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Weekend
Stories that appear in the Weekend section of The Irish Times print edition
Home savings: Changing the way you boil the kettle could save you €30
After your electric shower, tumble dryer and cooker, your kettle is the most energy intensive user of electricity
I navigate new places without the internet because I believe in getting lost
I am convinced that way-finding without a phone schools us to pay attention in a way that we lose when we merge with a blue dot on a screen
Nick Santonastasso: ‘At 16, I made the decision to amputate 5 inches off my arm’
The 28-year-old motivational speaker addressed the 2025 Pendulum Summit in Dublin this week
The man gave every indication of being dead just seconds before he revived to defend himself
To recognise myself in the man crawling through Temple Bar with bitterness in his heart – that is a hard thing to do
Conor Pope: What if dry January turned into dry forever? Eight ways life has changed since I stopped drinking in 2022
I would not have considered myself a big drinker and, like so many Irish people, I was lying to myself
Delicate task of returning lantern that lit Yeats’s way up ‘the winding stair’ from the US to its Galway home
A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland after almost 100 years
‘The minute I sat down on the train, I knew I’d been scammed’: Are the Irish susceptible to con artists?
Three men describe their encounters with a master scam artist on the streets of Dublin, plus some advice on how to avoid falling victim to similar ‘smiling strangers’
Why is Meta getting rid of fact-checking and will it affect my social media feed?
Move by company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg prompted alarm among social media experts
Martin Beanz Warde: I regret being too busy to spend time with people who didn’t have a lot of time left
Martin Beanz Warde is a writer, actor, comedian and TV presenter. He is part of the cast of The Borrowers at Dublin’s Gate Theatre
Trump’s second coming has echoes of a century ago and Yeats’s warning ‘the centre cannot hold’
Liberal democratic leaders out or embattled in office; the right on the rise ... Trump’s second coming has echoes of a century ago and Yeats’s warning that ‘the centre cannot hold’
Gritting the city: how Dublin gets a grip during cold snaps
When the weather turned icy, gritters got busy around the capital
No single location captures global nature of Irish economy more than Dublin Airport
Look up at the screen in Dublin Airport and marvel at all those destinations and what they mean. Think of all the people coming and going. Consider all the ideas, schemes and plans, the commerce, the deals and the dreams
Want to be a writer? ‘Marry well’ might be the best advice
‘Something will turn up’ is a fragile belief to sustain over financially challenging decades – and nothing ruins creativity like anxiety
Why does this white gull seem to have black spots on its tail?
Eanna Ní Lamhna on gulls, the amethyst deceiver and caterpillars of the pine processionary moth
Raucous jays are the lovable gangsters of Ireland’s woodlands
Ella McSweeney: When acorns fall from the oak tree in autumn, a jay will hide up to 5,000 of them around the wood
There’s a clear difference between those who grew up taking photos of themselves and those of us who didn’t
Unlike the generation which has grown up with mobile phone cameras, when I am photographed I look awkward, wooden, smiling like someone who just wants this to stop now
Using the right bin can save money and reduce environmental impact
Our recycling rate has not improved in a decade: here’s some tips on how to dispose of our waste properly
Musicals for grown ups: Stephen Sondheim presents ‘life deconstructed and laid bare, in all its confusion and disarray’
Queen’s University Belfast academic Richard Schoch says the American composer’s works are high art that explore the human condition with precision, and remain fresh for each new generation
I loved Alice Munro but recent revelations have tainted her legacy forever
Everything written about Alice Munroe after revelations about her daughter’s sexual abuse will record the Nobel Prize-winning author’s failure as a parent and human being
Model Strangers: ‘People want to be heard’ says the man behind hit online street interviews
Street photographer Christopher Ward has amassed more than a million followers by capturing the wisdom of strangers in stop-and-chat videos
Killarney then and now: Aspects recognisable from when Harry Kernoff painted them in 1943
Some of the views Irish artist Harry Aaron Kernoff painted of Killarney while on a cycling trip with Patrick Kavanagh haven’t changed much in more than 70 years
‘I actually felt unsafe as an English person in the Aviva’
Dublin-based English academic Mike Cronin says atmosphere at recent Ireland-England soccer match highlights lack of respect for ‘the other’ built into partition of island
Rosanna Davison: I annoy myself with how organised I am. I wish I could be less efficient
The model, author and former Miss World on being a ‘guinea pig’ first-born and the challenges of getting her own young children out the door
The Russians made them kneel in a line and shot them point blank: A dispatch from the front line
Lt Yulia Mykytenko gives her eye witness account of the horrors of Russia’s attack in the context of Christmas and looming new year
The bank vole was introduced in the 1920s with machinery imported from Germany
Bank voles have become important as prey for Ireland’s barn owl population
Rivals presents itself as escapism from economic depression but really it’s a recession indicator for our bleak times
‘We feel skint because we are skint. When financial instability is the norm, the fetishisation of wealth is inevitable’
The United States needs the world more than it thinks, and that’s no bad thing
The flaw in the Maga rhetoric about how the United States is going to do this and that to its foes is that the US is the largest debtor the world has seen at any time in human history
What is this curious creature found on shore after Storm Ashley?
Éanna Ní Lamhna on fungus lining a lakeside path, a plant used as a laxative and diuretic, and unsegmented thunderworms
Why are so many people getting the flu?
The flu virus spreads through coughs and sneezes and can live on hands and surfaces for 24 hours. If you reckon you have it, it’s best to stay at home
If we really wanted to be good and healthy in 2025, we’d resolve to pester our politicians
Childhood rickets is back in Britain – and it’s not because ill-health is the logical outcome of poor choices
‘Farmers are phoning me to join the fitness classes and I have a waiting list’
The central pillars of the Fit Farmers programme are diet, movement, sleep and stress management for a better work-life balance
Irish health system report card: a year of criticisms, concerns and innovations
From rows about staffing, waiting lists and cost overruns to resignations of senior staff, heathcare was never far from the news headlines in 2024
A sound sleep: Move over white noise – there’s a rainbow of sounds to help you get a good night’s rest
Many are familiar with the static hum of white noise, but there’s a whole spectrum of coloured noises on the market that people are using to help them sleep
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