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What is our tax situation on returning to Ireland?
  • Abroad
  • November 21, 2016, 20:00

Ask the Experts: Do my husband and I need to move on the same date, if he is using my tax-free allowance?

Should I join a gym instead of running? Should I join a gym instead of running?
  • Fitness
  • Ruth Field
  • November 21, 2016, 17:51

Grit Doctor: It's hard to a choose a freezing cold run in the woods over a 30-minute spinning session in a warm room

Can technology really improve the quality of your sleep? Can technology really improve the quality of your sleep?
  • Health & Family
  • Jamie Ball
  • November 21, 2016, 17:22

If you ban your phone before bed, as advised, how can you set your sleep-better app?

Food we love/hate: Bibi Baskin and Niamh Shields on eggs Food we love/hate: Bibi Baskin and Niamh Shields on eggs
  • Food & Drink
  • November 21, 2016, 17:17

Food Month: Niamh Shields loves the yolks. Bibi Baskin can't stand the smell

Cheap and easy steps to making your home cosy Cheap and easy steps to making your home cosy
  • Interiors
  • Denise O'Connor
  • November 21, 2016, 16:00

The Danish lifesyle concept ‘hygge’ is taking the world by storm for obvious reasons

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‘I was sexually abused throughout my childhood’ ‘I was sexually abused throughout my childhood’
  • Parenting
  • Peter McGuire
  • November 21, 2016, 16:00

‘We need better programmes to help child sex abusers, as well as preventative programmes’

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Jennifer O’Connell: ‘How are victims of domestic violence supposed to seek help now?’

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Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I think it was JFK who said that politics was the something-something of something-something else’

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Beerista: One bar, one brewer – and loads of beers

Hilary Fannin Hilary Fannin -

Sharon Stone’s advice for empty nesters is ... not bad actually

Food Month

How do you like your eggs in the morning? Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Food we love/hate: Bibi Baskin and Niamh Shields on eggs
  • Food & Drink

Food Month: Niamh Shields loves the yolks. Bibi Baskin can't stand the smell

Harvesting the crop on Rathlin Island. Seaweed: the next big step for Irish food and farming?
A long existential primate zen moment at Dublin Zoo. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Raw fish, rose petals and frozen mice: feeding time at Dublin Zoo
  • Bulb that can light up your cooking
  • Zero waste, lots of taste: Douglas McMaster’s food revolution

Health and Family

‘I remember being five years old in my bunk bed and I would hear Gerard coming home.’ Illustration: Dearbhla Kelly ‘I was sexually abused throughout my childhood’
  • Parenting
  • Peter McGuire

‘We need better programmes to help child sex abusers, as well as preventative programmes’

Many runners have chosen to go minimal when running, but the great majority of runners remain attached to their expensive footwear. Minimal footwear may reduce running injuries, study finds
The impact of sleep deprivation on human health is ‘scarcely investigated’ Can technology really improve the quality of your sleep?
  • Did pre-wedding bodybuilding cause my deep vein thrombosis?
  • Running: How to make gravity your friend

Homes and Property

Having a number of different light sources in a room allows you to control the atmosphere in the room Cheap and easy steps to making your home cosy
  • Interiors
  • Denise O'Connor

The Danish lifesyle concept ‘hygge’ is taking the world by storm for obvious reasons

Gin and Tonic cocktail set: “lets you go beyond the boundaries of ice and a slice”. House Rules: The art of showing off at home
The boathouse in Galway Bay. Photograph David Ruffles Simplicity rules in light-filled converted old boathouse on Galway Bay
  • Home Front: Design, awards, people and events
  • For an Irish cotton firm, home is where the business is

People

Lupita Tovar: July 27th, 1910-November, 12th, 2016. Above, with Gene Autry in the western South of the Border. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Lupita Tovar: ‘Dracula’ star who became the ‘Sweetheart of Mexico’ dies, aged 106
  • People

Obituary: The Spanish-language version of ‘Dracula’ was shot from 7pm to 7am, after the English-language cast had gone home

“If the part-time activist is to be believed, the child will not be referred to as either male or female and will be brought up as gender neutral.” Russell Brand’s ‘genderless’ daughter not one of his better ideas
Catherine and David made their vows during a ceremony performed by David’s father, a pastor Our wedding story: From Lima with love
  • Our Wedding Story: falling for each other at the waterfall
  • Our wedding story: Two ceremonies in different countries

Travel

Scotland’s North Coast 500: Some people drive anti-clockwise, saving the more dramatic west coast scenery till last. Photograph: Sue Mountjoy Get your Route 66 kicks closer to home
  • Europe
  • James Ruddy

Scotland’s Highland way offers the scenery, characters and pit stops for a perfect road trip

The Dalloway Terrace at The Bloomsbury hotel is now open for the festive season Check-in: Deals and breaks in Ireland and abroad
Artists Laura McMorrow and Ciarán Hussey, above, cycled 10,000km as they travelled from Japan to Ireland Cycling from Japan to Ireland... with a little vodka for breakfast
  • Back to central Europe with a bump
  • Travel Gear: Surprise offering from a serious camera-maker

Fashion

Pucker up for some lip service
  • Beauty
  • Dominique McMullan

Tried and Tested: The six best lipsticks, glosses, stains and pencils to add to your makeup bag

Left: ‘Helter’ featherweight cashmere blend cardigan with silk panels in cerulean blue €365; Right: ‘Skinny Scoop Neck’ ribbed cashmere blend knit in colour squirrel €365 Beautiful yarns and unique colour palette
“I’d say my style is quite casual, urban and not too fussy”
  • Smells like Christmas spirit: the best scented gifts
  • Irishman to auction Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Happy Birthday’ dress

Abroad

Katie Walsh: Calling my friend a plastic Paddy seemed harmless. Why are Irish people so precious about Irishness?
  • Generation Emigration
  • Katie Walsh

Our struggle to establish our identity should make us have more empathy for others

Rachel Healy and Samantha White in Vancouver: ‘It feels like you’re going to crack up when you’re sitting in a tiny apartment, and you can’t even call home because of the time difference.’ Friends become family for Irish women in Canada
Connected: Sinéad Clarke of the Irish Design House and Sinéad O’Neill of CraicTO. Photograph: Benny Corrigan Irish women, ditch your modesty: how to job-hunt, Canadian style
  • Undocumented Irish in US live in fear of Trump’s resolve
  • What’s it like to work at sea for 28 days at a time?

Motors

The boys are back: Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson are back pratting about with cars on screen in Amazon’s The Grand Tour Grand Tour review: Jeremy Clarkson & Co revive Top Gear spirit but is anything new?
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe

Former Top Gear trio are back with Amazon dollars and sweeping visuals but episode one feels a touch too familiar

Alfa Romeo unveils first SUV crossover
Not as dynamically sharp as the Civic, but the HR-V is still a fine car 80 Honda HR-V: showcasing the compromises of crossovers
  • 81 Lexus RX: great styling with dramatic angles and grille
  • 82 Hyundai Santa Fe: Good but needs to up its game

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

“Hennessy and I are preparing a tender for a project,” he goes. “How many of those blocks do you think we’d need to build a wall? Height, 12 feet. Depth, four feet. Length, oh, about the length of the border between the United States and Mexico.” Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I think it was JFK who said that politics was the something-something of something-something else’
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • November 19, 2016

The old man is thinking about building a wall – and that new wig looks awfully familiar

Tonight, there’s, like, a ceasefire. Because Ronan Masters has got engaged. “Are you habben a good noyt?” I hear a voice go. I turn my head and it’s the man himself Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: When she was born, the midwife smacked her orse and Sorcha fake-smiled her back
The old dear: I could see it in her face – she’s here to try to weasel her way back into the old man’s life, pick her moment, then jump his bones Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Don’t be frightened,’ I went. ‘It’s just latex and make-up – but you can call her Granny’
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Maybe we should have this conversation again when you’ve slept off whatever book you were drinking tonight’
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘God, I could tell you some stories about my debs days. Like the one where I went to two different debses on the same night’

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1 To profit from Black Friday, consumers should eschew cheap-as-chips deals and focus on big-ticket items. Photograph: Rob Stothard/Getty Images Conor Pope’s Black Friday advice: pricey items offer best bargains
2 “If the part-time activist is to be believed, the child will not be referred to as either male or female and will be brought up as gender neutral.” Russell Brand’s ‘genderless’ daughter not one of his better ideas
3 Johanne holds Siobhan who cannot walk, is non-verbal, does not eat solid food, is doubly incontinent, and has only one kidney. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Minding my disabled daughter: 'I don't want to do this anymore'
4 Should I join a gym instead of running?
5 Vincent O’Brien: bought supplements online from what appeared to be a reputable company, only later to learn that the supplement industry, especially in bodybuilding, is poorly regulated. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Did pre-wedding bodybuilding cause my deep vein thrombosis?
6 Harvesting the crop on Rathlin Island. Seaweed: the next big step for Irish food and farming?
7 Katie Walsh: Calling my friend a plastic Paddy seemed harmless. Why are Irish people so precious about Irishness?
8 Many runners have chosen to go minimal when running, but the great majority of runners remain attached to their expensive footwear. Minimal footwear may reduce running injuries, study finds
9 Artists Laura McMorrow and Ciarán Hussey, above, cycled 10,000km as they travelled from Japan to Ireland Cycling from Japan to Ireland... with a little vodka for breakfast
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Circus is the new and eye-catching home collection by Marcel Wanders for Alessi (alessi.com) that includes a decorated stainless steel ice bucket, €110; wine cooler, €215, printed tinplate round boxes, €56 for a set of two; fine bone china mugs, €30 each, round bowls, €29 for a set of two; a bottle stand, €59, placemat, €68, round tray, €145, all of which are available at Brown Thomas, Dublin and will make great Christmas gifts. There is also a limited edition collection that includes a candyman bonbon dispenser, €950 and a strongman nut cracker, €1,000. House Proud: Circus fun
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