If you’ve got something coming up, the urge to shop can be real. Nothing in your wardrobe looks right, everyone’s already seen what you have and...
When I wrote last week about my guilt about flying too much, I fretted that I was airing a luxury problem. Not using social media means...
It was a giant life re-set, Olga Barry’s Big Sleep. A healthy, busy woman in her prime, she went rapidly from feeling under the weather to...
There are 30,000 properties in Ireland on offer online to holidaymakers, according to the Government. Airbnb accounts for about half of such bookings globally in properties...
Here is a razorbill on Skellig Michael in June. John Glynn, Kilrush Some 400 razorbills were recorded there in summer 2023. These seabirds have been censused...
When I last spoke to Dr Ciarán Kissane, Ireland’s director of film classification, he revealed that he had spent time looking through the annual reports that...
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They’re coming for your chopping board next. Yep, you can’t even make a sandwich these days without being in the wrong. Plastic chopping boards are the...
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Nobody wants to remember what it was like to be locked in, to be thrown completely out of the timeline you were living, only to emerge...
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“Throughout the day, there was a steady flow of travellers on the new system, many of them using the system out of curiosity and others taking...
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It’s not every morning I wake up thinking about Rembrandt’s dad, but the other day, amid much hand-wringing over radical politics, the image of Rembrandt’s father...
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Apart from that one time it wrecked the economy and the lives of millions of people back in 2008, the Irish banking system had an uneventfully...
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“I was happy. You know, you say you’re content, generally. Happy is a word we didn’t normally use. Because to be happy is something further than...