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Irish band Jiggy’s music video, featuring dance clips from around the world, has been watched more than 11 million times since it was posted on social media last week Getting Jiggy with it: Irish band’s video viewed more than 11 million times
  • Abroad
  • Marie-Claire Digby
  • September 20, 2017, 15:46

Fusion group Jiggy’s unique sound set to dance scenes from around the world goes viral

Lord it on Longford Terrace in Monkstown for €2.35m Lord it on Longford Terrace in Monkstown for €2.35m
  • New to Market
  • Bernice Harrison
  • September 20, 2017, 15:00

Number 17 has been converted back into a magnificent family home in walk-in condition

Mitsubishi set to bring Evo back Mitsubishi set to bring Evo back
  • Motors
  • Michael Taylor
  • September 20, 2017, 14:14

New concept coupe will be shown at Tokyo motor show next month

Irish couple milk an 800-strong herd in New Zealand Irish couple milk an 800-strong herd in New Zealand
  • Working Abroad
  • Louise Purdon
  • September 20, 2017, 13:30

Tired of long working hours and high living costs in Ireland, we took our family to Invercargill

Ryanair flight cancelled? Here’s how to get there anyway Ryanair flight cancelled? Here’s how to get there anyway
  • Travel
  • Joan Scales
  • September 20, 2017, 12:01

The budget airline has cancelled flights between Dublin and nine other airports. We find alternative ways to get there

Healthy Town: Energising tips for all the family Healthy Town: Energising tips for all the family
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A walk for the weekend: Under bare Benbulbin’s spell A walk for the weekend: Under bare Benbulbin’s spell
  • Travel
  • Michael Guilfoyle
  • September 20, 2017, 12:52

Ascending Sligo’s celebrated rock formation rewards the eye and the imagination

Designer Jane Carroll’s Georgian home in Blackrock for €1.1m Designer Jane Carroll’s Georgian home in Blackrock for €1.1m
  • New to Market
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle
  • September 20, 2017, 11:00

House formerly owned by Truelock gunsmith family has been refurbished and extended

Is Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line any good? We put it to the test Is Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line any good? We put it to the test
  • Beauty
  • Laura Kennedy
  • September 20, 2017, 15:22

Celebrity make-up lines are often a disappointment. Laura Kennedy tests Rihanna’s

You want a high-end coupé. So will you go for an Audi, a BMW . . . or a Kia? You want a high-end coupé. So will you go for an Audi, a BMW . . . or a Kia?
  • Motors
  • Michael McAleer
  • September 20, 2017, 06:15

With its Alfa looks and serious engineering, the Stinger is the Korean make’s big bet

Our Columnists

Michael Harding Michael Harding -

‘The flute in my hand, I got on the treadmill like a true Orange Man’

Padraig O'Morain Padraig O'Morain -

Organisational support key to combat burnout

Muiris Houston Muiris Houston -

Ready to snap? Sort out toxic stress before it sorts you out

Ruth Field Ruth Field -

It may be grim up North, but there will always be jelly babies

People

Michael Harding: During the Troubles I worked as a Roman Catholic priest in Fermanagh. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons ‘The flute in my hand, I got on the treadmill like a true Orange Man’
  • People
  • Michael Harding

Michael Harding: Whether Orange or Green, the tunes stayed the same

Izzeddeen and Eman Alkarajeh with their children Omar, Jouri and Lama. Izzeddeen, a Palestinian from the west bank who moved here from Saudi Arabia with his wife and children last year and is living in direct provision in Cork. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision ‘We didn’t come to Ireland to claim benefits. That would be an embarrassment’
You don’t know what stress is unless your kids are terrified their teachers and their classmates will find out they live in an overcrowded bedroom instead of in a three-bed semi, bungalow, or apartment like everyone else. Photograph: Frank Miller Even prisoners are given a balanced diet. Some children aren’t
  • ‘Ross, you need to come and see what I found in Honor’s room’
  • There’s no Hallmark card for when your child flies the nest

Health and Family

We have an increase in obesity and overweight in the population, and pregnancy is a particular risk factor When eating for two puts mother and baby at risk
  • Health & Family
  • Sean Duke

In many cases, it seems that dietary advice and its importance is being ignored or misunderstood by some women

As you get fitter, you will experience less and less pain Get moving: How to get fitter at any age
A twin focus on trauma and mindfulness would likely yield far greater results than focusing so singularly on mindfulness ‘Mindfulness has been McDonaldised and commodified’
  • Busy, busy, busy? How to go from overwhelmed to calm
  • Exhausted? Inefficient? Distant? Parental burnout is inevitable

Homes and Property

Patthana, a garden in Kiltegan Wicklow. Photograph: Richard Johnston Does your garden peak too soon? If so, try these autumn flowering plants
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon

TJ Maher and Simon Kirby’s country garden looks utterly wonderful well into November

St Anne’s Park, Dublin’s second-largest park, is the green lung of Raheny, and offers public tennis courts, an organised 5km run and a market every Saturday. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Priced out of Clontarf or Sutton? There’s value in Raheny
Gate Lodge at the Phoenix Park. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times A hippo, wolves and a tiger for neighbours: Living beside the zoo
  • Investing in Irish art for a rainy day? It’s not without risk
  • The downsizing dilemma? Getting rid of the family furniture

Food & Drink

Children help Cynthia Erickson decorate a lemon blueberry cake she made from a boxed cake mix at her home in Tanana, central Alaska. People customise cakes with Sprite, rum, sea gull eggs and other available ingredients. Photograph: Ruth Fremson/The New York Times Baked Alaska: Having their cake and eating it
  • Food & Drink

When getting to a bakery requires a plane ticket, ‘cake ladies’ do a roaring trade

It makes one huge pot of rice and the leftovers are even better the next day Mexican Red Rice – a midweek one-pot wonder
Happy Pear at home: David and Stephen Flynn have launched a tasty range of vegetarian ready meals Can't get to Greystones? Happy Pear launch a new range of ready meals
  • JP McMahon: We should give a rashers about bacon
  • Review: Dún Laoghaire has been a desert for diners – until now

Travel

Benbulbin, Co Sligo: its level “summit” seems to suggest a magical hidden space A walk for the weekend: Under bare Benbulbin’s spell
  • Travel
  • Michael Guilfoyle

Ascending Sligo’s celebrated rock formation rewards the eye and the imagination

With only 500 permits available per day, travellers are urged to book the trek, which ends at the 550-year old Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Photograph: Getty Images Want to visit Macchu Pichu next year? You’d better get moving
The Free Wifi Finder app uses GPS to find wifi hot spots all over the world. Find a network where you are, and use the Skype or Viber apps to make calls at no cost. 10 apps and websites that will save you money on holiday
  • The best autumn travel deals around the country - whatever your budget
  • Finding a different Malta

Fashion

Fenty1 Is Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line any good? We put it to the test
  • Beauty
  • Laura Kennedy

Celebrity make-up lines are often a disappointment. Laura Kennedy tests Rihanna’s

Paul Costelloe London Fashion Week: a vintage inspired family affair
Winter wedding make-up that won’t let you down
  • Great collection, Topshop, but can we buy it in Dublin?
  • Simone Rocha’s edgy femininity shines at London Fashion Week

Abroad

Irish band Jiggy’s music video, featuring dance clips from around the world, has been watched more than 11 million times since it was posted on social media last week Getting Jiggy with it: Irish band’s video viewed more than 11 million times
  • Marie-Claire Digby

Fusion group Jiggy’s unique sound set to dance scenes from around the world goes viral

Louise Purdon and her husband Jim, who left Ireland to run a dairy farm in New Zealand Irish couple milk an 800-strong herd in New Zealand
Jeff Dunne is starting his second season working on a New Zealand research base in Antarctica this month Life in remote Antarctica, with no phone for months on end
  • ‘The more rooted I get in London, the more homesick I feel’
  • Free as a bird, and looking for a room

Motors

Mitsubishi set to bring Evo back
  • Motors
  • Michael Taylor

New concept coupe will be shown at Tokyo motor show next month

Kia Stinger: the company hopes its new model will lure some buyers away from the Audi A5 You want a high-end coupé. So will you go for an Audi, a BMW . . . or a Kia?
Opel’s OnStar system connects car occupants to a 24-hour call centre at the touch of a button. Opel’s OnStar call-centre system popular with Irish owners
  • Ten things we learned from the Frankfurt motor show
  • Electric cars dominate and excite at Frankfurt motor show

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

“She’s 12, Sorcha. What she gets up to is her own business.” ‘Ross, you need to come and see what I found in Honor’s room’
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • September 16, 2017

‘There could be anything in there: a gun, €100k in cash, one of her teachers gagged’

Out of the corner of her mouth, she goes, “I will never, ever forgive you for this, Ross.” Ross O'Carroll-Kelly: 'Her breath could put a hole in Jon Snow's wall'
“It’s an old rugby injury. You were probably wondering was I that Ross O’Carroll-Kelly? There’s your answer.” Illustration: Alan Clarke ‘It’s the Vico Road. No one around here cleans their own gaff’
  • ‘It still hasn’t dawned on Sorcha that Honor is the wrong crowd’
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘The anaesthetist is a total knockout – no pun intended’

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1 Calm is the absence of disturbance of any kind – physical, mental, emotional or spiritual Busy, busy, busy? How to go from overwhelmed to calm
2 Izzeddeen and Eman Alkarajeh with their children Omar, Jouri and Lama. Izzeddeen, a Palestinian from the west bank who moved here from Saudi Arabia with his wife and children last year and is living in direct provision in Cork. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision ‘We didn’t come to Ireland to claim benefits. That would be an embarrassment’
3 Michael Harding: During the Troubles I worked as a Roman Catholic priest in Fermanagh. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons ‘The flute in my hand, I got on the treadmill like a true Orange Man’
4 Louise Purdon and her husband Jim, who left Ireland to run a dairy farm in New Zealand Irish couple milk an 800-strong herd in New Zealand
5 Number 17 Longford Terrace, Monkstown, Co Dublin, is 445sq m (4,790sq ft) Lord it on Longford Terrace in Monkstown for €2.35m
6 Irish band Jiggy’s music video, featuring dance clips from around the world, has been watched more than 11 million times since it was posted on social media last week Getting Jiggy with it: Irish band’s video viewed more than 11 million times
7 Prof Chris Fitzpatrick: ‘Decisions that relate to the intentional ending of early human life do not neatly fit into a binary mode of thinking.’ Photograph: Aidan Crawley In the media everyone is pro-choice or pro-life. I am both
8 Fenty1 Is Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line any good? We put it to the test
9 Benbulbin, Co Sligo: its level “summit” seems to suggest a magical hidden space A walk for the weekend: Under bare Benbulbin’s spell
10 Katie Teegan had just turned 27 when she decided to move from Dublin to London ‘for a couple of years, to see what it’s like’. ‘The more rooted I get in London, the more homesick I feel’
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