Good for what ails you. In the Irish home, there are certain staples when it comes to feeling poorly that never go out of style. From your mother to her mother before her, there are just some remedies that have stood the test of time and that we will one day pass down to our […]
6 years ago
From the minute we become mothers, we are showered with an overwhelming amount of advice from the other mammies in our lives. The road to parenting is paved with The Irish Mammy’s good intentions. Here are the top five pieces of old-school parenting advice that you’ll hear from your mother and granny that should stay […]
7 years ago
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8 years ago
We all assume that our Mammies are the font of all wisdom when we’re young. Obviously, they know everything and everything they say can be taken as gospel. Little did we realise just how much of what they said was made up, embellished or just plain weird. Still, it was all coming from a good […]
9 years ago
Ah, Irish men and their Mammies. Nikki Walsh caught up with three honest men as they spill on what their mums did best. Ray, 47, Irishtown It sounds funny, but some of the best lessons my mum taught me came from her breaking her right elbow. She was in intense pain and unable to do the simplest of […]
9 years ago
As much as you might try sometimes (!), you can’t pretend that you don’t have kids. I know that sounds like a totally weird thing to say, but you know what I mean. At times, you might feel like being your original independent ‘you’ or to still be perceived as cool or not just a ‘mammy’ […]
10 years ago