• Fairy tale that Ireland can only dream of

  Denmark is pushing the boat out for Hans Christian Andersen's bicentenary. We could learn from it, reports Belinda McKeon p
  

• The parents who can barely afford to work

  Life is meant to have got easier for single parents, but a new survey claims the system is failing them. Anne Dempsey reports p
  

• Living on the book

  There are 80,928 claimants of the one-parent-family payment of €134.80 a week plus €19.30 per child. p
  

• Revealing a hidden side of Anne Frank

  A new exhibition gives a rare glimpse into the family life of the young Dutch diarist, writes Derek Scally in Berlin p
  

• All the rage

  Róisín Ingle on barbecue rage p
  

• Reviews

  Reviewed today are Music in Great Irish Houses at Kilruddery, Bray, Three Sisters at the New Theatre, Dublin  and Megan Eustace's exhibition Cleave at the Fenton Galley, Cork p
  

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