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Breda Costigan, who has osteoporosis, with her horse Jay at her home in Grange, Co Tipperary. Photograph: John D Kelly Osteoporosis: why taking care of your bone health is vital
  • Health & Family
  • Áilín Quinlan
  • October 18, 2019, 06:01

Low bone density affects half of all women and a fifth of all men in Ireland aged over 50

‘I encourage women to be a birthzilla, if necessary’ ‘I encourage women to be a birthzilla, if necessary’
  • Health & Family
  • Tanya Sweeney
  • October 18, 2019, 09:08

Author Milli Hill urges women to be key decision makers in their childbirth experience

The German trousers my dad bought back could stand by themselves The German trousers my dad bought back could stand by themselves
  • People
  • Rory Mac Flynn
  • October 18, 2019, 06:00

Family Fortunes: The leather became so hard the trousers stood waiting for you overnight

What’s making you happy? No more radiotherapy, new sheets and #WAGathaChristie What’s making you happy? No more radiotherapy, new sheets and #WAGathaChristie
  • People
  • October 18, 2019, 06:00

Here’s what is making Irish Times readers happy this week

8 stylish knits to keep you warm this winter 8 stylish knits to keep you warm this winter
  • Fashion
  • Corina Gaffey
  • October 18, 2019, 06:00

From cable to cardigan, a cosy knit is essential this season

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What will €350k buy in St Lucia, France, South Africa, Spain and Wicklow? What will €350k buy in St Lucia, France, South Africa, Spain and Wicklow?
  • Take 5
  • Emma Cullinan
  • October 18, 2019, 06:00

Take5: Loire lodge, off-grid Limpopo camp, sea views in Wicklow, Alicante and St Lucia

Chaos descends as we prepare our old home for tenants Chaos descends as we prepare our old home for tenants
  • Homes & Property
  • Caroline Madden
  • October 18, 2019, 06:00

With just three weeks to ready the house for rental all traces of Tan-Gate must be eliminated

‘Your car has had a heart attack,’ said the mechanic. ‘It’s dead’ ‘Your car has had a heart attack,’ said the mechanic. ‘It’s dead’
  • People
  • Hilary Fannin
  • October 18, 2019, 06:00

Hilary Fannin: Its old boot used to hold my mother’s wheelchair and my sons’ broken bikes

Can young women save us from populism? Can young women save us from populism?
  • People
  • Jennifer O'Connell
  • October 18, 2019, 00:00

The Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran on how Ireland shouldn’t be complacent about populism

Hundreds express interest in Dublin’s cheapest house at €85k Hundreds express interest in Dublin’s cheapest house at €85k
  • Homes & Property
  • Alanna Gallagher
  • October 17, 2019, 17:00

Fixer-upper terraced cottage off Rutland Street almost sold as bidding tops €100k

Nancy Pelosi: The woman who stood up to Trump – and won Nancy Pelosi: The woman who stood up to Trump – and won
  • People
  • Jennifer O'Connell
  • October 17, 2019, 18:56

Trump tweeted an ‘insulting’ photo of Pelosi. She put it on her social media accounts

Toyota’s first electric car is a two-seat city runaround Toyota’s first electric car is a two-seat city runaround
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe
  • October 17, 2019, 12:01

Nameless tiny two-seater part of Toyota’s plan to maximise battery life

Two Chinese restaurants in Dublin feature in top 50 list for Europe Two Chinese restaurants in Dublin feature in top 50 list for Europe
  • Food & Drink
  • Marie Claire Digby
  • October 17, 2019, 11:56

London, Berlin and Paris each have three restaurants included in the list

A mouth-watering Italian white and a ripe, juicy French red to try A mouth-watering Italian white and a ripe, juicy French red to try
  • Food & Drink
  • John Wilson
  • October 17, 2019, 11:00

John Wilson’s wines for the weekend: Two bargains from M&S’s autumn line-up

Our Columnists

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‘Your car has had a heart attack,’ said the mechanic. ‘It’s dead’

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Fathers with hands-on approach to parenting makes for happier mothers

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Like most of us, I’m a hypocrite. So, is there a problem?

Michael Harding Michael Harding -

The man who called his wife ‘the beloved’ like he was sucking a sweet

Homes and Property

South Africa: the livingroom of this lodge opens via a disappearing wall on to hardwood decking and a pool What will €350k buy in St Lucia, France, South Africa, Spain and Wicklow?
  • Take 5
  • Emma Cullinan

Take5: Loire lodge, off-grid Limpopo camp, sea views in Wicklow, Alicante and St Lucia

Someone had drawn a T-Rex on the livingroom wall Chaos descends as we prepare our old home for tenants
Country: Shanmullagh, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan What will €195,000 buy in Dublin 8 and Co Monaghan?
  • A doer-upper or a turnkey home: Which makes financial sense?
  • Two businesses in Grand Designs Kevin McCloud's property empire go into liquidation

Health and Family

Breda Costigan, who has osteoporosis, with her horse Jay at her home in Grange, Co Tipperary. Photograph: John D Kelly Osteoporosis: why taking care of your bone health is vital
  • Health & Family
  • Áilín Quinlan

Low bone density affects half of all women and a fifth of all men in Ireland aged over 50

‘Your birth experience matters to you. You’ll remember it for the rest of your life, and you have every right to be the key decision maker in that room.’ Photograph: iStock ‘I encourage women to be a birthzilla, if necessary’
Washing clothes, showering for hours, scrubbing hands raw or cleaning excessively all feature with OCD OCD: Flippant remarks undermine the gravity of this illness
  • Fathers with hands-on approach to parenting makes for happier mothers
  • ‘I don’t feel my asthma is properly managed. It has a real hold over me’

Food & Drink

Executive chef Karl Whelan with Hang Dai’s speciality Skeaghanore Irish duck cooked Peking-style in an applewood-fired oven. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Two Chinese restaurants in Dublin feature in top 50 list for Europe
  • Food & Drink
  • Marie Claire Digby

London, Berlin and Paris each have three restaurants included in the list

Wines for the weekend: Marks & Spencer’s Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico and Terres de Moraines Madiran A mouth-watering Italian white and a ripe, juicy French red to try
Mayo made: the Mescan brewery has been expanding its line-up of beers When I’m in a craft-beer shop, these are the first bottles I look for
  • Improve your loaf life with this gorgeous gourd
  • Kombucha: What’s in it and does it have health benefits?

Abroad

Max Arthur Macauliffe, the eldest in a family of 11, grew up in Co Limerick. The Limerick man unknown in Ireland but revered by millions worldwide
  • Nora-Ide McAuliffe

Max Arthur Macauliffe is considered the most significant western figure in the history of Sikhism

Karoline O’Sullivan: We all need a place to belong, something which is certainly reflected in the programme of Short+Sweet Dublin. A longing to be part of something, for connection is a recurring theme. 20 tiny plays for Ireland: we all need a place to belong
Michael Gannon (centre) in Gdansk this summer with Canadian rock group ‘Glass Tiger’ who had a hit with The Chieftains in the 1980s. He was their tour guide for the day. Why thousands of Poles speak English with a Roscommon accent
  • Irishman Seán Anglim resigns as Laura Ashley finance director
  • National song contest – Frank McNally on New Zealand’s Irish anthem

One Change

On sunny days I’m often sending 4kW of power for free to my neighbours Let the sun power your home by installing your own PV panels
  • People
  • Manchán Magan

One Change: You’ll be helping to save the planet, and (after 6-9 years), making a profit too

Members of Fridays for Future urging action on climate change outside the Dáil in February. File photograph: Alan Betson Climate strike: Why I'm bringing my kids to protest
Seventy-one per cent of industrial greenhouse gas emissions since 1988 have been produced by just 100 companies. Photograph: iStock Is there any point in obsessing over the cling film on our sandwiches?
  • Why we should all be buying our fruit and veg directly from local farmers
  • Flowers: Not so pretty when you consider their environmental impact

Fashion

Knitwear: essential for a well-thought through winter outift 8 stylish knits to keep you warm this winter
  • Fashion
  • Corina Gaffey

From cable to cardigan, a cosy knit is essential this season

Serums from Beauty Pie, Inkey, Elixseri, SkinCeuticals and Skingredients Five of the best serums to give your skin a boost
Ann Chapman at her bench in Stonechat, Westbury Centre, Dublin. ‘If you are going to buy a ring, turn it upside down and look at the inside’
  • Hail Havana: The Dublin boutique still going strong after 25 stylish years
  • What are the best pieces men can wear all winter?

Travel

Of all the elegant promontories that penetrate the periphery of the Atlantic Ocean on our southwest coast, perhaps the most iconic is the Old Head of Kinsale. Walk for the Weekend: Old Head of Kinsale, Co Cork
  • Travel
  • Tony Doherty

It marks the boundary between that great body of water and the smaller Celtic Sea

Costa Rica beach Sun to ski: 60 great places to holiday this winter
Travel writing competition: My holiday adventure
  • Walk for the Weekend: Garretstown, Co Cork
  • Adare Manor and Dromoland Castle named Europe’s best resorts by Condé Nast Traveler

Motors

first battery model is a two-seat ‘ultra-compact BEV.’ Toyota’s first electric car is a two-seat city runaround
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe

Nameless tiny two-seater part of Toyota’s plan to maximise battery life

Toyota reveals new Yaris as it aims to feed public appetite for hybrids
Those expecting this to be a panel-van version of Merc’s incoming 450km-ranged EQV MPV will be disappointed. Don’t cry for your ancient diesel…
  • Volkswagen offers €5k ‘climate action’ scrappage grant to electric and hybrid buyers
  • Budget 2020: How do I know how much NOx the car I might buy emits?

Outdoors

‘With Lorenzo at full tilt or not, its kind seems sure to proliferate as a warming Atlantic draws hurricanes north.’ Picture: Michael Viney Autumn gives Connacht a thrilling beauty making regular storms endurable
  • Michael Viney

Before double glazing we watched gusts bowing the windows - now we get out candles and Scrabble and enjoy what’s left of the wine

A sparrowhawk, having caught a pigeon The cat hasn’t been killing pigeons, this bird has, what is it? Readers’ nature queries
Hiker walking along Leenane Hill after snowfall with Killary Fjord and Mweelrea mountain in background. The copped-on guide to winter walking
  • This is growing on my patio, what is it? Readers’ nature queries
  • Spot the difference: how Clare Island has changed in 100 years

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

‘The airport? I don’t know where you get your ideas from!’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘No, Sorcha. I’m going to Japan. The team needs me’
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • October 12, 2019

The Rossmeister is struck with a sudden case of FOMO with just one phone call

‘Without the concussions, I wouldn’t have been the rugby player I very nearly became’
My meal was served on a 1986 edition of the 01 phone directory
  • Ross O’Carroll Kelly: Isn’t everyone wearing a kimono to watch the rugby?
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘How could anyone live this close to the Luas and not own a gun?’

People

A HB beer stein from Munich sits on my desk now as one of the last reminders of that trip The German trousers my dad bought back could stand by themselves
  • People
  • Rory Mac Flynn

Family Fortunes: The leather became so hard the trousers stood waiting for you overnight

What made you happy this week? ‘Just Autumn. It’s pretty fabulous,’ says Catherine What’s making you happy? No more radiotherapy, new sheets and #WAGathaChristie
It was either the cat or the car that was going to keel over ‘Your car has had a heart attack,’ said the mechanic. ‘It’s dead’
  • Can young women save us from populism?
  • Nancy Pelosi: The woman who stood up to Trump – and won

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1 It was either the cat or the car that was going to keel over ‘Your car has had a heart attack,’ said the mechanic. ‘It’s dead’
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