INTERVIEW Ambient/minimalist composer Seamus O’Muineachain on his sixth studio album and his hometown of Belmullet

LIFE ADVICE In the first of her new fortnightly Positive Steps columns, life coach Sadhbh Dunne looks at routines – the good, the bad and the flexible

CULTURE Ciara Moynihan takes a look at the programme for this year’s arts and music festival in Westport

BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews ‘The Namesake’, by Jhumpa Lahiri, and ‘All This Happened, More or Less’ by Jayne A Quan

GARDENING Drimbawn Garden’s head gardener Frank Steffan on the simple rewards of propagating plants

FOOD Sandra Cabot shares her recipes for easy-to-make jam tarts and simple homemade banana muffins