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Sport [4]
Life [5]
Style [7]
Entertainment [8]
Travel [9]

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Eva Hall

Noelle McCarthy in her salon Blow on leeson street in Dublin. Pic:Mark Condren

'The perspex on Claire Byrne Live was really over the top' - how hair salons are adapting for business post-Covid

I was only in the chair five minutes and already I was spilling about the drinks I had arranged for that night.

Eva Hall trains at home with bottles of detergent as free weights

Step up to the challenge: How to turn your home into a gym using your stairs, sofa, and chairs

There are two clear tribes forming as the pandemic rumbles on. If you're like my other half, who is currently bereft that he hasn't been able to run in three whole days due to an injured ankle, you're in Tribe 1.

Power house : Personal trainer Andrea Bracken working out at home. Photo: Mark Condren

Four-second workout: Short bursts of exercise key to lockdown fitness

If you were told that just four seconds of exercise, repeated five times throughout the day, might cancel out a sedentary lifestyle, would you try it?

A staff member sorts through packs among hundreds of rows of medicines. Picture: Steve Humphreys

'It would be nice for the public to understand the important work we do'

Among dozens of rows of monster racking and conveyor belts, women in hi-vis vests and protective visors are pulling products from assembly lines and carefully placing them into tote boxes.

Una Caulfield is cocooning with her mother. Photo: Conor McCabe Photography

'Mum doesn't understand coronavirus or why she can't have visitors'

When Una Caulfield watched Queen Elizabeth make her coronavirus speech, she couldn't help but think of her own mother, Mary, who is just three months younger than the British monarch.

And, action: Good lighting and a tidy background are good ideas for work calls

Green light, go! Master the art of looking good onscreen

As Covid-19 takes over our personal and professional lives, we're all now getting to grips with the new normal of working from home and staying indoors.

Cold outside: Cameron Diaz house swaps from LA to an English country village in the 2006 film 'The Holiday'

Running away from Christmas: 'My mother can finally have a stress-free day with a Grand Buffet in New York'

As I sit watching my sister battle with her tangled fairy lights, while she gripes about her lodgers asking if they could help her put up her Christmas decorations - "Why would I need help? It's my tree... I do it every year..." - I get a sense of relief that I don't have to worry about dusting off the tree and fighting off spiders from the shed, while chasing the dog around the house to take the stuffed Santa head out of his mouth for the fourth year running. Because this year, I've decided to run away from Christmas.

Self-made: Sophia Amoruso launches her first memoir '#GirlBoss', based on her rags-to-riches fame tale of how she set up NastyGal.com

What's next for the original #GirlBoss?

It was the week that was labelled 'a failure for feminism' after Hillary Clinton's historical US defeat to now President-elect, Donald Trump. But behind the doors of an LA courtroom that same Wednesday, another kind of failure was brewing, when online retailer Nasty Gal, the company behind the feminist movement #GirlBoss, filed for bankruptcy. And in a further blow to the fast-fashion company's feminist followers everywhere, Nasty Gal's founder Sophia Amoruso, stepped down as executive chairperson, having already relinquished her CEO title last year.

Viva Las Vegas: Why you'll never visit the same Sin City twice

You'll never visit the same Sin City twice, says Eva Hall, who catches up with some of Nevada's newest arrivals.

Fashion bloggers Rumi Neely, Bryan Boy and Chiara Ferragni attend 3.1 Phillip Lim during New York Fashion Week 2016 at Skylight Clarkson North on September 12, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

'Vogue' versus the blogger...and how are Irish influencers involved?

The times, they are a changin', and never was this more apparent than last week when senior editors at 'Vogue' were met with a barrage of abuse on social media in retaliation to a scathing attack they launched on fashion bloggers in, rather ironically, a Vogue.com blog post.