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“Sometimes I think he judges me for the way I manage.” Photograph: iStock My husband finds it hard to accept our daughter has autism
  • Parenting
  • John Sharry
  • July 15, 2018, 16:01

He says she is just ‘quirky’. I am coping alone and we are fighting a lot over this

Welcome to my place ... Florence Welcome to my place ... Florence
  • Abroad
  • Emma Prunty
  • July 15, 2018, 09:00

Go local in this Renaissance city and try one of the hotel rooftop bars along the river

‘We’re not exclusive but is it wrong if I sleep with someone else?’ ‘We’re not exclusive but is it wrong if I sleep with someone else?’
  • Health & Family
  • Roe McDermott
  • July 15, 2018, 07:00

‘Even though I’m not in an exclusive relationship, I think I’d feel like it was cheating’

A ‘dry’ oil that is suitable for face, hair and body? Witchcraft! A ‘dry’ oil that is suitable for face, hair and body? Witchcraft!
  • Fashion
  • Marian Keyes
  • July 14, 2018, 06:45

Sudden Wild Enthusiasms: Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse

Travel Bag: We check out the deals so you don’t have to Travel Bag: We check out the deals so you don’t have to
  • Travel
  • Jo Linehan
  • July 14, 2018, 06:00

A chocolate massage, gourmet breaks and Waterford Greenway

A family adventure: ‘It was a real moment we would always remember’ A family adventure: ‘It was a real moment we would always remember’
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The other Camino: Blisters and bonding on the Tuscan trail The other Camino: Blisters and bonding on the Tuscan trail
  • Europe
  • Margaret Ward
  • July 14, 2018, 06:00

You don’t even have to be religious to experience joy walking the Via Francigena in Tuscany

Savour the scenery around Antrim’s Causeway Coast Way Savour the scenery around Antrim’s Causeway Coast Way
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  • Helen Fairbairn
  • July 14, 2018, 06:00

Adventure series: Magnificent, signed path explores most famous stretch of North’s coast

JP McMahon: Countless things to do with courgettes JP McMahon: Countless things to do with courgettes
  • Food & Drink
  • JP McMahon
  • July 14, 2018, 06:00

Enjoy the courgette season with a little stir-frying, flame-grilling, slicing and dicing

Sean Moncrieff: ‘Love Island’ is a spooky avatar of our fake news universe Sean Moncrieff: ‘Love Island’ is a spooky avatar of our fake news universe
  • People
  • Sean Moncrieff
  • July 14, 2018, 06:00

Television is all artifice, and the point is that the audience knows this too

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People

Nancy Sinatra with Frank Sinatra in March 1964 as he looks at the Oscar he won for his performance role in The House I Live In. Photograph: AP Nancy Sinatra, first wife of Frank Sinatra, dies at 101
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Nancy Barbato was the first of the singer’s four wives and the mother of his three children

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  • Marty Morrissey: The most famous man in GAA

Health and Family

‘We’re not exclusive but is it wrong if I sleep with someone else?’
  • Health & Family
  • Roe McDermott

‘Even though I’m not in an exclusive relationship, I think I’d feel like it was cheating’

Lorraine Mulligan and her four-legged friends Why I Love To ... Walk the dogs
'Fear has to be overcome and our defences let down to have a satisfactory, real and enduring relationship.' Photograph: iStock I’m divorced 12 years and feel ridiculous chatting up women
  • The absolute beginner’s guide to tackling a triathlon
  • ‘Walk While You Can’ with motor neuron disease

Homes and Property

Rush Harbour: the town’s harbour and its two beaches offer a range of watersports. Photograph: Tom Honan Priced out of Skerries? Consider Rush
  • Homes & Property
  • Tadhg Peavoy

Picture-postcard pretty town has an end-of-the-line feel but there’s value to be had and a good supply of property at all levels

Steve Bradbury in his art studio. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Giving up corporate life for art: "I wish I'd had the balls to do it years ago"
“At least we got the ornamental cherry tree right: placed between the hedge and the old piggery; its lower boughs trimmed; and with a table under the spreading branches – it casts a dappled shadow perfect for breakfasting beneath.” ‘We got lazy and let the gazebos blow away’
  • Long ago view of Carton House among top London sales
  • Eight ways to nail French style at home

Food & Drink

JP McMahon: Countless things to do with courgettes
  • Food & Drink
  • JP McMahon

Enjoy the courgette season with a little stir-frying, flame-grilling, slicing and dicing

The Ivy Restaurant, Dawson Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times First Look: Inside the Ivy restaurant on Dawson Street
Dry rosé in general is one of the most food-friendly wines of all. Photograph: iStock Pale pink or cherry-red? Dry or sweet? How to choose the right rosé
  • Fridge to gallery: when beer becomes art
  • Galette: The best a pastry fan can get

Travel

The breakfast terrace in Fota Travel Bag: We check out the deals so you don’t have to
  • Travel
  • Jo Linehan

A chocolate massage, gourmet breaks and Waterford Greenway

Verdelli castle on the Via Francigena, Tuscany. Photograph: DeAgostini/Getty Images The other Camino: Blisters and bonding on the Tuscan trail
View across White Park Bay and Portbraddan, Causeway Coast, Co Antrim. Photograph: Gareth McCormack Savour the scenery around Antrim’s Causeway Coast Way
  • The wonder of the local stream
  • Iceland: travel by boat for a spectacular entrance

Fashion

Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse A ‘dry’ oil that is suitable for face, hair and body? Witchcraft!
  • Fashion
  • Marian Keyes

Sudden Wild Enthusiasms: Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse

Dress, €72, Monsoon. Hero frocks: Looking for the perfect summer dress?
Paper London’s pattern mini dress, €440. The label is now available in Brown Thomas Paper London, the label loved by Taylor Swift, hits Brown Thomas
  • The luxury mascaras that justify their price tag
  • Oil right: A decade of the product that changed how we care for our hair

Abroad

Lisa Tierney-Keogh in Times Square, New York: “Despite my clear exasperation with New York, we’ve come to terms with one another. I have learned how to navigate this city and its inherent chaos.” Photograph: Maribel de la Torre A Dubliner who became a New Yorker learns to be a Dubliner again
  • Lisa Tierney Keogh

I will have to make space for myself, temper my New York driving, relearn Irish humour

Ciarán Cannon, Minister of State for Diaspora: ‘As it moves from generation to generation that sense of Irishness begins to become diluted. If we allow that to happen, then we have a problem.’ Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times ‘The Irish diaspora is not a resource. It’s a community’
The Duomo: “I’m still awed by its size.” Welcome to my place ... Florence
  • John FitzGerald: Migration is still central to the Irish experience
  • Irish opera singer leading London’s Bring the Noise protest against Trump

Motors

The Jaguar I-Pace. Jaguar shows its hand first in premium plug-in
  • Motors
  • Kyle Fortune

Refreshingly different, but not so outlandish to alienate

Best buys executive saloons: Mercedes E-Class is the star once more
Best buys small cars: Seat steals the show with its Ibiza
  • Best buys sports car/coupé: Lexus is the big surprise
  • Motor tax bands likely to change for WLTP rules

Outdoors

“The view from the top balcony can be sublime.” Illustration: Michael Viney Clifftops have given me some of the high point of my life
  • Michael Viney

Michael Viney: The cliffs of Ireland are the island’s last wild land, the views enchanting tourists on the Wild Atlantic Way

An expert on the whale we featured, plus readers’ nature queries
Upland peat. Illustration: Michael Viney For peat’s sake, our uplands need rain – just not too much at once
  • Michael Viney: The beauty of weeping beeches
  • We’ve known of ‘the plastic perils in the sea’ for 30 years

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'I’ll get you some money in a minute, whatever you’re called. First, I need to weigh you.' Illustration: Alan Clarke ‘The hosepipe ban isn’t for People Like Us. The fine is only €125’
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  • July 14, 2018

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: God, Fionnuala has tipped waiters that for a good Martini

'Honor is taking the whole thing in her stride. She goes, 'I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. I won’t be going anywhere with them tomorrow.'' ‘I considered driving over a cliff just so I wouldn’t have to hear their focking voices’
‘Leo shouts “This is focking bullshit!” and he’s not wrong – 2½ years old or not’
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