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‘If you were their dad, you’d never shut up about them’: how Stripe founders Patrick and John Collison came full circle

Money

Recipe delivery boxes: ‘I tried meal kits from HelloFresh, DropChef and Gousto. Here are my honest thoughts on the produce, flavour and cost’

Irish News

How two anonymous phone calls from Australia helped crack the investigation into Irene White’s brutal murder

Music

‘It is devastating to lose a partner that you’ve had for 57 years’ – Ralph McTell on the death of his wife

Entertainment

Life in the priesthood: ‘People will have views of us, that we’re all paedophiles — that’s been thrown at us’

Courts

How cash-strapped Kerry businessman Nathan McDonnell’s gamble on €32m crystal meth deal had catastrophic cost

Explainers

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  Politics

  Explainer: What you need to know about how exactly the Government’s new rent reforms will work

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  Money

  How do ETFs work, what are the tax liabilities and is it safe to invest on Revolut?

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  Irish News

  Explainer: Why chicken and eggs sold as ‘free-range’ increasingly come from birds reared indoors

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  Money

  ‘I’m a quantity surveyor – here are the nine home renovations I tell people not to waste their money on’

Opinion

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  Comment

  Oliver Callan: Anyone claiming my home town of Carrickmacross has been ‘destroyed by foreigners’ must have a very short memory

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  Opinion

  Luke O’Neill: Bad habits are damaging your health quicker than you might think

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  Comment

  Tanya Sweeney: Homeowners who are happy to rent you a room for €14,000 a year need to get real about having a housemate

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  Opinion

  Shane Ross: Politics is a vocation where vanity captures its victims – and I should know

Personal Finance

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  Money

  Eoin McGee answers: ‘Our adult daughter still lives at home and is causing so much disruption. We’ve just inherited €350,000. Should we buy her an apartment?’

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  Money

  Ever wonder if the guy next to you in the office is getting paid more for the same work? Now you can find out

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  Money

  Would you take a pay cut for your dream career? Meet the people who gave up high-flying jobs to pursue their passion

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  Personal Finance

  Left out of daddy’s will? What you need to know about contesting a will and the costs involved

Interviews

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  Music

  Eurovision legend Phil Coulter: ‘There are no more than a couple of U2 songs that could be considered standards’

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  Life

  ‘He brought great laughter into my life. He is still here but that is gone’ – Úna Crawford O’Brien on her partner Bryan Murray’s Alzheimer’s

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  Money

  Lorraine Keane: ‘I bought my first house in Foxrock at age 20 – and I’ve bought and renovated four more since then’

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  Soccer

  ‘I was the biggest liar you could ever meet. I was a horrible person’

Home & Garden

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  Money

  Kate O’Driscoll: ‘Twelve things I wish I'd known before I renovated my Dublin home’

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  Interiors

  My favourite room: ‘There’s isn’t a wasted inch’ – design expert Lynne O’Loughlin on her lockdown renovation with triplets in tow

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  Irish News

  The great house rental: ‘Showhomes’ from RTÉ programmes are being let for thousands of euro a week on Airbnb

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  Health Features

  Ask Allison: My husband leaves all the housework and care for our two infants to me. I'm at my wits’ end – is there any way out of this?

Sex & Relationships

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  Sex & Relationships

  Dear Mary: We gave the deposit to our daughter and her partner to buy a house, but now they’re separated I feel we’re owed

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  Sex & Relationships

  ‘I proposed to my boyfriend, then later called off the wedding’ – One Dublin woman’s account of getting cold feet at the eleventh hour

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  Health Features

  Ask Allison: I lost interest in sex after menopause and my husband seems distant - can our marriage survive without intimacy?

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  Parenting

  Lighthouse parenting is about standing back, rather than rushing in –here’s why its good for parents and children

Parenting

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  Parenting

  Raising quadruplets: ‘I have four kids turning four — our house is part love, part craziness’

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  Health & Wellbeing

  ‘All the choices make me uncomfortable': couples' dilemmas over thousands of unwanted frozen IVF embryos

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  Parenting

  Dr David Coleman: My 13-year-old son has watched porn on his phone – how do I talk to him about it?

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  Comment

  Darragh McCullough: I’m dubious about the merits of going organic for full-time producers

Farming

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  Tillage

  Richard Hackett: Five reasons why all livestock farmers should consider a switch to tillage

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  Irish News

  Dublin potato farmer James Grimes leaves over €95m in his will

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  Legal Advice

  ‘My granny said she’d leave me her house, but my aunt has the same name as me and the will isn’t clear. My aunt insists it should be hers – what can I do?’

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  Travel

  Ireland’s Fab 50 places to stay in 2025: ‘Maybe it’s a bit romantic, but I like the idea of redefining what a B&B is'

Travel Guides

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  Travel

  Pól’s Travel Clinic: My mam and mother-in-law are both in their 70s and want to go on a guided city break or group tour together

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  Ireland

  A population of just 300 but it attracts A-listers, artists and a Michelin star – is this Ireland’s coolest town?

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  Travel

  ‘We were out of pocket almost €3,000’ – how undeclared health conditions cost Irish holidaymakers thousands

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  Celebrity Features

  Kerry Condon: ‘In Ireland, all my friends there have normal jobs. There’s a real joy in being able to walk down Grafton Street and go and do fun things with them’

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