Author Archive: Debbie
International Fashion and Food Summit comes to Sligo
Sligo has always been known as one of Ireland’s premier foodie destinations. With it’s artisan food producers and the incredible landscape of the Wild Atlantic Way, it’s the obvious location for the inaugural Irish International Fashion and Food Summit which is taking place in November. From November 3rd – 5th, the IIFFS Food Series will feature a […]
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Guest Blog – Avoid the Trap of Isolated Eating
In this the second guest blog post from the lovely guys at New You – Nutrition, Exercise and Weight Management, they look at a common issue that is evident at many dinner tables, isolated eating. If you missed their first guest blog post about family fitness, you can check it out here. ______________________________________________________________ The idea […]
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Review – LUXURY Villa le Croci in Tuscany with Windows on Italy
What is about Tuscany that makes it such a special place? Maybe it’s the intoxicating smell of the lavender everywhere you go, the tingling of the warm sunshine on the back of your neck or the taste of the finest olive oil in the world. Whatever it is, once you visit Tuscany, it feels like […]
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Talbot Suites Wexford – Review
Parents with more than two children will relate to the struggle to find affordable hotel accommodation for their family. Even when we can find one that will take us in a room as a family of five, we don’t really like staying in hotels as when we do, we end up spending the evening just […]
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What You Can and Can’t Eat With Braces
By Ellen aged 14 A couple of months ago I had braces fitted at David McConville Specialist Orthodontics here in Sligo. Lots of my friends at school already had braces fitted so I felt that I kind of knew what to expect. If you’re new to braces, here’s what I’ve learned over the last few […]
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Family Fitness – One Doesn’t Come at the Price of the Other
This post is the first in a series of guest blog posts by James McDowell from New You – Exercise, Weight Management and Nutrition. We’re calling it ‘The Family Fitness and Wellbeing Series’. James is the chap who is responsible for helping me lose 5 stone over the last 12 months and drop from a […]
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Coasteering in Wexford – Review
At Saucepan Kids, we like to get out and about and take part in activities that push ourselves out of our comfort zone. Living by the Atlantic coast, we’ve always been keen on water sports so when the guys from Shielbaggan Outdoor Education Centre invited us to try coasteering, we had to go and try […]
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Family Day Out At Tayto Park – A Review
Yesterday we took ourselves off to Co. Meath to spend a day at Ireland’s only theme park and zoo, Tayto Park. We’d been once before and enjoyed it then but our kids were a lot younger so we wondered now how our older kids (aged 12, 12 and 14) would get on. It was a […]
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Acqua Village Waterparks Tuscany – Review
Follonica When we were in Italy last year we visited Aquafan water park in Rimini and we all had such a fun day, when we discovered that there was a water park near Parc Albatros, we made sure that we allocated a day to a visit there. We read on the website that it’s cheaper […]
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