Well-known figures such as Fiona Shaw, Joe Duffy and Sonia O’Sullivan tell Richard Fitzpatrick about the reads they’ve been most impressed with in 2019.

Kevin Barry, Jamie Heaslip, Donal Skehan and Andrea Corr are just some of the people shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards

Burnout has been recognised by the WHO as a legitimate medical condition, arising from chronic workplace stress. It’s essential to recognise the warning signs and to take swift action, says Peta Bee.

From breakfast to yoga to paddleboarding, Ciara McDonnell, an avid morning swimmer herself, asks four top healthcare practitioners how they begin their day.

Forget the stage-show cliché, hypnosis can improve health and change lives, writes Clodagh Finn

IT has just occurred to bestselling author Aileen Cox Blundell that the initials of her new book (Baby-Friendly Family Cookbook) are BFF, or ‘Best Friends Forever’.

The couple behind one of the country's best-known independent publishers has decided to close the book on their working lives after 30-years in the business.

We're just four days into January and the annual call to shed the Christmas pounds is already shrill and insistent.

Eir Sport have announced the longlist of 23 nominees for the eir Sport Book of the Year award.

Two books by pioneering female sports stars are included on the six-book shortlist.

CELEBRITY chef Neven Maguire was the first boy in his school in Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, to do home economics. He is reminiscing about those days with his teacher Mairead McMorrow — “she was an inspiration” — who, in turn, is clearly proud of her famous student.

Former athlete David Gillick talks with the kind of startling honesty that will give hope — and inspiration — to anyone who has ever taken comfort in binge eating to dampen down emotions, writes Clodagh Finn.

BEFORE you offer up your skin to the sun, consider this — one of the most effective ways of getting a sun-kissed glow is not to bask in the heat of summer, but to eat the right foods.

Reading the game: Our writers select 29 sports books from 2017...

Memmeh and Deddeh will be so proud.

When Finn Ní Fhaoláin was first diagnosed as a coeliac aged 18, she let out an expletive and then just got on with it.

Many issues can lead to excess worry in our latter years but there are lots we can do to support ourselves, says Margaret Jennings.

Parents can feel helpless if they suspect their child is being bullied. Andrea Mara talks to experts about how it should be handled.

Are you on that familiar rollercoaster too — a December full of excess followed by a January of repentance?

Hilary Fennell sits down with Brother Hubbard chef, Garrett Fitzgerald, to see what makes him tick.

I recently used an old copy of Georgio Locatelli’s Made in Sicily and cooked the most delicious pasta dish and some pork meatballs.

John Burke and his daughter Fatti, an illustrator, joined forces to create Irelandopedia, the bestselling book on all things Irish. Their follow-up, Historopedia, looks to Ireland’s past.

Betimes, The Menu is inclined to think there are more food awards than actual foodstuffs, so great has their proliferation become in recent years, but The Irish Food Writers’ Guild Community Food Awards remain exceptional and above criticism in his eyes. 

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