# contraception - Friday 24 March, 2017
Turns out 52% of men need a refresher course in sex ed.
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# contraception - Friday 30 December, 2016
The 1985 Family Planning Act saw contraceptives made legal for over-18s without a prescription from selected outlets for the first time.
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# contraception - Friday 28 October, 2016
The 96% effectiveness rate is similar to that achieved by the female combined pill.
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Side-effects could delay it actually happening though.
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# contraception - Sunday 2 October, 2016
Grab a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
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# contraception - Thursday 23 June, 2016
The condoms, worth millions, failed basic tests.
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# contraception - Thursday 10 March, 2016
A series of reports produced by Tusla and the HSE has found a need for a boost in sex education.
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# contraception - Tuesday 26 January, 2016
The countdown to France is underway.
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# contraception - Tuesday 24 November, 2015
Holly Brockwell says she doesn’t want to have children and has problems with other forms of contraception.
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# contraception - Saturday 24 October, 2015
“It’s weird that we have all these different versions of female birth control, and you never really talk about them or see them”.
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# contraception - Friday 9 October, 2015
Playwright Arthur Riordan explains how two men go about writing a musical about feminism.
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# contraception - Saturday 19 September, 2015
A musical has been written about the movement.
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# contraception - Wednesday 5 August, 2015
About 300 women in Ireland are diagnosed with womb cancer each year.
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# contraception - Tuesday 28 July, 2015
Does this mean we’ve reached peak crowdfunding?
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# contraception - Sunday 5 July, 2015
Don’t pat us on the head when we’re *down there*, for a start.
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# contraception - Friday 1 May, 2015
EllaOne can be taken up to five days after unprotected sex.
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# contraception - Saturday 25 April, 2015
Pharmacists think they should…
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They want medical card holders to be able to get the pill over the counter without having to go to a doctor first.
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# contraception - Friday 9 January, 2015
Other forms of contraception, such as the pill, do not appear to increase this risk.
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# contraception - Friday 3 October, 2014
Happy National Potato Day!
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# contraception - Sunday 28 September, 2014
In South Africa, more than 6 million of the country’s 52 million population are HIV positive.
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# contraception - Tuesday 1 July, 2014
The Supreme Court has decided on a long-running dispute about whether companies can opt out of certain aspects of employee health insurance.
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# contraception - Saturday 7 June, 2014
The University of Wollongong could receive $1 million from the Microsoft billionaire for their design.
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# contraception - Monday 10 March, 2014
And in separate claims, students who attended a retreat in Knock also said they were told by speakers that they would lose certain hormones the more often they had sex.
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# contraception - Saturday 22 February, 2014
Bill Gates asked for it and these designers delivered.
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# contraception - Monday 17 February, 2014
While nine per cent say they use natural methods.
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# contraception - Monday 10 February, 2014
As part of the union’s safe sex campaign, students will also be dazzled by the world’s only sexual health magician and can attend workshops by ‘Dr Sex’.
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# contraception - Friday 24 January, 2014
The EU is to investigate if emergency contraception is less effective in women weighing 80kg or more.
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# contraception - Monday 9 December, 2013
Is it bad breath? Talking about their ex? We need to know.
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Watch it here – heads up, it’s quite unsafe for work.
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# contraception - Sunday 8 December, 2013
Revelations that emergency contraceptives were bring sold without a warning that their effectiveness could be compromised in women of a certain weight underlines the lack of holistic education about contraception and sexual health, writes Alison Begas.
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# contraception - Tuesday 3 December, 2013
A contraceptive pill for men has moved one step closer, according to Australian researchers.
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# contraception - Sunday 1 December, 2013
Charities say Ireland has traditionally been at the forefront, but on World AIDS Day they say that support is slipping.
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# contraception - Thursday 21 November, 2013
Those moments when getting it on just goes all wrong.
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The message? Sometimes the sex doesn’t happen, but for when it does – Johnny’s got you covered. Watch the ad here.
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# contraception - Thursday 3 October, 2013
Irish women have been actively demanding the freedom to choose when or if they become pregnant for over 40 years; a great deal has changed regarding contraception, but have we come far enough? asks Fiona Dunkin.
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# contraception - Thursday 19 September, 2013
The pontiff gave his first full-length, wide-ranging interview to an Italian Jesuit journal.
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# contraception - Tuesday 17 September, 2013
Why does sex education in schools address so little about real-life relationships, sexuality, and the practicalities of obtaining contraception?
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# contraception - Wednesday 31 July, 2013
Almost a third of people in a study said they are not concerned about their sexual health.
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# contraception - Monday 27 May, 2013
Divorce, contraception and abortion – all debates that have been been subject to the ‘slippery slope’ argument. But that’s precisely what clear legislation rules out, writes Nathan Wheeler.
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Mostly cloudy with a little rain
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