<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title><![CDATA[Irish Times Feeds]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com</link><atom:link href="https://www.irishtimes.com/arc/outboundfeeds/feed-life-style/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description><![CDATA[Irish Times Feeds News Feed]]></description><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:56:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><language>en</language><ttl>1</ttl><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><item><title><![CDATA[MasterChef’s new presenter Anna Haugh: ‘I’m really proud I come from Tallaght’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/25/masterchefs-new-presenter-anna-haugh-im-really-proud-i-come-from-tallaght/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/25/masterchefs-new-presenter-anna-haugh-im-really-proud-i-come-from-tallaght/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Róisín Ingle]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dublin chef’s new MasterChef presenting role is one of the highest profile gigs in cooking reality television]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KJJYGGXMUJARBIA33FKGKKNINI.png?auth=1f0119f9eecc4803a5dc7166afbfe9b38c2ee04f5dcac54119b1faef222e3817&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/png" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Chef and restaurateur Anna Haugh. 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Photograph: Alan Betson]]></media:description><media:title><![CDATA[the last day of silver-plated cutlery production after 92 years at the Newbridge Silver Factory.]]></media:title><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Alan Betson</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it worth paying €299.99 for a travel hairdryer? ]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/fashion/2026/04/24/dyson-supersonic-travel-review-smaller-lighter-and-packable-but-still-pricey/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/fashion/2026/04/24/dyson-supersonic-travel-review-smaller-lighter-and-packable-but-still-pricey/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simone  Gannon]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dyson’s more compact take on a cult favourite hair tool will potentially appeal to those who have yet to try the original]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:04:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Fashion</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KPFGW7HMWVESZBS3WV4QM25W4I.jpg?auth=d669af319dde93c84558aa6a90599e1f7a3781ada6222a6bdcbcf1fac7f0ae47&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Dyson Supersonic Travel (€299.99 from dyson.ie): A quality hair tool worth spending on]]></media:description><media:title><![CDATA[Dyson Supersonic Travel]]></media:title><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Séamas O’Reilly: Children must learn their letters, their numbers, and then 6,000 facts about animals]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/24/children-must-learn-their-letters-their-numbers-and-then-6000-facts-about-animals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/24/children-must-learn-their-letters-their-numbers-and-then-6000-facts-about-animals/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Séamas O'Reilly]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The average four-year-old would almost certainly beat the average 40-year-old in a quiz on animal facts]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/JXKYG74IIVCMFO6LLT5HODV3HE.jpg?auth=895815d96dd3506163af14d2e9c5e748e9329e5abe959833f704fb35c50ad520&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Séamas O'Reilly: 'The degree to which adults fetishise animals for children is odd, when you think about it for any length of time at all.' 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There are unwritten rules]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/23/ive-been-turned-down-for-arts-funding-several-times-there-are-unwritten-rules/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/23/ive-been-turned-down-for-arts-funding-several-times-there-are-unwritten-rules/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Emer McLysaght]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Making art is creating something out of nothing, which is expensive in terms of time and brain power]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/43RWBAXXANHSNK22KJQWGW7NCU.jpg?auth=a306b7ad7de3f3cc0668016c2bf7fc39e2f7446f1e61a0d2fe1d1d1b63b2df99&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[It’s extremely difficult to get paid for the potential of a blank page or an empty stage. 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It’s a problem all over the world’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/23/family-disfunction-and-addiction-are-universal-i-wanted-the-humour-in-the-dry-to-be-irish/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/23/family-disfunction-and-addiction-are-universal-i-wanted-the-humour-in-the-dry-to-be-irish/</guid><description><![CDATA[Playwright and screenwriter Nancy Harris on her parents’ separation, the myth of family and her hit show The Dry]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/IDQYIMZ6P5DRRDFXVMWH6XNW3A.jpg?auth=79bb979fc1436256d8c4b21194b115db519d580a3722bb5525daa18887ed9200&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Nancy Harris: 'It became very interesting to me to write about middle-class cruelty.' Photographer: Lee Malone]]></media:description><media:title><![CDATA[Nancy Harris]]></media:title><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Paul Sheedy</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s love got to do with it?]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2026/04/22/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2026/04/22/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/</guid><description><![CDATA[Let’s leave love out of the medical lecture hall and focus instead on empathy and understanding]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><category>Life &amp; Style</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:title><![CDATA[Letters]]></media:title><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seán Moncrieff: Air travel and the subtle art of not giving a f**k]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/22/sean-moncrieff-the-woman-said-i-hope-youre-not-going-to-write-about-this-for-the-irish-times/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/22/sean-moncrieff-the-woman-said-i-hope-youre-not-going-to-write-about-this-for-the-irish-times/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Seán Moncrieff]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On a plane, Herself felt I should surrender my seat or offer to be strapped to the wing. I wasn’t so keen]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/72G5VFESJVFBHO33RZJMQU7CP4.jpg?auth=2e5e101198b5aaac9685aeae791db05e051202d444cba969e2f6a41f0295881d&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[A member of the cabin crew went off to relay the problem to someone in the airport, a process which involved loudly spelling my surname]]></media:description><media:title><![CDATA[Passengers and flight attendents on a plane]]></media:title><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">pcruciatti</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I tell all my Irish friends that Ireland is the Brazil of Europe’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/21/i-tell-all-my-irish-friends-that-ireland-is-the-brazil-of-europe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/21/i-tell-all-my-irish-friends-that-ireland-is-the-brazil-of-europe/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hosanna Boulter]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Stephanie Marques moved to Dublin from São Paulo]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/Z3HY3VVLTVCZLDDNNHOXYCTG3Y.JPG?auth=82ff0d68bc005be623b70fe16b126b709d494a734c7aa7ccf56fccfefbbbb6db&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Stephanie Marques moved to Ireland on St Patrick's Day 2019. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien]]></media:description><media:title><![CDATA[News .. NTP Stephanie Marques from Brazil]]></media:title><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Bryan O'Brien</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Census 1926: National Archives records 20 million hits on first weekend of release]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/20/census-1926-national-archives-records-20-million-hits-on-first-weekend-of-release/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/20/census-1926-national-archives-records-20-million-hits-on-first-weekend-of-release/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Niamh Browne]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Majority of website traffic coming from Ireland, the UK, the US, Australia and Canada]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:36:28 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/M7PMNE6INJDXLPE2SM7QHO2K4E.jpg?auth=a7b64a26b964bca082ba328df6a7abd7726f55350c8fe61a16ef624dee239f14&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Constance Markievicz's 1926 census return. 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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/CPFKAMSEOZCFHM4JSW32DUIS2Q.jpg?auth=97049f58367b137d1158a26428af405e2ba9e022b037659e7d8cbd74e0771074&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Joanne Hunt]]></media:description><media:title><![CDATA[By line Joanne Hunt]]></media:title></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up a communist in Troubles-era Belfast: We were treated more like ‘comrades’ than children]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/20/growing-up-a-communist-in-troubles-era-belfast-we-were-treated-more-like-comrades-than-children/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/20/growing-up-a-communist-in-troubles-era-belfast-we-were-treated-more-like-comrades-than-children/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Róisín Ingle]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Poet Sinéad Morrissey’s elegiac memoir describes growing up in Troubles-era Belfast with communist parents]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RPNTZJZDR5GWLKUA52HKLTWOHI.JPG?auth=ff56d21f516aec79701fa4c656c5cf33dbdf93ea4d92284ad1c1a14409052c8a&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Poet Sinéad Morrissey at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, for the launch of her new memoir, Among Communists. Photograph: Stephen Davison]]></media:description><media:title><![CDATA[For The Irish Times]]></media:title></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travelling by boat and train to Tuscany took longer and cost more, but I loved it]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/travel/2026/04/20/travelling-by-boat-and-train-to-tuscany-took-longer-and-cost-more-but-i-loved-it/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/travel/2026/04/20/travelling-by-boat-and-train-to-tuscany-took-longer-and-cost-more-but-i-loved-it/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lenny Antonelli]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Long days on ferries and trains are tiring, but your arrival feels hard-won and you gain in other important ways]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Travel</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/NYKJ7AATBREXXJKTPO57432K6I.png?auth=5185dfedb9f09e82f12ab952fbca794296c647c862043cccd68d8a64616d247a&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/png" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Slow travel from Tipperary to Tuscany: Long days on ferries and trains are tiring, but this is a great way to travel. Photographs: iStock/Getty Images]]></media:description><media:title><![CDATA[Slow travel from Tipperary to Tuscany]]></media:title></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family’s Roaccutane story: ‘I never thought something like this could happen’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/19/a-familys-roaccutane-story-i-never-thought-something-like-this-could-happen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/19/a-familys-roaccutane-story-i-never-thought-something-like-this-could-happen/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Roche]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Anne Enright died by suicide at the age of 16 in 2024 five days after coming off a six-month course of the acne treatment]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/OKCJVC4CXFD2HNI53BMMCIEN6M.JPG?auth=db3a819229f29217eeb955a007a387a1650637a00aaf3888764cfa8a5ea2704f&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Trióna and Ed Enright at Coolmain beach near their home in west Cork, on the birthday of their eldest daughter Anne, who died by suicide in September 2024, aged 16. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni]]></media:description><media:title><![CDATA[Ireland family mental health depression medicine grief child teen]]></media:title><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Chris Maddaloni</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mount Juliet jewel heist, Malahide murders: The ‘eventful’ weekend of 1926 Irish census]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/19/mount-juliet-jewel-heist-malahide-murders-the-eventful-weekend-of-1926-irish-census/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/19/mount-juliet-jewel-heist-malahide-murders-the-eventful-weekend-of-1926-irish-census/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gregory Walls]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Irish person who garnered perhaps the most international attention 100 years ago does not appear in the independent Irish State’s first census at all]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>People</category><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/YSRWFHF2WRF4HGIT23EDQ4HVZ4.jpg?auth=3ef09a415e66be84718d5bc8d91911603a2e9fc078434e5651e6f0664c013f00&amp;smart=true&amp;width=630&amp;height=350" type="image/jpeg" height="350" width="630"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[1926: 'Family group portrait, commissioned by Mr Casey, Waterford.' 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