Is it character-building to let a 7-year-old walk home alone?

When mum-of-three Joanne Byrne was growing up, no one expressed concern about the level of freedom and independence her parents gave her.

Weekend Bites: Sowing those wild oats

I'm a self-confessed oat addict. I love porridge, dig granola and am a flapjack fiend. I love oats' texture, their nutty flavour and the way they can be added to basic things, like a loaf of bread or apple crumble topping, to deliver a whole new texture and taste.

Things are getting really exciting here at Ballymaloe as we're gearing up for the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of...

Things are getting really exciting here at Ballymaloe as we're gearing up for the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine 2015!

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Sowing those wild oats

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Dear Rosanna: My husband is a compulsive cheater but I have no interest in sex

A compulsive cheater, Communion money madness and too broke to go on holidays

The vet needed to make this terrier sick - to save her life

Alfa is a rescue dog: Julie took her in from the Wicklow SPCA a few months ago. She has settled well into Julie's home, apart from one complication: she is a little glutton, and keeps eating things that are dangerous for her. There have now been four occasions where she has needed the canine equivalent of having her stomach pumped to save her life.