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ITAA said consumers should “adhere to the current travel guidelines from the Department, which state that non-essential travel should be avoided until further notice”. File photograph: Natascha Libbert/Bloomberg Irish travel agents call for 'clear guidelines' as airlines launch summer schedules
  • Europe
  • Conor Pope
  • June 2, 2020, 21:23

Tourists must follow government advice on travel, not airline offers, says industry body

Irish holidaymakers will not be barred from Greece when tourism restarts Irish holidaymakers will not be barred from Greece when tourism restarts
  • Europe
  • Conor Pope
  • June 2, 2020, 16:50

Department of Foreign Affairs advisory against travel except to UK remains in place

Double Standards for Men No 253: Lynn Ruane v Paul Mescal Double Standards for Men No 253: Lynn Ruane v Paul Mescal
  • People
  • Tanya Sweeney
  • June 2, 2020, 14:50

As the actor jogged topless around London, Lidl asked the Senator to rethink her outfit

Death of Business Post drinks columnist Tomás Clancy Death of Business Post drinks columnist Tomás Clancy
  • Food & Drink
  • John Wilson
  • June 2, 2020, 14:00

The newspaper’s wine and spirits writer is remembered for his erudition and wit

Irish in America: Share your views on the protests Irish in America: Share your views on the protests
  • Abroad
  • June 2, 2020, 15:10

Death of George Floyd has prompted demonstrations across the US. We want to hear from readers living there

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Do I want things to go back to normal? I’m not so sure I do Do I want things to go back to normal? I’m not so sure I do
  • Health & Family
  • Máiréad Ni Chiarba
  • June 2, 2020, 10:57

I don’t miss the long commutes, poor work-life balance or feeling of always being in a rush

The subtle signs that point the way towards haemochromatosis The subtle signs that point the way towards haemochromatosis
  • Health & Family
  • Jen Hogan
  • June 2, 2020, 06:01

Excess iron retention can lead to symptoms including chronic fatigue and aching joints

Childcare: ‘So, you go out and take the child kicking and screaming from the car?’ Childcare: ‘So, you go out and take the child kicking and screaming from the car?’
  • Health & Family
  • Sheila Wayman
  • June 2, 2020, 06:01

Number of questions remain as to how industry can operate in the coronavirus era

What will reopened childcare centres look like to staff and to children? What will reopened childcare centres look like to staff and to children?
  • Parenting
  • Sheila Wayman
  • June 2, 2020, 06:01

In Denmark, adapted childcare rules show Covid-19 risks continue to be taken seriously

We must consider the negative health consequences of the lockdown We must consider the negative health consequences of the lockdown
  • Health & Family
  • Dr Muiris Houston
  • June 2, 2020, 06:01

Muiris Houston: It is time for a national conversation about the ethics of lockdown

Whiskies: Another round of the Redbreast Dream Edition Whiskies: Another round of the Redbreast Dream Edition
  • Food & Drink
  • John Wilson
  • June 2, 2020, 06:00

Whiskey drinkers can enter a special ballot to be in with a chance of buying €490 bottle

Making dinner is the new getting dressed. Just ask Selena Gomez and Gigi Hadid Making dinner is the new getting dressed. Just ask Selena Gomez and Gigi Hadid
  • Food & Drink
  • Jess Cartner-Morley
  • June 2, 2020, 06:00

Lockdown has seen the fashion world pivot from frocks to food. It’s the new couture

Comforting and practical products for at-home self-care Comforting and practical products for at-home self-care
  • Beauty
  • Laura Kennedy
  • June 2, 2020, 06:00

Laura Kennedy: These are the products that make me feel better right now

One-dish fish: Baked turbot with fresh peas and Pernod sauce One-dish fish: Baked turbot with fresh peas and Pernod sauce
  • Food & Drink
  • Graham Neville
  • June 2, 2020, 06:00

Kitchen Cabinet: Monkfish, cod and hake also work in this quick, one-pan dinner

Our Columnists

Malachy Clerkin Malachy Clerkin -

We’ve got new lockdown rituals, but man, I miss the old ones

Róisín Ingle Róisín Ingle -

Róisín Ingle: Even Matt Damon has fecked off back home

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

‘Adultery is like getting a dent in a new cor. Once you’ve done it the first time, it becomes easier’

Fionnuala Fallon Fionnuala Fallon - Gardening Correspondent

Bloom to Zoom: garden fest is online with chats and tips

Homes and Property

Many tenants whose businesses have closed have been asking whether they are entitled to some form of rent relief. Photograph: iStock Coronavirus: Am I entitled to a rent holiday from my shop lease?
  • Homes & Property

Whether you are eligible for relief during the pandemic will largely depend on your lease

A Mouse in Full by Mairead O’hEocha - a favourite piece of art xpert Nicholas Gore Grimes which he bought in 2008. Image: Courtesy the artist and Mother’s Tankstation Dublin How to start an Irish art collection on a budget
22 Church Road, Dalkey, Co Dublin What sold for €685k and less in Dalkey, Drumcondra, Sandymount and D16
  • Seven great Irish escapes to rent when lockdown lifts
  • Home front: Sparkling reasons for choosing chandeliers

Food & Drink

Business Post drinks columnist Tomás Clancy. Photograph: Marc O’Sullivan Death of Business Post drinks columnist Tomás Clancy
  • Food & Drink
  • John Wilson

The newspaper’s wine and spirits writer is remembered for his erudition and wit

The exclusive Redbreast is made from whiskeys that are at least 28-years-old. Whiskies: Another round of the Redbreast Dream Edition
Lockdown cooking: cakes by Hamish Bowles, Tan France and Bella Hadid. Photographs: Instagram Making dinner is the new getting dressed. Just ask Selena Gomez and Gigi Hadid
  • One-dish fish: Baked turbot with fresh peas and Pernod sauce
  • One punnet of strawberries, eight fantastic ways to use them, from cake to ketchup

Health and Family

Children playing the in low tide on Dollymount Strand. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times. Do I want things to go back to normal? I’m not so sure I do
  • Health & Family
  • Máiréad Ni Chiarba

I don’t miss the long commutes, poor work-life balance or feeling of always being in a rush

Cathy Brooks: “If I’ve to give blood for the rest of my life, I don’t want my blood to be dumped because there’s too much iron in it. I want my blood used.” The subtle signs that point the way towards haemochromatosis
Naoimh O’Dwyer, owner of Knollcrest Nursery in Moycullen, Co Galway. She expects she will need to install more sinks, both indoors and outdoors to be able operate in the coronavirus era. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy Childcare: ‘So, you go out and take the child kicking and screaming from the car?’
  • What will reopened childcare centres look like to staff and to children?
  • We must consider the negative health consequences of the lockdown

Abroad

Demonstrators gather in Oakland, California on Monday to protest the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25th. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP Photo Irish in America: Share your views on the protests

Death of George Floyd has prompted demonstrations across the US. We want to hear from readers living there

George Barrington. Photograph: National Library of Australia The Irishman known as the ‘Prince of Pickpockets’ who became a policeman
Yvonne Cassidy at the beach at Fire Island, New York last summer. ‘Maybe I was arrogant thinking Covid-19 wouldn’t affect me as badly as it did’
  • The Mayo man in New York teaching fitness classes from his rooftop
  • ‘I’m so lucky to be in the Caribbean – a million miles from Derry Girls’

One Change

AIB alongside Bank of Ireland and the other principle Irish banks are heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry, but all are gradually beginning to divest their portfolios. Photograph: iStock Time to put pressure on our banks to stop investing in fossil fuels
  • Life & Style
  • Manchán Magan

One Change: Your savings and pensions may be funding Arctic drilling or oil extraction

David Attenborough’s nature documentaries are calming distractions these days Get an up-close look at a beetle – and other calming distractions
We now know how capable we are of making major changes, if the safety and sustainability of society is at stake. Coronavirus: Is now the time to dream bigger about how we live our lives?
  • Unnecessary emails: Not just annoying, but bad for the planet
  • Cans, bottles or on tap: What's the most eco-friendly?

Fashion

Milk Makeup Melatonin Overnight Lip Mask (€21.50 at cultbeauty.co.uk). Comforting and practical products for at-home self-care
  • Beauty
  • Laura Kennedy

Laura Kennedy: These are the products that make me feel better right now

Rebecca Marsden seamless knit by Santoni. The show goes on: What’s new in Irish fashion?
Bangs on trend: Marianne, played by Daisy Edgar-Jones, in Normal People. Photograph: Enda Bowe/Element Normal People: Even Vanity Fair loves Marianne’s lockdown fringe
  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX suit: James Bond meets James T Kirk
  • Wearing a mask? When it comes to make-up, it’s all about the eyes

Travel

ITAA said consumers should “adhere to the current travel guidelines from the Department, which state that non-essential travel should be avoided until further notice”. File photograph: Natascha Libbert/Bloomberg Irish travel agents call for 'clear guidelines' as airlines launch summer schedules
  • Europe
  • Conor Pope

Tourists must follow government advice on travel, not airline offers, says industry body

A waiter serves visitors in a roof-top cafe of a hotel in central Athens, on the first day of the opening of hotels in Greece. Photograph: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images Irish holidaymakers will not be barred from Greece when tourism restarts
50 things to do in Ireland this summer
  • What do you do when you meet a bear on a walk? Copy this 12-year-old
  • Walk for the Weekend: Mount Melleray, Co Waterford

Motors

The updated 5 Series gets a new nose, with slimmer headlights that now incorporate the distinctive L-shaped LED signature BMW gives 5 Series more electric options
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe

New plug-in 545e version is coming, plus mild hybrids for everyone

The power output of the charger is one thing, but the ability of the car and its battery to be able to draw down that power is quite another. Electric cars covering more kilometres than petrol models
Mazda MX-30 Mazda MX-30: Never mind the low range – feel the quality
  • Golf GTI comes to Ireland in the autumn with more power, more tech
  • Irish slider: the boy who made Richard Hammond suffer

Outdoors

A fallow deer in the park. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times Phoenix Park in lockdown: Buzzing with wildlife
  • Conor Pope

Conor Pope discovers why the birds seem to be singing louder during the pandemic

Orca in Strangford Lough Did you spy the orcas in Strangford Lough? Readers’ nature queries
Ridge above Thallabawn. Illustration: Michael Viney. Conquering Everest on a Mayo ridge for a good cause
  • What is this creature we found in a rockpool?
  • The foreign invaders decimating North’s worm population

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

I’m like, ‘Jesus Christ, he’s taken it with him – to Killiney!’ ‘Adultery is like getting a dent in a new cor. Once you’ve done it the first time, it becomes easier’
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • May 30, 2020

Rueful Ross realises the old man may have amorous notions when he spots that missing Greg Norman hat

‘Sorcha’s old man tuts. He has a habit of doing that whenever I speak.’ ‘It took a global pandemic to get Ross to keep it in his trousers’
‘I’m there, ‘Honor, do you genuinely believe I’m capable of scraping a pass?’ ’ ‘Dad, you can shove your offer. I’m going to sit the Leaving Cert’
  • ‘I’ve been booking supermorket delivery slots weeks in advance. Then selling them for €70 each’
  • ‘Ross, how would you like to make love to a woman with grey hair?’

People

Tops on: Lynn Ruane in the swimsuit that Lidl security objected; and Paul Mescal in Normal People. Photographs: Twitter/@SenLynnRuane and Enda Bowe/Element/RTÉ Double Standards for Men No 253: Lynn Ruane v Paul Mescal
  • People
  • Tanya Sweeney

As the actor jogged topless around London, Lidl asked the Senator to rethink her outfit

Garth Owen-Smith – an African conservation hero
Matt Damon: the actor has fecked off home after living in lockdown in Ireland. Photograph: Elizabeth Weinberg/NYT Róisín Ingle: Even Matt Damon has fecked off back home
  • FaceTiming Pamela Anderson: Nothing can prepare you for this
  • The Herremas secured a unique place in the admiration and affection of the Irish people

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Managing your medicines: Boots advises how to get your medicines safely and efficiently Managing your medicines: Boots advises how to get your medicines safely and efficiently

Boots have partnered with FAI Development Officers and Local Authorities to help coordinate the delivery of medicines through volunteers to vulnerable patients across the country

Strengthening your pelvic floor in the comfort of your home Strengthening your pelvic floor in the comfort of your home

Bladder weakness, or urinary incontinence, affects hundreds of thousands of women and men in Ireland

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