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TV choirmaster Gareth Malone on how tinnitus made him 'panic' he was losing his hearing

Health 20 January, 2022

Ask the Dentist: Nocturnal Eating Disorder a nightmare for teeth

Health 20 January, 2022

Are these 6 viral TikTok beauty hacks actually effective?

Health 20 January, 2022

The embarrassed millions blighted by 'shy bladder'

Health 20 January, 2022

Why fruit and veg could be nature's secret sleep remedy

Lucy Elkins

READ a book, have a hot bath, perhaps count sheep - we all have our own ways of trying to fall asleep.

Choreographer Jennifer Rooney: I want to take off round Ireland in a campervan

Gail Bell

1. Up and at it - what is your new morning routine? How has it changed? Every day is different - sometimes I am up with the lark and raring to go and other days it's a slower start.

Sleb Safari: Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly celebrate engagement by drinking each other's blood

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Monday: Celebrity
Sleb Safari: Joey Essex is international man of mystery in Australian I'm A Celebrity

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Sleb Safari: Here's to 2022

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Monday: Celebrity
Sleb Safari: Celebrity Awards of 2021

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Sleb Safari: Gemma Collins' mum met an alien on the train

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Sleb Safari: Stodgy rice and peas please

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Sleb Safari: Arise Sir Spambo

Health see all »

How to handle weight loss conversations

20 Jan, 2022

DIET talk can be hard to escape at any time of year, but it's often ramped up in January, with weight loss and health kicks topping New Year resolutions lists.

Ask the GP: Cutting your cholesterol won't cause dementia

Dr Martin Scurr 20 Jan, 2022

Q: LAST month I started taking statins because I have furred arteries.

Feeling hangry? 6 expert tips for sticking to your healthy eating goals

20 Jan, 2022

WHILE the word itself was only added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2018, feeling 'hangry' is an age-old problem.

Marie Louise McConville: Life begins at 40? You must be joking

Marie Louise McConville 15 Jan, 2022

I'm starting to think the phrase `life begins at 40' is entirely untrue - just made up to try to convince the ageing among us that life is just as good as we get older.

Entertainment see all »

US comedian Louie Anderson dies aged 68

He appeared in films including Coming To America and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Alice Cooper remembers close friend Meat Loaf in touching tribute

The singer has died aged 74.

Rare De Heem painting at risk of leaving UK

A temporary export bar has been put in place in the hope of finding a buyer so it can stay in the country.

Idris Elba ‘part of the conversation' to be next Bond

One of cinema's most sought-after roles is up for grabs after Daniel Craig's departure.

Family & Parenting see all »

How to talk to children about staying safe online

18 Jan, 2022

THE internet has massively helped us get through the pandemic - especially children and young people.

Nadine Coyle wants to empower her daughter to make positive food choices

18 Jan, 2022

NADINE Coyle admits the food she ate as a child is vastly different to what her seven-year-old daughter has nowadays.

Plans are flowing at Newry children's art centre

Jenny Lee 04 Jan, 2022

IT'S colour and plans galore at the north's only children's arts centre, starting with a one-of-a-kind ceiling of colour, created by local artist Brendan Jamison.

Leona O'Neill: Why are our schools on the brink of another Covid 'disaster'?

Leona O'Neill 04 Jan, 2022

LIKE a lot of people, our festive season was less than normal this year.

Food & drink see all »

Eating Out: Fruit Shop - where food meets art

Seamus Maloney 15 Jan, 2022

Fruit Shop, 438 Ormeau Road, Belfast, BT7 3HY 028 9064 3780 f-r-u-i-t-s-h-o-p.

Craft Beer: Brews to help you through dry January

Paul McConville 15 Jan, 2022

HOW'S the detox going? If you bothered to have a post-festive period of abstinence, you're either well on the way at this stage, or tempted to reach for a comforting brew.

James St Recipes: Spice it up for January - Japanese udon noodle soup and Malaysian squash curry

Niall McKenna 15 Jan, 2022

NOW that the Christmas holidays are a distant memory, and with temperatures continuing to drop, I always crave something warming, hot and spicy in the month of January.

Nutrition with Jane McClenaghan: Change just one thing to beat the new year blues

Jane McClenaghan 15 Jan, 2022

THE middle of January can be a challenging time.

Columnists see all »

Anne Hailes: The McCooeys are back in town - and on the Grand Opera House stage

Anne Hailes 17 Jan, 2022

I don't take salt on my food, haven't done so since I was about 11.

Nuala McCann: There's a word for that...

Nuala McCann 17 Jan, 2022

WE'RE Wordle addicts about here.

Lynette Fay: The world of Harry Potter is still magical to me – and now my daughter loves it too

Lynette Fay 10 Jan, 2022

I THINK that I bought The Philosopher's Stone in a supermarket.

Anne Hailes: 2022 is the year to end my dieting disasters

Anne Hailes 03 Jan, 2022

DID you feel deprived of fun and games over the last 12 months? Did you let your hair down at Christmas and New Year and comfort eat to make up? And why not, although as a result many of us will be looking at our eating habits today - new week, new year, new resolutions.

Holidays&Travel see all »

TV Quickfire: Simon Reeve on new series The Lakes With Simon Reeve

Gemma Dunn 15 Nov, 2021

THIS SERIES YOU'RE OFF TO THE LAKE DISTRICT – WHY THAT PART OF THE WORLD? IT'S part of the country that everybody thinks they know, but experience suggests to me that we can still find stories they haven't heard before.

Travel: London calling

25 Sep, 2021

SEEING my 9-year-old silhouetted in the dark lights of the theatre, mouth agog, hand cupping her jaw and eyes bulging so wide the whites light up the aisle, reminds me why seeing a West End musical is worth every last penny.

Pardon me, but Botox can help trapped wind

Roger Dobson 16 Sep, 2021

BURPING has long enjoyed something of a bad reputation.

Are you an overthinker? Psychologists explain how to get out of your head

16 Sep, 2021

DO you ever find you can't sleep because the same thought is circulating round and round your head? Do you replay past situations over and over again, plagued by 'what ifs' or regrets, or spend a lot of time worrying about an event in the future – even an insignificant or imagined one? If so, you might be an overthinker.

Motors see all »

Mazda 3 e-Skyactiv-X: Peak petrol?

William Scholes 19 Jan, 2022

AS we've explored on these pages many times over the years, Mazda is a car company that likes to do things its own way, writes William Scholes.

Range extenders: Vauxhall's Corsa-e and Mokka-e updated with longer EV range

William Scholes 16 Dec, 2021

EARLIER this month we brought you the thrilling news that the electric version of the DS 3 Crossback had received an update to extend the distance it can travel on a full charge, writes William Scholes.

DS 3 Crossback E-Tense: Eccentric, moi?

William Scholes 02 Dec, 2021

THE electric version of the weird DS 3 Crossback - dubbed the E-Tense - has been updated so it can go further on a full charge, writes William Scholes

Magnificent Seven make COTY shortlist

William Scholes 02 Dec, 2021

IN a further sign of the motor industry's dramatic and rapid shift to electric vehicles, six of the seven cars shortlisted for the 2022 European Car of the Year title are powered by batteries, writes William Scholes

Celebrity see all »

Sleb Safari: Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly celebrate engagement by drinking each other's blood

Maeve Connolly 17 Jan, 2022

LET’S kick off proceedings this week with the showbiz engagement of Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly because who doesn’t love a big day out that ends with the bride’s drunkle singing Wagon Wheel?

Sleb Safari: Joey Essex is international man of mystery in Australian I'm A Celebrity

Maeve Connolly 10 Jan, 2022

It’s been a minute since we checked in with the caricature that is Joey Essex.

Sleb Safari: Here's to 2022

Maeve Connolly 03 Jan, 2022

Hello and happy new year. If 2020 was the year that set the bar low and then limboed right under it, 2021 was its kinder cousin who came to the party with vaccines and gifted peace of mind.

Sleb Safari: Celebrity Awards of 2021

Maeve Connolly 27 Dec, 2021

HELLO and welcome to the Sleb Safari Celebrity Awards of 2021. As always, it was a close-run race and a game of two halves. There were winners, there were losers, but what mattered was the taking part.

Environment see all »

Take on Nature: Beech, the mother of the woods

Stephen Colton 15 Jan, 2022

AS dawn dissolved the bleakness of a January morning on the local brae, a great tit thrust out its song from the bare beech tree, genetic information prompting the bird's response to increasing daylight.

Take on Nature: Doorway to the New Year

Stephen Colton 01 Jan, 2022

WE are 10 days or so out from the winter solstice, that significant date in the calendar after which the earth begins its lean towards the sun, bringing increased daylight and a sense of renewal.

Take on Nature: When heaven and nature sing

Stephen Colton 18 Dec, 2021

TYRONE poet John Montague, in his poem Christmas Morning, captures much of our hereditary attachment to the warm glow of this holy season when he describes the people from his homeplace of Garvaghey, travelling to the Christmas morning Mass.