Rosemarie Hayden, a solicitor and mother of two, has had two distinct experiences of working parenthood and childcare. Here she talks about guilt (or lack thereof), flexibility, women in the legal profession, and the sticky floor: Thank you for taking part in the interview series for Office Mum – so let’s start with the basics – could you ...
There is so much advice in the world and there are so many memes with wise sayings, but the only one that has stuck in my mind resolutely for years now is "Use the good bath oil". I came across it in a magazine a long time ago - I can't remember now if it ...
For the 85th interview in the series (!) I have something a little bit different - Teresa Hanley is a 52-year-old mother and grandmother who has just packed up her permanent, secure job and moved from Ireland to Australia. This is her story: Thank you Teresa for taking part in the interview series! So let’s start with ...
Guilt is something that used to preoccupy me greatly when I worked full-time - how long they were commuting and in crèche each week (55 hours, burned on my brain), how little time we had together each evening, and how rushed our mornings were. And most of my guilt surrounded things that hadn't happened yet ...
I'm filing this firmly under "just a thought, and I might be wrong" but here goes: Running back to the car after the school drop one morning recently, I fished in my pocket for my keys and came out with a piece of paper instead. Still running, and trying to see what the piece of paper was, ...
"Okay, five minutes reading time, then lights out," I said to my smallest, after his story. "Six minutes? Pleeeeease?" "Okay, you can have six minutes reading time," I said, earning me a best mum ever badge that was much shinier than that worst mum ever one I'd got earlier for making him come on the school run ...
Helen O’Beirne was born and raised in Blackrock in Dublin, and is the youngest in a family of four kids. She met her husband Donal in college, and they have three children together. Helen is Global Head of HR for Morgan McKinley, a professional services recruitment firm. Helen, thank you for taking part in this interview ...