Category: Features

A sustainable chocolate company from Cork has won a prestigious award from the Irish Food Writers’ Guild (IFWG) for its ethical practices. Exploding Tree chocolates’ products show that is totally possible to produce chocolates that are both delicious and meet high ethical standards.

Hollywood legend Maureen O’Hara joins a selection of great Irish women in being commemorated in a new series of stamps. An Post has launched the collection in celebration of International Women’s Day.

The gravity Bar at the Guinness Storehouse has been doubled in size thanks to a €20m revamp. The expansion revamp was necessary to meet demand for space at the pinnacle of Dublin’s most visited tourist attraction, with 1.7 million visitors in the last year.

Thousands of people became Irish citizens during ceremonies that have taken place over the last week. Up to 5,000 people, from 135 different countries headed to Killarney, where they were granted their citizenship in six separate ceremonies.

WBC heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has spoken about his hometown – and why he wouldn’t swap it for the world. The Manchester born fighter is part of the Irish Traveller community and lives with his wife Paris and their five children in the northern English seaside town of Morecambe.

Vickie De Beer knew something was wrong when her normally energetic eight-year-old son Lucca began to struggle to wake in the mornings, and came back from an annual camping trip with his dad Joe and two brothers looking unusually exhausted. Although her husband and three sons often returned pleasantly tired from a few days in… Continue reading ‘Diabetes soon becomes your new normal’

Unless you’re happy for your children to survive on takeaways or beans on toast after they leave home, you need to make sure they know how to cook. But while new research shows more than 80% of parents think cooking with their kids is important and teaches them a valuable life skill, only 32% of… Continue reading Ready, steady, cook! Parents and kids

A surprise encounter for gravedigger William Spence was the catalyst for a harrowing story from 19th century Belfast. On Sunday 9th November 1884, Spence’s evening was interrupted by a knock on his door.