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Niamh Kelly: “Recent history is seen all around Beirut, with many buildings still exhibiting bullet holes and shell marks from the civil war.” Welcome to My Place . . . Beirut
  • Abroad
  • Niamh Kelly
  • June 24, 2018, 10:00

Niamh Kelly: ‘One of the best things about this city is the food’

I rent out my Irish house but live abroad. Do I have to pay tax? I rent out my Irish house but live abroad. Do I have to pay tax?
  • Abroad
  • Ask the Experts
  • June 24, 2018, 06:00

Ask the Experts: Revenue has different rules for resident and non-resident landlords

‘I am madly in love with a man who has dumped me’ ‘I am madly in love with a man who has dumped me’
  • Health & Family
  • Roe McDermott
  • June 23, 2018, 16:00

Ask Roe: It has been five months since he called it day but I believe he is the love of my life

The three Michelin-star chef opening a tiny Irish hideaway The three Michelin-star chef opening a tiny Irish hideaway
  • Food & Drink
  • Marie Claire Digby
  • June 23, 2018, 08:00

Jordan Bailey, formerly of Maaemo, is sticking to local ingredients for Aimsir, at Cliff at Lyons

Design Moment: Adidas football boot, 1953 Design Moment: Adidas football boot, 1953
  • Interiors
  • Bernice Harrison
  • June 23, 2018, 07:00

The football boot designed by Adi Dassler for the West German team was worn during the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, where they beat Hungary in the final

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Marian Keyes on Chie Mihara shoes: ‘They will visibly upset your enemies’ Marian Keyes on Chie Mihara shoes: ‘They will visibly upset your enemies’
  • Fashion
  • Marian Keyes
  • June 23, 2018, 06:45

Sudden Wild Enthusiasms: Chie Mihara

‘If video gaming is a disease, what’s next: excessive sunbathing?’ ‘If video gaming is a disease, what’s next: excessive sunbathing?’
  • Health & Family
  • Jennifer O'Connell
  • June 23, 2018, 06:30

For most, the worst result of too much time gaming is just too much time gaming

Movie length has become a reel problem Movie length has become a reel problem
  • Life & Style
  • Dave Leahy
  • June 23, 2018, 06:00

Sound off: Dave Leahy on… Yeah it was good, too long though

How the way we work is changing How the way we work is changing
  • People
  • Patrick Freyne
  • June 23, 2018, 06:00

Automation is destroying jobs and the employer is no longer your paternalistic chum

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Bernice Harrison Bernice Harrison -

Design Moment: Adidas football boot, 1953

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Ross O'Carroll-Kelly -

‘I’m morking the 20th anniversary of failing my test for the first time’

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Sleep-deprived in Sydney: ‘This is inhumane. Somebody please bring me home’

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Sorry, Kanye West, bipolar disorder is not a superpower

People

All changed, changed utterly: many companies no longer want to invest in expensive long-term employees with pensions and workers’ rights How the way we work is changing
  • People
  • Patrick Freyne

Automation is destroying jobs and the employer is no longer your paternalistic chum

The Greenway by Iconic Offices. David Lawlor and Amos Unkovich of Brand New Creative use the break-out booths. Photograph: Dave Meehan ‘A company dog and a pool table don’t make a co-working space’
“My household is about to enter, for a nanosecond, the golden age of parenthood.” Photograph: iStock Jennifer O’Connell: I’m in the parenting golden age. So why do I feel sad?
  • From Syria to Wicklow: A desperate family, an Irish welcome
  • ‘I’m morking the 20th anniversary of failing my test for the first time’

Health and Family

‘I have consistently dreamt of him and hate the thought of sleeping as I get upset that it is all only a dream.’ ‘I am madly in love with a man who has dumped me’
  • Health & Family
  • Roe McDermott

Ask Roe: It has been five months since he called it day but I believe he is the love of my life

Video gaming: John Sharry’s advice to parents is to promote positive habits and set some rules. Photograph: E+/Getty ‘If video gaming is a disease, what’s next: excessive sunbathing?’
John Healy Why I Love . . . yoga retreats
  • Seven tips to improve your memory
  • Rubella threat hasn’t gone away you know

Homes and Property

The Adidas football boot designed in 1953. Design Moment: Adidas football boot, 1953
  • Interiors
  • Bernice Harrison

The football boot designed by Adi Dassler for the West German team was worn during the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, where they beat Hungary in the final

The flowers and leaves of nasturtiums are both edible. Photograph: Richard Johnston How to plant a perfect window box – and then keep it alive
The Hinterland Festival is taking place in Kells, Co Meath. Photograph courtesy of The Hinterland Festival Head to Kells for inspiration and auctions
  • Love islands? Take a look at this €6.75m west Cork retreat with room for a crowd
  • At home with artist Ruthie Ashenhurst in Beara and Ballsbridge

Food & Drink

Jordan Bailey and his wife and Majken, who met four years ago at Henne Kirkeby Kro, the restaurant in Denmark where Majken was working. Photograph: Tom Honan The three Michelin-star chef opening a tiny Irish hideaway
  • Food & Drink
  • Marie Claire Digby

Jordan Bailey, formerly of Maaemo, is sticking to local ingredients for Aimsir, at Cliff at Lyons

Flutes of Black Rock stout being served at the Long Table dinner in Dungarvan Brewery to celebrate Indie Beer Week Indie Beer Week: A celebration of more than 30 Irish microbreweries
Oyster ice cream. Photograph: Alfredo Russo Oyster ice cream: if it’s good enough for Tom Sawyer ...
  • Dunne adds O’Connell’s in Donnybrook to his stable of restaurants
  • Review: Brilliant, creative food in a casual, friendly place

Travel

Muckross Park Hotel & Spa in Co Kerry. Travel Bag: We check out the deals so you don’t have to
  • Travel
  • Jo Linehan

Lakeside luxury in Italy and Kerry, spa time in Kildare and a Birr Castle tour

Landing on the pristine white beaches of Inishkea South. Take to the seas this summer... on a kayak
50 of the best picnic spots in Ireland: nothing says summer like cheese and onion crisps with an optional sprinkling of sand and a spectacular view of coast, waterfall, lighthouse or forest. Photograph: E+/Getty 50 of the best picnic spots in Ireland
  • Ten of Ireland’s best outdoor swimming spots
  • Walk for the Weekend: Rhododendron Walking Festival

Fashion

Her shoes are entirely unalike anyone else’s (that I know of.) Marian Keyes on Chie Mihara shoes: ‘They will visibly upset your enemies’
  • Fashion
  • Marian Keyes

Sudden Wild Enthusiasms: Chie Mihara

Tweed coat by Alison Conneely Irish tweeds and separates you’ll find in Bloomingdale’s (and closer to home)
Rose print dress, €165, crystal heart earrings, €32, sunglasses, €28, at Om Diva, shoes, €88, Buffalo ShoeLab It’s Om Diva’s birthday - of course there’s a party
  • Premium natural skincare brand Tata Harper comes to Ireland
  • Jacket chaos: Who was the intended audience for Melania Trump’s ‘don’t care’ coat?

Abroad

Niamh Kelly: “Recent history is seen all around Beirut, with many buildings still exhibiting bullet holes and shell marks from the civil war.” Welcome to My Place . . . Beirut
  • Niamh Kelly

Niamh Kelly: ‘One of the best things about this city is the food’

If I own a house in Ireland but work abroad is the rental income taxed in Ireland? I rent out my Irish house but live abroad. Do I have to pay tax?
Nina Hynes: ‘Our sense of worth became about how much we were earning, as opposed to valuing a piece of music or art on its own merits.’ Nina Hynes: ‘Irish fear of the establishment is disintegrating slowly’
  • Who knew the beaches of Dublin could be so interesting and so lovely?
  • Wild Geese: a business coach and author who challenges the status quo

Motors

The Camry of the early 2000s was a firm family favourite - and popular with the Garda drivers and taxi drivers as well Taxi drivers and gardaí rejoice: Toyota brings Camry back to Ireland
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe

A favourite of families, taxi drivers and gardai, the comfy four-door saloon is set to return

Best Buys safest cars: Crash test ratings suggest Volvo has the lead
Best buys family crossovers: Another niche is ticked by best-looking Toyota
  • Best buys large SUVs: Best of the big guns remains the Land Cruiser
  • Best buys Family saloons: Mazda comes out tops in a dwindling market

Outdoors

For a leatherback turtle, a jellyfish or a plastic bag? Illustration: Michael Viney We’ve known of ‘the plastic perils in the sea’ for 30 years
  • Michael Viney

Michael Viney: In 1989, decades before David Attenborough’s ‘Blue Planet 11’, I wrote a column for this newspaper on the threat of plastic to marine life

What kind of spider is this? Readers’ nature queries
The Killarney fern – Trichomanes speciosum – is a filmy fern of finely cut, translucent tracery. Drawing: Michael Viney Michael Viney: As hedges and trees have grown, the acre is amassing quite a fernery
  • Butterfly beauty, sexy scents and solar-powered wings
  • In praise of aphid-eating pollinators

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

‘I’m morking the 20th anniversary of failing my test for the first time’
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • June 23, 2018

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I set off for the driving test centre confident it would be 17th time lucky

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: “I know you’re trying to make me feel better, but I know I’m a terrible father” Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Unless it’s escaped your attention, I’m a terrible father’
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: “Sorcha, please. I genuinely don’t think I can do this. I’ll find another job. I could give the Leinster Branch a ring” ‘Are you saying you want me to be one of those stay-in-bed fathers?’
  • ‘I’m the best estate agent you have – and that’s not me being big-headed’
  • ‘If she’s never met a brat like Honor before, she mustn’t be from around here’

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Agnieszka Tyghe and her husband, Dane. Photograph: Patrick Browne ‘The sparks flew. He became more than a driving instructor’
The 100 best places to eat Catherine Cleary and Aoife McElwain pick Ireland’s top spots
 

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1 The Forty Foot in Sandycove is a Dublin institution. Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images Ten of Ireland’s best outdoor swimming spots
2 Jordan Bailey and his wife and Majken, who met four years ago at Henne Kirkeby Kro, the restaurant in Denmark where Majken was working. Photograph: Tom Honan The three Michelin-star chef opening a tiny Irish hideaway
3 ‘I have consistently dreamt of him and hate the thought of sleeping as I get upset that it is all only a dream.’ ‘I am madly in love with a man who has dumped me’
4 50 of the best picnic spots in Ireland: nothing says summer like cheese and onion crisps with an optional sprinkling of sand and a spectacular view of coast, waterfall, lighthouse or forest. Photograph: E+/Getty 50 of the best picnic spots in Ireland
5 sdlfkji From Syria to Wicklow: A desperate family, an Irish welcome
6 If I own a house in Ireland but work abroad is the rental income taxed in Ireland? I rent out my Irish house but live abroad. Do I have to pay tax?
7 Video gaming: John Sharry’s advice to parents is to promote positive habits and set some rules. Photograph: E+/Getty ‘If video gaming is a disease, what’s next: excessive sunbathing?’
8 Niamh Kelly: “Recent history is seen all around Beirut, with many buildings still exhibiting bullet holes and shell marks from the civil war.” Welcome to My Place . . . Beirut
9 ‘I’m morking the 20th anniversary of failing my test for the first time’
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