Parents in Meath are petitioning their only second-level feeder school to postpone their iPad teaching policy for this year's incoming first years until a thorough review is carried out.

People with little training beyond an online course bought on Groupon are advertising themselves as counsellors to the depressed and even suicidal — as there is no law stopping them.

People of all ages can be lonely, but a volunteer phone service provides a friendly voice for older people who live alone and who are more isolated and vulnerable, says Paul d’Alton

Simple acts of kindness can have a huge impact on those affected by loneliness this Christmas according to The Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Therapists are seeing an increase in internet and social media addiction in Ireland, it was revealed today.

Professionals are urging people to seek help if they are concerned about their mental health.

The Irish priest muzzled by the Vatican for his liberal views has received overwhelming support from colleagues worldwide, with a senior member of the Irish Redemptorist order saying liberal priests are being subjected to FBI-like attention from ultra-orthodox “Catholic agents”.

Ireland needs to wake up and take action to address the youth mental health crisis facing the country, it was claimed today.

THERE’S fashion in food just like everything else. Foodies are always intrigued by the latest trends on the gastronomic circuit.

I NEVER imagined for one moment that I would love Dallas; in fact, everything I ever heard about Dallas reinforced my gut feeling that I didn’t ever need to go there.

AMERICA’S first celebrity chef and television cooking pioneer Julia Child died recently, just a few days before her 92nd birthday.

DESPITE the war and the Sars scare, 1,200 people winged their way to Montreal recently to attend the annual conference of the International Association of Cooking Professionals.