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It’s no surprise that the colour pink has been embraced by forward looking designers, from Simone Rocha to Celine Fashion: see through spring
  • Life & Style
  • Deirdre McQuillan
  • February 28, 2015

After months of covering up, it’s time to lighten up with pinks and sheers

The perfect thank you cake The perfect thank you cake
  • Food & Drink
  • Eunice Power
  • February 28, 2015

There is nothing like a cake to say thank you, so why not bake this cake this Mother’s Day for whoever you are lucky enough to be mothered by – young or old, blood-related or not

Our wedding story: ‘As the universe would have it, we both ended up in Ennis again...' Our wedding story: ‘As the universe would have it, we both ended up in Ennis again...'
  • Life & Style
  • Sarah Geraghty
  • February 28, 2015

One went to New Zealand and Edinburgh, the other to Dublin. But the gravitational pull of Co Clare was impossible to resist

Our wedding story: 'It was pretty special to hear my sister’s voice singing as I walked in’ Our wedding story: 'It was pretty special to hear my sister’s voice singing as I walked in’
  • Life & Style
  • Sarah Geraghty
  • February 28, 2015

When teacher AnneMarie O’Neill moved to Switzerland, she wasn’t planning to stay forever, but everything changed when she met Adrian Trutmann

Our wedding story: 'It would be great to have our marriage recognised in Ireland' Our wedding story: 'It would be great to have our marriage recognised in Ireland'
  • Life & Style
  • Sarah Geraghty
  • February 28, 2015

John Callaghan and Bobby Barber met and married in San Francisco, but hope to restate their vows in Ireland soon

Our Columnists

Róisín Ingle Róisín Ingle -

Róisín Ingle on . . . being straight up

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

‘It’s hord to describe Manchester . . . Imagine if the Ilac Centre was an entire city and you’re about 90% of the way there’

Hilary Fannin Hilary Fannin -

Hilary Fannin: I become uneasy as health moves up the agenda

Padraig O'Morain Padraig O'Morain -

That’s Men: ‘I was 65 last July and I feel the world just keeps getting better’

People

Last sighting: CCTV footage of Trevor Deely on December 8th, 2000. Photograph: An Garda Síochána Missing in Ireland: the search process
  • People
  • Ciarán D'Arcy

What does the Garda Síochána do when somebody goes missing?

Baggot Street Bridge: a missing poster by the Bank of Ireland branch where Trevor Deely was last seen. Illustration: Dearbhla Kelly The disappearance of Trevor Deely
The Mother Daughter relationship
  • Behind the News: UCC student Michael Hanrahan
  • Severe foetal abnormality: ‘Her short life was a burst of sunshine’

Motors

The proposed whistleblower incentive follows controversies over defective General Motors ignition switches and Takata air bag inflators. US Senate panel agrees auto industry whistleblower incentive
  • Motors

The proposed measure follows controversies over defective General Motors ignition switches and Takata air bag inflators

BMW’s S1000RR has a special track setting for running on slick racing tyres. Barristers and bin-men turn out for the bike show
Low-slung styling is a hint towards the looks of next DB9 and Vantage. Aston’s hypercar now fully revealed
  • Sharing is caring but does that make corporate sense?
  • Toyota updates Auris and Avensis

Health and Family

CCTV: Amira Abase, Kadiza Sultana and Shamima Begum on CCTV at Gatwick Airport, on their way, it is thought, to join IS militants. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/AFP/Getty Starbucks and love-bombing: how to deradicalise a teen
  • Parenting
  • Kevin Courtney

Psychologist Owen Connolly explains how he helped to stop a schoolgirl from becoming a suicide bomber

Get Running: Eight weeks later, you’re a runner
Joanne Flanagan: “We take hand hygiene very seriously. We swab hands constantly.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne A week in my . . . infection control room: ‘Rings and watches can be major carriers of bacteria’
  • Healthy eating requires money, transport and confidence
  • Community Food Initiatives: How we can take control of what we eat

Fashion

It’s no surprise that the colour pink has been embraced by forward looking designers, from Simone Rocha to Celine Fashion: see through spring
  • Life & Style
  • Deirdre McQuillan

After months of covering up, it’s time to lighten up with pinks and sheers

Naturally: Favourites from the ethically-sourced Aurelia Probiotic Skincare range
The beauty report: Lighter bases for spring
  • Beauty regime: Taking the radical approach
  • Wear It Out: Spring into summer with style

Food and Drink

In-flight: the standard advice is to go for full-bodied wines with low acid and plenty of ripe fruit. Champagne and other sparkling wines taste better, as the bubbles stimulate our senses (although they also increase the speed at which we ingest alcohol). Photograph: Thinkstock High-flying wines
  • Food & Drink
  • John Wilson

Airlines take pride in serving their country’s finest wines on board, especially in first and business class, but do they spare a thought for the poor economy class traveller?

Domini Kemp’s chicken, cashew and broccoli rice. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times A year of healthy eating: the magic of marination
The perfect thank you cake
  • Review: Stanley’s is a stylish new venture on St Andrew’s Street in Dublin
  • Young chef Mark Moriarty and celeriac dishes win over San Pellegrino judges

Travel

Surf’s up: Allan Mulrooney and Kian Egan grew up in the same housing estate. Allan was able to guide Kian into the world of surfing, which helped him escape the sometimes bewildering whirlwind of Westlife’s success. Wave rider reunion for former Westlife singer and Sligo surfing pals
  • Travel
  • Seamus McGoldrick

Kian Egan and seven of his boyhood friends took to the surf in Fuertaventura for a week

Travel Desk: New Orleans' hotels and converted Parisian brothels
Holidaymakers in Kilronan, Inis Mór, in 2013. Workers are spending less time planning holidays on their desktops and are increasingly booking breaks on smartphones, Google says. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times Holiday web-surfers take flight from desktop to mobile
  • Pedalling through Porto, Portugal
  • Go walk: the wild streets of Galway city

Generation Emigration

Baby love: Sharon Hutchinson meets her granddaughter Ella for the first time, at Perth Airport I’m becoming a backpacker granny
  • Generation Emigration
  • Sharon Hutchinson

How do you greet your first grandchild, who has just been born 15,000km away, by Skype?

Darragh Kelleher: ‘Meeting fellow Irish people in Singapore makes it easier being away from home, with an Irish population here of a few thousand, a chamber of commerce, a GAA team, and of course, many Irish pubs.’ ‘My dependence on and tolerance of alcohol plummeted since leaving Ireland’
‘The recession provided a convenient smoke-screen for my departure, but in my mind it was always clear - I was moving for experience, to learn, not necessarily to make my fortune.’ ‘Living abroad means living with challenges, the unknown’
  • Dubliner performs sterling service at royal mint
  • Recent emigrants urged to return to vote on same-sex marriage

Homes and Property

Detail from a gilt-bronze surtout de table, made for Kilkenny Castle in circa 1805, which appeared at Sotheby’s this week where it sold for £18,750 Auction Results
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • Michael Parsons

A Native American costume which sold for €320,000 Native American costume makes €320,000 at Kilkenny auction
Detail from a 19th century painted urn which has a guide of €2,500-€3,500 at Sheppard’s three-day sale which begins on Tuesday Interesting lots in opening spring season sale at Sheppard’s
  • Paul Henry leads Whyte’s art auction
  • Give Me A Crash Course In . . . falling house prices

The Health Centre

Claire Mitchell, graphic designer and mother-of-two, who suffers from MS, in her office at home in Cork.Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision My Health Experience: ‘I’m a positive, optimistic person. I hope to live to a ripe old age’

Keeping my head in the sand and writing a funny blog are how I cope with MS

Salmon: oily fish is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are anti-inflammatory and important for the reconstruction of the damaged myelin sheath and cognitive function. Photograph: Thinkstock Eating well, not rigidly, is key to managing multiple sclerosis symptoms
Allergies: not to be sneezed at
  • Scientists make breakthrough with peanut allergy therapy
  • When death could be only a mouthful of food away . . .

Frontlines

14:16 Mark McFadden’s ‘Literary Greats’ exhibition begins in Dublin
11:00 Great app for arty facts
18:09 Serendipitous Sale in Rathgar outlet
17:34 Bear essentials for Bábógs
16:04 The art of the scarf with Richard Gorman
15:15 Holden’s handmade handbags
14:40 Neven Maguire cooks up a storm in Stillorgan
Chihuahua ring, €60, Verameat at April and the Bear; Cubes of gold ring, €285, aprilandthebear.com; Gold contrast ring, €560, dorai.ie What we like: cocktail rings

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Illustration: Alan Clarke ‘It’s hord to describe Manchester . . . Imagine if the Ilac Centre was an entire city and you’re about 90% of the way there’
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • February 28, 2015

Illustration: Alan Clarke “They’ll be earning £100,000 a week for 13 years, then they’ll be thrown on the scrapheap with nothing to show for it”
Illustration: Alan Clarke ‘Shopping for a cord the night before Valentine’s Day is a bit like dating in your early 40s – most of what’s left out there is wrecked-looking’

Fine Art and Antiques

Detail from a gilt-bronze surtout de table, made for Kilkenny Castle in circa 1805, which appeared at Sotheby’s this week where it sold for £18,750 Auction Results
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • February 28, 2015

A Native American costume which sold for €320,000 Native American costume makes €320,000 at Kilkenny auction
Detail from a 19th century painted urn which has a guide of €2,500-€3,500 at Sheppard’s three-day sale which begins on Tuesday Interesting lots in opening spring season sale at Sheppard’s
  • Paul Henry leads Whyte’s art auction
  • Francis Bacon crockery fails to sell

Shoptalk

Optica, a boutique eyewear business run by husband and wife team Donal and Deirdre McNally Shoptalk: Dublin’s Dawson Street
  • Fashion
  • Alanna Gallagher

Are you being served? The column that looks at stock, style and service in shops around Ireland

Shoptalk: Cork
“What makes us stand out from the rest is that we offer stock that nobody else has. We have to be doing something different”: Jimmy Redmond of Redmonds off-licence in Ranelagh Shoptalk: Redmonds of Ranelagh
  • Shoptalk: buying a bike
  • Shoptalk: Hanley & Co, Galway

Generations: Over-30s

Photograph: Eric Luke Colm Doyle, 31: ‘Technology is my life. I can’t fathom a world without computers’

Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Annmarie Boles, 37: ‘Stay-at-home parents are completely ignored’
Photograph: Eric Luke Ruby Walsh, 35: ‘I went straight from school into a man’s world’
  • Liam O’Ruairc, 39: ‘This generation will have a worse life than the one before them’
  • Clara Malone, 36: ‘I bought a two-bed apartment for €450,000. I never thought I wouldn’t be able to sell it’

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This year's Digital Media Awards played host to the best and brightest in a thriving Irish industry

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A bold and blistering debut from Daniel and Matthew Wolf playing exclusively at the IFI from Friday, February 27th

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Baggot Street Bridge: a missing poster by the Bank of Ireland branch where Trevor Deely was last seen. Illustration: Dearbhla Kelly The disappearance of Trevor Deely
Illustration: Alan Clarke ‘It’s hord to describe Manchester . . . Imagine if the Ilac Centre was an entire city and you’re about 90% of the way there’
Surf’s up: Allan Mulrooney and Kian Egan grew up in the same housing estate. Allan was able to guide Kian into the world of surfing, which helped him escape the sometimes bewildering whirlwind of Westlife’s success. Wave rider reunion for former Westlife singer and Sligo surfing pals
The Mother Daughter relationship
Róisín Ingle on . . . being straight up
New research from the Central Bank shows half of all mortgages taken out in 2007 were still in negative equity in the middle of 2014. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times Give Me A Crash Course In . . . falling house prices
Darragh Kelleher: ‘Meeting fellow Irish people in Singapore makes it easier being away from home, with an Irish population here of a few thousand, a chamber of commerce, a GAA team, and of course, many Irish pubs.’ ‘My dependence on and tolerance of alcohol plummeted since leaving Ireland’
Baby love: Sharon Hutchinson meets her granddaughter Ella for the first time, at Perth Airport I’m becoming a backpacker granny
Our wedding story: ‘As the universe would have it, we both ended up in Ennis again...'
‘We believed that letting Laoise go gently and peacefully was the most loving act that we could effect for her.’ Photograph: Getty Images Severe foetal abnormality: ‘Her short life was a burst of sunshine’
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