Handy hints for home

A new book from the ICA offers a wealth of tips and old wisdom on everything from stainremoval and blocked sinks to finding your contact lenses, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

YOUR sink is blocked, your car stinks, you’ve lost your contact lenses and your daughter’s birthday cake is stuck to the plate. Could any one person have the answer to all these conundrums?

Probably not, but Ireland’s largest woman’s organisation, the 11,000-strong Irish Country Women’s Association, is bound to. Or at least their book of Home and Family, due out this autumn, promises to.