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St Alban’s House on Battery Road in Longford extends to 290sq m (3,130sq ft). Georgian manor in Longford town makes a return with €250k price drop
  • New to Market
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle
  • January 21, 2021, 02:30

Former army officers' home and elegant guesthouse sought €950,000 in 2019, now seeking €695,000

What will €600,000 buy in Dublin and Cork? What will €600,000 buy in Dublin and Cork?
  • Homes & Property
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle
  • January 21, 2021, 02:00

Town and Country: A three-bed apartment in Dublin or six ‘own-door’ apartments in Cork

Inauguration day fashion: Harris wears young black designer Christopher John Rogers Inauguration day fashion: Harris wears young black designer Christopher John Rogers
  • Fashion
  • Corina Gaffey
  • January 20, 2021, 18:00

Joe Biden opted for a navy Ralph Lauren suit and coat. Harris projected unity in purple

21 beds, 42 baths, and yours for $340m: Irish architect designs America’s most expensive home 21 beds, 42 baths, and yours for $340m: Irish architect designs America’s most expensive home
  • Homes & Property
  • John Breslin
  • January 20, 2021, 13:45

Bel Air megamansion also has five swimming pools, a spa level and a philanthropy wing

Could talking spread Covid-19 as much as coughing does? Could talking spread Covid-19 as much as coughing does?
  • Health & Family
  • Nicola Davis
  • January 20, 2021, 11:22

Viral aerosols emitted when speaking linger in air longer than larger droplets, study says

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The best independent Irish craft beers, as voted by brewers The best independent Irish craft beers, as voted by brewers
  • Drink
  • John Wilson
  • January 20, 2021, 11:00

Beer of the year competition shows many brewers here see themselves as stout specialists

Gorgeous terrace turnaround is right on track for €445k Gorgeous terrace turnaround is right on track for €445k
  • New to Market
  • Alanna Gallagher
  • January 20, 2021, 06:30

Villa-style redbrick cottage on train line in Dublin 3 was bought for €282k in 2019 and radically overhauled

Can five minutes’ exercise a day make you fit? Can five minutes’ exercise a day make you fit?
  • Fitness
  • Gretchen Reynolds
  • January 20, 2021, 06:01

A study has found that short workout sessions at home can have long-term benefits

Five experts, five tips: Heart experts on good heart health Five experts, five tips: Heart experts on good heart health
  • Health & Family
  • Sylvia Thompson
  • January 20, 2021, 06:01

Health professionals share their tips for a healthy lifestyle

‘My parents should have told me I have a different genetic mother’ ‘My parents should have told me I have a different genetic mother’
  • Health & Family
  • Trish Murphy
  • January 20, 2021, 06:01

Tell Me About It: I’m curious to meet the egg donor, and I wonder if I have siblings

Baked spuds get a tasty, crunchy filling and topping Baked spuds get a tasty, crunchy filling and topping
  • Food & Drink
  • January 20, 2021, 06:00

Healthy eating: Baked sweet potatoes with kale, chickpeas, seeds and spicy yoghurt

‘I need to work twice as hard to get a job in Ireland’ ‘I need to work twice as hard to get a job in Ireland’
  • People
  • Sorcha Pollak
  • January 20, 2021, 06:00

New to the Parish: Journalist Joseph Okoh arrived from Nigeria in 2019

The night-time noise in my house is giving me sleepless nights. What can I do? The night-time noise in my house is giving me sleepless nights. What can I do?
  • Homes & Property
  • January 20, 2021, 09:41

Property Clinic: All your property queries answered

Hybrids? Plug-ins? Everything you need to know about electric cars Hybrids? Plug-ins? Everything you need to know about electric cars
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe
  • January 20, 2021, 06:00

Confused about electric vehicles? Here’s how to tell your EV from your PHEV and MHEV

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Michael Harding: Talking to strangers. That’s what I miss

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Homes and Property

27 The Locks, Charlotte Quay, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 4 What will €600,000 buy in Dublin and Cork?
  • Homes & Property
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle

Town and Country: A three-bed apartment in Dublin or six ‘own-door’ apartments in Cork

The human ear can pick up different sound levels/frequencies and each one of us has a different threshold for noise. The night-time noise in my house is giving me sleepless nights. What can I do?
While a rental property is insured by the owner, the destruction or loss of your personal belongings is not. How do we insure personal belongings if we are renting our apartment?
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Food & Drink

Peter Mosley and Elliot Hughes of Porterhouse Brewing Company, whose Around the Clock Imperial Stout was voted beer of the year by the Independent Craft Brewers of Ireland. The best independent Irish craft beers, as voted by brewers
  • Drink
  • John Wilson

Beer of the year competition shows many brewers here see themselves as stout specialists

Baked sweet potatoes with a crunchy filling and spicy topping. Baked spuds get a tasty, crunchy filling and topping
ONA aunched in 2016 thanks to crowdfunding from supporters and a loan from a green bank. Photograph: iStock Vegan restaurant becomes first of its kind in France to get Michelin star
  • Black bean chilli with an unusual twist
  • Warming curry bursting with flavour but not the fat

Health and Family

Covid exposure: the researchers’s online calculator, Airborne.cam, lets users explore their risk of becoming infected indoors via airborne particles alone, with and without masks. Photograph: E+/iStock/Getty Could talking spread Covid-19 as much as coughing does?
  • Health & Family
  • Nicola Davis

Viral aerosols emitted when speaking linger in air longer than larger droplets, study says

When the pandemic curtailed gym hours, quite a few of us moved our workouts indoors. Photograph: iStock Can five minutes’ exercise a day make you fit?
Keep your heart healthy with these tips from the heart experts. Photograph: iStock Five experts, five tips: Heart experts on good heart health
  • ‘My parents should have told me I have a different genetic mother’
  • Sitting up straight does not prevent or treat back pain, study finds

Abroad

Hilary McCormack: in an effort to keep our spirit of adventure, my friends and I took to exploring the kingdom Letter from Saudi Arabia: ‘The Irish here are all in the same boat’
  • Hilary McCormack

It hurt not to come home for Christmas. But the skies opened again, and hope is renewed

Dublin DJ Barry O’Brien moved to Hong Kong in 2018. Hong Kong – ‘Not the kind of place you would come on your own’
Íde B O’Carroll is from Lismore, Co Waterford. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst An Irishwoman in the US: Picking up the pieces after a warning shot to democracy
  • ‘My waitressing job was paying the bills so I could afford to work at the theatre’
  • Death of an Irish man in New York: ‘I squeezed his hand, kissed his forehead, told him I loved him’

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

sdf Inauguration day fashion: Harris wears young black designer Christopher John Rogers
  • Fashion
  • Corina Gaffey

Joe Biden opted for a navy Ralph Lauren suit and coat. Harris projected unity in purple

US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump in December. Photograph: Oliver Contreras/New York Times Farewell, Melania, farewell, first family: Four years of the Trump White House look
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  • Look of the Irish: Rising star of New York fashion scene
  • Good sport: The best workout gear for outdoors

Travel

“Switching supplier allows customers to fully benefit from competition in the energy market place, and we would encourage all customers to shop around to see what is the best deal for them” Switching energy provider would have saved users €1,700 over past four years
  • Travel
  • Conor Pope

Customers who switched or renegotiated with supplier every year over four years could have saved €704 on gas and €1,097 on electricity

The Causeway Coastal Path stretches 52 exhilarating kilometres from Ballycastle to Portstewart. Make a holiday in Ireland an unforgettable experience
The sun setting on Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast. Photograph Ziya Meral My escape to a slower pace of life on Rathlin Island
  • 10 of the best virtual travel experiences for 2021
  • Ryanair rated joint-worst airline at dealing with refunds in 2020

Motors

Some 70 per cent of people are keen on the idea of buying a hybrid or electric car, according to a recent survey. Photograph: iStock Hybrids? Plug-ins? Everything you need to know about electric cars
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe

Confused about electric vehicles? Here’s how to tell your EV from your PHEV and MHEV

StoreDot claims it can now produce batteries that can be charged in as little as five minutes. Photograph: iStock New electric car battery can recharge in five minutes, company says
Toyota’s new GR010 will be blooded for the first time at the legendary Sebring race track in Florida, for the 1,000km race there on March 19th. Photograph: Volmeyer.com Toyota unveils its new 24-hour party piece for Les Mans campaign
  • Kia joins the rush transform from car maker to ‘mobility provider’
  • Audi and BMW present contrasting electric faces

Outdoors

Hobo spiders are found in grassy places and under stones. Is this a common native spider? Readers’ nature queries
  • Ethna Viney

Ethna Viney on worker wasps, sea urchin shells and sunburned potatoes

Thornback Ray: 'We wanted their wings to eat, not the whole heavy fish.' Illustration: Michael Viney Another Life: Rays and sharks in danger of extinction in Irish waters
“Rising in darkness is the hardest part for some, but I have always enjoyed it ever since those very early childhood mornings with Mum.” Dara McAnulty: Why I love winter’s grey and brown days
  • Adrift at sea: The exotic nuts that reach Ireland’s shores
  • Is it unusual to see a bumblebee at this time of year? Readers’ nature queries

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

“So aren’t you even curious?” Honor goes. “In terms of how you did in the Christmas exams that I set for you?” Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Honor has been, like, homeschooling me’
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • January 16, 2021

I’ve never passed an exam in my entire life. I’m still driving on a provisional

The old dear pulls the trigger and there’s a dull crack. Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘The pressure of being the cool parent ends up being too much’
Illustration: Alan Clarke Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Do Dry January? That’s crazy talk’
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I want a Christmas that Tony Holohan would approve of’
  • ‘How much moo are we talking – for, like, midnight Mass in, say, Foxrock?’

People

Joseph Okoh, originally from Nigeria, moved to Dublin in 2019 to study journalism. Photograph: Laura Hutton ‘I need to work twice as hard to get a job in Ireland’
  • People
  • Sorcha Pollak

New to the Parish: Journalist Joseph Okoh arrived from Nigeria in 2019

Warsaw: I loved being there, on the streets in freezing fog. Photograph: Getty Michael Harding: Talking to strangers. That’s what I miss
US vice-president-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Róisín Ingle: I cannot wait for the articles analysing Doug Emhoff’s cufflinks
  • Kamala Harris is about to make history. So is her ‘big, blended’ family
  • Bernie Dillon – pioneering figure in modern information technology industry in Ireland

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Rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has begun in Ireland, and Pfizer scientists working on its development speak about vaccine developments and innovations

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1 When the pandemic curtailed gym hours, quite a few of us moved our workouts indoors. Photograph: iStock Can five minutes’ exercise a day make you fit?

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