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Interviews, travel, recipes, fashion, gardening, advice columns, and more from the Irish Times Magazine supplement

Cheat’s chocolate fondant with pistachio ice-cream

Make these in advance and have them in the fridge, ready to impress

Four beauty products you need to know about this month

These make-up, skincare and body care products are setting new standards

Red Torch Ginger takeaway review: Crowd-pleasing Thai dishes make for a safe bet

Reliable offerings albeit not always the most vibrant flavours

‘The best thing about Ireland is that people will put themselves out of their way to help you’

Irish wasn’t Caoimhe Ní Laighin’s first language growing up, but with the help of good teachers, the presenter made it part of her career

Ruchii restaurant review: This neighbourhood Indian spot has the potential to become a foodie destination

Extensive menu is a mix of the comforting and the challenging, the traditional and the experimental

Love Ireland: nine Irish hotels with great romantic walks for Valentine’s weekend

Getting out into nature on your hotel break is good for you, and even more so when you have your loved one by your side

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

February 2nd-7th: including Amandaland, Miss Austen, and Samantha Mumba’s crack at Eurovision

When in doubt should I order the second-cheapest wine on the wine list?

How to Drink Better: Don’t think you’re outsmarting the restaurant by employing this fallback

I ended my situationship six months ago but I’m still not over him. How do I move on?

Ask Roe: I know he wasn’t great, but I still miss him and occasionally stalk his social media account

If I get ambushed by loneliness, it’s never when I’m by myself

As the comfort of community dwindles, all we might be left with is a cold place of struggling individuals, all competing with each other

When Ronan was 10, I said, ‘I need to have the chat with you about sex.’ And he said, ‘What are you wanting to know, Rosser?’

On her wedding day, Tina tells me that Ro calls the day I knocked on their door ‘the luckiest day of his life’

‘Is it time to say goodbye to my underperforming hybrid tea roses?’

Readers’ question: ‘Should I rip them out and replant with young, healthy roses?’

Celebrate St Brigid with boxty and scones

Dairy and crops are at the heart of the traditional Celtic festival, and these simple recipes go back hundreds of years

Paul Howard and Gordon D’Arcy: ‘Football has rules, but rugby has laws because they were drawn up by solicitors charging by the hour’

The author and the retired Irish rugby player have collaborated on an interactive rugby book for children. So it’ll be a shame if they fumble our young interviewers’ questions

Irish primary schoolchildren have been taught for generations that spring begins on February 1st, but is that true?

Irish primary schoolchildren have been taught for generation that spring begins on February 1st

Beware of the snowdrop: this could be the start of a lifelong addiction

In search of snowdrops? Robert Miller is the gardener with the goods

Joseph O’Connor: ‘I don’t know what modern Ireland is yet. I’m suspicious about the new sacred cows’

The Irish novelist on taking instruction from Vincent Browne, finding his way in fiction as a young man and coming to understand that the best writing has an inherent musicality

Quitting fast fashion in a year: ‘At my big age, I should be wearing clothes that aren’t stitched by tiny hands in a sweatshop’

As someone who sucked her thumb until she was 30, I know that habits are difficult to break, but – hopefully – not impossible

Boxty pancakes with bacon, eggs and ketchup

This is classic boxty, a type of savoury pancake

Fruit scones with rhubarb jam

What better way to toast St Brigid this weekend than with a warm scone

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