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Open-air summer: food trucks, converted horseboxes, picnics and outdoor terraces are all waiting for us Outdoor dining: 100 great places to eat outside in Ireland
  • Food & Drink
  • Corinna Hardgrave
  • June 4, 2021, 06:00

It’s the summer of outdoor dining. Here’s our pick of the best places if you’re after fabulous food

Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox, says US health-protection agency Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox, says US health-protection agency
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  • Apoorva Mandavilli
  • July 30, 2021, 09:49

Variant more transmissible than viruses that cause Mers, Sars, Ebola, colds, seasonal flu and smallpox

First Look: Gráinne O’Keefe’s bright and airy new restaurant in Dublin 4 First Look: Gráinne O’Keefe’s bright and airy new restaurant in Dublin 4
  • Food & Drink
  • Marie Claire Digby
  • July 30, 2021, 06:03

The former head chef at Clanbrassil House has opened her own establishment, Mae

Women who stop breastfeeding failed by system that doesn’t support them Women who stop breastfeeding failed by system that doesn’t support them
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  • Sylvia Thompson
  • July 30, 2021, 06:00

Prof Amy Brown says it is time to stop using language not helpful to women

Tips to make the light fantastic in your garden Tips to make the light fantastic in your garden
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  • Denise O’Connor
  • July 30, 2021, 06:00

Four things to consider when planning your perfect outdoor lighting scheme

How one couple made the kitchen the heart of their home How one couple made the kitchen the heart of their home
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  • July 30, 2021, 06:00

Two years after meeting a hipster in Dublin, I was spending a lot of time admiring cattle and tractors

What will €375,000 buy in New York, Turkey, France, Sweden and Cavan? What will €375,000 buy in New York, Turkey, France, Sweden and Cavan?
  • Homes & Property
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle
  • July 30, 2021, 06:00

From two houses in France and a waterside cabin in Sweden to a six-bed in Arvagh

The truth about fast fashion: Can you tell how ethical your clothing is by its price? The truth about fast fashion: Can you tell how ethical your clothing is by its price?
  • Fashion
  • Hannah Marriott
  • July 30, 2021, 06:00

Here is what you need to know to buy clothes with a clear conscience

There will be blood: Women on the shocking truth about periods and perimenopause There will be blood: Women on the shocking truth about periods and perimenopause
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  • Gaby Hinsliff
  • July 30, 2021, 06:00

Many women experience periods in the run up to menopause that disrupt their lives

Compound interest: Co Wexford property with three houses on 2.5 acres for €895,000 Compound interest: Co Wexford property with three houses on 2.5 acres for €895,000
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  • July 29, 2021, 10:55

Compound close to the beach at Roney Point offers flexibility and potential

Ireland ‘one of world’s best five places’ to survive global societal collapse Ireland ‘one of world’s best five places’ to survive global societal collapse
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  • Damian Carrington
  • July 29, 2021, 09:58

Study citing ‘perilous state’ of industrial civilisation ranks temperate islands top for resilience

Yotam Ottolenghi’s magic formula for easy, delicious dishes Yotam Ottolenghi’s magic formula for easy, delicious dishes
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  • July 29, 2021, 06:01

Something fresh + pantry flavour bomb + whatever else needs eating = breakfast/lunch/supper

A new life in Ireland changed by a cancer diagnosis A new life in Ireland changed by a cancer diagnosis
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  • Arlene Harris
  • July 29, 2021, 06:01

Isabella Costa Rocha got her diagnosis two months after arriving from Brazil

What will €249,000 buy in Dublin and Offaly? What will €249,000 buy in Dublin and Offaly?
  • Homes & Property
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle
  • July 29, 2021, 06:00

Town&Country: A one-bed apartment next to the Four Courts or a house in Kilcormac

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Homes and Property

Outdoor lighting creates a lovely atmosphere during the summer when you’re spending time outdoors. Photograph: Getty Images Tips to make the light fantastic in your garden
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  • Denise O’Connor

Four things to consider when planning your perfect outdoor lighting scheme

Glenheather, Avoca Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson Blackrock home secures €9m as demand for prime property heats up
Contention can arise in developments when the number of parking spaces is less than the number of vehicles owned by property owners. Who owns and controls the car parking in my apartment complex?
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Mae: Grainne O'Keefe at her new restaurant above the French Paradox, on Shelbourne Road in Dublin 4. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill First Look: Gráinne O’Keefe’s bright and airy new restaurant in Dublin 4
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The former head chef at Clanbrassil House has opened her own establishment, Mae

Turmeric fried eggs with tamarind and pickled shallots. Photographs: Christopher Simpson/The New York Times Yotam Ottolenghi’s magic formula for easy, delicious dishes
Otterbank’s Declan Nixon: ‘The lockdown allowed me to be more gentle and thoughtful.’ Making a session IPA with a difference
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The agency’s data suggest that people with weak immune systems should wear masks even in places that do not have high transmission of the virus. File Photograph: iStock Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox, says US health-protection agency
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Variant more transmissible than viruses that cause Mers, Sars, Ebola, colds, seasonal flu and smallpox

Prof Amy Brown’s latest book is different as it takes a deeper look at how women feel when breastfeeding doesn’t work out for them. Women who stop breastfeeding failed by system that doesn’t support them
Heavy periods are ‘probably one of the commonest presenting symptoms in menopause transition, and there’s a logical reason for it’. Photograph: iStock There will be blood: Women on the shocking truth about periods and perimenopause
  • A new life in Ireland changed by a cancer diagnosis
  • ‘I was sick, tired and had lost myself – until I began lifting weights at 71’

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Dead Rabbit owner Sean Muldoon: ‘Between dreaming of the bar, and breathing life into it, it took six years of hard graft.’ ‘To get world’s best bar in Belfast is one thing, but in New York is another’
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Wild Geese: Dead Rabbit owner Sean Muldoon on his career journey

Generation Homeless: first-generation immigrants make up a significant part of Canada’s homeless population. Photograph: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Young and Irish? Before you head for Canada, be sure you’d happily join Generation Homeless
Budapest Pride: Shaun (left) with Tomas, a Hungarian who moved home after spending years in Dublin In Ireland we ask if Pride is now too corporate. Where I live it’s about gay people’s right to exist
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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
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  • 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
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An NGO has estimated how much a factory worker was paid to make one Zara hoodie. Photograph: Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The truth about fast fashion: Can you tell how ethical your clothing is by its price?
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Alice Halliday in her own creations Sustainable fashion: 10 Irish brands for the mindful shopper
The best volumising mascaras to buy now
  • Jean Paul Gaultier: All the haters mean we couldn’t do Eurotrash now
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Must our clothes match? How many books to pack? And how likely is our holiday to happen?

Pearse Street, Clonakilty, Co Cork. Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision 36 hours in Clonakilty: ‘Airbnb has a lot to answer for’
The Travel Department will bring you to some Irish gems, and can include a castle stopover City and country escapes for August and September
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  • Antrim: An insider’s guide to the best walks, beaches, food, drink and activities

Motors

The new Volkswagen Taigo is - in one sense - a coupe version of the small T-Cross crossover Volkswagen launches a baby crossover coupe
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe

New Taigo will sit alongside the T-Cross in the small crossover market

DS launches - again - in Ireland
The car transforms into a rainbow-hued disco-fest when brought inside. 7:21 Formula One turns to Amazon’s supercomputer in the cloud
  • Spend on a new car or save by buying used? Here’s our expert advice
  • Is biofuel use leading to massive deforestation?

Outdoors

Researchers discovered that crabs demonstrated behaviour ‘consistent with the idea of pain’. Drawing by Michael Viney Another Life: How far does pain extend in the living world?
  • Michael Viney

Evidence mounts on ‘possibility of pain experience’ in fish and marine crustaceans

River swimming in Co Kerry. Photograph: Getty Images Why Irish rivers urgently require more swimmers in them
‘A spotted flycatcher perched repeatedly on a twig of firethorn directly outside my bedroom window’ Another Life: A flight course around the planet’s shifting extremes
  • Another Life: Will tuna-watching be the next big tourist attraction?
  • Family nature walks can be made more fun with observation

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‘Carolanne wants to meet up for a drink,’ Sorcha goes. ‘Tomorrow’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Are you suggesting I pretend to have Covid?’ Sorcha goes
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‘The chap is your godfather, Ross! I was hoping you might even say a few words while we’re all still compos mentis!’ ‘Hennessy Coghlan-O’Hara taught me how to drink a Mortini in three mouthfuls’
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Ronan showed me how to light a fire and make it look like an accident’
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People

ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons, left, and bassist Dusty Hill perform at the Beacon Theatre in New York in 2010. Photograph: Chad Batka/The New York Times Dusty Hill obituary: ZZ Top bassist kept a low, relatively sober profile
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Band paired grungy sound and innuendo-filled lyrics with a comic stage act

I was now spending a lot of time outside, looking at things and agreeing that, yes, that was ‘a grand big field/tractor/cow’. Photograph: iStock Brianna Parkins: I realised I hadn’t been catfished – I’d been culchiefished
Simone Biles a win at the 2016 Olympics. File photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images Maeve Higgins: Simone Biles wins all of my medals
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The need for on-demand learning in people management is being met at NCI The need for on-demand learning in people management is being met at NCI

Courses on human capital management and on facilitating the creation of a good organisational culture are relevant for those dealing with the impact of the pandemic

For a really great drive, golfer Paul McGinley heads to Dublin’s coast For a really great drive, golfer Paul McGinley heads to Dublin’s coast

BMW 530e Plug-in Hybrid is the perfect choice as the golfing icon and leadership guru takes a trip down memory lane

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1 The agency’s data suggest that people with weak immune systems should wear masks even in places that do not have high transmission of the virus. File Photograph: iStock Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox, says US health-protection agency

2 ‘My body is where it wants to be’ says Joan Macdonald ‘I was sick, tired and had lost myself – until I began lifting weights at 71’

3 Generation Homeless: first-generation immigrants make up a significant part of Canada’s homeless population. Photograph: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Young and Irish? Before you head for Canada, be sure you’d happily join Generation Homeless

4 I was now spending a lot of time outside, looking at things and agreeing that, yes, that was ‘a grand big field/tractor/cow’. Photograph: iStock Brianna Parkins: I realised I hadn’t been catfished – I’d been culchiefished

5 Doomsday-ready: a security guard at the Survival Condo, a former nuclear missile vault in Kansas. Photograph: Chet Strange/New York Times Ireland ‘one of world’s best five places’ to survive global societal collapse

6 Mae: Grainne O'Keefe at her new restaurant above the French Paradox, on Shelbourne Road in Dublin 4. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill First Look: Gráinne O’Keefe’s bright and airy new restaurant in Dublin 4

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10 Isabella Costa Rocha: “My dream now is to work with people who are facing cancer and to be able to help them.” A new life in Ireland changed by a cancer diagnosis

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