Death and dying

SELF

‘I still cry for him and the life we planned together. It was all taken away in an instant’

"One day you are 26 years old with barely a care in the world, living in your first…

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

Virgil Abloh

AGENDA

Virgil Abloh was so loved, but he should have been celebrated long before death

Tributes continue to pour in for designer Virgil Abloh, but it shouldn't take tragedy for us to celebrate…

By Sarah Finnan

SELF

Micheál Martin talks movingly about the children he has lost, and how they will always be part of the family

The Taoiseach reflects on the tragic loss of two of his children, and how he and his wife…

By Megan Burns

AGENDA

Free bereavement pack launched by Irish Hospice Foundation

By Jennifer McShane

delayed grief

SELF

Delayed grief: ‘I pretended I was fine but really I wasn’t’

Putting on a brave face during bereavement can lead to delayed grief, writes Niamh Ennis I remember the…

By IMAGE

EDITORIAL

I went to the Mansion House to sign Gay Byrne’s condolences book — and I’ve never been more proud to be Irish

The death of legendary broadcaster Gay Byrne has been met with a national outpouring of grief, but in grief,…

By Edaein OConnell

Grieve

EDITORIAL

‘I didn’t ask for this’: Why do we feel the need to judge how others grieve?

Social media almost came to a standstill last week when the deaths of two very well-known and beloved…

By Jennifer McShane

EDITORIAL

Hit Me Up: My mum is cutting my siblings out of her will

Each week our resident agony aunt Rhona McAuliffe helps a reader with a problem. This week, a woman…

By Rhona Mcauliffe

EDITORIAL

Working in palliative care: ‘The majority of people are peaceful as death approaches’

In advance of this Thursday’s Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning for Hospice Together with Bewley’s, a member of the palliative…

By Lia Hynes