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Outdoor dining at The Towers bar and restaurant on the Quay in Westport. 100 places to eat outdoors around Ireland when outdoor dining returns on June 7th
  • Food & Drink
  • May 11, 2021, 06:00

Use this interactive guide to pinpoint restaurants and cafes that will be serving food outside

Confronting the hurts of a long, tough year of lockdowns Confronting the hurts of a long, tough year of lockdowns
  • Health & Family
  • Padraig O'Morain
  • May 13, 2021, 06:01

Emotional forgiveness can help leave upsetting events behind and enable understanding

Brigid O’Dea: I hate technology, but when I fix Dad’s problems I feel like a genius Brigid O’Dea: I hate technology, but when I fix Dad’s problems I feel like a genius
  • Health & Family
  • Brigid O'Dea
  • May 13, 2021, 06:01

Assisting my father with his technical queries is a veritable ego boost

Chelsea meets Clanbrassil Street: ‘New urban mews’ proposal for Portobello Chelsea meets Clanbrassil Street: ‘New urban mews’ proposal for Portobello
  • Homes & Property
  • Joyce Hickey
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

Mixed reaction to central Dublin mixed-use development just inside the Grand Canal

Toasty Tardis: Modern Carrickmines home for €825,000 Toasty Tardis: Modern Carrickmines home for €825,000
  • New to Market
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

High-spec three-bed with expansive living rooms and space for garden parties

Room for small changes in this Brighton Road redbrick for €1.35m Room for small changes in this Brighton Road redbrick for €1.35m
  • New to Market
  • Bernice Harrison
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

Bay-windowed Victorian five-bed terraced house has high ceilings and period details

What will €365,000 buy in Dublin and Cavan? What will €365,000 buy in Dublin and Cavan?
  • Homes & Property
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

Town&Country: Two-bed cottage in Ballybough or detached house in Virginia

Good-mood food: The science of happy eating Good-mood food: The science of happy eating
  • Food & Drink
  • Anahad O'Connor
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

Nutritional psychiatry is investigating if diet might affect mental as well as physical wellbeing

No expense spared in modernised Shelbourne three-bed for €1.3m No expense spared in modernised Shelbourne three-bed for €1.3m
  • New to Market
  • Frances O'Rourke
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

Art Deco style blends with Victorian features in handsome D4 house with 100ft garden

Donnybrook des res with Rocha-inspired kitchen for €1.45m Donnybrook des res with Rocha-inspired kitchen for €1.45m
  • New to Market
  • Joyce Hickey
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

Modernised and extended Auburn Avenue four-bed has Herbert Park on its doorstep

Parade’s end two-bed in Portobello for €725,000 Parade’s end two-bed in Portobello for €725,000
  • New to Market
  • Alanna Gallagher
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

Charming end-of-terrace period redbrick with private garden on St Kevin’s Parade

Upstairs downstairs: Kenilworth semi with income potential for €1.45m Upstairs downstairs: Kenilworth semi with income potential for €1.45m
  • New to Market
  • Bernice Harrison
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

D6 home with sunny garden could remain in two units or return to single occupancy

Will this hybrid loo spell the end of toilet roll? Will this hybrid loo spell the end of toilet roll?
  • Homes & Property
  • Alanna Gallagher
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

The Japanese Toto bidet-toilet – starting price €2,250 – washes and dries your derriere

Penthouse residences at InterContinental Dublin with 24-hour room service from €1.2m Penthouse residences at InterContinental Dublin with 24-hour room service from €1.2m
  • New to Market
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

Trio of hotel properties for sale offer five-star living at the heart of the capital’s embassy belt

It is hard to walk away. The friends, opportunities and pace draw you in It is hard to walk away. The friends, opportunities and pace draw you in
  • Abroad
  • Seán Boyle
  • May 13, 2021, 06:00

But, for me, being in Vietnam relied on the fact that home was less than a day away if needs be

Our Columnists

Padraig O'Morain Padraig O'Morain -

Confronting the hurts of a long, tough year of lockdowns

Róisín Ingle Róisín Ingle -

Róisín Ingle: I watch as teenage boys hunt teenage girls at Howth Junction

Laura Kennedy Laura Kennedy -

Laura Kennedy: The beauty products that made me love make-up again after lockdown

Fionnuala Fallon Fionnuala Fallon - Gardening Correspondent

Pledge to Plant: How to join top gardeners in supporting hospice fundraiser

Homes and Property

The proposed development at Orr’s Terrace, fronting Clanbrassil Street. Chelsea meets Clanbrassil Street: ‘New urban mews’ proposal for Portobello
  • Homes & Property
  • Joyce Hickey

Mixed reaction to central Dublin mixed-use development just inside the Grand Canal

2 Foster Terrace, Ballybough, Dublin 3 What will €365,000 buy in Dublin and Cavan?
Toto toilet in situ: is it the business? Will this hybrid loo spell the end of toilet roll?
  • Are we entitled to lay claim to our late uncle’s property?
  • Our new neighbours have cut down the trees along our boundary. What can we do?

Food & Drink

The sugar-laden, high-fat foods we often crave may be the least likely to benefit our mental health. Illustration: Rocio Egio/New York Times Good-mood food: The science of happy eating
  • Food & Drink
  • Anahad O'Connor

Nutritional psychiatry is investigating if diet might affect mental as well as physical wellbeing

Land & Labour Irish beers with Belgian accents: ‘They have a mind of their own’
Outdoor dining at The Towers bar and restaurant on the Quay in Westport. 100 places to eat outdoors around Ireland when outdoor dining returns on June 7th
  • Food & Drink Quiz: Who said ‘Beer is made by men, wine by God’?
  • Basbusa, baklawa and other sweet pastries for Ramadan

Health and Family

Forgiveness can bring release and a way out of the trap of resentment. Photograph: iStock Confronting the hurts of a long, tough year of lockdowns
  • Health & Family
  • Padraig O'Morain

Emotional forgiveness can help leave upsetting events behind and enable understanding

Brigid O’Dea: ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could release all the gunk built up in my head? Pop it. Flush it all out. Give it a clean’. Photograph: Alan Betson Brigid O’Dea: I hate technology, but when I fix Dad’s problems I feel like a genius
An Gie Yen woke up with what seems like an Irish accent after tonsil surgery. Photograph: Screengrab/An Gie Yen/TikTok Australian woman wakes from surgery with an Irish accent
  • Evelyn O’Rourke: ‘While I was waiting for the biopsy results I discovered I was pregnant’
  • Working on the supermarket frontline: ‘It’s really encouraging to be recognised’

Abroad

Sean Boyle from Ballymoney, Co Antrim in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam It is hard to walk away. The friends, opportunities and pace draw you in
  • Seán Boyle

But, for me, being in Vietnam relied on the fact that home was less than a day away if needs be

Sarah McKevitt at Brighton’s beach huts This pandemic is far from over, but it’s my vaccine day and I want to be hopeful
Rian McDonnell: Originally from Dundalk, he has set up FloWaste company 5:36 ‘In the US alone, almost 40% of food gets wasted’
  • Exiled from my old life by Covid, I quit my job and now have two books coming out
  • The Irishman who improved the Church of England

One Change

Microplastics can be released into the water system via the washing of fleeces or other clothing containing plastics. Invisible but everywhere – the growing spread of microplastics
  • Life & Style
  • Sorcha Hamilton

One Change: Tiny particles can be found in food, air and in tap and bottled water

Every country would have to make changes to implement the diet, but for some the changes would be starker. Photograph: Getty It’s time for a new diet. And not just for you
Does ‘being more green’ just add to the already huge list of household duties? Photograph: Getty Who has time to make their own eco-friendly anti-bacterial cleaner?
  • One Change: The growing case for an 80km/h motorway limit
  • For a sustainable recovery, green is the only way forward

Fashion

Green dress by Ghost €109 at Marks+Spencer Dressing up again: 20 dresses to get you back in the mood
  • Fashion
  • Deirdre McQuillan

Fed up of lockdown loungewear? Look on the bright side with this colourful summer wear

Chanel No5 is what comes to mind when we think of perfume itself Smell of success: 100 years of Chanel No5
People touching up their make-up in public is a fascinating window into their lives. Photograph: iStock Laura Kennedy: The beauty products that made me love make-up again after lockdown
  • The life-changing magic of having your hair washed in a salon again
  • Lost your fashion mojo? What to wear to outdoor summer gatherings

Travel

A travel industry representative said those making bookings now appeared ‘responsible’. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Numbers booking hotels and flights rose last month, data shows
  • Travel
  • Conor Pope

Travel industry welcomes extra activity but warns full recovery remains a long way off

Italian travel operators have reported a boom in foreign holidaymakers booking holiday apartments this summer. Limone sul Garda, Lombardy, Italy. Photograph: iStock Italy will reopen to tourists from mid-May with country’s ‘green pass’
If you need your passport because of bereavement, illness, medical treatment overseas, adoption or surrogacy, you can request an urgent renewal via the customer service hub. Photograph: iStock How long will it take to renew my expired passport?
  • Living legends and celebrity stallion welcome visitors again
  • Ireland’s favourite beach resorts: where to eat and what to do there

Motors

The Opel Vivaro-e is easy to drive, comfortable (even on long journeys), and has a usefully square, tall, loadbay (plus sliding doors on both sides, which helps). It’s also fast to charge when you need it to be. Small battery, big load – Opel’s Vivaro-e gives ‘van-man’ a plug
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe

With only a 200km range, can Opel’s new electric van cross the country with ease?

By the midpoint of 2022, at least some of the bottleneck in semiconductor supplies should have subsided. Photograph: Getty Images Chip shortage rolls on as carmakers cut production
Volkswagen’s Klaus Zellmer: ‘We have a trend in society where people, younger people especially, are less willing to commit to purchasing a car.’ Is permanent renting the future of the car?
  • Hyundai to debut its premium Genesis brand in Europe this summer
  • VW kicks off its high-performance electric family with ID.4 GTX

Outdoors

A blackbird’s egg: the bird appears to have started laying very early. Eye on Nature: Eggshells, butter tastes, insects, bark marks, moths and butterflies
  • Ethna Viney

Ethna Viney answers your nature-related questions

Speckled wood butterflies in flying contest. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: A classic dogfight between butterflies
The affinity of the Irish pine marten’s genetic heritage with the martens of Iberia echoes similar molecular links in badgers and red foxes. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Pine marten and its links with Spain
  • Eye on Nature: From a curious sea shell to poisonous mushrooms
  • What is this creature I found in the garden? Readers’ nature queries

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

‘Maybe your kids are rubbish at rugby.’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Then she says it – the words all south Dublin parents dread
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • May 8, 2021

Honor gets frank with Ross after he fails to see the painful truth about his boys’ rugby abilities

‘I can’t go back to that hotel! the old dear goes, with a wobble in her voice. ‘It has two stors, Ross. And I’m not talking about Michelin ones.’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘The gords are hunting me down like an animal! You have to let me in!’
‘He can be alright sometimes, my old man.’ ‘We’re looking for Fionnuala O’Carroll-Kelly. She absconded from quarantine this morning’
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I just assumed quarantine wouldn’t affect people like us
  • Ross O’Carroll Kelly: ‘The old man has promised to stop acting the dick’

People

Ted Murphy Ted Murphy obituary: Expert on Ireland’s historic links to French wine
  • People

Lifelong research produced a book tracing Irish wine links back to ancient monastic life

Kathleen Reynolds not only ran the family home while her husband was preoccupied with affairs of State, she was a confidant on whom he relied during his tumultuous years in the Taoiseach’s office. Kathleen Reynolds obituary: ‘Best adviser and toughest critic’ of Albert Reynolds
James Winston will be remembered by many for his wit and ebullient personality James Winston obituary: Champion of Northern Irish peace process
  • Lyla Steele obituary: Businesswoman who built global food business in Monaghan
  • Ruth Fitzmaurice: A man handed me a coin at the trolley bay. His small kindness moved me to tears

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I’ve watched the video of long-haired teenage girls running along the platform a hundred times or so now. I’ve watched it on a loop to see how long it will take to be desensitised to it. 6:04 Róisín Ingle: I watch as teenage boys hunt teenage girls at Howth Junction
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1 An Gie Yen woke up with what seems like an Irish accent after tonsil surgery. Photograph: Screengrab/An Gie Yen/TikTok Australian woman wakes from surgery with an Irish accent

2 Corry de Jongh, originally from Holland, in Howth, Co Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill ‘I hadn’t done my homework on Ireland. I didn’t know what I’d let myself in for’

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6 I’ve watched the video of long-haired teenage girls running along the platform a hundred times or so now. I’ve watched it on a loop to see how long it will take to be desensitised to it. Róisín Ingle: I watch as teenage boys hunt teenage girls at Howth Junction

7 Outdoor dining at The Towers bar and restaurant on the Quay in Westport. 100 places to eat outdoors around Ireland when outdoor dining returns on June 7th

8 The proposed development at Orr’s Terrace, fronting Clanbrassil Street. Chelsea meets Clanbrassil Street: ‘New urban mews’ proposal for Portobello

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