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A Dundalk scientist is using his diagnoses with MS as a child and a lifetime of nutritional research to launch a new immunity plant product for the Irish market  Conor’s quest for nutritional knowledge comes from his experiences of suffering with MS as a child. After waking one morning with a strange sensation along his entire left hand side, he was put under the microscope in the Dublin Hospital. ‘Over a period of 2 weeks  I slept for 15-20 hours each day – my physical strength was gone to the point where I had almost total paralysis on one side.…

Dental Implant Treatments in Ireland – The Problem With Wearing Dentures Up to 18% of adults aged 54 and older report having no natural teeth, that’s one in six! Most of these people are wearing dentures. Denture wearers can have difficulties with everyday activities like eating, laughing and speaking. Additionally, missing teeth can cause issues with self-confidence and embarrassment and can keep people from smiling and laughing. Smile In A Day: The Permanent Solution To Wearing Dentures 3Dental offer a range of permanent dental implant solutions that can alleviate many of the problems associated with dentures. “Dental implants produce a…

Singer, songwriter and Irish musician and the lead singer with the Hothouse Flowers, Liam Ó Maonlaí has joined the SeniorTimes Podcast Series.  Liam will be speaking to some of Ireland’s most influential musicians on the Irish scene today Episode 1 Liam Ó Maonlaí meets Composer and Fiddle player Charlie Lennon Charlie Lennon is one of the most prolific living Irish tune composers and he has also written some ambitious large scale works with orchestras. He was named TG4 Composer of the Year in 2006. He has published a book of tunes Musical Memories. A second book is to…

Former President Mary McAleese has described a new “momentum growing” in favour of full equality of LGBTI people and women in the Catholic Church – a momentum which is essential to the Catholic Church’s survival In a podcast interview with presenter Mary Kennedy released on the Senior Times Podcast Series former President McAleese castigated the church’s previous treatment of both women and gay people. However, coming just days after Pope Francis became the first pontiff to endorse same-sex civil unions, McAleese added: “I think that there is a momentum growing now. I feel the wheels of a momentum growing. I’m…

Further to the country’s move to Level 5 restrictions from today, Kennys Bookshop in Galway are continuing to process and ship online orders made via Kennys.ie Kennys offer free delivery in Ireland on all books, with new and secondhand books from less than €5, including new releases and all the latest bestsellers  available on www.kennys.ie. Orders for items form The Kenny Gallery will also be processed – artworks can be viewed online at www.thekennygallery.ie and any queries directed to art@kennys.ie. As a retail outlet that operates an online ordering system, Kennys can process online orders from the warehouse while adhering…

To coincide with Mary Kennedy’s latest Senior Times Podcast where she talks to award winning novelist, short story writer and playwright Christine Dwyer Hickey, Senior Times are giving away signed copies of both ‘Tatty’ and ‘The Narrow Land’ Christine has published 8 novels, one short story collection and a full-length play. Her latest novel The Narrow Land is the 2020 winner of the Walter Scott Prize and the inaugural winner of The Dalkey Literary Prize 2020. Her novel Tatty is the Unesco Dublin One City One Book for 2020. Christine also supports a project called “Silent Voices,” which helps…

Mary Kennedy first podcast interview features the renowned, funny and enduring character that is best-selling novelist, Patricia Scanlan. In this series Mary interviews a range of Irish women writers as diverse as , Christine Dwyer Hickey, Sheila O’Flanagan, Liz Nugent and Cathy Kelly. Other interesting and innovative writers include Mary McAleese, Roisin Meaney and Rachael English, who all have had hugely accomplished careers in other fields. To celebrate the new series we are giving someone the chance to win a signed copy of her latest novel All you have to do is answer the following question. Name Patricia’s first published…

In the next issue of SeniorTimes (on newsstands the 12th of November) Lorna Hogg talks to former State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy. We profile Author John Banville and Mary O’Rourke shares her thoughts on life during lockdown. Plus Bridge tuition with Michael O’Loughlin, Creative writing with Eileen Casey, golfing nostalgia with Dermot Gileece and much more. You can subscribe you SeniorTimes HERE

The STOP67 campaign played a major role in the decision of the Government to defer the proposed increase in the pension age to 67 years. The campaign includes SIPTU, the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NCWI), Age Action and Active Retirement Ireland. The Programme for Government included a commitment to defer the increase to 67, due to come into force on 1st January 2021, “pending the report of the Commission on Pensions and any subsequent Government decisions on its recommendations.” The Commission was proposed in response to the demand by the STOP67 campaign and others for the establishment of a Stakeholder…

Fighting Blindness Opens the Virtual Doors of its  21st Annual Retina Conference to People with Vision Impairment Offering A Rare Opportunity to Quiz the Experts… Why is my vision loss causing me to hallucinate? When is the new Luxturna gene therapy that could save my sight going to be approved? How should I look after my eye health during this pandemic? These are just some of the burning questions likely to be put to eye experts at the forthcoming Retina 2020 conference Public Engagement Day taking place virtually on Saturday November 7 from 10.30am to 2pm. The conference, organised by Fighting…