Bloom, Ireland’s largest garden and food festival, runs over the June bank holiday weekend in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

BAKING used to be a necessity. Now it’s a pleasure, but despite the myriad of baked goods available to buy, shop goodies are frowned upon in certain circles.

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A FIVE-WEEK-OLD baby who cried hysterically had to be rescued from the arms of his drunken mother and yesterday the woman was given a suspended jail sentence for being drunk and in charge of a child.