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  • Dressed for battle

    Can she act? Is she too thin? Does she have an eating disorder? They're the kind of questions that Keira Knightley, the star of the new Pirates of the Caribbean film, has got used to dealing with - in her own withering way, writes Donald Clarke p

  • Hitting the wall

    Sam Irons in the West Bank Sam Irons - scion of the acting family - spent eight days walking along the West Bank's 'separation fence', which divides Jewish and Arabic areas. The photographs he took make up his first solo exhibition, writes Larry Ryan p

  • Funny world

    It's one thing for a comedian to be funny in a club but quite another to make the leap to TV, Dara O'Briain and Jo Brand tell Richard Gillis p
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  • Mix and mash

    From Christina Aguilera and The Strokes to The Police and Snow Patrol, DJs are pairing unlikely songs - a technique called a mash-up. Is this art or just techno-geekery, asks Michael Kelly p

  • Earth mütter

    Since acting as a singer in The Commitments , Maria Doyle Kennedy has managed to forge a career doing both. She talks to Kate Holmquist about juggling motherhood, music and movies p

  • Fruits of the sea

    Seaweed is incredibly good for you, as well as being useful in the kitchen - seaweed sausage anyone? Marie-Claire Digby meets seaweed farmer and chef Seamus Moran p
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  • Opening lines

    La dolce eat-a Our appetite for all things Italian is being sharpened by the recent arrival in Galway and Dublin of the Olio & Farina franchise, already well established Limerick. p

  • My big week

    Brian O'Rourke : Staging Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand p

  • I made it myself

    Fiona Murphy , painter. p

  • What's going on

    May 19-May 25 p

  • Planet Matters

    Jane Powers on what goes down our drains. p
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  • A fly in my soup

    I was given the evil eye in one of my favourite Dublin restaurants recently. I had dared to complain about something. p
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  • Spud you like

    Cooking in: Choose small, earth-encrusted new potatoes and you'll be in for a treat. p

  • Beaufield Mews

    Eating out: What with make-up, makeovers and digital photography, it's a wonder that our politicians remain recognisable at all. I was studying Bertie's beneficent portrait the other day, while stopped in traffic, and realised that he does actually look a little cross-eyed. p

  • Fuel for life

    Commuter cooking: A bowl of porridge will give you plenty of energy for the day ahead. Adding nuts and fruit makes it taste more like a treat than a health food, writes Catherine Cleary p

  • Save time - shop online

    Food writer John McKenna buys organic beef burgers online. p

  • Mangoman

    I try to ensure that the fruit and veg we eat at home have wellie miles rather than airmiles. But there will always be stuff that can't be grown in the polytunnel. Bananas and mangoes, for example, are a bit beyond me, but I gather that Bob Flowerdew, the impeccably named organic-gardening guru, grows both under cover in Norfolk. p

  • Best buys

    COOK WITH CALDESI: Italians are notoriously picky about what they put on their pasta, so it comes as a surprise to find Tuscan-born chef and cookery-school owner Giancarlo Caldesi drumming up recipes incorporating Dolmio's new Taste of Italy sauces. p

  • New broom sweeps clean

    Wine: Superquinn's new wine manager is revamping the supermarket chain's entire stock, and introducing more than 100 exclusive new wines p

  • Bitesize

    Three books to ponder: Every cook needs at least one book of dessert recipes that's reliable, and yet exciting enough to justify all that measuring and mixing. UK chef James Martin is the dish of the day on food channels at the moment, and his Desserts (published by Quadrille, £20) collection, accompanying his BBC TV series, will satisfy the sweetest tooth. p

  • Bottles of the week

    EQ Syrah 2005, San Antonio Valley, Chile ; Domaine Chêne Mâcon La Roche Vineuse 2006 ; and Châteaux Richelieu 2004, Fronsac.  p
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  • About face

    What's another year, when you're well groomed, writes Phyl Clarke p

  • Clothes Lines

    Groomed for success: "Sixteen-year-olds are still wearing too much make-up, too many wrong clothes, and still copying what their friends are wearing, even if it doesn't suit them." So says former model Geraldine Brand, whose summer style workshops for 16-19-year-olds begin next month. p
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  • Home comforts

    Wild visitors will settle in your garden, as long as you provide a few essentials p
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  • Show time

    A trip to the Interior Design Show could provide the inspiration, and the contacts, for a total revamp p
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