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Suicide loss: ‘This year, I’ll set one less place at the Christmas dinner table’

Christmas is one of the times of the year that magnifies sadness as well as happiness. On the…

By Amanda Cassidy

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‘Everything I had to learn about grief’

After the death of her daughter Jasmine, Patsy Freeman decided to write a book about her journey through…

By Amanda Cassidy

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SELF

Nobody’s child: how to navigate the death of a parent

It’s ten years today since I could last call myself somebody’s child. We’re often told that ‘losing our…

By Niamh Ennis

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‘We lived with the absolute terror that another sibling could die. And, devastatingly, we were right’

The death of a sibling can result in a very complicated type of grief that is rarely acknowledged.…

By Amanda Cassidy

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6 books, plays and podcasts to help you deal with grief

  Everyone’s personal experience of grief is unique, and each of us will face it – most likely…

By Grace McGettigan

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‘One day he went to work and just never came home’

Like many of us, Sinead Kieran from Meath had a life plan – a very well-thought-out plan that…

By Amanda Cassidy

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Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning female monarch in history dies

One of the most respected and longest-serving female leaders in the world has died. Amanda Cassidy looks back…

By Amanda Cassidy

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Rosemary MacCabe: ‘Death is not something I have ever feared. Now I long for immortality’

Rosemary MacCabe never feared death, at least for its own sake. But it’s only since becoming a mother…

By Rosemary MacCabe

Dealing with grief: who can you rely on?
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‘The awful phone call came, as awful phone calls tend to do, at 7am. Mum couldn’t wake dad up.’

When life throws you a curveball, there are friends who know just what to say and do and…

By Amy Lynch

EDITORIAL

Noa Pothoven: The complicated death of a little girl who didn’t want to grow up

The hysteria was inevitable. Reports of a young teenager euthanised as a result of rape and depression. Noa's…

By Amanda Cassidy

LIVING

Shay Mitchell’s musings on life and death are a beautiful tribute to those we’ve lost 

The ‘Pretty Little Liars’ star confirmed she’s pregnant with her second child on social media last night, just…

By Sarah Finnan

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Andrew McGinley: ‘I cannot forgive the act of murder. I can’t forgive how my children died’

His wife was found not guilty by reason of insanity of the murder of their three children; Conor…

By Amanda Cassidy