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If you criticise your daughter, it is important to direct your comments at her behaviour and not towards her personally. My seven-year-old bursts into tears when I try to discipline her
  • Health & Family
  • John Sharry
  • May 26, 2019, 16:01

Ask the Expert: She appears to over-react and get upset and has written me an apology note

‘I worry I don’t last long enough in bed. I don’t feel like a complete man’ ‘I worry I don’t last long enough in bed. I don’t feel like a complete man’
  • Health & Family
  • Roe McDermott
  • May 26, 2019, 06:00

Ask Roe: It’s sad that men judge their self-worth on unrealistic standards

The Irish chefs behind some of London’s most hotly anticipated restaurants The Irish chefs behind some of London’s most hotly anticipated restaurants
  • Food & Drink
  • Marie Claire Digby
  • May 26, 2019, 06:00

Robin Gill, Patrick Powell and Anna Haugh show Marie-Claire Digby around their new kitchens

Travel deals: Visit Kyiv with new direct flights from Dublin Travel deals: Visit Kyiv with new direct flights from Dublin
  • Travel
  • Jo Linehan
  • May 26, 2019, 05:00

Galway by foot and by boat and special prosecco picnics in Dublin

Health Board: Upcoming conferences, talks, campaigns and events Health Board: Upcoming conferences, talks, campaigns and events
  • Health & Family
  • Damian Cullen
  • May 26, 2019, 04:01

Gardens and wellbeing, MS campaign, healthcare innovation and milk donating

Why I love … Walking my dog  Why I love … Walking my dog 
  • Fitness
  • Taurean Coughlan
  • May 26, 2019, 01:00

Co-owner of Two Boys Brew uses park time to listen to podcasts and think

Welcome to my place .... Jinhae, South Korea Welcome to my place .... Jinhae, South Korea
  • Abroad
  • Patrick Conway
  • May 26, 2019, 01:00

Cherry Blossom bread is pocket-sized. Buying multiple packs won’t break the bank

Reality TV is all just a bit of fun, until someone gets hurt Reality TV is all just a bit of fun, until someone gets hurt
  • People
  • Jennifer O'Connell
  • May 25, 2019, 06:03

Jennifer O'Connell on The Jeremy Kyle Show, emblem for these paradoxical times

Rosita Boland: Brushes with danger remind us of the fragility of life Rosita Boland: Brushes with danger remind us of the fragility of life
  • Travel
  • Rosita Boland
  • May 25, 2019, 06:00

Exclusive extract from Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel

Winner, winner, three chicken dinners Winner, winner, three chicken dinners
  • Food & Drink
  • Jess Murphy
  • May 25, 2019, 06:00

Jess Murphy: Well-reared free-range poultry should be held in high esteem

A beer that tastes like an ice-pop? A beer that tastes like an ice-pop?
  • Drink
  • Sorcha Hamilton
  • May 25, 2019, 06:00

Beerista: The new Super Soaker ice-pop IPA from Wicklow Wolf is a gimmick that works

Welcome to the turtle house in Monkstown Farm Welcome to the turtle house in Monkstown Farm
  • Gardens
  • Alanna Gallagher
  • May 25, 2019, 06:00

The animal-loving owners of this south Dublin house asked Taka Architects to design an extension – for their 60lb turtle

How mead is creating a buzz in the world of brewing How mead is creating a buzz in the world of brewing
  • Food & Drink
  • Lilly Higgins
  • May 25, 2019, 06:00

Game of Thrones and Vikings has been a boon for meaderies, including Kinsale Mead in Cork

How Sicilian wines make an offer you can’t refuse How Sicilian wines make an offer you can’t refuse
  • Drink
  • John Wilson
  • May 25, 2019, 06:00

John Wilson: From Grillo to Nero d’Avola the island produces wines with their own unique character

Cannabis legalisation: ‘It’s a bit like the anti-vaxx debate’ Cannabis legalisation: ‘It’s a bit like the anti-vaxx debate’
  • Health & Family
  • Paul Cullen
  • May 25, 2019, 06:00

A group of doctors say we are ‘sleepwalking’ into legalising cannabis. Is it time to wake up?

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Reality TV is all just a bit of fun, until someone gets hurt

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‘I suppose I’m lonely,’ she said. ‘Lonely and I never thought I would be’

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Love and power and the badly behaved boys on the bus

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Nietzsche said that failure should be embraced. But he was weird

Homes and Property

Three-year-old Conor Maverick with Swampy, the turtle, at their home in Monkstown Farm. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Welcome to the turtle house in Monkstown Farm
  • Gardens
  • Alanna Gallagher

The animal-loving owners of this south Dublin house asked Taka Architects to design an extension – for their 60lb turtle

Theresa Lowe and Frank McNamara are seeking to have almost €3 million of their total debts of €3.7 million written off, including the bulk of Tanager’s €2.2 million debt. Photograph: Tom Honan The new way to deal with mortgage debt
Dance of Time III by Salvador Dali being installed in the gardens at Russborough House in Co Wicklow Dalí’s surreal dream pieces in the gardens at Russborough
  • Rare post box on the block in garden sale
  • Sustainable gardens blossom at Bloom

Health and Family

If you criticise your daughter, it is important to direct your comments at her behaviour and not towards her personally. My seven-year-old bursts into tears when I try to discipline her
  • Health & Family
  • John Sharry

Ask the Expert: She appears to over-react and get upset and has written me an apology note

Photograph: iStock ‘I worry I don’t last long enough in bed. I don’t feel like a complete man’
Janssen, Aware and See Change will present a garden at Bloom in the Park that has been created in collaboration with people living with or affected by mental illness. It is called Grounded. Health Board: Upcoming conferences, talks, campaigns and events
  • Why I love … Walking my dog 
  • Cannabis legalisation: ‘It’s a bit like the anti-vaxx debate’

Food & Drink

Robin Gill at work in the kitchen at Darby’s. Photograph: Paul Winch-Furness; The Irish chefs behind some of London’s most hotly anticipated restaurants
  • Food & Drink
  • Marie Claire Digby

Robin Gill, Patrick Powell and Anna Haugh show Marie-Claire Digby around their new kitchens

Sticky orange and ginger chicken tray bake Winner, winner, three chicken dinners
Another newbie from Rascals is its hazy Fruitropolis pale ale A beer that tastes like an ice-pop?
  • How mead is creating a buzz in the world of brewing
  • How Sicilian wines make an offer you can’t refuse

People

Jeremy Kyle: his show, launched in 2005, was one of the early TV formats to capitalise on our endless appetite for human suffering. Photograph: ITV Reality TV is all just a bit of fun, until someone gets hurt
  • People
  • Jennifer O'Connell

Jennifer O'Connell on The Jeremy Kyle Show, emblem for these paradoxical times

F1 Legend Niki Lauda: Six weeks after his devastating crash in 1976, Lauda returned to competition in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images Niki Lauda obituary: Formula One road warrior who pushed limits
From left: Users of the Irish Wheelchair Association’s services, James Carolan, Mary Lynch, Kayleigh McKevitt and Ali Molloy in the Phoenix Park ahead of the Irish Wheelchair Association’s garden opening at the Bloom Festival on the June Bank Holiday weekend. Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times Ireland’s landscapes are beautiful but not accessible for all
  • Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘We’re going to be doing what I call, Maths Through Rugby’
  • Neus Català obituary: Dogged anti-fascist, resistance fighter and Nazi camp survivor

Fashion

Gingham dress, €40.50, at thelittlewoodenpeg.com Kids’ clothes children actually want to wear
  • Fashion
  • Deirdre McQuillan

Fashion: The big business of catering for small people

Heist, €118: a good bodysuit offers light support for everyday wear and creates a subtle and seamless layer What’s the best underwear to smooth out lumps and bumps?
Closing down: six Arcadia Group stores in Ireland, including the flagship Topshop on St Stephen’s Green, are to shut. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Topshop? Women have moved on, filled out and grown up
  • Who are the new young Irish designers to look out for?
  • How do you pack beauty products for travelling? With military precision

Travel

Sant Francesc Hotel Singular in Palma de Mallorca Travel deals: Visit Kyiv with new direct flights from Dublin
  • Travel
  • Jo Linehan

Galway by foot and by boat and special prosecco picnics in Dublin

A lifetime of travel: some of Rosita Boland’s reminders of her journeys. Montage: Angelo McGrath Rosita Boland: Brushes with danger remind us of the fragility of life
Dinner with a view. Thessaloniki: All roads lead to the sea in Greece’s second city
  • Beside the seaside: British beach towns are back in vogue with hipsters
  • Why are there so many young foxes roaming around our cities?

Abroad

Patrick Conway from Co Derry lives in south Korea Welcome to my place .... Jinhae, South Korea
  • Patrick Conway

Cherry Blossom bread is pocket-sized. Buying multiple packs won’t break the bank

Eoghan O’Kelly and Séamus Keane inside the Hanuman Health Club Gym Space they run in Manhattan, New York City The fitness coaches inspiring New Yorkers to escape to Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way
Sister Mary Gabriel Hogan came from Cabra. Photograph: University of Newcastle, Australia The Irish nun who opened schools for the deaf in Australia
  • Irish in Britain must stand up and have their voices heard this week
  • Welcome to my place... Dallas

Motors

Audi chief executive Bram Schot told shareholders at its annual general meeting on Thursday that the TT’s low volumes were in the way of a new strategy to launch at least 20 new BEVs by 2025 Audi to kill off its TT while R8’s future remains uncertain
  • Motors
  • Michael Taylor

Entry two-door coupe and convertible ends after three generations

New Opel Corsa leaks just days before its official reveal
Tyre giant Continental has showcased a concept tyre that features tiny sensors embedded in the ContiSense tyre carcass that inform the car of the tyre’s health Smart tyres: The rubber on the road is about to get a lot more sophisticated
  • Irish Electrifi signs €40m deal to build electric Jaguar E-Types
  • Audi A4 gets makeover and mild hybrid power in bid to stay ahead of rivals

Outdoors

A hawthorn shield bug What is this spectacular bug? Readers’ nature queries
  • Ethna Viney

Ethna Viney on a skull on the beach, a butterfly, a lumpfish, a dead snail, a whimbrel

Emiliania huxleyi, a type of phytoplankton which could prove useful in the fight against climate change. Photograph: Michael Viney Plankton, salt sprays and other potential solutions to climate change
A fox on the grounds of the Garda office on Harcourt Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Why are there so many young foxes roaming around our cities?
  • Rhododendron: An ecological disaster in Killarney National Park
  • Where are all the insects gone? My unease deepens year by year

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Because, Sorcha, if being a member of the south Dublin middle class has taught me one thing, it’s that you don’t apologise for anything – ever.’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘We’re going to be doing what I call, Maths Through Rugby’
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • May 25, 2019

Rosston College has an eventful first day with the triplets out of Montessori

Leo sticks his head around the door of the office, fixes poor Jill with a look and goes, ‘You know who you’re a ringer for? Olivia Culpo!’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘You’re a Montessori teacher. A babysitter with good insurance cover’
Honor: “What the fock is going on? Who were you talking to?” Illustration: Alan Clarke Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Deep down she actually hates that I’m the cool parent’
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