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Friday 24 January 2020

Self-improvement: What's with our obsession with creating a 'new you'?

It is the season of New. The time of year when we aim hard at becoming our best selves, via a rotating gallery of new diets, workouts, lifestyle practices.

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Dublin's crazy rental market... From €260 to €15,000 per month in six years

Six years ago it was possible to rent this seven-bedroom trophy home on swish Ailesbury Road in Dublin 4 for €250 per month.

The Rebel Whopper is 20c dearer than its meat-based cousin at Burger King

Food & Drink

Whopping costs: Why are we paying a price for being vegan?

As the end of Veganuary approaches, some may notice that it's not just the numbers on their scales going down - the bank account is also rapidly dwindling. Take the Rebel Whopper for example.

The reception room to the front of the house features the original period fireplace and is interconnected to the formal dining room

Homes

'We turned derelict house into a dream home'

Back around the dawn of the 20th century, newly-built houses springing up on Hollybrook Road in the north Dublin suburb of Clontarf were designed to present the very picture of middle-class prosperity.

Speak with your daughter as with a friend

Parenting

Dear David Coleman: I don't know how to talk to my daughter - I feel I have failed her

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Lucinda O'Sullivan: 'Petite portions, plump prices and overly familiar staff'

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Parenting

Liz Kearney: 'Modern motherhood makes many of us feel we've been hoodwinked by feminism'

For every reaction, the laws of physics say, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And so it is with feminism; the further women get in their pursuit of equality, the more we yearn to return to the past.

'We're all just one question away from a break through' - Gerry Hussey

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Consistently engaging in puzzles and tasks such as jigsaws improves the memory

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The joy of jigsaws and why you should start them in your 20s

This Christmas brought with it an underwhelming array of gifts that I seem to have received every year since the birth of Jesus Christ himself; socks by the score, multipacks of pants from M&S and, as ever, some bizarre novelty gifts that I'll never use (collapsible plastic pint glass anyone?).

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Katie Byrne: 'Defending self-defence: It isn't victim-blaming - it's common sense'

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Julia Molony. Photo: Boris Conte Photography

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Julia Molony: 'How I'm rewiring my brain to become a calmer person in just six weeks'

Can Daniel Fryer fix my thoughts? I'm hoping so, because it feels like a lot of them are broken. If our...

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