PETS’ CORNER If your pooch has a paunch, it’s time to take action before the weight takes its toll, writes vet Esther van Luipen
Time for Operation Transformation for your pet?
Living
Meet December’s Mutt of the Month: Jacquie
PETS’ CORNER A sweet six-years-old terrier, Jacquie is very stressed in kennels – but a bit of TLC and she’ll blossom
‘Her name was Noura’
INTERVIEW The human stories behind the headlines, as witnessed by a Ballina couple volunteering with Syrian refugees in Greece
iProblems
MUSINGS In this week’s Diary of a Home Bird, Ciara Galvin discovers why all passwords are actually four-letter words
Mind your mind this year
HEALTH Jannah Walshe looks a little more closely at some reasons people cite for not seeking or sticking with counselling
Begging for another hit
MUSINGS In this week’s Diary of a Home Bird, Ciara Galvin comes clean about her big Christmas addiction: sandwiches
It is all about big bangs and cosmic cruises!
“I Was There” is a perfect pressy for Christmas stockings whether you are 8 or 80
Long lens on the proximate past
BOOKS Western Ways provides an intimate and informative portrayal of life in rural Mayo in the 1930s and ’40s
A pastoral journey from poetry to prose
Áine Ryan interviews award-winning poet Ger Reidy about the background influences to his writing
Pram and proper
MUSINGS In this week’s Diary of a Home Bird, Ciara Galvin’s inner babysitter is challenged by a belligerent buggy
Meet December’s Mutt of the Month: Cia
PETS’ CORNER Cia is a lovely ten-month-old spaniel/lab/collie cross girl who desperately needs a loving home