The difficulty of building healthy habits is temporary, productive friction that forges a stronger, happier life.

'I had no idea what to expect'

We move through our days not as captains of our own ships, but as corks bobbing on a relentless ocean of information, obligations, and digital noise

Volatile times

HAPPY St Patrick’s Day everyone, we are looking forward to taking part in the Newbridge Parade today (Tuesday) while hoping for good weather. We will have some dogs taking part but only those who are comfortable being in public.

I took the bus to a Dublin office every day for 12 years – three hours on the bus, nine hours in the office – and one day measured how much of that time I spent without loudspeakers blaring in the background. It was zero.

Lions book fair starts on Saturday!

'By piling on the pressure to lose weight fast, you are actually creating the hormonal environment that makes weight loss harder.'

KWWSPCA will also be running a series of fundraisers

The plants themselves are amazingly nutritious

Why does the "women's training" industry thrive? Marketing exploits perceived differences.

A female cat can have up to three litters in one year, usually producing three to five kittens in each litter

A few generations ago, though, children had virtually no toys and didn’t need them

They add variety to fields that would otherwise go sterile

The insidious plaques and tangles associated with the disease can begin forming 20 years before any memory lapse

Congrats to Síofra Nic Gabhann on her recent award

Conor is a unique-looking boy owing to a damaged eye

Going under the hammer next month

Nina is a bit of a legend

When you plan your garden, try to think in three dimensions, using not just fields or garden beds, but hedgerows and woods.