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Donald Clarke: Pixar’s new period drama breaks down the menstruation taboo

Domee Shi’s charming Turning Red takes aim at millennia of patriarchal queasiness

Light Entertainment - An Irish voice from the Charge of the Light Brigade

An Irishman’s Diary: The Dublin accent of ‘Trumpeter Landfried’

Why you shouldn’t work from bed (and a guide to doing it anyway)

The lure of bed is hard to resist for any home worker. Or it may have become a necessity

Thinking Anew – Where good people make a difference

Irish family stuck in Cyprus: ‘We hope our flights home are cancelled’

We entered a routine with lunch in the sun, beach walks and homeschooling for the kids

‘I have no faith in the Catholic Church but I prayed when I’d Covid-19’

How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting religious beliefs, or the lack thereof?

Great reads: 20 books to unwind with this summer

From established talent to rising stars, here is our reading guide for the months ahead

Coronavirus: INMO urges increase in nursing college places, warns of staff pressures

Organisation warns global pandemic means a likely drop in overseas recruitment

Unshakeable purpose – Florence Nightingale, the woman who revolutionised nursing

The year of the nurse: ‘We’re drained, we’re stressed, but we will keep going’

Nurses on coping during Covid-19, ahead of International Day of the Nurse and Midwife

Of ramps and lamps – Frank McNally on coronavirus cliches, Florence Nightingale’s statistics, and literature’s worst nurse

Post-festive Boris must sink his teeth into a Brexit new year

Blustering Johnson would appear to be hiding any plan he may have rather well

Can pet therapy help patients with dementia?

Research shows interaction with dogs reduced agitation levels in sufferers

Life’s Work: ‘The bookshop is a lovely life rather than a living’

John Donohoe, bookseller, Athlone, Co Westmeath