Ray D'Arcy Daily

As a trusted psychologist whose own daughter cut off contact for several years and eventually reconciled, Dr Joshua Coleman is uniquely qualified to guide parents through these fraught interactions. He helps to alleviate the ongoing feelings of shame, hurt, guilt and sorrow that commonly attend these dynamics. By placing estrangement into a cultural context, Dr Coleman helps parents better understand the mindset of their adult children and teaches parents how to implement the strategies for reconciliation and healing that he has seen work in his forty years of practice.

Steve Denehan is an award winning poet who left Dublin and a job in IT to live in rural Kildare and write poetry. He has written eight books of poetry and his latest book called Hopper is a beautiful collection of poems to accompany some of the paintings of Edward Hopper.