Ten reasons I hate my boat

Tim O’Brien imagined a life of ease, messing about on his boat at weekends, but after yet another wet summer he says owning a cruiser is like standing under a cold shower tearing up €50 notes


Old hands at film-making

David and Sally Shaw-Smith, who made RTÉ’s acclaimed Hands films, documenting Ireland’s waning craft and farming traditions from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, are retracing their steps for a new series





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