Like Family

Trish Murphy, psychotherapist, explains to Brenda that the memories created during family holidays can sustain a family through the ups and downs of life.

In this edition of Like Family, Brenda visits St John's National School in Kenmare where she meets pupils, teachers, parents and internet safety expert Ger Bric to discuss the school's digital detox programme. She asks if being absorbed in the digital world is undermining our real world family relationships?

This week, Brenda Donohue asks how important is family support to elite sporting success? She meets canoeist Jenny Egan and boxer Eric Donovan and discusses the latest research with Kate Kirby of the Sport Ireland Institute.

In this edition of Like Family, Brenda talk to families in Ireland about faith. Ionela and Roxane are sisters-in-law and Romanian Orthodox Christians. Orthodox Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Ireland, according to recent census data.

When the first star appears at tea time on Christmas Eve, Poles traditionally gather to celebrate Christmas. Brenda Donohue is meeting Polish families on Christmas Eve.

On this Christmas night special of Like Family, Brenda Donohue celebrates the success of the Irish women's hockey team - silver medallists at World Cup 2018 - and the families who support them

Brenda meets families whose stories have been shaped by the GAA.

This weeks episode is about families and food - growing, cooking and eating together.

As the Championship season reaches its' climax, Brenda meets families for whom the GAA has become a central part of their lives.

Brenda meets families to talk about living with faith and living with none

In a changing world, Brenda asks what will the family of the future look like?

Brenda meets Oisin, a new arrival. How does a newborn experience his family?

Brenda meets families with a family business and asks what the future holds.

Brenda meets family carers, some of the 200,000 men and women who give 6 million hours of special care every week.

Global romance - Brenda Donohue talks to families about international love, finding home and raising children.

In this special edition of Like Family, Brenda Donohue travels around Ireland meeting babies born in 2016.

This week Brenda Donohue meets the Millennials. Aged between twenty and thirty six, this generation are navigating uncertain waters in the transition from childhood to adulthood. Precarious is the new word in the Like Family vocabulary! But are they worse off than previous generations?

Brenda Donohue asks what is it like to grow older in Ireland, finds out that loneliness is an important risk to well-being and wonders what are grandparents up to?

Brenda Donohue meets couples to talk about marriage. Last year, the marriage equality referendum was passed. Marriage has changed, but is it still important?

In the first programme of the Like Family series, Brenda Donohue visits Ratoath in County Meath, once a small village, now a town in Dublin's commuter belt.