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This Rathfarnham house has been turned into a bright, contemporary space
This Rathfarnham house has been turned into a bright, contemporary space

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Megan Burns

The award-winning Irish cocktail bar shaking things up on an international level
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This Limerick home has been updated to suit busy family life
This Limerick home has been updated to suit busy family life

Megan Burns

This Art Deco Donnybrook house has been adapted for multi-generational living
This Art Deco Donnybrook house has been adapted for multi-generational living

Megan Burns

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I don’t know who needs to read this, but wear the damn shorts


by Gillian Roddie
10th Jun 2021

Female legs on the pedestrian crossing.

Gillian Roddy posted a photo of herself in her "shorts normally reserved for the privacy of the garden" because she had learnt to "learnt to give one fewer sh*t that day". The huge reaction online made her ask – what if we stopped thinking about our bodies?

I have a TV in the bedroom whose sole purpose is to operate as a slideshow for Google photos (thank you Chromecast). Every morning as I’m getting ready for the day, I watch the screen change as it fills with memories from ten years’ worth of digital photos. It’s a daily trip into nostalgia, and, as I realised very recently, a daily exercise in self flagellation. Alongside my appreciation of the fun filled faces of...

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