PSYCHOLOGISTS say we don’t like food on a plate that points towards us, no matter how beautifully it is presented. According to new research, anything pointy — a young carrot, perhaps — should be at a 45-degree angle from the diner.

Stuck for something to do in the coming week? We’ve got you covered.

Among the items spotted this week are beautiful silk, a panelpiece and an art exhibition.

Lavit Gallery, Cork

THE celebration show now underway at the Lavit Gallery in Cork entitled RHA in the South features paintings and sculptures by invited members from the Royal Hibernian Academy.

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This copy of the ninth printing of the first edition of Joyce’s Ulysses published by Shakespeare & Co, Paris, 1927, is among the lots at Cork Auction Rooms tomorrow at noon.

THE Irish art auction by Dolan’s at the Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick at 3pm tomorrow features more than 220 lots, many to be sold without reserve.

WHEN I decided to take out a fixed-rate mortgage I understood the risks and rewards involved, so I had no problem with it – so long as I was treated like everyone else.