“If you mess that song up on that altar, I’ll go up and f**king beat you over the head with the guitar myself.” Not quite the reassuring pep talk you want just before you get ready to perform for a family member’s special day. Weddings are stressful enough occasions without some joker playing a prank en […]

8 years ago

They’ve got a particular set of skills. And they will find you. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: there is something uniquely special about Irish Mammies. That mix of boundless love and the suffocating need to know where you are every minute of the day make them a powerful force to deal […]

8 years ago

Her son only realised what he had been eating out of after he had finished the dinner. When someone has gone to the trouble of making you dinner, you should appreciate it in whatever form it comes, but it was only after he had eaten a dinner made by his mother that one JOE reader’s […]

8 years ago

She was extremely shocked.

9 years ago

Advertorial feature brought to you by SMA Careline®. Parenting may be a team sport but that definitely doesn’t mean that Mums and Dads have a common approach to the game. That’s not to say that all men are the same or that all women have a singular approach to rearing a child. Still, if you take a […]

9 years ago

*Insert crying laughing emoji here* Facebook can be a confusing tool for some people, especially your parents when they make their debut on social media. While it’s unfair to paint each one with the same brush when there’s countless others more than adept at navigating the choppy social media waters, there are some who sometimes don’t […]

9 years ago