Top Stories of the Year

‘Nobody pays attention to how naked everybody is. Being Irish, I’m wearing jeans’

Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan

There are ways to create feelings of happiness and belonging

The doctor-turned-broadcaster on raising four children, loving the teenage years and how her career has influenced her parenting

Ask Roe: ‘How do I cope with this domineering and manipulative woman?’

High costs are a common worry among users of Ozempic, Mounjaro and other weight-loss drugs, who report varying levels of success

On this episode of Conversations with Parents, Jen Hogan speaks to the consultant endocrinologist and HSE clinical lead for obesity

The TV presenter on breaking into radio in her 20s, buying her first home, and her new show The Assembly

Tell Me About It: ‘I now have questions about the rest of his family and their casualness about how she usurped our day’

‘Throw out the Irish trash’: Much of the nastiest stuff was directed at Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry

The former Glen of the Downs Golf Course greens are now covered in 80,000 native trees, planted by Anke and John Moran

Tell Me About It: ‘Our life together has been replaced by distance, with a deliberate decision on his part to engage in new activities’

Utility has marked complaint taken by customer’s daughter as closed

Family doctors were traditionally male, but women now represent 52% of GP workforce

Planning ahead is critical as is taking a realistic approach to your likely income and expenses if you are going to quit working early

Tony Cantwell on comedy, ADHD and learning to love his home country

Prices are rising because the biggest buyer in the market is pushing them up. Who will benefit?

Health students are getting involved in programmes which help their work life balance

The airline says under-16s now need to be accompanied by an adult when flying. Readers say it’s not that simple

Tipperary GP Paddy Davern worked with a medical team treating the country’s royals and other VIPs, and wants to tell people ‘what is going on’

Jane O’Leary, recipient of the National Concert Hall’s lifetime-achievement award, on her half-century of musical innovation

First-time buyers can focus on reducing the mortgage burden but there should be other priorities for any spare cash

Ask Roe: He has apologised repeatedly, and is trying very hard to make it up to me, but my trust is damaged

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

Hugh Corcoran takes bookings by phone, accepts only cash and has no website

Once seen as a young person’s drug, cocaine has become much more prevalent among older age groups and across all strata of society, at weddings, in pubs and at work events

With The Weir, the star returns to the stage after a 10-year absence. It’s a play he loves for its portrayal of the Irish as a people

Tell Me About It: I just feel so deflated, with nothing to look forward to any more

‘I felt so much relief, after four years of thinking I was lazy ... I finally had an answer – and more importantly, a treatable one’

Galway’s Druid theatre company had a superb, stubborn belief that a basket case of a nation could also be a Moses basket

Ask Roe: Should I accept that no one is perfect, or keep looking?

Downpatrick is the reputed burial place of three Irish saints

Bar owners fear business loss amid a chorus of complaints from customers longing for the original pint of plain

Tell Me About It: I feel awful for my friend in her situation and don’t want her to feel like I’m rubbing her nose in it

College Square was redesigned to give its residential block more impact. Why did An Bord Pleanála make such a misguided decision?

Readers say there are too few public charging points and there’s little official effort to address the shortage

Virginia Loughnan moved to Ireland in 2023 and is most proud of the network of friends she has built here

Rules to limit use of relief for tax planning are on the way but have not yet been activated

Better with Money with Aideen Finnegan

Tell Me About It: He would rather leave the house for a run, cycle or swim than spend time with me and the children