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Sound cues during sleep could help people forget specific memories – study

Playing sounds to people while they sleep could help them forget specific memories, a new study suggests. Researchers said the method could one day be developed into a technique to help combat traumatic memories.

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<span lang="en-GB">Most of the albums at my mother's place are the sticky ones, with a sheet of plastic over each page, except the stickiness is long gone and the photos just slide out and onto my lap. I like putting them back in rows, remembering cousins and aunts, some gone already</span>
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Learner Dad: I might listen to my mother (for once) and get a photo album

Every now and again, when I’m in my mother’s place, I take out the photo albums there and look back at my own childhood in the 70s and 80s

<p>Thrilled with their Christmas presents: Darina Allen with a new tricycle, and her brother William's pedal car and David's new wheelbarrow.</p>

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The 'Good Room' and the big storm: Darina Allen, Louise O'Neill and more share Christmas memories

As Louise O'Neill, Darina Allen and our columnists share their Christmas memories, we invite our readers to share their festive recollections

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In the frame: New app for sharing special memories with the people who matter most

It’s funny, isn’t it? The things you remember, and the things you forget

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How we routinely ‘massage’ certain memories to show ourselves in a better light

From American war widow to Rose of Tralee's first lady president - Historian Ryle Dwyer remembers his mother

Historian and ‘Irish Examiner’ contributor T Ryle Dwyer fondly remembers his mother Margaret, who had a long and eventful life

Sat, 19 Mar, 2016

People are sharing their Leaving Cert memories and advice on Twitter

For the day what's in it.

Wed, 12 Aug, 2015

Five Leaving Cert memories you'll never shake

You couldn't pay us to go through it all again.

Wed, 04 Jun, 2014

Memories of a scoring sorcerer: Paul Flynn

Just the mention of Cork-Waterford in Thurles and Paul Flynn’s name and magic soon springs to mind. No other player did more to shape one of hurling’s most thrilling rivalries and one of its most universally-loved teams.

Sat, 24 May, 2014

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Sound cues during sleep could help people forget specific memories – study

Learner Dad: I might listen to my mother (for once) and get a photo album

The 'Good Room' and the big storm: Darina Allen, Louise O'Neill and more share Christmas memories

In the frame: New app for sharing special memories with the people who matter most

It’s funny, isn’t it? The things you remember, and the things you forget

How we routinely ‘massage’ certain memories to show ourselves in a better light

From American war widow to Rose of Tralee's first lady president - Historian Ryle Dwyer remembers his mother

People are sharing their Leaving Cert memories and advice on Twitter

Five Leaving Cert memories you'll never shake

Memories of a scoring sorcerer: Paul Flynn

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Mick Clifford

memories

Sound cues during sleep could help people forget specific memories – study

Learner Dad: I might listen to my mother (for once) and get a photo album

The 'Good Room' and the big storm: Darina Allen, Louise O'Neill and more share Christmas memories

In the frame: New app for sharing special memories with the people who matter most

It’s funny, isn’t it? The things you remember, and the things you forget

How we routinely ‘massage’ certain memories to show ourselves in a better light

From American war widow to Rose of Tralee's first lady president - Historian Ryle Dwyer remembers his mother

People are sharing their Leaving Cert memories and advice on Twitter

Five Leaving Cert memories you'll never shake

Memories of a scoring sorcerer: Paul Flynn

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Mick Clifford

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