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08, 2016
4
08, 2016
FIRST COMES LOVE… THEN COMES MARRIAGE
Take from RTE website see orignal post here: http://www.rte.ie/tv/audienceparticipation/thencomesmarriage.html HOW READY ARE YOU TO SAY 'I DO'? Then Comes Marriage is a brand new television series for RTÉ2 looking for couples to take part in the ultimate relationship bootcamp in the surrounds of a luxury retreat. Under the guidance of Ireland's leading relationship experts, three couples [...]
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02, 2014
Couching Homophobia in Therapy
Whereas Irish society has come along way in embracing other-ness and difference and moved away (or was wrenched?) from long-held traditional norms, the blight of homophobia is never far from earshot. And it is literally that - it can take the form of a blistering barrage of epithets or a well-aimed cruel single word that [...]
2
01, 2014
Heathcliff, It’s me, It’s crappy… I’ve a Soul Mate
Wuthering Heights, the immortal novel that not only troubles the Leaving Cert consciousness of teenagers nationwide, but that more disturbingly haunts our notions of love, obsession, and that tall, dark, brooding stranger, the soul-mate; ‘The One’ that “whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”. Over a hundred and sixty years [...]
31
07, 2012
Virtual Communication
Nothing has such a captivating effect on us in our culture as the word ‘new. New acquisitions always promise and seem to offer us ‘completion’. Why would any one bother to repair the old when it is now so much cheaper, and easier and convenient, and instant to just buy the new – whether that [...]