It was a case of “love at first swipe” for Daisy Estephane and Christopher (Chris) Barton, who said “I do” in Kerry. The Hertfordshire-based newlyweds were married in St Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney, ...

For the past six months, I have committed to a 75-minute monthly ritual. Once a month, on a Thursday evening, I leave the office and head to The Space Between — a yoga studio tucked away on a quiet ...

The Irish Examiner celebrated International Women's Day with an event that saw Sonya Lennon, Dr Manizha Khan and Deirdre Mortell talk to the issues that women face in Ireland today. Here, they tell ...

Mother’s Day was originally called mothering day; it was when servants of the wealthy were given leave from their ...

The journey to the glacier is as thrilling as hiking on the glacier itself. It involves taking a boat ride cruising past the mouth of an ice fjord, then jumping into an off-road vehicle for a dusty, ...

I’m standing in a shower, scrubbing my hair with shampoo, completely starkers. It’s a normal occurrence, of course, to shower naked. Except this time, I’m surrounded by seven other women, all of whom ...

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. So wrote Robert Browning — and for many of our writers, how very true those words still ring. Ahead of Mother’s Day, we asked columnists and other ...

Marilyn the person has been dead far longer than she was ever alive — yet our ongoing attachment to Marilyn the commodity has never quite allowed her to rest in peace, writes Suzanne Harrington ...

In August, we scattered my mother’s ashes on a beach that she loved. Actually, she loved the hotel next to the beach, and staying there and drinking wine with her friends, and in the morning ordering ...

Romania has made wine for over 6,000 years and still cultivates lots of indigenous grapes (e.g. fetească neagră, fetească regală) as well as imported noble ones Once part of the Roman Empire, then the ...

The latest season of The White Lotus put female friendship firmly in the spotlight. And, as the show revealed, there’s nothing like a holiday with lifelong friends, as Vickie Maye discovered on a ...

Crux, Gabriel Tallent’s second novel, is a coming-of-age story focused on two teenagers, Dan and Tamma, in their final year of high school. Living in poverty in the shadow of California’s Joshua Tree ...