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‘It’s proving a lot trickier than I anticipated to secure the bouncy castle I’d promised the children.’ The last time things were my kind of normal, my youngest was still in Montessori
  • Parenting
  • Jen Hogan
  • September 27, 2021, 06:01

Jen Hogan: He enjoyed the party, mind, and I enjoyed that he was doing something normal

There are two reasons why I wanted to run the London Marathon There are two reasons why I wanted to run the London Marathon
  • Fitness
  • Conor Lane
  • September 27, 2021, 06:01

I will be participating five years after receiving a rare bone-cancer diagnosis at the age of 24

Alcohol and your gut: disrupting the balance of good vs bad bacteria Alcohol and your gut: disrupting the balance of good vs bad bacteria
  • Health & Family
  • Geraldine Walsh
  • September 27, 2021, 06:01

Anxiety and stress can also have a profound effect on what comprises a delicate equilibrium

What sold for about €535,000 in Dublin and Wicklow What sold for about €535,000 in Dublin and Wicklow
  • Homes & Property
  • September 27, 2021, 06:00

Dún Laoghaire two-bed seaview apartment or four-bed detached in Wicklow countryside

Food & Drink Quiz: What’s that spirit in a Dark’n’Stormy cocktail? Food & Drink Quiz: What’s that spirit in a Dark’n’Stormy cocktail?
  • Food & Drink
  • September 27, 2021, 06:00

Plus: Pick out the main ingredient in an English chorley cake

A self-build in Offaly that has turned into a sustainable dream home A self-build in Offaly that has turned into a sustainable dream home
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Property hot spots: The towns with the biggest price rises in Ireland Property hot spots: The towns with the biggest price rises in Ireland
  • Homes & Property
  • Fiona Reddan
  • September 27, 2021, 06:00

A Tipperary town has seen prices jump by 23% in a year. In central Dublin prices have fallen

A delicious home-made ice cream that uses a surprising Irish ingredient A delicious home-made ice cream that uses a surprising Irish ingredient
  • Food & Drink
  • JP McMahon
  • September 27, 2021, 06:00

JP McMahon: This recipe makes use of a fruit grown in Ireland for centuries

An emigrant’s pandemic: A week after Allegra was born, my phone rang. I knew Dad was gone An emigrant’s pandemic: A week after Allegra was born, my phone rang. I knew Dad was gone
  • Abroad
  • Laura Shiels
  • September 27, 2021, 01:00

I watched his funeral every day for two or three months. It still doesn’t feel real, writes Laura Shiels

Warm welcome from Church of Ireland helped a Catholic relish diversity in Britain Warm welcome from Church of Ireland helped a Catholic relish diversity in Britain
  • Abroad
  • Declan McSweeney
  • September 27, 2021, 00:00

Making friends in the Church of Ireland in Offaly made me embrace all religions in UK

How much water do you need to drink every day? How much water do you need to drink every day?
  • Health & Family
  • Christie Aschwanden
  • September 26, 2021, 06:00

What electrolytes do and other hydration-related questions answered

She wished she was back home in Derry. Now she is She wished she was back home in Derry. Now she is
  • Homes & Property
  • Jeanneanne Craig
  • September 26, 2021, 06:00

Ceramic artist Babs Belshaw and family left Dublin and moved back to rural Co Derry

Discover the magic of mushrooms in this comforting pasta dish Discover the magic of mushrooms in this comforting pasta dish
  • Food & Drink
  • Lilly Higgins
  • September 26, 2021, 06:00

A simple dinner with all the creamy satisfaction of a risotto, without the stirring

Dear World: ‘No one is ready for the cold hard reality of climate change’ Dear World: ‘No one is ready for the cold hard reality of climate change’
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  • September 26, 2021, 06:00

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How do you like them apples from 18,000km away when they’re in season here? How do you like them apples from 18,000km away when they’re in season here?
  • Life & Style
  • Catherine Cleary
  • September 26, 2021, 06:00

Spend It Better: Kiwi apples in Irish shops is a troubling sign of a wayward system

Estate agent fees in Ireland typically range from 1 – 3 per cent plus VAT depending on the agent, the type of property, the location and ultimately, the seller's ability to negotiate the best deal. Moving house? Here’s how to make the right move
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The last time things were my kind of normal, my youngest was still in Montessori

Laura Kennedy Laura Kennedy -

Best before: Do you know how long your beauty products last?

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

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’m having Vietnam-style flashbacks here

Róisín Ingle Róisín Ingle -

Róisín Ingle: Never mind the anti-vaxxers, we need to talk about the anti-relaxers

Homes and Property

29 The Pavilion, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin What sold for about €535,000 in Dublin and Wicklow
  • Homes & Property

Dún Laoghaire two-bed seaview apartment or four-bed detached in Wicklow countryside

Irish property prices rose by 6.9 per cent in the year to June 2021, with Dublin prices up by 6.4 per cent and prices outside Dublin up by 7.4 per cent Property hot spots: The towns with the biggest price rises in Ireland
Babs Belshaw in her pottery studio in Blackheath Pottery, Coleraine, Co Derry. Photograph: Joe Dunne She wished she was back home in Derry. Now she is
  • Just moved into a house with a wild garden? Here’s how to tackle it
  • Windswept Paul Henry painting a highlight of virtual €1m art sale

Food & Drink

Food & Drink Quiz: What’s that spirit in a Dark’n’Stormy cocktail?
  • Food & Drink

Plus: Pick out the main ingredient in an English chorley cake

Fresh figs can form the basis of a delicious ice-cream A delicious home-made ice cream that uses a surprising Irish ingredient
Mushroom orzotto Discover the magic of mushrooms in this comforting pasta dish
  • Fallon & Byrne wine cellar reopens with a new look and tempting menu
  • Paul Flynn: Three unashamedly rich and retro recipes

Health and Family

‘It’s proving a lot trickier than I anticipated to secure the bouncy castle I’d promised the children.’ The last time things were my kind of normal, my youngest was still in Montessori
  • Parenting
  • Jen Hogan

Jen Hogan: He enjoyed the party, mind, and I enjoyed that he was doing something normal

Conor Lane training for the London Marathon. There are two reasons why I wanted to run the London Marathon
‘If you have IBS or functional dyspepsia, the effects of anxiety and stress on the gut are more pronounced.’ Alcohol and your gut: disrupting the balance of good vs bad bacteria
  • How much water do you need to drink every day?
  • Should I tell my ex how much she hurt me?

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Mam, myself and Dad on August 28th 2019 – the last time we were all together at home in Artane An emigrant’s pandemic: A week after Allegra was born, my phone rang. I knew Dad was gone
  • Laura Shiels

I watched his funeral every day for two or three months. It still doesn’t feel real, writes Laura Shiels

Declan McSweeney first encountered difference in Tullamore, Co Offaly and is learning more as he travels around Britain Warm welcome from Church of Ireland helped a Catholic relish diversity in Britain
Ciaran Leonard An emigrant’s pandemic: I returned to Brazil knowing I would never see my mother alive again
  • The Irish scientist ‘building’ body parts in Australia
  • An emigrant’s pandemic: Covid took our livelihood away and laid waste to our plans

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

The 'I Do' tailored trouser suit from Carolyn O’Sullivan's Not Another White Dress September style: This month’s news, trends and people in fashion
  • Fashion
  • Deirdre McQuillan

It’s all about collaborations, unconventional designs and experimentation

Don’t take a chance with expired make-up. Photograph: iStock Best before: Do you know how long your beauty products last?
Supermodel: Linda Evangelista at the Ralph Lauren spring 1997 show in New York. Photograph: PL Gould/Images/Getty Linda Evangelista says she is ‘permanently deformed’ after cosmetic treatment
  • ‘I was completely obsessed’: Olympic diving champion Tom Daley on his passion for knitting
  • Fashion with a flourish: 44 Irish designers turn heads at online show

Travel

Glanleam House hosts exotic gardens near Knightstown on Valentia Island, Co Kerry. Glanleam House: A sub-tropical paradise retreat on Valentia Island
  • Ireland
  • Victoria White

House and gardens run as B&B with three self-catering houses to rent on the estate

Ballyhoura Walking Festival, Limerick From the fringes of Mayo to the skies of Derry, head for the heights this Autumn
Mount Cumbre Vieja spews out columns of smoke, ash and lava. Photograph: Desiree Martin / AFP via Getty Images La Palma volcano is unlikely to affect Irish tourists to the Canaries
  • Follow Don Conroy to Ashford Castle, and other autumn escapes
  • Commuting in a Covid world – how are you getting to work?

Motors

Chelsea Brun Chelsea is one of 1,000 female apprentice motoring technicians training in Ireland this year, a record number Women still underrepresented at the frontline of motor trade
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe

Shortfall of motoring technicians as IT industry poaching the best candidates

Volkswagen says the changes proposed by the Tax Strategy Group to the VRT rebate would mean the price of the popular ID.3 Family increase by about €4,100. Photograph: Paddy McGrath New car prices will jump €1,300 – with electric vehicles up €4,100 – under budget proposals
Apple has been working on its own car project – known as Project Titan – since 2014. Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images Apple’s automotive ambitions dealt blow as car chief joins Ford
  • Munich motor show: Climate change casts uncomfortable shadow over event
  • Renault Arkana: Mid-sized family crossover drives softly and subtly

Outdoors

‘For more theatrical, often spectacular, colour, I can look to autumn sunsets over the sea.’ Illustration: Michael Viney Climate change threatens to tip autumn into chaotic, wintry instability
  • Michael Viney

Another Life: Earlier leaf-fall, even of days, could reduce carbon stored by forests

A golden eagle over moorland. Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Ireland’s birds of prey soar once more as rewilding efforts pay off
Perhaps a good place to start with beavers might be the rehabilitated midland bogs, where their dams would speed up the rewetting. Artwork by Michael Viney Another Life: the case for introducing beaver to Ireland
  • Another Life: Business case grows for Irish plants with healing properties
  • Nature Diary: From the Wexford sloblands to the Shannon

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‘I didn’t exactly discourage her, especially when she said Ronan had taught her how to make it look like an accident’. Illustration: Alan Clarke Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’m having Vietnam-style flashbacks here
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • September 25, 2021

Sometimes it’s easier to tell a girl the truth. I’m like, ‘Honor burned down the caravan, Sorcha’

Sorcha’s going through the phases, in fairness to the girl. She’s like, ‘Oh my God, they look like sprouts, but they actually taste of, like, kale?’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Sorcha did Fake Sincerity as an extracurricular subject in Mount Anville
Illustration: Alan Clarke Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: First day in Willow Pork for the triplets – the absolute shame of it
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’m no Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin but I feel like I have a superpower
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I genuinely don’t think I’m ready to be a Blackrock dad’

People

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  • People

At the age of 19 he joined the Armée de Liberation Nationale (ALN), the military wing of the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) fighting for Algeria’s independence from France. Abdelaziz Bouteflika obituary: President of Algeria for nearly 20 years
Jane Powell: “I get angry when I hear other actors blame the studios for all their problems.” Photograph: Getty Images Jane Powell obituary: Hollywood star who was typecast from the outset
  • Hector Ó hEochagáin on his brother’s death: ‘It feels as if I lost a leg’
  • Emer McLysaght: Turns out I was right to be terrified of quicksand all along

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Irish property prices rose by 6.9 per cent in the year to June 2021, with Dublin prices up by 6.4 per cent and prices outside Dublin up by 7.4 per cent Property hot spots: The towns with the biggest price rises in Ireland
‘I didn’t exactly discourage her, especially when she said Ronan had taught her how to make it look like an accident’. Illustration: Alan Clarke Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: I’m having Vietnam-style flashbacks here
With great power comes great responsibility. Being the WhatsApp group administrator is like being the host at a party. How to leave a WhatsApp group. It’s all about timing

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1 For most young, healthy people, the best way to stay hydrated is simply to drink when you’re thirsty. Photograph: iStock How much water do you need to drink every day?

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10 Declan McSweeney first encountered difference in Tullamore, Co Offaly and is learning more as he travels around Britain Warm welcome from Church of Ireland helped a Catholic relish diversity in Britain

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