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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Woman Says Her Daughter Has Never Met Her Dad. However, His Relatives Routinely See Her and Refuse to Call Her by Name
A mother is fed up with the family of her daughter's father refusing to call the 2-year-old girl by her Irish name She explained in a post on Mumsnet that they refer to her young child as "the wee one," while blaming their inability to spell the name The mom shared that her daughter is named "Caoimhe (keeva)"A mother is on the verge of confronting the family of her daughter's father about their refusal to use the child's birth name. The mom explained on the UK-based forum Mumsnet that the father of her 2-year-old daughter is 'not in the picture,' but his family sees the young girl almost every other week. She said her child has an Irish name that's 'probably one of the harder' ones to spell and pronounce. The mother said she 'immediately' learned how to spell it and has no concerns that the name could be an issue for her daughter in the future. She added that her 'unique' name and that of her two older children are sometimes misspelled, but eventually people learn to spell them. 'My issue is that her relatives (not mine) refuse to learn how to spell it and just refer to her as 'the wee one,' ' the mother said of her toddler's name. 'I easily picked up on this in their texts and didn't think too much of it. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! 'Accepted it really, but then, her Grandmother said to me 'oh he (her partner) saw a woman holding a child at the end of the road and stopped and said he thought it was Bella5C and the wee one,' ' the mom continued. 'She obviously heard herself as she then said to me when leaving, I call her the wee one because I don't know how to spell her name?' The mom confessed that she thinks the relatives are refusing to call her daughter by name because they don't like it. 'I can understand not spelling it in a text if you think you'll spell it wrong but to not say her name out loud and use that excuse is surely, a load of crap? Just looking for opinions really, although I may eventually say something,' she said. Many commenters reassured the mother that it isn't uncommon for people to refer to children as 'the wee one' until they're able to confidently pronounce and spell a child's name. 'I refer to lots of children as 'wee one'. Covers all eventualities, zero risk of it being wrong,' one person wrote. 'I think 'wee one' etc is a lot more common than you might think and probably nothing to do with the name,' another said. 'Buy dd a T-shirt or bag with her name.... Has she seen dd's [dear daughter's] name written down? Maybe she genuinely can't spell it and is too embarrassed to say,' a third chimed in. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Having also received many questions about the child's name, the mother decided to share that 'it's Caoimhe (keeva).' The revelation sparked many more comments from people admitting they would be puzzled about how to pronounce it. One person said, 'In Ireland, there is no 'correct' way to say Caoimhe, it depends on the accent whether it is like Keeva or Kweeva and it sounds pretty bad with an 'r' sound on the end that some English accents can't help adding, making it rhyme with beaver. I have a common enough name that some relatives still get wrong, it's annoying, but I'd let it go.' The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! Another disagreed, saying, 'As someone who works with children and is faced with non-English names all the time, I think your family are being lazy and rude. It feels deliberate to me. "It really is very simple to learn how to pronounce a name. And if they struggle with the spelling, they can write it down and stick it to the fridge as a reminder,' the same person added. 'Beautiful name, by the way.' Read the original article on People
Irish Independent
27-05-2025
- General
- Irish Independent
A class act! – Three generations of the same family teach in rural Wexford school on same day
There was certainly evidence of that in Murrintown National School recently as three generations of the same family took classes on the same day in the same school. For one special day, teacher Marie Monahan was joined by her mother, former Galbally NS principal Siobhán Doyle, and her daughter Caoimhe Monahan. "I thought it was quite an unusual situation,' Murrintown NS principal John Colloton said. 'Siobhán had come in to do some subbing for us and Caoimhe is in college and she was in getting some experience as an EAL (English as an Additional Language) teacher before she goes off to America for the summer.' It was a real family affair as Marie's two sons, Cuan and Conor, also attend the school and are in fourth and sixth class. "It was quite unique,' John smiles. 'I think for Caoimhe, there was certainly no escaping it. Teaching is in the blood, having been handed down from Siobhán to Marie and now onto her.'
NZ Herald
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Ockham NZ Book Awards: Author Damien Wilkins arrives just in time to accept top fiction prize
'The earliest flight they could have put us on was a 7pm flight, which was the time of the start of the ceremony,' Wilkins said. 'I emailed the organiser of the festival saying, 'Look, this has happened.' And they said, 'Okay, we can get you there, we have calculated if we really gun it through Auckland streets and you are on that flight, we can get you there just in time for the fiction award and that'll be all right.'' Onboard the plane, Wilkins learned that his friend and Te Herenga Waka University Press publisher, Fergus Barrowman, would read from Delirious in his absence. 'Caoimhe [McKeogh] the publicist texted me to say, 'Fergus will read your extract ... if you can't make it, let's aim for that. So what are you choosing to read?'' Wilkins recalled thinking there'd be no way he could make it to the ceremony in time, once collecting bags and navigating traffic was factored in. 'I thought I wasn't going to get there. I thought I would just join the after party and it would have this strange thing of people coming up to me and saying, 'Oh, you made it.'' McKeogh told the Herald it was 'surreal and awful to be sitting there in the auditorium tracking his flight and then their journey towards us, and watching time tick on'. " Delirious is an incredible book, such a huge achievement for Damien, and we all felt miserable about the idea of him missing the ceremony that was celebrating that." The obstacles continued to mount after landing in Auckland, with passengers unable to disembark from the back of the plane where Wilkins was seated. 'It was totally like being in a cartoon of some man having a dream about not getting to his appointment,' Wilkins said. Picked up by a festival volunteer, Wilkins said they pulled some strings to get him along the motorway quickly. Yet roadworks in Waterview Tunnel led to another detour, and he began streaming the ceremony on his phone. 'A little bit before then, I guess I had become aware [I won the prize]. I thought, 'Why are they really trying to get me there?'' At the Aotea Centre, the ceremony's MC, Miriama Kamo, and the band tried to keep things in order while the crowd waited for Wilkins' belated arrival, and Barrowman read the chosen extract from Delirious. 'Fergus did a really nice job of reading the piece and in fact, he had literally just ... looked at it moments before getting up there,' Wilkins said. 'I said to Caoimhe, 'Ask him to play it for laughs with a strong line in pathos'. So that was just my simple instruction.' Barrowman later told the Herald the reading 'happened at the last minute', leaving him no time to get nervous. 'To be honest I'm grateful to have had that moment (sorry Damien).' After all the stress that arose from trying to get him from Wellington to the central Auckland venue, Wilkins arrived just in time to run onstage and give his acceptance speech. 'In a funny way ... it meant that I was just concentrating on the mechanics of getting there rather than the ... emotional heft of receiving the award,' Wilkins said. 'I haven't had the usual experience of nervous waiting for something to happen and you're just frozen in your chair. So ... that was sort of quite good.' McKeogh said the night quickly turned from bittersweet to joyous when Wilkins finally ran into the building to accept his prize. 'As Miriama said on the night, it was the perfect 'romcom airport scene' ending, with the person showing up after you've abandoned all hope.' Wilkins previously won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for his first book, The Miserables (1993), when the Ockhams were known as the New Zealand Book Awards.
Irish Times
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
An Chailleach Mhata agus Domhan Draíochta na gCruthanna
Lá amháin bhí cailleach ann i nDomhan Draíochta na gCruthanna agus bhí fuath aici don mhata. Caoimhe an t-ainm a bhí uirthi. Bhí craiceann ghlas aici. Nuair a bhí sí óg, bhí sí go dona ag an mata agus bhí uirthi fanacht ar an bplainéad uafásach seo. Bhí boladh uafásach i ngach áit ach, bhí cuid amháin den phlainéad a bhí go deas. Ní raibh a fhios ag aon duine go raibh an leath deas eile ann agus sin an fáth go raibh gach duine ag iarraidh an áit a fhágáil. Bhí sí ina cónaí i gcaisleán ina haonar agus bhí uaigneas uirthi. Bhí a caisleán déanta as cruthanna 3T neamhrialta. Bhí na cruthanna difriúil mar gheall go raibh Caoimhe í féin difriúil. Bhí sí ag iarraidh daoine eile a thabhairt chuig an gcaisleán mar go raibh sí chomh huaigneach. Dúirt Caoimhe gur scoil spraíúil a bhí sa gcaisleán agus thosaigh daoine ag teacht. Ach i ndáiríre, scoil mhata a bhí inti. Cheap sí go raibh gach duine go dona ag mata. Chaith daoine 15 ceist a fháil i gceart chun an caisleán a fhágáil, mar sin, chum sí ceisteanna a bhí an-an-deacair ionas nach mbeadh daoine in ann fágáil go deo…
Sky News AU
29-04-2025
- Business
- Sky News AU
Heartbreaking moment Aussie small business owner, 27, weeps after making zero sales at popular Sydney market
A young Australian business owner has broken down in tears after she made zero sales throughout the entire day at a popular Sydney market. Caoimhe Stewart, 27, founded activewear brand BEAU in 2024 and spent $450 to prepare for her stall at the harbour city's Glebe Markes recently. BEAU stocks a range of leggings, tops, and shorts that can transition from the gym to everyday life with the aim of making women "feel confident in their skin." However, Caoimhe walked away from Glebe with a financial loss and 40 pieces of damaged goods after a market-goer accidentally knocked over a stock rack onto the rain-soaked ground. "I put everything into bringing my small business to the Glebe markets, made zero sales, and someone accidentally knocked over my rail and ruined most of my items," the business owner said on TikTok this week. On Tuesday, Caoimhe told she was heartbroken to have not made a single sale at the popular Saturday market in Sydney's inner west despite the flurry of people who flocked there in the Autumn downpour. 'I was so excited. I arrived early, between 7 and 8 am, to set up before the market opened at 10 am. Unfortunately, it rained heavily on and off all day," she said. 'It was heartbreaking. Not only had I invested so much into the day, but losing that much stock also set the business back financially. 'I went home completely exhausted, mentally, physically, and emotionally and of course, had a good cry.' Caoimhe, who is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, received widespread support after she shared her experience on social media. One sympathiser said Glebe may not have been the ideal market to sell activewear as it typically attracted bargain hunters after vintage pieces. "Glebe is probably not the correct market for active wear. I love Glebe markets and have never bought any new clothes from there - it's very much a 2nd hand/vintage clothes place," they said. Another person echoed the sentiment and suggested Caoimhe move her stall to Bondi or Kirribilli markets to attract the right crowd. "I feel like the crowd needs to be more of the wellness / active type!! Bondi markets and Kirribilli would be great; I feel like Glebe is for vintage/ thrift-type clothes," they said. Another person shared their similar experience at a Sydney market where they made merely three sales. "Meanwhile, I made $4000 online in the time I was at the market the same day. Never again, haha," the commentator said. Caoimhe started BEAU with her own funds and no external investment, quickly growing the one-person brand. The 27-year-old has avoided hiring external resources and wears multiple hats, from modelling her activewear to managing her website, social pages and bookkeeping. And after her "soul-destroying" market experience, Caoimhe said she felt "inspired" and was "not giving up" on her business dream. "I'm not giving up, just a bump on the road, I have a new collection launching in the next few weeks," she said on social media. "You have to experience the lows to get to the highs... Just need to ride the wave and stick with it."
