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Helen Steele, artist and fashion designer, at home in Emyvale, Co Monaghan. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Helen Steele’s designs on Dunnes Stores

Artist, designer and printmaker Helen Steele is usually photographed in paint-spattered dungarees, brush in hand in her busy studio where she develops(...)

Footpad, with Ruby Walsh on board, lost his unbeaten record with a shock defeat at Naas earlier this month. Photograph: Oisin Keniry/Inpho
Footpad on course for a return to action over Christmas

Last season’s outstanding novice chaser Footpad could return to action over two miles at Christmas. Footpad lost his unbeaten record with a shock def(...)

Road Warrior

Porsche tows A380 aircraft Two world famous brands challenged each other this month in a feat of strength. The Porsche Cayenne towed a 285-tonne Air (...)

Pupils, parents and teachers at the Gaelscoil UAE, which was set up in October 2015 by three Irish emigrant couples
Gaelscoil in the Gulf: the 40 children learning Irish in the desert

In the United Arab Emirates, the school week runs from Sunday to Thursday. But as the Saturday sun blazes down on Dubai’s Uptown School, the 14-acre (...)

Johanna O’Connor: I want our boy to enjoy cups of tea at the kitchen table with his granny and grandad, and walks up the mountains with his parents on a Sunday
As soon as our boy was born I wanted him to grow up in Ireland

When I left Limerick for the Middle East, in 2007 – a time when the idea of a recession was laughable to most – I never imagined the decade that lay a(...)