For the first five years of my life, I was the proverbial apple of her eye. To the outside world, I live a charmed life in the Cotswolds with my partner and our French bulldog. But as Grandma lived nearby with my uncle, she was a constant presence in my life. Unfortunately, even though Grandma wasn't in my life any more, my feelings of inadequacy didn't go away. But now I know that little girl isn't to blame and I wish I could give her a hug and tell her: 'It was never your fault that Grandma loved you less.'

May, the month dedicated to our spiritual mother, the Virgin MaryMay will always be a special month, the month that the Church dedicates to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and our mother. May 02, 2024Pilgrims at the Wednesday general audience Aug. 9, 2023, hold up an image of the Virgin Mary. | Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAMay will always be a special month, the month that the Church dedicates to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and our mother. Let’s live this month ever close to MaryIn the plan of salvation, the Blessed Virgin Mary holds a special place. The Church, in her wisdom, asks her children to be especially devoted to Mother Mary during this month and to be particularly grateful for all of her care.

Representatives of the nine groups pictured at the draw for running order recently. The 2024 RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival scheduleThe RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival gets underway tonight in the Dean Crowe Theatre. Here is the running order for the festival. Next up on Saturday May 4 are former festival winners, Ballyduff Drama Group, directed by Ger Canning. On Wednesday May 8, former festival winners, Newpoint Players present ‘In the Shadow of the Glen: Reimagined’ (after JM Synge).

He had been staying in the tent city on Mount Street until Tuesday night when he was taken in by someone who had a free couch for the night. Gardai remove 200 asylum seekers from Mount Street on coaches“My tent is gone so I will have to wander the streets. At 7.45am, two gardaí on motorbikes arrived from the canal end of Mount Street and positioned themselves close to the coaches. Almost immediately, the migrants began to return to Mount Street and take up camp again until this latest action to move them once more. Mount Street was reopened to the public at about 3pm, with measures in place to stop any more tents being erected again.

He told the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement that if Northern Ireland was to reform its education system, it would reduce the cost of a unification. Prof FitzGerald, who co-authored the report with Edgar Morgenroth, a professor of economics at DCU Business School, spoke to the committee about Northern Ireland’s educational system. “If you unify and the educational system has not been reformed in Northern Ireland, do you immediately force the Irish system on Northern Ireland, which I know will be very unpopular with middle class nationalists as well as unionists-background people. “Or do you leave it there where there’s an ethos that doesn’t believe in equality of opportunity, and doesn’t look after kids from disadvantaged backgrounds in Northern Ireland? “They are predominantly from the Unionist community and they don’t go back to Northern Ireland.

By Cate McCurry, PACalls for “urgent action” to address sex education in schools have been made after new figures revealed an increase in the number of young people not using contraception. It revealed that one in four 15- to 17-year-olds report ever having sex, which remained the same as in 2018 (25 per cent). Some 18 per cent report having ever used vapes or e-cigarettes and 13 per cent report having ever used vapes or e-cigarettes in the last 30 days. One in four children report eating fruit and 23 per cent report eating vegetables every day. It also found that 10 per cent of girls reported experiencing period poverty, which is defined as being unable to afford period products.

Security forces the world over live in fear of the day Winkleman goes rogue. And I’m warning you now, there is no guarantee that he wouldn’t attempt to do something similar in a train station. Sadly, most of Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story is focused on the singer Jon Bon Jovi. Sadly, most of Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story (Disney+) is focused on the singer Jon Bon Jovi. Don’t Not Be a Visionary could be the title of a Bon Jovi self-help book.

Nearly 2,700 council seats in England are up for grabs across 107 local authorities. Voters in Wales will also need ID to vote in today's Police and Crime Commissioner elections, with 37 positions set to be filled across England and Wales. This is everything you need to know about Voter ID ahead of Thursday's local elections (Getty) (Image: Getty)What do I need to bring to vote? You can still use your photo ID if it's out of date, as long as it looks like you. The name on your ID should be the same name you used to register to vote.

No Irish stock market-listed company has a female CEO for the first time since CPL floated in 1999Call to lift target for woman on boards after Ires Reit’s Margaret Sweeney leaves top jobMargaret Sweeney has left Ires ReitCaoimhe Gordon Yesterday at 15:17A Government-backed group set up to promote corporate gender balance says the target for women in leadership roles should be lifted to 40pc, after the last female CEO of an Irish PLC stood down this week.

Against La Rochelle in the quarter-final Leinster's Jordan Larmour reminded us how dangerous he can be with sublime running and subtle distribution. READ MOREPerpignan, true underdogs, played with belief and spirit despite being down to 14 players twice during the game. A dejected Gordon D'Arcy and Reggie Corrigan of Leinster after defeat to Perpignan in the European Cup semi-final of 2003. The leadership vacuum left by Johnny Sexton will be tested more rigorously than in the quarter-final because Leinster won’t be able to replicate the emotional intensity going into the La Rochelle match. It’s about who finds the right words at the right time and provides that focal point of leadership.

Judge Comerford said that the current ‘exhaustive' Garda investigation that resulted in Mr Harmon’s guilty pleas involved gardaí taking 80 witness statements. He said at night, Mr Harmon would come into the tent at night and put his hands into their pyjamas. Counsel for Mr Harmon, Donal Cronin BL said that Mr Harmon is alone in this world after becoming estranged from his family following the Waterford case. He said more than 40 years have passed since Mr Harmon left the scouts and there has been no further evidence of wrongdoing. Speaking after Mr Harmon was jailed today, one of the five outside Ennis courthouse said he was happy with the sentence imposed.

These private agencies has taken additional measures to minimise dust pollution by mobilising certain equipment such as skid steer sweeper to remove the dust mechanically. All these measures had improved the situation considerably, Rodrigues has stated in his compliance report. It further discloses that safety gear is provided to all the workers at the site with photographic proof. A total of 870 metres of road length had been milled as on April 15. The Court has also asked the IPSCDL managing director and CEO to file another compliance report by June 10 and has posted the matter for further hearing on June 11.

Initally, Rebel tweeted, "OMG I'm actually a 100 year old mermaid formerly known as 'CC Chalice'….thanks shady Australian press for your tall poppy syndrome x." The journalist behind the original piece claimed Rebel lied during an interview, which the actor denied. On Home Delivery, she said, "If I was guilty of something, I mean, I don't really have any skeletons in my closet, which is why it's quite hard for people to write bad stuff about me. So for the press to do a story that I was deliberately lying or whatever, no. I was just being a lady and not telling my age when I moved to America.

Hub Controls Ltd, which installed the "Hub Controller" system in 12,000 homes, is insolvent and unable to pay its debts, the court heard. Another home heating controls firm, Climote, was wound up last December. Some 4,000 users pay for a subscription service and 6,000 are on the basic non-subscription service. Householders would have to call in an electrician to bypass the system and install a new device before the heating system could be used again, Hub Controls says. It was also proposed to raise fresh equity and to facilitate a fundraiser in the US, Hub Controls Global Inc was set up in Delaware.

Pfizer — the drug giant that employs almost 5,000 people at sites in Kildare, Cork, and Dublin — lifted its annual profit forecast and posted first-quarter results that topped analysts' estimates. It comes as the company cut costs and posted a smaller-than-feared drop in sales of its covid treatment and strong sales of its pneumonia vaccine. Sales of cancer treatment Padcev, which Pfizer gained through its $43bn deal for Seagen, also came in ahead of analysts' expectations. Investors have also been tracking the performance of the company's new RSV vaccine, which has been trailing a rival shot from GSK since they both launched. Paxlovid sales dropped 50% to $2bn for the quarter, still well above analysts' forecasts.