In this episode Lilly talks to our restaurant critic Catherine Clery about the practical side of a job many wish was theirs.

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The first of four Food Month podcasts with your host Lilly Higgins and Irish Times food and drink writers. On this episode it's John Williams on wine: drinking it, working with it, learning about it and enjoying it.

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Seán Lemass was scathing about the last years of Éamon de Valera’s time as Taoiseach. Here he talks about de Valera’s final days in office.

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The visit of President John F Kennedy to Ireland in June 1963 was one of the highlights of Seán Lemass’s time as Taoiseach, but Lemass detected a coldness about Kennedy.

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Seán Lemass finally took over as Taoiseach in 1959, but the man he replaced, Éamon de Valera, cast a long shadow.

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Sinead McCarthy was 24 week pregnant when she went in for a routine scan at a hospital in Mullingar in early December and was happy and confident and looking forward to celebrating Christmas with her husband Pat and her two little girls Holly and Ruby.But when the scan, the third of her pregnancy, revealed that her baby had a condition that was incompatible with life she was shattered.In a pre-recorded interview with the Ray D'Arcy Show on RTE Radio One on Wednesday afternoon she said her baby’s “coffin is chosen instead of her cot” and she encouraged people to vote yes in the upcoming referendum on repealing the Eighth Amendment so other women would not have to go through what she has been through in recent months.

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This Christmas most of the prisoners in Dochas will spend the family season inside. For the children of women inside, it’s distressing. As part of the Storybook Mams project, women choose a book to read to a child they are separated from, and make a video to send them.Here three of the women who made Storybook videos this year - Annie, Angelique and Manie - are talking about being in priosn and apart from their children. “I would have missed a good part of her life. Like, most of her life. I understand she’s hurtin’ in her own little way. This is just so as she can see me and see what I am like now.”“I don’t like her coming up to the prison because she gets very upset after visits, so I’d rather just let her know I love her, and the phone calls.”Produced by Deirdre Falvey and Declan Conlon.

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Is Christmas the most wonderful time of year? Or a living nightmare of enforced jollity? Irish Times journalist Kevin Courtney asked comedians Karl Spain and Bernard O'Shea.

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Marti Padrisa and his partner Sara Flanagan - one is Catalan and one is Spanish. They both live in Barcelona and they debate their contrasting opinions during a protest at the GPO, Dublin.

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Inside Politics: Irish Times Political Correspondent Harry McGee reflects on the 2016 General Election.Full episode: iti.ms/InsidePoliticsIT

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