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Christmas dinner advice from two of Ireland’s best-known TV chefs

Christmas tree farmer: ‘We are definitely seeing the impact of climate change’

Christmas decor: What’s trending in 2023 and how to be sustainable

An Irish flight attendant’s guide to the five best cities in which to spend 24 hours

Christmas breaks: Why not give yourself the gift of a getaway?

A green Christmas: Gifts designed with sustainability in mind

Brianna Parkins: I saw glimpses of everyday Irish soundness in the chaos and fear of the Dublin riots

A new drug for extending the lifespan of dogs by one year is closer to reality. What if it works?

Advent calendars: The countdown to Christmas isn’t just chocolatey

My beloved aunt took her final photographs of ICU staff minding her the night before she died

‘I wouldn’t say I feel excluded in Ireland, but I can feel that I am foreign’

Food and drink subscriptions: Christmas gifts that keep on giving

Cookbooks for Christmas: Not just recipes but reads to really savour

Glimmering gold and shimmering silver for party season and beyond

Luke O’Neill’s Christmas: Get your vaccines up to date and have fun

Growing vegetables is a dying art in Ireland. This man has a solution

The best holidays for solo travellers - and no single supplement

Attitudes to English people living in Ireland: ‘I’d never, ever watch sport in public’

‘I was on the beach in Co Sligo in August 1979 when Lord Mountbatten was blown up on the next beach. We could see the smoke’

How to understand trauma: the first thing to know is that we will all experience it at some stage

Seán Moncrieff: You’ve seen pictures of starving kids. But nothing prepares you for the up-close reality

New beginnings: The garden is a mess, but I’m sowing seeds for a better 2024

The joys of solo travelling: ‘You’re exploring a new place and exploring yourself as well’

‘It had always been my dream to travel but I never envisaged doing it completely alone’

Give Me a Crash Course in . . . tenants being offered new ‘right to purchase’ when landlord is selling

Your gardening questions answered: Is it too late to plant my bulbs?

Louis Vuitton trunks to travel in old-world style at Adam’s At Home sale

‘Sneaking around behind my wife’s back is something I’m very, very good at, in fairness to me’

Brianna Parkins: What no one tells you about depression is how boring it is

Celebrating the work of Irish botanical artists

Trailblazing women modernists among the highlights at Whyte’s Important Irish Art sale

Mistletoe and wine: Styling and stocking your Christmas home bar

‘My whole life is changed in the year’: How an inner Dublin city group helps at risk teens

‘As a child I told people my fingers fell off and my hand shrunk in the wash’

Thalidomide survivors: ‘Having no arms is an unusual disability, there’s no guidebook. I made one up’

The druid: ‘I was nine in religion class and it just dawned on me that the God the nun was talking about didn’t exist for me’

Alison Spittle’s Christmas: I’ll explode if I get another bath bomb

‘Christmas can be chaos but in the loveliest way’: Festive and funny tales with Thalia Heffernan, Katja Mia, Killian Sundermann and more

Huberman family Christmas: ‘We were lucky as kids that Christmas in our house was a fun time. It’s not a given’

Which of the three Pauls nominated for the Booker prize will win? There’s only one Paul for me

Brianna Parkins: The Irish do an excellent death – and the research proves it

‘The banter, I love the banter. I think that’s why I’m doing so well in Ireland’

Aer Lingus owner promises to reinstate dividend payout

‘Men have infantilised me at work, saying ‘Good girl, big and strong’. I need to prove them wrong’

My flights have been pushed back by an hour and 50 minutes, messing up my plans. Is there anything I can do?

Singapore is a marvel of the gastronomic world

Birdsong is being lost to noise pollution. We must fight for the few sanctuaries left

Chanel at the V&A: A captivating exhibition showcasing the beauty of her greatest designs

Seán Moncrieff: The only time I met Gerry Adams he told me he likes to trampoline naked

Are you being gaslit? When it happens in the workplace, you can start to feel undermined or excluded

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BP Fallon on his photo of Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor ‘having a vibe’ in 1988

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It was wrong of Leo Varadkar to send a servant of the State to Ben Dunne’s funeral

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Court grants €146m judgment against owner of Co Kerry hotel and islands

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Shane MacGowan obituary: Outsider who became one of Ireland’s most feted sons

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‘Fix my broken child’: Emily Hand’s father Tom says she is readjusting after captivity