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A selection of the best human interest reporting, interviews, opinion and lifestyle features.

From Revolut to Money Jar: What are your options among new digital banking players?

Monzo is the latest online bank to enter the Irish market

The Devil Wears Prada 2 review: Lovely clothes. Savage quips. And a cameo by a celebrated Irish golfer

Meryl Streep returns as Miranda Priestly in this extended, kindly, good-looking exercise in fan service

‘I am on maternity leave and considering resigning. Do I need to repay my employer?’

Work Q&A: I have taken two consecutive maternity leaves and received my full pay for the 26 weeks during both

Pregnant and in a panic I bought, not shoes, but an apartment abroad

On Spain’s windy edge, life became richer in what matters – good food, friendship and 11am coffees

‘I asked the woman in the bookshop on a date and she bolted. I feel mortified’

Tell Me About It: ‘Did I misread what I took as inviting signals?’

Every time there’s a big change in my life - there’s one TV show I always return to

Some episodes are messy. Others extraordinary. Most are necessary. Which is what writing looks like. Not destiny. Not inspiration. Just turning up

Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt on making The Devil Wears Prada 2

The film revisits Miranda Priestly’s empire as print, power and prestige face digital disruption

Birds nesting above my apartment balcony are waking me up at 5am. What can I do?

Property Clinic: These birds are very loud and disruptive. Can they be removed?

I’ve recently come into a lump sum and want to invest it. What should I do?

How to invest: Options for investing a lump sum; long-term saving for children; and whether you should pay down your mortgage before you invest

Katriona O’Sullivan: I live in the grip of the fat-girl algorithm

In an extract from her new book Hungry, the bestselling author of Poor explores how class shapes how women see their own bodies

There’s a voyeuristic thrill in snooping on others’ homes, including Vogue William’s pink kitchen

Celebrity Super Spaces: It’s not all in good taste. And maybe because of this, I love every second

Is Leitrim a figment of the imagination? Leo Varadkar once thought so

Plus: The youthful protester pope, and a hiccup in a case against John Magnier

‘My partner’s blunt communication style is grating on my nerves. Should we break up?’

Ask Roe: How my partner expresses himself is starting to take from my enjoyment of the relationship. What should I do?

From Navan to Valencia: ‘They refer to the Irish here as the Latins of the north’

Wild Geese: Martin Hayes is a lawyer in the Spanish city

Pope Leo is the religious leader non-believers needed

His opposition to Donald Trump and the war on Iran is only a part of what makes Leo a unique and important figure in our time

Tax evasion, AI use and an Irish sprinter’s bikini photos: Specsavers ‘war’ reaches the High Court

Judge urges halt to ‘toxic’ dispute between Ennis branch manager and Guernsey-based optician chain

Kneecap: ‘These topics have been out of bounds for many years’

The controversial group have had a year of a kind that few artists will ever experience. They’re determined to stand their ground as they release their album Fenian

You wait ages to see your 1990s music heroines live, then two play Dublin at once

Sleeper at Opium and Miki Berenyi Trio at the Grand Social proved the potency of seeing long-loved artists for the first time

MasterChef’s new presenter Anna Haugh: ‘I’m really proud I come from Tallaght’

Dublin chef’s new MasterChef presenting role is one of the highest profile gigs in cooking reality television

Is it worth paying €299.99 for a travel hairdryer?

Dyson’s more compact take on a cult favourite hair tool will potentially appeal to those who have yet to try the original

In the middle of a housing crisis, why are our town centres so empty?

In the middle of a housing crisis, I drive through the centre of country towns or villages and see dark and empty first and second floors and wonder why?

Children must learn their letters, their numbers – and then 6,000 facts about animals

The average four-year-old would almost certainly beat the average 40-year-old in a quiz on animal facts

‘Brain fry’, the workplace side-effect of too much technology

The ideas behind the Gen Z concept of ‘grannycore’ can help with mental fatigue from too much screen time

Parent-led campaign to push for legislation guaranteeing right to Irish language education

Ireland should follow Wales and compel Department of Education to plan proactively to increase Irish-medium education provision, campaigners say

Dyson PencilWash review: Powerful but pricey cleaner tackles hard floors with ease

An option for more compact homes, but if you have rugs or carpets, you’ll need a separate vacuum cleaner

One in five employers see pay transparency rule as ‘unnecessary burden’

Ireland faces delays in transposing the EU directive

‘My close friend is marrying a good-looking man who uses people – should I say something?’

Tell Me About It: I really love my friend and worry that if I say anything she will be hugely hurt and push me away

‘I’ve worked for over 20 years in an organisation with no career progression. What should I do?’

Work Q&A: My manager has low levels of industry knowledge and zero management experience

This had never happened to me before. I was on the plane and a woman said: ‘You’re in my seat’

On a plane, Herself felt I should surrender my seat or offer to be strapped to the wing. I wasn’t so keen

An estate agent’s guide to bidding on a home in Ireland

Waterford agency owner Regina Mangan gives her advice on navigating the bidding process

How women’s concussions differ biologically from men’s

Neck muscles, brain microarchitecture and the menstrual cycle are factors in why the genders suffer and recover from concussion differently

I loathe Conor McGregor, but I can’t lie: something about him intrigues me

McGregor may have some residual Irish fanbase, but this country – actual Ireland as opposed to “Ireland” – has very little time for him

‘They’ll start trimming fat routes’: How could jet fuel shortages affect Irish airlines?

Consumer confidence has taken a battering since the start of the year, and when that happens, holiday bookings take a pause

There are some things even Rory McIlroy’s fancy wearables cannot measure

It’s getting harder to avoid activity trackers as more and more elite athletes endorse them

‘I have four children and feel overwhelmed all the time’

Ask Roe: At 53, I feel like a hamster on a wheel. I’m stressed, anxious and resentful of taking on more tasks, even if they are essential

‘Your husband is having an affair with my wife’: how the perfect life of an heiress exploded

Belle Burden seemed to have a perfect life. Then her husband walked out on the family. Strangers, her compelling memoir, is now being made into a film

Meet the Dublin couple who left their law and engineering careers for a camper van life

A wandering minstrel and high-flying lawyer have joined forces to launch a business doing camper van conversions and building flat-pack kits for van owners

Ozempic and Mounjaro look like the cure for everything, but there’s no pill for some ills

Or is semaglutide mania a symptom of a condition that can’t be cured?

‘Easy money over glamour’: How Rory McIlroy is set to become Ireland’s first sporting billionaire

The golfer’s latest win at the Masters ‘puts him in another stratosphere’ and is likely to supercharge his earning power

Patrick Freyne: Here’s why AI is making us dumber and more lonely

Writing forces people to resolve internal contradictions and confront their own bullshit. It’s why it’s hard. It’s why it’s beautiful

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