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For You
A selection of the best human interest reporting, interviews, opinion and lifestyle features.
‘My friend has been talking to my spouse behind my back’
Tell Me About It: A long-standing pal implied to my spouse that I was seeing other people, which was a complete lie
My daughter has Ireland’s most popular name, but I decided on it 30 years ago
We can’t have a play centre birthday party without surnames needed to distinguish one child from another
‘There is a treatment and she’s not getting it’: Calls for HSE to fund drug for rare disease
Emily Felix, 28, and her family were ‘killed’ by the news that a drug to treat Friedreich’s ataxia may not be considered for reimbursement by the HSE
How to invest in bonds: pros, cons and the various choices
Active management is more prevalent in bonds which are seen as offering a more stable return than you might expect with shares
Endometriosis care: What Ireland can learn from this progressive German clinic
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill visits Berlin’s Virchow Clinic to learn about its pioneering work into endometriosis
The life of an Irish house buyer: Forget that one house. Lower your standards. Go for it
Bid on everything. Get outbid on everything. Forget about that one house
Parenting advice: Enjoy your walking pad, just don’t be a dose about it
Being able to watch your favourite show while working up a sweat is enough of a reward
A €4 americano won’t bother those with GDP jobs, but squeezed middle are cutting back
As costs continue to rise, how to support those in the middle ground will become a crunch political issue
‘I’m in my 30s and I want so badly to have a first love, but I am losing hope’
Ask Roe: I want so badly to have a first date, a first kiss, a first love, and am finding it harder with every year that passes to stay hopeful
Addictive by design: this is the verdict every parent has been waiting for
The real win from this case will be if tech firms are forced to change the way their products are designed
Louise Nealon: ‘I’m exploring an energy of misogyny that we all participate in’
Snowflake author Louise Nealon on a culture of misogyny, making therapy work and writing new novel following hit debut
Inside Ireland’s favourite preloved fashion shops: ‘We’re not driven by trends’
Whether multigenerational family endeavours or first-time businesses, vintage shops are always passion projects
The Irish working for US firms: ‘Friday 4.30pm and somebody is trying to kick off a project’
US firms employ more than 245,000 people here but working for one entails straddling time zones and negotiating different attitudes to work-life balance
Brianna Parkins: After 10 years writing for The Irish Times, this is my last column
Here are the valuable life lessons I’ve learned in nearly a decade
Retinoids: everything you need to know about skincare’s gold standard ingredient
The general rule with retinoids is simple: start slow and build up your tolerance over time
The grooming gap: do women’s investments in hair and clothing pay dividends at work?
Good grooming is good for business but, from a cost point of view, women spend hundreds to thousands more euro than men each year
The TV in our Airbnb was the size of a ping-pong table hung on a wall
To say my head has been turned is an understatement. Lily Allen would be horrified
‘We’re lost without it’: Theft of family’s car has huge impact on son with special needs
Gary Nolan appeals for help to find Skoda Octavia stolen from outside family’s Whitehall home
Children and separation: ‘I had so much fear of people seeing inside our snow globe of doom’
Barnardos report warns high-conflict parental separation has a ‘profound’ impact on children
Concerns over electric car chargers and the risk of over-payment
UK survey showed a worst-case scenario of 37 per cent over-payment for charging
Don’t believe the negativity – Ireland’s retrofitting scheme for homes is not failing
Ask homeowners who have upgraded their homes if they would go back to a damp, cold house
We may be living through the angriest period in human history
Angry men can rattle off all sorts of reasons for their fury, yet increasingly, the reasons are becoming less important
‘I can’t find any interesting men in Ireland. They are emotionally and sexually conservative’
Ask Roe: I travel a lot and at home I find the talent available never left Ireland for more than a holiday
Harry Styles looks to be here for the duration. He deserves to be
The One Direction singer has mutated into a perfectly modulated star for a generation at home with all sorts of ambiguity
Nick Cave: ‘How did I stay so young? Twenty years of drug addiction and a good face cream’
The singer, an artist for the ages, on living with grief, attending the Oscars and enjoying ‘that mad, loony energy of the Irish’
Ireland’s best foodie destinations: Perfect restaurants, lovely pubs and local produce
We’ve got boots on the ground on four Irish culinary destinations recommended by you – Abbeyleix, Kinsale, Carrick-on-Shannon and Belfast
Brianna Parkins: I won’t make my life harder. I’ll take the lift, eat biscuits, choose easy
Extreme thinness is back and a self-denial boom is on the way, I will resist
I’ve cracked the code to achieving the perfect fake tan at home. Here’s how
Simone Gannon’s step-by-step guide to an ultra-even bronze, with no tell-tale streaky hands or ankles
Jessica Reynolds: ‘Being in the Kneecap film opened my eyes to my Irish identity’
Irish actor on growing up in Co Down, the film that changed everything, and her lead role in Channel 4’s A Woman of Substance
Why don’t we have a cure for head lice? I suspect it’s the fault of the patriarchy
How do we have arse implants and double-basket air fryers but no cure for lice?
The life of an Irish housebuyer: Smile, bid, get outbid, weep
After negative equity and years renting, Céire Sadlier managed to buy a new home - but it didn’t feel like hers
‘My girlfriend regularly texts her ex-boyfriend. Am I being too insecure about it?’
Ask Roe: She explained that before their relationship they were just friends and she wanted to keep that friendship
In Ireland’s dysfunctional property market, the starter home has become the forever home
With the second hand market hugely short of supply, many people are turning their three-bed home into a four-bed and staying put
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