About Lisa
The mum behind Red Mum
Red Mum was started by Lisa Redfield, a Dublin mum who got tired of losing evenings to the search. Here is why it exists.
Lisa Redfield
The short version
I’m Lisa Redfield. I live in Dublin, I have two children, and for about a decade I ran a small design studio while trying to keep a household on the road. Red Mum grew out of the part of family life nobody warns you about: the searching.
Not the big decisions. The small, constant ones. Somewhere for a birthday. A rainy Tuesday in the school holidays. A summer camp that would not fall apart by Wednesday. A family-friendly restaurant that actually meant it. The answers were out there, but they were buried under sponsored results, old blog posts and threads from years ago.
The thought that would not go away
I kept coming back to the same thing, usually at eleven at night with a dozen tabs open. I don’t need two hundred results. I need a good shortlist. Someone who had already done the digging and would just tell me the handful worth considering.
That is what Red Mum is. I do some of the searching, check that places are real and open, and write up the useful part. It is not about perfect parenting or a spotless house. Mine is neither. It is about making the practical bits of family life take less of your evening.
What Red Mum is not
It is not a mummy blog, and you will not get a running diary of my life here. It is not an influencer feed, and nobody is paying me to call a place wonderful. It is not a directory with a thousand listings and no opinion. It is a small, honest publication with one test: would this save a busy parent time?
I am a parent who did the homework, not an expert on a stage. If a shortlist here saves you one long, tab-heavy evening, it has done its job.
Lisa
Founder, Red Mum
See how we choose the places on our lists, or browse the guides.
Start with a shortlist
Skip the two hundred search results. Pick a Red Mum guide, get the useful part, and get on with your day.