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Healthbytes to keep you in the picture
Margaret Hawkins
From the current status on the ‘free’ HRT to new treatment for depression at St John of God hospital, stay informed with healthbytes.
Healthbytes to keep you in the picture
Desperate Farmhusband: never, ever, be too positive about farming
12 March 2025 Features
Desperate Farmhusband: never, ever, be too positive about farming
It might sound counter-intuitive, but our Desperate Farmhusband does have a point...
Gardening with Mary: dividing your perennial plants
12 March 2025 Gardening
Gardening with Mary: dividing your perennial plants
It’s the perfect time to divide many herbaceous perennials to breathe new life into the plants.
St Patrick's Day festivities brought back to life
Artistic director Aoife Carry is in charge of bringing Ireland’s largest St Patrick’s Day parade to life.
12 March 2025 Features
Get ready to shamrock and roll
Here's four great suggestions to celebrate St Patrick's weekend.
12 March 2025 l2
Frustration over delays and price inflation tainting VPRG support
As interest grows in grants offered for the renovation of older homes in rural Ireland, there is concern over alleged price inflation applied by approved providers, writes Jacqueline Hogge.
12 March 2025 Features
A step back in time at Johnstown Castle
Wexford’s wonderful Irish Agricultural Museum is preserving and reviving stories of rural Ireland, writes Rosalind Skillen.
12 March 2025 Features
Kingdom growers get the global green party started
Kerry nursery helps kickstart festivities as their beautiful symbols of Ireland are sent far and wide, writes Rosalind Skillen.
12 March 2025 Features
Peigín Crowley: Finding the balance of success and rest
From cancer care to menopause, Peigín Crowley has created a unique Irish wellness and skincare brand that is not just skin deep – it is helping people to relax, rest and live better.
5 March 2025 Features
Gardening with Paul Maher: Lenten roses are blooming
Hellebore cultivars provide interest from the darkest days of winter into the new growing year, writes Paul Maher.
5 March 2025 Gardening
‘Over the years, I have unwittingly formed a girl gang in my own home'
This International Women's Day, our Desperate Farmwife is calling out weaponised incompetence as she sees it.
5 March 2025 Features
Roads policy leaving farm families out in the cold
With safety issues being cited as a reason for rural housing development being stifled, we talk to a farmer who was refused planning permission, writes Jacqueline Hogge.
5 March 2025 Features