Sarah Caden

4 days ago | independent.ie | Sarah Caden

We’ve all been there with those beautiful shiny, indestructible manicures that bring fewer feelings of delight and more of dread as removal time approaches. Sometimes they chip and peel off. Sometimes they start to lift. Sometimes, the full horror of what’s underneath only comes after they are removed. And then, as many of us have found to our chagrin, can come weeks or even months of damaged nails and promises of never again.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Sarah Caden

Sarah Caden: It’s inclusion for some, not all, as cohort of students with special educational needs are left behindIt can be hard to get a place in a special school. Picture posedThere was great fanfare at the recent announcement that, come September this year, there will be 399 new special classes in mainstream schools for children with special education needs (SEN). Finally, a step in the right direction for parents of children with SEN, of whom I am one.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Sarah Caden |Liadan Hynes

Notions and necessities: From street photography festivals to fashion and unique furniture buys, it’s all here Documentary photographer Martin Parr, whose work includes this photo of Dublin in 1986, will be taking part in the Dublin Street Photography Festival, for information and booking, see dspfestival.com Sarah Caden and Liadán Hynes Today at 03:30 Snap happy in the city Over the bank holiday weekend, May 2-4, the Dublin Street Photography Festival returns for a second year with a series...

1 week ago | independent.ie | Sarah Caden

Everybody loves a quick fix and if it’s easy and affordable, all the better. A seemingly recent trend that in fact has been around for years is face taping as an accessible alternative to Botox. If you’ve managed to ignore or avoid all knowledge of face taping, it is what it says it is, the practice of applying sticky tape to areas that traditionally have the most furrows, such as forehead, the nasolabial ‘marionette’ lines from noses to the mouth and the ‘11’ lines between the brows.

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Sarah Caden

And despite being very obviously Irish, this is her first Irish press interview. As it happens, this is happening because a Sunday Independent reader wrote to the editor to ask why no Irish media outlet has ever spoken to her before. Joyce nods her head in agreement. “They haven’t,” she says. Certainly, she never set out to be an activist. Rather, she was reporting on a story and stumbled upon an “an ideas scoop”. “You walk into it thinking: ‘This is so obvious. I’m just making a logical statement.