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Seat introduces its largest SUV yet - the Tarraco
  • Motors
  • Michael Sheridan
  • September 19, 2018, 21:21

Available in five or seven-seat format, it looks set to power further growth at the VW Group’s Spanish brand

Women on running in Ireland: ‘I’ve been jeered at, catcalled, followed’ Women on running in Ireland: ‘I’ve been jeered at, catcalled, followed’
  • Fitness
  • Ciara Kenny
  • September 19, 2018, 16:05

Is harassment of female runners ‘endemic’? Readers share their experiences

Share your experience: Have you learned another language? Share your experience: Have you learned another language?
  • Abroad
  • September 19, 2018, 15:30

We want to hear from readers abroad about the benefits and challenges of settling in a country where another language is spoken

Florence Burke, American Civil War soldier and my great-great-grandfather Florence Burke, American Civil War soldier and my great-great-grandfather
  • Abroad
  • Ellen Alden
  • September 19, 2018, 12:19

200,000 Irish-born immigrants volunteered to fight in the bloody war

Buy a property. . . with a (tax-friendly) income Buy a property. . . with a (tax-friendly) income
  • Homes & Property
  • Fiona Reddan
  • September 19, 2018, 10:41

By buying a place with rental potential your mortgage could be paid off in no time

Healthy Town: 50 ways for all the family to get a little healthier Healthy Town: 50 ways for all the family to get a little healthier
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Deep breaths, parents, but maybe video games and screen-time are not as bad as you think Deep breaths, parents, but maybe video games and screen-time are not as bad as you think
  • Parenting
  • Barry O'Rourke
  • September 19, 2018, 07:01

Video games can provide an alternative learning infrastructure that really helps students

‘As far as my mother was concerned, I was never good enough’ ‘As far as my mother was concerned, I was never good enough’
  • Health & Family
  • Trish Murphy
  • September 19, 2018, 06:01

Tell Me About It: ‘Since her death, I’ve revisited incidents and feelings I had as a child’

We want to move to Cork. Should we buy there before moving from Dublin? We want to move to Cork. Should we buy there before moving from Dublin?
  • Homes & Property
  • September 19, 2018, 06:00

Property Clinic: Advice for a couple who are unsure about how to navigate a big move

Stoneybatter original on popular Aberdeen Street for €350,000 Stoneybatter original on popular Aberdeen Street for €350,000
  • New to Market
  • Rose Doyle
  • September 19, 2018, 06:00

This solid, desirable 65sq m late 19th century home is compact, light-filled and well-fitted

Five moves in four years. Each one an exercise in shame and downsizing Five moves in four years. Each one an exercise in shame and downsizing
  • People
  • Laura Kennedy
  • September 19, 2018, 06:00

Laura Kennedy: In our little house, I sit with the things I’ve accumulated through my life

Mint condition in Terenure with converted coach house for €2.395m Mint condition in Terenure with converted coach house for €2.395m
  • New to Market
  • Elizabeth Birdthistle
  • September 19, 2018, 06:00

Extension at garden level includes Poggenpohl kitchen and informal dining area

Easy, healthier fish and chips you can make at home Easy, healthier fish and chips you can make at home
  • Food & Drink
  • Lilly Higgins
  • September 19, 2018, 06:00

Hake is fantastic and a sustainable meaty white fish that’s easy to cook

Toyota’s new Supra good enough to take on Porsche Toyota’s new Supra good enough to take on Porsche
  • Motors
  • Neil Briscoe
  • September 19, 2018, 06:00

New six-cylinder sports car shares much with BMW but forges its own path

Direct provision: ‘It stank. There was no privacy. It was like military camp’ Direct provision: ‘It stank. There was no privacy. It was like military camp’
  • People
  • Sorcha Pollak
  • September 19, 2018, 06:00

New to the Parish: Bulelani Mfaco arrived from South Africa in 2015

Our Columnists

Laura Kennedy Laura Kennedy -

Five moves in four years. Each one an exercise in shame and downsizing

Conor Pope Conor Pope - Consumer Affairs Correspondent

Babyproofing? Like most 1970s kids I was left to roam the death trap of my home

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‘Rx’, ‘Po’ and ‘alt die’: the doctor’s indecipherable prescription

Jennifer O'Connell Jennifer O'Connell -

We don’t talk about ‘career men’, so don’t call me a ‘working mum’

Homes and Property

Property 2: Brookwood Crescent, Artane: If the garage here was converted to a one-bed property, the owner could stand to earn up to €1,000 a month tax-free. Buy a property. . . with a (tax-friendly) income
  • Homes & Property
  • Fiona Reddan

By buying a place with rental potential your mortgage could be paid off in no time

‘Living in a city while looking to purchase there will give you a much better feel for where you would like to end up buying.’ File photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto We want to move to Cork. Should we buy there before moving from Dublin?
An aubergine cabinet adds colour in the kitchen and picks up on the plum theme throughout the house. Photograph: Matteo Tuniz Coming back to a forever home in Ranelagh
  • Can our neighbour install a cat-height electric fence?
  • Hugh Wallace: ‘Our farmhouses need saving, not the cities’

Health and Family

‘A very pleasant female Garda advised me to run on a treadmill instead, saying “You’re asking for trouble if you run in the city”. I haven’t run in the city since.’ Photograph: iStock/Getty Images Women on running in Ireland: ‘I’ve been jeered at, catcalled, followed’
  • Fitness
  • Ciara Kenny

Is harassment of female runners ‘endemic’? Readers share their experiences

Every parent and teacher will know of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. Deep breaths, parents, but maybe video games and screen-time are not as bad as you think
Research has shown the earlier a patient is referred to the palliative care service during a hospital admission, the better the outcomes, including clinical outcomes and quality of life. Photograph: iStock Dispelling some myths about palliative care
  • Have your say: Have you been harassed while running?
  • 10 readers on the Irish health service: patients, patience and complacence

Food & Drink

Hake goujons with avocado dip Easy, healthier fish and chips you can make at home
  • Food & Drink
  • Lilly Higgins

Hake is fantastic and a sustainable meaty white fish that’s easy to cook

Bono is backing developer and businessman Paddy McKillen’s plans for a distillery in Co Kildare. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/Getty Images First McGregor, now Bono enters the whiskey game
Coca-Cola: the company’s original recipe, in the 1880s, included cocaine. Photograph: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Joint venture: Coca-Cola considers cannabis-infused range
  • What's really in your Chicken Tikka Masala ready meal?
  • Mellow fruitfulness: comforting recipes for autumn

People

We are on the move again; the process has long since lost its allure. Five moves in four years. Each one an exercise in shame and downsizing
  • People
  • Laura Kennedy

Laura Kennedy: In our little house, I sit with the things I’ve accumulated through my life

Bulelani Mfaco has been living in direct provision for nearly a year. He describes the centres as “ghettos in every sense of the word”. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Direct provision: ‘It stank. There was no privacy. It was like military camp’
''And you have the house babyproofed,' the nurse said. Have I what?' Photograph: iStock Babyproofing? Like most 1970s kids I was left to roam the death trap of my home
  • Actor best known for femme fatale roles in Carry On films
  • Lynn Ruane: ‘Having a baby at 15 stopped me when I could have begun to use heroin’

Fashion

Paul Costelloe: “I am lucky to be still showing at London Fashion Week whether good, bad or indifferent,” the Irish designer says. Photographs: Joe Maher/BFC/Getty ‘A self-indulgent Paul Costelloe expression of who I am’
  • Fashion
  • Deirdre McQuillan

Irish designer’s London Fashion Week show included Italian florals and plain Irish linens

A model walks the runway at the Simone Rocha show during London Fashion Week in London, England. Photograph: Tristan Fewings/BFC/Getty Images London Fashion Week: Simone Rocha's beautiful homage to her Chinese heritage
Models on the runway at the finale of the Victoria Beckham show during London Fashion Week. Photograph: Tristan Fewings/BFC/Getty Images for BFC Victoria Beckham's bold first London Fashion Week show
  • London Fashion Week: JW Anderson’s cool collection for a hot summer
  • Marian Keyes: I’m in love with this gamechanger of a skin product

Travel

Cosáin na Naomh, pilgrim walk, Co Kerry Walk for the weekend: Cosáin na Naomh, Co Kerry
  • Travel
  • John G O'Dwyer

Echoes from the past abound as you follow the pilgrim path on Dingle Peninsula

Balcony suite at the Newpark Hotel, Kilkenny Suite sensation in Kilkenny
Long Meadow apple farm Apples lie at the core of Armagh, the Harvest County
  • Travelling through Kenya: Kissing giraffes and panoramic views
  • The ‘New York Times’ came to the Aran Islands. Here’s what it found

Abroad

Chest full of letters and photographs belonging to Florence and Ellen Burke. Florence Burke, American Civil War soldier and my great-great-grandfather
  • Ellen Alden

200,000 Irish-born immigrants volunteered to fight in the bloody war

For the first time since 2009, Ireland is now welcoming more of its citizens home than the number departing the country. Photograph: iStock Returning emigrants are not looking for a red-carpet, just fairness
Has knowing another language opened up new opportunities for you? Photograph: iStock/Getty Images Share your experience: Have you learned another language?
  • Appreciating Dublin like a tourist on a visit back home
  • Time is right for the Irishman making watches in Switzerland

Motors

Seat introduces its largest SUV yet - the Tarraco
  • Motors
  • Michael Sheridan

Available in five or seven-seat format, it looks set to power further growth at the VW Group’s Spanish brand

After 22 long years Toyota’s iconic Supra has returned and has been billed as the “Porsche Killer” Toyota’s new Supra good enough to take on Porsche
Every inch of the new US-built GT has been considered and designed to serve a purpose. Even the glorious buttresses are hollow to help channel air to the engine and improve aerodynamics Ford’s new GT supercar embodies the company’s rich racing pedigree
  • Audi’s electric SUV goes for victory through familiarity
  • Lexus UX first drive: downsizing has never been so desirable

Outdoors

The rosemary or lavender beetle. Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney
  • Ethna Viney

Lavender beetle, house martins, beautiful demoiselle, dock bug, kingfisher and whimbrels

The Arigna Mining Experience explores the town’s history of coal mining that started in the 1700s. Roscommon’s great outdoors
Pike: Illustration: Michael Viney. Pike no longer deemed to be the unacceptable foe
  • The wildlife roadshow
  • Falconry: ‘An exceptional way to interact with nature’

More Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

The boys stop suddenly swearing. Because they can presumably see what I can see, that Mallorie Kennedy is – and hopefully this isn’t me objectifying women – a serious, serious honey Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: My sons take after me in their love of being surrounded by admiring females
  • Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • September 15, 2018

The boys can presumably see that Mallorie Kennedy is a serious, serious honey

“I see the distant look in Sorcha’s eyes when she says it and I think to myself that maybe Amie with an ie was right.” Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘If you ask Sorcha how she is these days, she says she’s having a good Q3’
And, after an hour of non-stop flipping and blinding, all of the sweets have gone and the rewarding of good behaviour scheme has hit its first major snag. ‘I suddenly feel like Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society’
  • ‘‘Goys, this is Tayto Pork!’ The triplets’ faces light up’
  • ‘A chill goes through my body as I notice her – get this – kissing an actual boy’

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4 Bulelani Mfaco has been living in direct provision for nearly a year. He describes the centres as “ghettos in every sense of the word”. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Direct provision: ‘It stank. There was no privacy. It was like military camp’
5 ‘A very pleasant female Garda advised me to run on a treadmill instead, saying “You’re asking for trouble if you run in the city”. I haven’t run in the city since.’ Photograph: iStock/Getty Images Women on running in Ireland: ‘I’ve been jeered at, catcalled, followed’
6 Property 2: Brookwood Crescent, Artane: If the garage here was converted to a one-bed property, the owner could stand to earn up to €1,000 a month tax-free. Buy a property. . . with a (tax-friendly) income
7 ''And you have the house babyproofed,' the nurse said. Have I what?' Photograph: iStock Babyproofing? Like most 1970s kids I was left to roam the death trap of my home
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