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  • More lamb than ram

    He shouts, he swears, but is Gordon Ramsay as scary as he'd like us to think? And with 15 restaurants on three continents, is he getting a bit too big for his boots? Louise East falls for the charm of the outspoken chef ahead of his first Irish venture, opening in October at the Ritz Carlton in Enniskerry. p

  • The fun factory

    Forget dusty cabinets and do-not-touch signs. Ireland's first children's museum has been designed in collaboration with the people who'll be visiting it, writes Catherine Cleary . p

  • Saddled with adventure

    Don't like sun holidays? Had enough city breaks? Grania Willis saddles up for a horseback trek across the Masai Mara p
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  • Wave power

    Galway builder Eamon Conneely, credited with attracting the Volvo round the world race to Galway for 2009, may have come late to sailing, but he has certainly jumped in at the deep end. Alan Betson watches as he launches his second €1.5 million yacht, Patches II , at a regatta in Alicante p

  • Stand up for your country

    Fiona McCann confesses to being a sucker for country music, as she dials Glen Campbell's phone number p

  • And so to market

    Opinion is divided on the future of Ireland's farmers' markets. Are they an elitist fad or saviours of the rural economy, asks Michael Kelly p
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  • Opening lines

    Power of seven Mark Scanlon, a 24-year-old Mayo man, plans to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven months in aid of the Irish Cancer Society, and will enter the Guinness Book of Records if he achieves his goal. p

  • My big week

    Paul Ó Riain: competing in La Solitaire yacht race p

  • I made it myself

    Patrick McAfee, drystone-wall builder. p

  • What's going on

    July 28th-August 3rd p

  • Planet matters

    Jane Powers on fresh air p
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  • Finding my inner paddy

    The banner up in the village of Miltown, Co Kerry, earlier this summer announced the World Bodhrán Championships. I could take it or leave it myself, but my fellow traveller is the type of person who is physically incapable of driving past such a sign. He is more culturally attuned to the Lambeg variety, but apparently a drum is a drum is a drum. p
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  • Chilli club

    Cooking in: The dark green, thin, pointed chillies are the hottest . . . p

  • Café Hans, Cashel

    If there's one thing even odder than the dearth of good cooking in provincial Irish restaurants, it's the virtual impossibility of finding somewhere decent outside central Dublin or Cork that opens for lunch. p

  • Feeding time at the zoo

    Young people know what they want, and how to cook it, writes Catherine Cleary p

  • Bite size

    Dream on: Having been a food stylist, writer and editor for 20 years in Ireland, two years ago Petra Carter did what many of us dream about and never get around to: she moved lock, stock and barrel to the south of France and bought a big, old house in which to run cookery and art courses. p

  • I want one of those

    Ever since we got too posh for instant coffee, foil pouches of coffee have been disgorging their contents all over the fridge. p

  • La grande dame

    Lilian Barton-Sartorius is one of Bordeaux's top winemakers p

  • Bottles of the week

    La Reserve de Léoville Barton, 2002 , Château Bauduc 2006 and Château du Gaby 2002, Canon-Fronsac. p
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  • Clotheslines

    Spanish style: During a recent visit to the posh seaside city of San Sebastian in Spain, I came across a newly-opened shop or "concept store" to rival the uber chic Colette in Paris in spirit, but without the French boutique's attitude and droves of fashion victims. p
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