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  • June 23, 2019, 09:00

A three-part series exploring the mystery of Peter Bergmann

Seán Moncrieff: A united Ireland will make us all a little more British Seán Moncrieff: A united Ireland will make us all a little more British
  • People
  • Sean Moncrieff
  • August 23, 2019, 12:03

It would be weird: like having someone you don’t know that well move into your house

The great cafe war: He thought he was the best customer ever — but was he? The great cafe war: He thought he was the best customer ever — but was he?
  • Food & Drink
  • Naaman Zhou
  • August 23, 2019, 11:51

One man crowned himself his local cafe’s No 1 customer. But things soon escalated

Investors in Kevin McCloud's projects told they face huge losses Investors in Kevin McCloud's projects told they face huge losses
  • Homes & Property
  • Rupert Jones and Patrick Collinson
  • August 23, 2019, 10:21

Many feel they have been fobbed off by Grand Designs presenter’s promised returns

Mobility scooter fugitive evades police in low-speed chase Mobility scooter fugitive evades police in low-speed chase
  • People
  • August 23, 2019, 10:00

The speeding double amputee says he didn’t have time to stop because he needed to get his tea ready

Seven style swaps to get your new season ready Seven style swaps to get your new season ready
  • Fashion
  • Corina Gaffey
  • August 23, 2019, 09:40

From boiler suits to shackets, these are pieces to have for changeable weather

Autism: A sensory solution Autism: A sensory solution
  • Health & Family
  • Vivienne Clarke
  • August 23, 2019, 06:01

The Cubbie reduces classroom disruption and increases student’s participation in class

Jamie Oliver: ‘I tried everything. We ran out of money. It’s as simple as that’ Jamie Oliver: ‘I tried everything. We ran out of money. It’s as simple as that’
  • Food & Drink
  • Kim Severson
  • August 23, 2019, 12:14

Twenty years after he vaulted to fame, Jamie Oliver has lost his restaurant empire – but not his taste for hard work.

Jam yesterday: Childhood memories of picking gooseberries fill me with joy Jam yesterday: Childhood memories of picking gooseberries fill me with joy
  • People
  • Mary Conliffe
  • August 23, 2019, 06:00

One day in summer 1961 I was sent on a mission by bicycle to my uncles’ farm

Rose of Tralee: so safe and smug you just know Donald Trump would approve. Oh look, he does Rose of Tralee: so safe and smug you just know Donald Trump would approve. Oh look, he does
  • People
  • Jennifer O'Connell
  • August 23, 2019, 09:24

Talent and ambition are tolerated, but notions are a no-no. Basically, it’s Ireland selecting its fantasy daughter-in-law.

What you can buy in France, Colombia, Italy, Spain and Laois for €235k? What you can buy in France, Colombia, Italy, Spain and Laois for €235k?
  • Take 5
  • Emma Cullinan
  • August 23, 2019, 06:00

Take5: Homes in Haut-Vienne, Bogotá, Piedmont, Alicante and Portarlington

'The only thing the US has in common with Ireland is language' 'The only thing the US has in common with Ireland is language'
  • Abroad
  • Lisa Tierney-Keogh
  • August 23, 2019, 06:00

No matter how much you hope to just slot back in, moving home is complicated

Returning to Ireland with your non-EU partner? How the new rules will make it easier Returning to Ireland with your non-EU partner? How the new rules will make it easier
  • Abroad
  • Richard King
  • August 22, 2019, 14:54

‘Over and over we have heard people say they don’t want to be a burden on their partner’

Marilyn Monroe ‘has roots in Ireland’, according to DNA samples Marilyn Monroe ‘has roots in Ireland’, according to DNA samples
  • People
  • Tomas Doherty
  • August 22, 2019, 13:15

DNA project says Hollywood star has links to Munro clan member from southwest Ireland

‘A little exercise’ can boost longevity of older adults ‘A little exercise’ can boost longevity of older adults
  • Health & Family
  • August 22, 2019, 10:25

Study of 36,000 cases links more activity overall with lower risk of death

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I bottled my rage for years until some therapist could take it out of my guts like ashes

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Bringing kids to festivals is the worst kind of performance parenting

Homes and Property

Take5: this Haut-Vienne smallholding includes this main house, a two-bedroom gite, a swimming pool, outhouses and a vegetable garden What you can buy in France, Colombia, Italy, Spain and Laois for €235k?
  • Take 5
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Take5: Homes in Haut-Vienne, Bogotá, Piedmont, Alicante and Portarlington

Over the course of the four years needed for a typical degree, parents could expect to spend €35,200. College living: the pitfalls of buying property for your children
Town: Millrace Court, Phoenix Park Racecourse, Dublin 15 What you can buy in north Dublin and Co Galway for €345,000?
  • Our new floors have started creaking loudly. What can we do?
  • We have a boundary issue with a new development next door. What can we do?

Health and Family

David McIntyre, developer of the Cubbie. Autism: A sensory solution
  • Health & Family
  • Vivienne Clarke

The Cubbie reduces classroom disruption and increases student’s participation in class

‘Sit less and move more’: higher levels of any physical activity help ward off an early grave. Photograph: iStock/Getty ‘A little exercise’ can boost longevity of older adults
Nurses and patients in a hospital ward in Ireland circa 1890. Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images Surgery in the 19th century: From barbershop phlebotomies to the ‘fashionable, ephemeral craze’ of antisepticism
  • Teach girls to box. Send boys to gymnastics
  • Fighting arts: Tell me about . . . Kendo

Food & Drink

Fraser Harvey, the self-declared favourite customer of the Sensory Lab coffee shop in Melbourne. Photograph: Twitter The great cafe war: He thought he was the best customer ever — but was he?
  • Food & Drink
  • Naaman Zhou

One man crowned himself his local cafe’s No 1 customer. But things soon escalated

Jamie Oliver: ‘No one has a copyright on five ingredients or 30-minute meals.’ Photograph: John Kernick/New York Times Jamie Oliver: ‘I tried everything. We ran out of money. It’s as simple as that’
Chef and restaurant consultant Alfred Prasad has been brought in, along with five chefs hired in India, to devise an all-day menu with Indian and Irish influences First Look: New Indian restaurant with menu created by Michelin-starred chef
  • Five tasty lunch box ideas that your kids will actually eat
  • TV star and maitre d’ Nick Munier back in business with new French restaurant

People

“We want a united Ireland as long as we get it for free.” Photograph: iStock Seán Moncrieff: A united Ireland will make us all a little more British
  • People
  • Sean Moncrieff

It would be weird: like having someone you don’t know that well move into your house

Scooter chase: Charlie Durham avoids the police car which was pursuing him. Photograph: YouTube Mobility scooter fugitive evades police in low-speed chase
The secret place of the gooseberries was a mystery to me. Photograph: iStock Jam yesterday: Childhood memories of picking gooseberries fill me with joy
  • Rose of Tralee: so safe and smug you just know Donald Trump would approve. Oh look, he does
  • Marilyn Monroe ‘has roots in Ireland’, according to DNA samples

Fashion

Forward-thinking: a selection of hardworking pieces will slot into your existing wardrobe and increase the lifespan of your summer style hits Seven style swaps to get your new season ready
  • Fashion
  • Corina Gaffey

From boiler suits to shackets, these are pieces to have for changeable weather

Skingredients Skin Good Fats, Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel Moisturiser, Origins Clear Improvement Oil-Free Moisturizer with Bamboo Charcoal, Dermalogica Clear Start Clearing Defense SPF 30, and Drunk Elephant Lala Retro Whipped Cream The best new moisturisers for every skin type
Marks & Spencer: easy-iron regular-fit shirts €12-€24, blouses €12-€24 Back-to-school style: Good buys to get your children ready for September
  • Dublin says goodbye to Victorian fruit, veg and flower market in style
  • Pure jeanius: the best denims out there for men

Travel

The Instagram-friendly feature wooden tree, which is encircled with soft seating. First Look: Inside the Marlin, Dublin’s new €55m hotel
  • Ireland
  • Rosita Boland

Everything is Insta-ready, from a giant stylised tree to a Vespa and retro phone booth

Brandon is a mountain that reveal its secrets slowly Walk for the Weekend: Mount Brandon from the east
A couple of French tourists could face up to six years in jail after allegedly pilfering 40kg of sand from one of Sardinia’s pristine beaches.Photograph: Jorg Greuel/Getty Images French tourists face six years in jail over claims they stole Sardinia sand
  • Istanbul: A world metropolis that has kept its soul
  • Do bras set off the scanners? The secret life of Dublin Airport

Abroad

Lisa Tierney-Keogh: 'It really cannot be overstated how hard the loneliness is when you are away from home.' Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times 'The only thing the US has in common with Ireland is language'
  • Lisa Tierney-Keogh

No matter how much you hope to just slot back in, moving home is complicated

Returning to Ireland with your non-EU partner? How the new rules will make it easier
Waiting at arrivals at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times Moving home? New online service for returning Irish emigrants
  • Anti-Irish sentiment in Britain: ‘I feel like I am back in the 1980s’
  • The Irishman who lived through rebellions, plague and fall of the Qing Dynasty

Motors

Night-time adventure: the boy drove a Volkswagen Golf at high speed down a German motorway. Photograph: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty ‘I just wanted to drive a little’: Eight-year-old takes car for 140km/h spin
  • Motors

Child reaches high speeds before pulling over and putting his hazard lights on

Mercedes is expanding out its EQ-branded electric and plugin-hybrid technology to its smallest, and tallest, models, the A-Class and B-Class, and the V-Class-based new EQV Mercedes launches EQV electric MPV and a plugin A-Class
Is hydrogen fuel going to be the fuel of the future? Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images The burning question: could hydrogen fuel really be the next big thing?
  • Can you channel Jack Kerouac in an electric car?
  • €10,700 in speeding tickets after ‘invisibility’ test goes wrong

Outdoors

The ringed plover always lays her eggs in a depression in the sand. What is this large insect that landed in our garden? Readers’ nature queries
  • Ethna Viney

Ethna Viney on moths, starfish, dragonflies and ringed plovers

The elephant hawkmoth caterpillar. When alarmed, it pulls in the snout and puffs up its eye-spots to look as much like an angry snake as a caterpillar can. Illustration: Michael Viney Fuschia bushes a promising habitat for the elephant hawkmoth caterpillar
March sunrise at Counshingaum. Photograph courtesy Paddy Dwan A cure in the Comeraghs
  • The raccoons of Macroom: Look out for these escapees of the pet trade
  • We spotted what looks like a pink grasshopper on our walk? Readers’ nature queries

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‘I’ve just heard Ronan coaching someone in how to defraud some poor, unfortunate insurance company’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘The dude pats me down to make sure I’m not packing heat’
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • August 17, 2019

Ross doesn’t like what he sees when he visits Ronan at work for some lunchtime pints

‘I bought him a rugby ball and he looked at it like it was roadkill’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘You can’t fire me as a godparent. I resign’
‘I’m going to accidentally on purpose knock his béarnaise off the table on to the ground,’ says Honor. Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: A south Dublin borbecue – what could possibly go wrong?
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I wouldn’t be shocked if she was running a meth lab out of her bedroom’
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘You found 10 bags of cocaine and you go to the police?’

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