listen. that were published, is bound language such as, ‘you
frank and informative. to resonate on some level. always...’ ‘you never...’
There are of course other You can also be friends with ‘this is typical...’ Nobody
You can’t leave it until ways to communicate with your teenager on an app like likes these words thrown
they’re going out the door to a WhatsApp or Snapchat, which at them because they’re
concert to start talking about makes it easier than social very judgemental and
drug dangers. media as it’s more private, and disempowering. Use positive
where you can send links to language, ‘let’s work this
Shoulder to shoulder has items or websites you’d like out,’ ‘there’s always a
always been seen as the least them to check out. solution.’
confrontational way to bring And then of course, there’s 3 If you’re both annoyed,
up a topic with a teen, perhaps the failproof family member/ is there any point in even
a topic that you feel uneasy relation/close friend, who chatting? When you
or angry about. Your teen you can always ask on the are angry, chats tend to
won’t feel you’re having a go side, to ‘have a word’, so that degenerate. Wait until the
or picking on them. Parents the messages aren’t always air has cleared. Agree to
are sometimes advised to coming from you. chat when you’ve both
broach topics when there’s And your teenager will calmed down a little and it’ll
something else happening probably know you’ve asked be far more constructive.
- like when you’re driving, someone to have a chat with Sometimes you have to walk
or preparing a meal. Again, them, but also they will away and count to ten.
it’s a less confrontational
approach. Another tip is to
totally normalise the evening

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MUSIC TIME MAGIC NUMBERS

Find all the words from the word list (ignore spaces and dashes) Draw a line from dot 1 to dot 2, then from dot 3 to dot 4 and so on
until you complete the picture, then colour it in

ACCORDION HARP TROMBONE
CELLO HARPSICHORD TRUMPET
CLARINET OBOE TUBA
DRUM ORGAN VIOLIN
FLUTE PIANO
GUITAR SAXOPHONE

ROCKET MAN GHOST MAZE

Can you spot the ten differences below? Help the little ghost get out of the maze

WOMANSWAY.IE 21

Worried about
waterlogging?

HOW TO LOOK AFTER YOUR GARDEN
WHEN WET WEATHER STRIKES

It may have been a relatively Barter explains. “Cover it overnight with fabric or
mild winter, but the rain has “It’s a very different matter smaller flowering horticultural fleece when frost
been incessant and we’re is forecast.
not out of the woods yet. if we get waterlogging in plants with a
Warmer, wetter winters the spring and summer, cloche or fleece Long-term prevention
are becoming more evident when the damage can spread before frost to
with climate change and through plants, which protect against 1. If your lawn is prone to
waterlogging can be a become vulnerable to root- frost damage” waterlogging, reduce the
problem for plants if wet rotting infections.” damage by installing paths
weather persists into spring. 4. Try to keep off and stepping stones so that it
If we have lots of rain and waterlogged soil until it is doesn’t suffer underfoot.
Guy Barter, chief a mild winter, plants tend workable, to avoid worsening
horticulturist at the RHS, to come on quicker and you the conditions. 2. Select plants which are
explains: “We shouldn’t be may see many in bud earlier likely to grow well in wet
unduly worried about all than usual, he notes. 5. Remove dead or dying soils, including Iris sibirica,
the rain affecting beds and shoots from affected plants. some lobelias, dogwoods,
borders because when the “If a frost hits in winter, elders and even daffodils.
soil is cold in winter, the some plants, such as 6. Apply a dressing of Avoid plants such as lavender
roots and the organisms hellebores, will go limp balanced fertiliser in the and rosemary, which may
around them are pretty much and flop to the ground, but spring and mulch over the struggle unless you put them
dormant. when the weather gets root area. in a raised bed. Other good
better they will come plants for wet soil include
“They are never up again. Others, like 7. Give foliar feeds during Zantedeschia aethiopica,
completely dormant, but viburnums, will see their the growing season to help hosta and Hydrangea
dormant enough to avoid flowers burn off but more improve leaf colour and paniculata.
infection,” he adds. “The will come back later.” encourage new root growth.
roots compartmentalise 3. Carry out digging in the
any damage they suffer in However, a savage frost in 8. Water thoroughly in dry autumn, working in organic
winter.” late-spring can mean the loss spells as plants will be more matter to help improve
of many flowers and plants, susceptible to drought stress drainage and aeration.
If the rain continues into he warns. So, you need to be following waterlogging.
spring however, it can be prepared. The RHS offers the 4. Avoid overwatering
extremely damaging because following advice... 9. If you have a tender plant, container plants and ensure
the roots come back into life which could succumb to they are well crocked and free
as the soil warms up. Then Short-term remedies frost damage, grow it in a draining.
they are respiring (breathing) pot against a wall, covering
and can’t get the oxygen 1. Identify areas of your
they need because the water lawn which get soggy and
has pushed it out of the soil, spike them and rake in top
dressing to help you improve
drainage.

2. Cover smaller flowering
plants with a cloche or
fleece before frost to protect
blossom against frost
damage.

3. Upturn waterlogged plants
in pots. Remove the parts
of the root system that are
affected and replant into
fresh compost. A smaller pot
may be required due to the
reduced root mass.

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DESIGNS TIPS to make your tulips
in garden pots stand out in a crowd

5. If there is somewhere It’s almost time to plant your variety is in flower, which can spoil spring. Make sure they don’t
for water to go, drainage tulips to give you a flush of the overall look. completely dry out, though,
can be installed. Or, where flowers in spring. But don’t as this can lead to stunted
appropriate, it may be despair if you only have a small Select contrasting blooms growth.
worth digging out a ditch space because tulips can work to lengthen interest period
or seasonal pond at the in pots too, whether you want If you want earlier flowers add Choose tried and tested
lowest part of the garden a clutch of scorching reds or crocuses to the outer edge of the varieties
to catch surplus water and sizzling yellows, or a more pot, which will provide late winter Well-established favourites for
let it soak in slowly. subtle display of whites or soft colour before the tulip leaves pots include Tulipa ‘Ballerina’,
pinks. So, how do you make the cover them up when the crocuses a weather-resistant lily-
6. Avoid smearing the most out of tulips in pots? are dying down. Other good foils flowered type with rich orange
sides of planting holes on for tulips include muscari and blooms, ‘Queen of Night’,
heavy soils - use a fork for Opt for shorter stemmed Anemone blanda. which has tall, strong stems
digging and break down types in smaller pots which carry purple-black
the sides. The varieties which don’t grow Tall, sleek lily-flowering tulips flowers, or the compact variety
too tall look best and tend to are complemented with low- ‘Peppermint’, whose closed red
7. Grow plants in raised stay upright in windy conditions. growing foliage plants such flowers open to reveal a white
beds, or plant trees and Also, make sure you keep the size as dwarf hebes, thyme and marking.
shrubs on a slight mound, of the tulips in proportion to the helichrysum. Blue forget-me-nots
so the plant roots aren’t size of your pot. go well with early double tulips in For shallow containers go for
sitting in the water. virtually any colour. a dwarf or specie variety such
For a wow factor, go as ‘Red Riding Hood’ or ‘Lady
8. Use a very thick mulch for a block colour Plant them in groups Jane’, which produces pencil-
of organic matter around It’s very much up to personal Tulips need to be planted in thin flowerbuds which open to
particularly susceptible taste, but I find that in a small groups of at least three, and in delicate-looking flowers which
plants. This creates an space, one colour goes a long larger containers more, for the are deep pink on the outside
aerated area between sky way. I prefer one cultivar in best visual impact. You can plant and white and yellow in the
and soil where roots thrive a pot, but you can become them closer together in containers middle. WW
even in wet conditions. more adventurous with bigger than you would in beds and
By Hannah Stephenson containers. As a rule, the bigger borders, but don’t let them touch.
9. Choose permeable the container, the more variety of Plant several clumps of the same
surfaces when laying colour you can have. Some people varieties through your border for
drives, paths and patios to prefer two contrasting colours maximum impact.
allow rain to soak in. WW such as red and yellow in a pot -
their clashing tones will bring a Don’t let the bulbs rot
dull area alive. When planting, line the bottom
of your pot with crocks or pebbles
Choose types which and free-draining soil mixed with
flower at the same time a handful of grit. Make sure your
If you are planting different container is at least 30cm (12in)
types of tulips together as a deep so that the bulbs can be
combination of colour and form, planted at a reasonable depth, as
make sure they bloom at the well as making room for the roots.
same time. So, two types from Place your pot on feet to avoid the
the same group, such as Parrot, bulbs getting waterlogged from
Triumph, or Single Late, should below.
flower simultaneously.
Keep them sheltered
If you want your pot to have a in the depths of winter
longer flowering period so that Tulips like a period of dormancy
your tulips bloom at different and they don’t want to be
times, bear in mind that the saturated, so move them to a
earlier flowering candidate is sheltered location in the worst
likely to have wilted leaves and winter weather, moving them
faded petals by the time the later into their flowering position in

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An actress, I was born in Iowa in 1921. My last acting role was Find and cross out all the listed words
as a stand-in for Barbara Bel Geddes in Dallas. I had my own
sitcom in the 1960s and my films included It’s A Wonderful Life
and From Here To Eternity, for which I won an Oscar.

CODE WORD ANSWER: HEIDI RANGE
ANSWER: DONNA REED
The same number represents the same letter. Crack the code and fill
the grid. To help you get started some words are already in place.

ADONIS CRONUS HECATE PERSEPHONE
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APHRODITE DIONYSUS HERMES RHEA
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1 WHAT... is the name of the group
who backed Neil Young on the album
WHO... in 1898 became the first Mirror Ball?
man to sail around the world WHERE... in Europe is the city of
alone? Carrara which is famous for its
WHAT... is the nickname of the marble?
world champion boxer Antonio WHEN... did the Louvre close
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WHERE... was the of the Mona Lisa?
the Oscar-winning
actress Charlize 3
Theron born?
WHEN... did the WHO... has written the volume of
Ireland Rugby poetry The Talking Horse And The
Union centre Mike Sad Girl And The Village Under The
Gibson make his Sea?
international WHAT... is the profession of Steve
debut? Bell, Posy Simmonds and Robert
Crumb?
2 WHERE... is George Simenon’s
novel Tropic Moon set?
WHO... plays Reverend WHEN... did Tanganyika become
Goodfellow in the film Keeping independent?
Mum?

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ACROSS: 9 Eva Longoria; 10 Ice cream; 12 Imperious; 13 Chairperson; 14
Snuggles; 16 Rerun; 19 Cases; 20 Inwardness; 22 Constrain; 25 Becomes; 28
Appointment; 30 Water vapour; 31 Society; 33 Sidesteps; 35 No nonsense; 37
Dutch; 39 Dodos; 42 Blissful; 44 Determinate; 45 Tailpiece; 46 Cohesive; 47
Impersonate. DOWN: 1 Permissive; 2 Bateau; 3 Enrolled; 4 Horses; 5 Daphne;
6 Milieu; 7 Lenses; 8 Amends; 11 Crew cut; 15 Grammar; 16 Restaurants; 17
Reception; 18 Nannies; 21 Engrossed; 23 Adele; 24 Natty; 25 Bowls; 26 Cited;
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4 John had seven children How much money do they Find and cross out all the listed words
whose ages were spaced have between them?
evenly, 2 years apart.
If the eldest is five times as 6 Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have
old as the youngest, how old two boys and a teenage girl.
is the ‘middle’ child? The girl’s age is about midway
between her brothers, and
5 If Jack gave Jill £2 she’d if you divide the sum of the
have as much as Jack, but squares of the boys’ ages by
if Jack gave her only £1 he their sum, you get her age.
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KNITTING

Knitted beret in English rib with leaf DIAGRAM
pattern in 2 colours. Piece is knitted in
DROPS Merino Extra Fine. = work this round with dark grey
= work this round with dark rose
DROPS design: BERET SHORT = begin here
Pattern me-187 OVERVIEW OF THE PIECE: = knit
Yarn group B = purl
SIZE: Worked in the round on a short circular = make 1 yarn over, slip 1 stitch
One-size needle, bottom up. Switch to double purlwise on to right needle
Head circumference: Approx. 54/58 cm pointed needles when needed. = knit yarn over and knit stitch
MATERIALS: together
DROPS MERINO EXTRA FINE from BERET: = purl yarn over and purl stitch
Garnstudio (belongs to yarn group B) together
100 g colour 03, dark grey Cast on 105 stitches on short circular = work 5 stitches in yarn over and
50 g colour no 32, dark rose needle size 3 mm with dark grey. Knit knit stitch over as follows: Knit
KNITTING TENSION: 1 round. en work A.1 in the round (= yarn over and knit stitch together,
18 stitches in width and 44 rows vertically 21 repetitions of 5 stitches). When rib but wait to slip the stitch o the
(i.e. 22 visible stitches vertically) with (A.1) measures 3 cm, decrease all 2 purl needle, * make 1 yarn over on right
English rib = 10 x 10 cm. to 1 purl = 84 stitches. Switch to a short needle, knit yarn over and knit stitch
NEEDLES: circular needle size 3.5 mm. together without slipping stitch o
DROPS DOUBLE POINTED NEEDLES SIZE Read LEAF PATTERN IN ENGLISH RIB needle *, work from *-* 2 times
3.5 mm WITH 2 COLOURS and work A.2 in the in total = 5 stitches (i.e. 4 stitches
DROPS CIRCULAR NEEDLE SIZE 3.5 mm: round (= 6 repetitions of 14 stitches). increased)
Length 40 cm for English rib. REMEMBER THE KNITTING TENSION! = decrease 2 stitches towards the
DROPS CIRCULAR NEEDLE SIZE 3 mm: When A.2 has been worked, work right as follows: Knit 3 stitches and
Length 40 cm for rib. A.3 in the round (= 6 repetitions of 22 2 yarn overs (= 5 stitches in total)
Needle size is only a suggestion! If you stitches). When A.3 has been worked, together
have too many stitches on 10 cm switch to there are 12 stitches on round. Cut = decrease 2 stitches towards the
larger needles. If you have too few stitches the yarns and pull them through the le as follows: Slip first yarn over
on 10 cm switch to smaller needles. remaining stitches, tighten together and knit stitch knitwise on to right
RIB: and fasten. Hat measures approx. 21 cm needle, knit the next 2 stitches
See diagram A.1. from top and down. WW together (i.e. 1 purl stitch + yarn
LEAF PATTERN IN ENGLISH RIB WITH over and knit stitch), then pass the
2 COLOURS slipped yarn over and knit stitch over
(knitted in the round): the stitches worked together (= 2
See diagrams A.2 and A.3. stitches decreased)
To get the e ect with 2 colours knit = decrease 4 stitches as follows:
stripes alternately with 1 round dark grey Work 5 stitches and 3 yarn overs
and 1 round dark rose. Begin A.2 and A.3 (= 8 stitches in total) together as
on a round with dark grey as explained follows: Slip the first 5 stitches of
in pattern, and every time increases or these 8 stitches (i.e. 3 stitches and
decreases are done in A.2 and A.3, this is 2 yarn overs) loosely on to right
done on a round with dark rose. needle knitwise, knit the next 3
KNITTING TIP: stitches (i.e. 2 stitches and 1 yarn
All numbers of stitches given in the pattern over) together, pass the 5 loose
when working English rib is without yarn stitches (including yarn overs) from
overs, because yarn over belongs to knit right needle over stitches worked
stitch and is counted together as 1 stitch. together (= 4 stitches decreased)

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MEET THE FIRST ‘LADY COMPUTERS’

In 1890, the Royal service rules allowed left. Annie Russell Maunder “ eir
Observatory in Greenwich women to hold only and Alice Everett continued Greenwich
recruited a small team of lowly positions, so the their scientific work, however. colleagues
women graduates to work salary offered was £50 Annie collaborated with her proposed them
as ‘lady computers’. It was a year. is proved husband, becoming a noted for membership
a pioneering attempt at a major problem in solar observer, especially of of the Royal
positive discrimination, attracting qualified eclipses, and later an authority Astronomical
designed to employ some women, and the scheme on religious and ancient
of the new university- was dropped after five years. astronomies. In 1916, she was Society”
educated women. ose at last made a fellow of the
recruited were the Annie Russell was so Royal Astronomical Society, commercialised as, by
first women to work interested in the astronomical the ban on women having that time, newer scanning
professionally in astronomy work, however, that she left been lifted in 1915. devices were in use.
in these islands. Among her job as a mathematics
them were two women schoolteacher and took a Alice Everett went on to a Mary Mulvihill was a
from Northern Ireland: fifty per cent cut in pay to career in physics, including pioneering science writer
Annie Scott Dill Russell go to Greenwich. ere, she many years of research at the and broadcaster. A former
(1868–1947), who was born worked with Edward Walter National Physical Laboratory editor of Technology Ireland
in Strabane, where her Maunder, whom she later near Reading. On retiring aged who has written widely
father was a Presbyterian married, on a major project 60, she began a second career about science, she held
minister; and the inventor photographing sunspots and in the new technology of a degree in genetics and
Alice Everett (1865–1949), recording their position and wireless radio and television. an MSc in statistics from
who was born in Glasgow size. Alice Everett worked on In 1933, she designed and, Trinity College Dublin. She
but grew up in Belfast, the international Carte du Ciel with the Baird Television had a diploma in journalism
where her father Joseph survey, photographing the Company, jointly patented an from Dublin City University
Everett was professor of entire sky and cataloguing improved version of Baird’s and DCU Special Collections
science at the Queen’s all stars brighter than mirror drum, the scanning now host her archive.
University. magnitude 11. Both women device used in early TV She was instrumental in
were keen astronomers, transmissions. founding WITS (Women in
Unusually for women despite the nightwork, and Technology and Science)
at the time, Alice Everett the fact that their impractical Everett had found a way and edited Stars, Shells &
and Annie Russell went clothes made it awkward to to add more mirrors and Bluebells – biographies of
to university, entering use the telescopes and other improve the scanner without Irish women scientists and
Girton College together in instruments. eir Greenwich making the drum bigger, pioneers (WITS, 1997).
1886. Girton, established (male) colleagues proposed but her design was never
at Cambridge in 1873, was them for membership of the Extract taken from
the first British women’s Royal Astronomical Society, Ingenious Ireland
college of university rank; but that all-male society by Mary Mulvihill
but, while women could sit refused them. (Four Courts
examinations, it was 1948 Press) which
before the college awarded In 1895, Alice Everett is out now
them degrees. moved to the Astrophysics
Observatory at Potsdam,
In 1888, William Christie, becoming the first woman
head of Greenwich employed at a German
Observatory, sought observatory. Later that year,
permission to recruit lady Annie Russell resigned to
computers (computers marry Maunder, for the
being people who civil service had a bar on
performed routine but often married women. Russell was
complicated calculations). the last lady computer at
Permission was given for Greenwich and the pioneering
eight recruits, but civil programme ended when she

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READER FICTION

The chambermaid

By Colette Concannon Roisin was sorting out the make-up had made up many stories for her daughter. degree?’ But Roisin was having this baby
spillage on the marble dressing table, Emily was her best critic. Nothing like a with or without anyone’s help.
in one of the more luxurious suites at child’s opinion to keep you grounded! She
the Castle. It was always the same, the had almost given up on her dream, with so She had just cleaned 14 rooms and was
richer the guest, the messier they were. many stories written but never finding that ready for home, but Mrs Vieux-Pont called
Deep in thought, Roisin heard a high- lucky break. So for now, her dreams were on reception looking for her! Roisin had to run
pitched scream. hold as being a single mum wasn’t an easy up three flights of stairs in the old part of
job. Her daughter was coming up to 10, and the castle to reach her room.
‘Who the hell stole my watch? It was had many hobbies, which cost money.
here before I went for breakfast this ‘I’ve been coming here for eight
morning and now it’s gone! Somebody has Roisin had brains to burn, and didn’t years, and I like how you work and how
stolen it; they must have, where else could want to disappoint her parents, so went to you handle yourself. I want to discuss
it be?’ university at 18 to do a law degree. Dragging something with you. I’m looking for a
herself to lectures that she hated was Personal Assistant to start work in a
Mrs Vieux-Pont was a very glamorous causing her so much stress, but she did it to month.’
VIP who was a regular guest at the Castle please everyone, except herself.
but used to come with her husband, before ‘And you’re asking me? I couldn’t
he passed away two years ago. During her final year at university, she met accept this position. I’ve got a 10-year-old
a kindred spirit, Adam, who was studying daughter to think about, I couldn’t uproot
She ran a multi-million dollar make-up journalism. He was ambitious, strong, and her from her friends, school, and hobbies’.
company worldwide. very confident; in fact he was bordering more
on the side of arrogant. A er her birthday ‘First o , call me Angelina. That is not
Roisin came running out of the weekend, only three months together, Roisin the answer you give someone who just
bathroom. ended it with him. Two months later, Roisin gives you a job opportunity. But that is
was feeling sick every day, she had a bad easy to solve, I know what I’m looking for,
‘I’m so sorry your watch is missing, I can feeling, so finally succumbed to her friend’s and you’ve the brains and personality.’
help you find it. Now, where did you last requests to buy a pregnancy test, and her
see it, and I’m sure it’s here,’ Roisin calmed fears revealed she was having a baby. ‘Oh I wasn’t expecting this’.
Mrs Vieux-Pont immediately. ‘Please consider it. I live between Paris,
Adam met her for a co ee to discuss, ‘it’s L.A, and come to Ireland for two months
She was used to all types of scenarios not my baby, Roisin’, and that was the end. for my holidays. I could arrange that
with guests so she never panicked. Once you have the summer o and of course
a guest lost her engagement ring, and Her father shouted, ‘What will the Christmas.’
it was worth over a million euros. Roisin neighbours say, and what about your ‘I’m speechless, Angelina’.
traced it back to the spa, as the guest had ‘We could even do a trial, to see how it
a massage. Looking under the bed, she goes’.
spotted the watch. Roisin felt excited, and took the
business card from Mrs Vieux-Pont.
‘Here it is’. ‘I’ll be leaving in the morning so you
‘Thank you so much, this watch is need to let me know your decision before
sentimental as it was a gi from my late then.
husband’. She handed Roisin a €50 note Tying Emily’s seatbelt on the airplane,
as a thank you. ‘Mum, I’m so excited’.
‘It’s no trouble Mrs Vieux-Pont, you’re ‘Me too, honey’.
very welcome’. She was taking a big risk, but she could
‘That will cover dinner and wine for always return if it didn’t work out. She
tonight!’ she thought excitedly. had a good feeling. She was used to Mrs
Roisin had worked at the most Vieux-Pont for eight years, coming to the
prestigious hotel in Ireland for almost castle, She could handle her!
eight years. She always meant to finish As the plane touched down in L.A, the
her degree, but with having her daughter sun streaming through the small window
so young, that wasn’t possible. It was a of the plane, Roisin knew she’d made the
tough job, but it suited her with school best decision. Dreams really do come true!
hours. She stuck with the job, even though
her dream was to be a famous author. She

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BOOKS

MY LIFE IN BOOKS WOMAN’S WAY
WRITING CLASS
EOGHAN
EGAN Each week, we’ll be giving advice for anyone looking to
make 2020 the year they begin writing their book, short
What’s your favourite book of controversy story or blog (and everything in between). We’ll pick an
all time? and deep important theme or topic and give some pointers that may
In National School, our discussion. help if the muse hasn’t hit you yet.
teacher had an anthology of Call Me by This week we are talking editing, both the most di cult
Irish Folklore, and that book Your Name by and easiest thing to do to a work in progress, or a work
gave me a love of reading André Aciman, you think is finished. My advice is not to edit until you’ve
because I wanted to know might work, or perhaps Tara finished your book or short story. Honestly, it’s so easy
more about the stories. But Westover’s Educated, or to get sucked into changing one word for another, or
if I have to pick one, I’ll go Suicide Club by Rachel Heng. deleting paragraphs or conversations ‘just because.’ If you
for Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Who’s your favourite author? are gung-ho about editing, then cut your work – if you’re
Finn. So, so di cult. Impossible, using a computer – and save it to another word document.
What’s the book that made actually. But if you twist my You may just need that all important paragraph or chapter
you become a writer? arm… Andrew Vachss. when it comes to looking at your work as a whole.
No one book, but influence What’s your favourite Are you writing? What are your tips for other WW
from a myriad of authors, classic book? readers? Email Áine at [email protected]
ranging from Enid Blyton Hard Times by Charles
to Arthur Conan Doyle and Dickens. Dickens was a CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK
Donna Tartt to Stephen genius with names. This one ONE OF US IS NEXT
Greenleaf. had Thomas Gradgrind. The WMEIN
What’s the book you would surname alone conjures up by Karen McManus (Penguin)
recommend to people? what the character is like. 2017’s One Of Us Is Lying was quite
Reading is so subjective, Which book do you wish spectacular – Karen McManus has a knack
plus time and location also you’d written?
plays a part. People may read The Da Vinci Code or Fi y for YA fiction, sketching out teen angst,
di erent books on the beach Shades – purely because
than they would at home. For they’re cash cows. But first love and adolescent awkwardness
good escapism, I’ll suggest seriously… Lee Child’s
John Grisham’s The Firm. Killing Floor, introduced Jack that’s free from cliché, and amped up by
Something darker, grittier, Reacher to the world, and the
that would be Unravelling rest is history. the trappings of online gossip. And she’s
Oliver by Liz Nugent. All
wannabe writers should read Hiding in Plain Sight by not afraid to kill o characters either,
Stephen King’s On Writing. Eoghan Egan is available
What’s the best book to start from Amazon. For more which is always commendable. One Of Us
a book club? information, see www.
Something that causes a little eoghanegan.com Is Next is the follow-up, based at the same Bayview High

School in the a ermath of the Simon Kelleher scandal

(although, you needn’t have read the first book, all is

explained). Eighteen months on and a similarly insidious Photo by Sigrid Estrada

game of Truth or Dare by text amongst students has

begun. Told from the perspective of classmates Phoebe,

Maeve and Knox, McManus touches on sibling di culties,

dark web forums, bullying and public humiliation, but

also the strength of real friendships, and the struggles to

AMERICAN DIRT forgive those you once trusted.

L oved it!by Jeanine Cummins (Tinder Press) Sp ky!THE SLEEPER LIES

We o en hear stories about the horrific journeys migrants make by Andrea Mara (Poolbeg)
from Mexico to America, but rarely from the perspective of a
woman and her child – which is what you get in American Dirt. Marianne isn’t afraid of the quietness and stillness
This isn’t the first time Cummins has written about the e ects of living in her family home, alone. But she is afraid
of extreme violence; her memoir A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of of the footprints that stop at her bedroom window
Murder and Its A ermath, deals with a horrific attack on her and the idea that someone was looking at her
brother and two cousins. American Dirt is a fiction and opens as she slept. Thus begins a series of unsettling
in Acapulco. Lydia’s family is murdered by the occurances that have Marianne wondering what this
cartel, and she flees with her son Luca to make the uninvited visitor wants. She begins to think there’s
dangerous journey to America, forced to jump onto a connection between her stalker and the true crime
moving trains and pursued by police and the cartel. story that she’s been researching. Or has it something to do with
Cummins has obviously done her research and the something – or someone – more involved in her life than ever
journey feels incredibly realistic. before? This is a slowly building tense read, that will make you
feel on edge throughout (in a good way). Clever use of plot and of
bringing all the strands together without cheating the reader.

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SlTeheeper there, watching me, while I
was asleep.
Lies ANEXTRACTFROM
ANDREA MARA’S LATEST NOVEL My stomach lurched.
I don’t know what a dead bed, in my very old cottage, time, although – I realised I didn’t want my coffee
body looks like. I’ve seen in the Wicklow hills. So far, so with a sudden pang – there anymore. Putting the cup
them in coffins in tidy normal. I checked the time, was no way to check. Not on the snowy ground,
funeral homes, but not like noted I had thirty minutes now, with nobody left but me. I stepped towards the
this – not in this maybe- until my first conference call, window. Two deep, wide
state, flat on the frozen and got up to make coffee. Still Still mesmerised by snow prints, side by side, just
ground. all very normal. en I walked and memories, I made a inches from the front wall
through to the kitchen and coffee, went back through of the cottage. Directly
Dead. Or not dead, just saw that it would not, in fact, the living room, and opened under my bedroom
waiting for me to come be a normal day – outside, my the front door to get a better window. I leaned forward
closer. back garden was covered in a look. I wasn’t fully awake, and, with my hands on the
blanket of white. Just as the and maybe I was dazzled windowsill, peered into my
One or the other. weatherman had predicted. by the brightness, but for room. rough the muslin
It’s too dark to see, and I couldn’t remember the last whatever reason, in those first curtain, I could make out
I understand now that time I’d seen so much snow. moments, I didn’t notice the my bed, duvet thrown back
it’s always been too dark I’d been away for the big footprints. just moments before. Who
– for me, and for Hanne. freeze of 2010, and before on earth had been spying
Spinning blindly in the that . . . maybe back when And even when I did, I still on me? And why?
wind while other people my dad was alive? A memory didn’t register that there was
pulled the strings. surfaced – a snowman, a pipe anything strange about them An icy wind whipped at
And I feel it even now, in his mouth, pebbles for eyes, – about their very existence my hair, reminding me I
the snap of the string, and my dad’s scarf around in my garden in the middle was wearing pyjamas in
pulling me forward. his neck. We didn’t have a of nowhere. I stood in the zero-degree temperatures.
Towards the body. carrot and my dad made up doorway, cradling the coffee, Inside, I shut the door and
Dead. Or not dead. some story about snowmen as my eyes followed the trail, stood with my back against
One or the other. not needing noses, because tracing their journey from it, staring around the living
My breath comes fast. they always had colds. I was the garden gate all the way room. Could he be in the
Another step. A closer look. probably four or five at the up to the cottage. I shook house? e front door was
A movement. Slight, but myself, suddenly wide awake. closed when I woke. It
enough. “I shook myself, Someone had been here. While could only be opened from
And I think about all of suddenly wide I was asleep. outside with a key. What
it, all of the deaths and all awake. Someone about the back door? In a
of the accidents and all of had been here. I pulled on boots and haze, I crossed the living
the pain. And it’s not dark stepped outside, my feet room and walked through
anymore. I know what I While I was sinking into powdery white, to the quiet, shadowy
need to do. asleep” and squinted to see where the kitchen. On my left, the
prints went. at’s when the door to the boot room stood
24 days earlier first prickle of unease hit. e ajar – had I left it open last
footprints led right up to my
e day it all began started bedroom window.
out, in many respects, just
like any other. I woke up I stared at the indentations,
on my own, in my own deeper under the window, as
though they – he? – had stood

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BOOK EXTRACT

By Andrea Mara night? Stepping towards it, foolishness, or maybe relief, I clock – twenty to eight, and Agatha Christie’s A Murder
I pushed it wide. Empty, half- ran out of the bathroom, my first conference call was Is Announced. I picked it
save for my jacket on its and pulled the door behind at eight. An eerie half-light up and put it back on the
hook. me. rested on counter-tops and coffee table. Nothing out of
pale green cupboards, gloomy place, nobody here but me.
e bathroom door Now the back door. I stared and bright all at once. e
beyond the coat-hook at it, the chipped wood and small kitchen table, littered Unless there was
was closed. Wishing it was spotted glass reminding me it with files and chewed biros, someone in one of the
already open, I pushed needed replacing. e key was sat quietly in the centre of the bedrooms.
down the handle. Cold air in the keyhole, just as it always room. Nothing stirred. Nobody
and shadows greeted me, was. I had turned it when I here. I swallowed, wishing
but nothing looked out of came in last night. Steeling for the first time in a long
place. e shower curtain myself, I pulled down the I made my way back to time that I didn’t live
was pulled around the bath, handle. the living room, and stood in on my own, and moved
just as I’d left it yesterday the centre, my eyes roaming towards my dad’s old
morning. My toothbrush Nothing. Still locked. across every detail. e room, on the far side
stood in the mug, exactly Turning the key, I pulled it Aztec-print throw lay on of the living room from
where I’d left it last night. open, letting in an icy blast. A the dark-red couch, exactly mine. e door creaked,
About to turn away, I foot-high snowdrift swooped where I left it when I put down loud in the silence. Inside,
stopped, and looked again upwards against the house, my book last night. My laptop dust particles danced in
at the shower curtain. Dark and some of it fell inside onto and the TV remote sat side by weak morning light but,
green, to match the bath, I the floor. Kicking it out, I side on the coffee table, my apart from my dad’s old
wished now it was lighter. closed the back door and book had slipped to the floor. bed, Ray’s old desk and a
Transparent. Unmoving, locked it again. mahogany wardrobe, the
I listened. Nothing. Not room was bare.
even the sound of my own e kitchen was quiet save
breath. e silence was cold for the ticking of the wall Only my room
and heavy and suddenly left. e one he’d
false – a trick – someone looked into.
else listening, not moving,
not breathing. Before I The Sleeper Lies
could change my mind, I by Andrea Mara
stepped forward, grabbed (Poolbeg) is
the curtain and wrenched available now
it back.

Empty.
Lightheaded with

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For me it’s always family. Where is your favourite place
We are spread all over the in the whole world?
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SALLY WARNS ABI NOT TO LEAD HER EX-HUSBAND ON (IS HE HEADING FOR A FALL?)

HEOLUPTM! E

Coronation Street But it clashes with Aled’s appointment. Also this week
Tara’s unimpressed at Gemma wanting to
Ray is FURIOUS and tells Abi that he’s reschedule the shoot: if they don’t show › Who feels sorry for Fiz?
reported her to the police for what up, they don’t get paid. What will they › Who has an announcement?
happened to his car. Kevin wants Abi to do? Who will they put first? › Who wants to be cautious?
come up with an alibi, quick. Erm, I’m
not sure that’s the right thing to do. Cue a And what about Joseph? Chesney finds
lot of questioning. that he’s torn in all directions this week,
especially when he and Gemma get a
Meanwhile, Sally warns Abi to stop confirmation on Aled’s health.
leading Kevin on. Abi is unhappy and
assures Sally that her feelings for Kevin Maria tells Gary that she needs time to
are genuine. Are they? think about what he asked her.

James takes Danny to his house Speaking of Gary, Ali’s interest picks up
and leads him upstairs for a little, er, when he learns Gaz is off to Birmingham
enjoyment. en daddy Ed comes home. for the day. So when the cat’s away, Ali
Is the game up? Well, later in the week, turns up at Maria’s flat and begs her to
James tells his dad that he’s gay and give their relationship another chance.
Ed tries to take it in his stride. Ed’s also
put out to learn that Aggie and Michael Fiz is sad that Jade wants to take Hope
already knew. Elsewhere, Aggie tells (but not Ruby) to the craft workshop.
Carla that she’s returning to nursing. Since when did Weatherfield have a craft
workshop? Hope makes it clear that she
Tara calls at No.5 and drops off the prefers Jade to Fiz. Way harsh, Hope.
itinerary for the Freshco photoshoot.
And Adam’s not happy that Sarah’s
invited lots of people to their wedding.

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SOAPS

Emmerdale EastEnders Fair City

When Lucas arrives, Dawn hides her It’s here: the 35th anniversary week Ray warns Erica not to take advantage
worry about wanting everything to go where all episodes take place over the of Doug, but who is unrepentant in their
right. Lucas seems happy to be there but same day. As the boat party begins, wedding dress behaviour?
will a childish game end in disaster? someone is in no mood to celebrate...
while another offers an olive branch Paul enjoys new-found popularity but
Elsewhere Rhona’s terrified (rightfully is unapologetic about what he does. Carol
so) as she fills Paddy in. Speaking of the Patrick grows fed up of Isaac’s warns him but does he listen? Nope. Pauk
reason why she’d be terrified, they’re behaviour towards him and suggests to refuses to talk about his feelings to Ruth.
convinced of something. ey’re then Sheree it’s time to tell him the truth. Ooh.
distracted by a voicemail left on another’s Will he get his way? Renee worries Ellie isn’t engaging with
phone... who is it? her friends while Hughie thinks Renee is
One parent gets news that they’d never being over-protective. Renee suggests... a
Meanwhile, one villager takes action want to hear while another resident sends house party. Oh dear god.
and manages to scare themselves and a a revealing text.
loved one. But what have they done? Lee is up to his old tricks planning to
We won’t spoil this week but as chaos land a new investor. Will Hayley soften
Sparks fly between Leyla and Liam ensues, panicking is guaranteed as towards him when she sees how hard up
while Jai returns early from rehab. multiple lives are changed. Forever. he really is?

Holby City Ros na Rún Coronation Street coSnfiOdeAntPial
producer Iain
MacLeod has

confirmed the

soap’s 60th

anniversary

episode will not be

broadcast live. He

told The Daily Star:

“It will have a little

bit of everything so

that nobody goes

away unsatisfied.

It’s the morning after the night before, Berni - understandably - is still reeling We won’t be
and a resolution between Chloe and while her partner-in-crime, so to
Cameron looks unlikely. Determined to speak, has their own worries. Let’s hope doing a live episode. It’s time to do
prove his worth, Cameron makes a rogue someone else doesn’t ‘fess up.
decision, but will it impress Chloe? something di erent. But it won’t be any
Caitríona has financial woes (again) and
A familiar face waltzes back into Holby must clear her debts. Is her overspending less ambitious.” He continued: “We are
and performs surgery on Carole. Dominic going to leave her destitute?
rides a wave of emotions whilst his mum going to be telling the stories in a slightly
is in theatre, but finds a knight in shining Dee knows Mack can manage their
armour in Ben. daughter. Mack, however, asks for Katy’s di erent way. It’s important when you’re
help. at’ll go down well with Dee - does
It’s Jac’s first unsupervised visit from she really trust Mack? Not to worry, Dee celebrating a milestone that you don’t
Emma, but she is on edge after her plans has made a decision.
for Emma fall through. Luckily, a selfless purely look back at times past, but also
friend is on hand to save the day. David and Pádraig are not getting on
but could a burst tank help? find a way to renew and look to what the

By Áine Toner next 60 years might be like.” Could this

mean the return of some familiar faces?

We’d love it if our fave Bet Lynch was to

make a return...

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SELF-MADE

Hair we are with

Mary Dunworth
SELF-MADE IRELAND IS A NEW PAGE TO PROMOTE SMALL BUSINESSES AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND THEM

Mary Dunworth hails spent years trying to figure Mary loves giving back to her
time management out, but a community and has held many
from Limerick and owns pastime of walking and reading fundraisers.
that would be just lovely.
her company, Mary’s Hair “We are blessed and we
“If I could put a fraction of do our best to support our
Salon. The hairdresser community in return by
the e ort, I put into the salon sponsoring local events and
moved to Croom, Limerick into myself, I would be only teams, and by attending
fabulous.” events. We did a fundraiser in
and with her father Jimmy the salon that raised €2,500
When I asked Mary her for Special Olympics. It’s all
(who has since sadly about [being] local. We give
favourite highlight to date, she out about rural Ireland dying
passed away), turned the simply couldn’t mention one, but are we supporting it.”
as she and team have achieved
workshop next to Mary’s so much since they started. There is no stopping Mary
and team in 2020 as they have
home into a hair salon. Le to right: Rose Fitzgerald, Sarah Scanlan, “Joining Synergy group many plans for the year ahead.
The salon served her Mary Dunworth Ryan, Aisling Madigan, Limerick and being involved
Brigid Lenihan with like-minded hairdressers “Our aim is to be recognised
well for 12 years until she who have helped me personally as one of the best and finest
decided to take the brave and in business and achieved hair salons in our area through
more than I could ever have providing outstanding customer
leap and build a purpose- imagined possible,” says Mary. service and fantastic hair at a
great price,” says Mary.
built salon in Mainster, which their hair like a cashmere “Completing the Alan Austin
Smith business masters which “We will be hosting
now employs five people. jumper or a silk blouse as was the best course I ever workshops in all aspects of
attended and achieving the hairdressing with special
The salon won best customer we continuously upskill and title of Wella Master Colourist. emphasis on bodywave,
Attending Vidal Sassoon perming, cutting and plaiting.
service at the Irish Hair and research to find the best London, and coming second We will continue to educate
in the Good Salon Guide ourselves, improve and
Beauty awards in 2018 and products out there.” Nation’s Favourite Hairdresser maintain the standards we have
competition in 2018.” set for ourselves.”
from talking to Mary it is Mary and her team provide
Mary is a family woman I asked Mary does she have
evident that she not only has excellent service for her and mentions none of her any word of wisdoms for those
achievements would have been wanting to start their own
a passion for her cra but also customers and love hearing possible without the help of her business to which she replied;
family: husband of 40 years, “Martin Luther King said, ‘Take
for her customers. their feedback. Paddy and her four children, the first step in faith. You don’t
Barry, Claire, Marie and Jack. have to see the whole staircase,
“It is my belief that we “We provide a very just take the first step.’” WW
“You will not survive without
built our business because we comprehensive service with the support of family,” she Check out Mary’s hair
says. salon on Facebook -
provide a fantastic service,” regards to hair and we have www.facebook.com/
“There would not be a Maryshairsalon/
says Mary. a makeup artist in salon for hair salon at all without
my husband Paddy and our Want to tell the story
“We appreciate and are those social outings,” says children and so it should be, of your small business?
as we are depending on it to Contact Niamh at
grateful to each person who Mary. support us. [email protected]

comes to us. “We will do hair privately “If a thousand people come
through your door it is no good
“I would never take for if people want, we look a er if your family do not support
you. Family is everything.”
granted that people can go people with special needs on a

wherever they choose to have one-to-one basis.

their hair looked a er but [if] “The team and I go to

they choose us I can assure hospitals, both general and

them, that we will look a er psychiatric. We will do early

mornings before work and

evening a er work, so you

don’t have to spend your

day o at the salon. We love

“We appreciate feedback so if anyone can think
of ways for us to improve, we
and are grateful
would be delighted.”

to each person Mary’s salon is her main By Niamh Shields
who comes passion.

“My passion is hair. My

to us” work is very important to me.
It is so easy to get completely

immersed in your work when

it is your business. I have

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DearUNA PSYCHIC

RENOWNED PSYCHIC UNA POWER OFFERS SUANYASsor“iugGnhedtmianinnsditihwnacrstoanagbv”oeruyt
READERS SOME GUIDANCE ON LIFE’S ISSUES

ANONYMOUS If you chose a short course in cookery Everything I am about to disclose to you
you would meet people of all types. I’ve will help steer your beloved daughter
Someone has sent a nasty poison-pen watched the cookery programmes on onto safe and happy tracks so that she
letter about my family. It is upsetting television and all the participants seem gets the very best out of life. She is a good
and has caused a lot of grief to a frail and happy and chatty people. e atmosphere girl and deserves the best.
elderly woman. always seems to be a happy one. Leo
woman loves that sort of activity. What In your position, I would be having
Can you see if it is one of the family holds her back at first is shyness. Most a look at that stress your daughter is
members who has always been an people find the idea of any Leo being shy suffering. It might be that she finds
interfering person? I am Gemini and the in any way at all as laughable because her Leaving Cert studies interesting
person we think sent it is Pisces. Leo is often taken for being at least ten and fairly easy to accomplish, but deep
years younger than her age. But it does down she is finding her course doesn’t
You must take your letter to the police and happen in the beginning of a relationship. interest her as it did last year. Maybe
report it. ey have more experience in Fortunately it doesn’t last. she temporarily lost her joy in her own
this matter than either you or I. life and studies and wants to try out
Leos have a powerful personal something else as her career choice.
eir act was a cowardly one. It is also presence and an attractive voice and
against the law. It is typical of Gemini would be an asset in any drama society. Eighteen is really very young to decide
lady that she leapt to the protection of a Do either of those sort of activities have that one and only one career is for her.
helpless senior citizen. Gemini has a very appeal for you? It’s true that Sagittarians really do make
sound instinct about right and wrong and great teachers, but they also fare well in a
will stay with this until justice is done. You are a lonely woman who would be host of other professions.
happy with a kind and loving man but
ROSEMARY, DUBLIN you’re scared off by the idea of someone As cabin crew in an aircraft, for
coming into your life just because he example, Sagittarius is wonderful.
I would like some good news about this found your money more enticing than
year. I always seem to end up on my himself. I believe you did meet someone She may be interested in becoming a
own. I feel lonely since I retired. I am a recently, a city man retired to the nurse and finding out about training in
very presentable 68 this year. I seemed country that found you interesting and London and other UK destinations.
to go right from being a very busy Leo intelligent but, like you, wants to be loved
to having nothing to do all day. I have for himself. Another job that’s worth having a look
joined a club and tried to learn a foreign is police work.
language, all without success. NIAMH, KERRY
It’s not the easiest of jobs but it is one
I would love to find a nice, caring man My 18-year-old daughter, Sagittarius, your daughter might find challenging
to marry. What are my prospects in is repeating her Leaving Cert. She is enough to feel that it is worth the effort.
that direction? I did meet a few men but very hard working. She would love to
nothing came of it as they only seemed do primary teaching but didn’t achieve A lot of young girls are attracted to
interested in how much money I had. enough points last year to get a place in working with horses - there are stacks of
college. Will she get the points she needs jobs in that area.
At this stage I am wondering if I should to get a place in college?
go back to the country. My sister and her If you take a look over my list it’s all
friends all seem to be going somewhere She gets stressed and puts herself under about people and animals. Even if she
all the time. Would I have more success a lot of pressure. It seems to be the only doesn’t want to make a change just now
in meeting my future husband in the career she is interested in. make it clear that she is free to choose
country? I was always a very fun loving and you won’t stand in her way.
person and loved dancing. All that seems I try and encourage her as I only want
to have gone now. the best for her. Over to you

Suppose you separate the search for a I totally accept, Niamh, that you Has what Una said to you come true?
friend and the wanting a husband, just for want what is best for your daughter. Has her advice helped your situation? Let
the time being. us know at [email protected] (all
responses will be anonymised)

CONTACT UNA... If you have an unresolved issue you need guidance on, Una may be able to help. You can write to her at Una Power, Woman’s Way, Rosemount House, Dundrum
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HOROSCOPES

WHAT’S IN YOUR STARS THIS WEEK?

Aquarius Pisces

Jan 21 - Feb 19 Feb 20 - Mar 20

A break in the clouds Opposition to a strong feeling
over a relationship seems to be useless. Is fate
gives you a chance. playing a sticky hand with
Will you be willing to your emotions? It is important
throw everything into not to rush into something
a romance or just turn that you are not sure of. On the
away? Decisions made other hand, if you have been
now could last a long waiting for just this moment to
time. declare feelings, why not?

Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer

Mar 21 - April 20 April 21 - May 21 May 22 - June 21 June 22 - July 22

In a highly-charged romantic It is said that the path of true A few tricky moments as your Love is not a competition.
week, passions run high. It love never runs smoothly. For attraction to someone seems Sometimes you just have
could be that someone who you, this week, it seems to run to be ignored. Decisions may to show your hand to see
admires you could go to great very smoothly. It is likely that be made to persevere, or to what the response is. If you
lengths to prove their devotion. you will be flattered from an hold back until you are sure. are not feeling brave then
unexpected direction. If this How hotly does your passion enlist the help of a friend. e
at is great if you are feeling finds you on the back foot, burn? Consider what is ‘go-between’ is a solid idea.
the same. However, if you are sidestep quickly. You do prefer worse: not saying anything or Perhaps you are willing to
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cause complications with a an atmosphere in which to or proposition that makes the 44: Which
current situation. Of course, make long-lasting decisions. head spin. Is it because you star sign is
it is possible to love more than Give yourself time to consider have some muddled feelings represented by
one person but that does not not only the options but the yourself that you dither? is the goat?
always make it acceptable. consequences. could be misunderstood.
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Health newsLSAETBAROROUNKTIENG STOPPING A LANDMARK
STIGMA YEAR
‘The Strokecast’ is a new podcast
hosted by former broadcaster Gerry The HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Drinkaware, the national charity
Stevens to help the survivors of Pregnancy Programme (SHCPP) working to prevent and reduce
stroke and their families understand recently launched a new campaign alcohol misuse in Ireland,
and adjust to life after stroke. In to address the stigma surrounding recently released their 2019
the podcast, Gerry speaks with HIV. HIV-related stigma can have annual update and revealed a
stroke survivors and expert medical a hugely damaging impact on the landmark year. In 2019, 80 per
professionals who worked with each mental wellbeing of people living cent of adults cited Drinkaware
of the survivors throughout their with HIV and it can also deter as the leading source of trusted
recovery. Gerry himself worked as people who may have been exposed information about alcohol in
a radio presenter for over 30 years to HIV from getting a test as they Ireland and almost 110,000
before he suffered a stroke in 2017. fear a positive result. The campaign people visited www.drinkaware.
Nine episodes are available to listen wants to show people that HIV is ie in December of last year. A
to now and include a range of people manageable and effective treatment massive 75,000 people also
from a 23-year-old MMA fighter to a can allow people living with HIV to used Drinkaware’s online drinks
traffic accident victim. Speaking about remain healthy. calculator to discover the impact
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their age or other circumstances.” Twitter @_respectprotect
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YOUR Free contraception DMONIS’ST health, fitness and wellness
WEEKLY festival is set to expand into the
ROUND-UP Healthwave, Ireland’s leading digital pharmacy service, UK market this year. WellFest UK
OF ALL recently announced that oral contraceptive pills will be will take place in London on June
THINGS made available free of charge. The pharmacy service will 6 and 7. Run in partnership with
HEALTHY offer the generic versions of six of the most commonly (and headlined by) broadcaster
prescribed contraceptive pill medications in Ireland Davina McCall, this will be the first
at no extra cost to members with valid prescriptions. WellFest to take place outside of
This could result in potential savings of up to €50 per Ireland. If you’d like to soak up
year. Speaking about the offer, Catherine McNicholas, the festival atmosphere here at
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EPA and DHA. Simply taking Aqua Biome costs as little as €20. The vaccination is free that temperatures
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The HSE is urging anyone between 11-30 years of TAKE THREE
age who has not had two doses of the MMR vaccine Things that could be
(or who are unsure of their vaccine status) to receive disturbing your sleep
a free dose of the MMR vaccine due to a significant
rise in cases of mumps. Speaking about the MMR 1. Screen time – Sleep experts
vaccine, public health specialist at the HSE Health recommend ditching screens at least
Protection Surveillance Centre, Dr Suzanne Cotter an hour before bed. All electronics
said: “Vaccination with MMR vaccine is the only way (think TV, phone, laptop etc.) emit
to protect against mumps. The vaccine also protects blue light which suppresses the
against measles and rubella, Mumps is a highly production of melatonin, a hormone
infectious and dangerous illness which spreads very that helps you fall asleep. Try ditching
easily, particularly in homes, crèches, playgroups, the screens an hour before bed for a
camps, schools and universities. It can be a serious week.
illness and can have life-changing repercussions in 2. Stress – You may not feel stressed,
some instances.” but you might be on a subconscious
To avail of a free vaccine, speak with your GP or level. Try implementing a soothing
student health service bedtime routine such as a 10-minute
meditation before you hop into bed
BByy AAmmyy WWaallll Hear, hear and read a good book for 20 minutes.
Or try unwinding with some soft music
We’re well into the new year now and if it’s been a while and a spritz of lavender pillow mist.
since you last got your hearing checked, now is the time. 3. Too much light – Do your curtains
Hearing loss under the age of 50 can double the risk of let in annoying light? Too much light
dementia in later years and the World Health Organisation can shift our internal clock and make
has identified uncorrected hearing loss as a significant factor it difficult for us to sleep deeply. Try
in cognitive decline and mental health issues. Blackberry investing in black out curtains or,
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HEALTH FEATURE HOW TO DITCH
THE FEAR OF
CCOOPNINFRGOWNITTAHTION CONFRONTATION
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO STAND UP FOR YOURSELF
Claire says: What can be
When it comes to confrontation that by avoiding confrontation news – we can actively work helpful in overcoming the
where do you stand? Can you we continue the unsatisfactory at improving our skills when it fear of confrontation is
face it easily and effortlessly pattern that is already well comes to handling it. The best examining the reasons
or does the thought of it established in our lives and allow way to get started, Claire advises, why you are afraid. It is
absolutely terrify you? If you fear of confrontation to continue is to assess the impact that your not unusual to dislike
fall into the latter category to dominate.” lack of assertion is having on you confrontation but it is
don’t worry, you’re not alone. and your wellbeing. If that impact important to know your
Many people tend to walk is quite large, then it might be reasons for fearing it in order
“There is a natural tendency away from confrontation claiming time to seek some support either to be able to address it.
in humans to shy away from that they’re a peacemaker or that online or in person that can help Common reasons include but
unpleasant experiences, they simply don’t want to get you develop your assertiveness. are not limited to:
thus many people prefer to involved, however this behaviour 1. Upbringing How
avoid confrontation,” says can be quite problematic in the “One approach is to check out the family deals with
psychotherapist Claire Hawkes. grand scheme of things. online courses and resources, confrontation impacts on
“From psychological and using the available material, the child who may carry this
biological viewpoints, we seek “Telling oneself that ‘I am and perhaps join an online approach into their adult life.
pleasure and avoid pain, and a peacemaker’ or a pacifist to group. Another is to look for If parental attitudes were
confrontation is perceived as avoid confrontation ensures that assertive courses with a trainer authoritarian/domineering
unpleasant and uncomfortable.” whatever unhealthy patterns in real life, as what can be then it can be very difficult
that are established in avoiding beneficial is actually attending for a child to find their voice
Claire says that when it comes confrontation continue to an assertiveness course, meeting or defend themselves in the
to being afraid of confrontation, dominate one’s approach to with others, practicing and role face of such autocratic rule.
as many people are, it’s more the difficult people and situations,” playing within the group. To 2. Fear of failure Being
fear that’s damaging as opposed says Claire. “This can be classed begin with, it’s helpful to take an afraid that you are unable to
to the confrontation itself. as avoidant behaviour and may easy situation to deal with and get your point of view across
mean continuing to accommodate build on one’s skills in order to in a thoughtful and assertive
“So what is the fear about? unacceptable behaviour. There is handle more difficult people and way.
Mostly we are concerned about a cost involved in deflecting or situations.” WW 3. Fear of being disliked
how other people see and postponing dealing with difficult This may be allied to a fear
perceive us and we do not wish situations and in the process Claire Hawkes is a of ‘rocking the boat’ if you
to be seen in a negative light. adding to issues like low self- psychotherapist offering are honest with yourself and
There are many reasons why esteem or lack of confidence.” counselling and psychotherapy others about what you really
people avoid confrontation – for adults without bias and think about a conflictual
for example, not believing in If confrontation is something prejudice. Her practice is person or situation.
yourself, fear of standing up for that leaves you shaking in your based in Dublin. For more 4. Lack of confidence Lack
yourself, negative experiences boots, there is some good information log on to www. of confidence in your ability
from the past when you tried dublincitypsychotherapy.ie to speak up for yourself
to stand up for yourself,” she in a clear way in order to
explains. “What is damaging is challenge the conflict.
5. Difficulty in listening
If you are overwhelmed By Amy Wall
with your own feelings and
emotions this can result in
not hearing the other and
being unable to articulate
your own position.
PUTTING IT TOGETHER
Find out where your fear
emanates from. Develop
your own framework in
dealing with conflict by
spending time working out
what the problem is. Then
examine ways to address the
conflict. Learn how to speak
up for yourself and what you
believe in – face your fear
and inevitably it will subside.
This will allow you to express
yourself and really listen to
the other person.

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