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January - February 2017
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News:
2
Update on AMD:
Back in the best-sellers:
8
The ICO explains the condition, the symptoms and
Nigel Baxter profiles novelist and broadcaster Deirdre Purcell Memories of The ‘Royal’:
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treatment options 12
Thomas Myler recalls the glory days of Dublin’s Theatre Royal
Northern Notes:
68
How ‘fair’ is the Fair Deal:
Golf:
70
18
Sinead Ryan explains
Dermot Gilleece recalls some marathon and bizarre
Dancing the years away:
22
golfing wagers
Maretta Dillon talks to choreographer Phillipa Donellan about dance classes for older people.
Beauty:
74 77
Activity supplement:
50
Winter wonderland:
Letting off steam:
26
Peter Dowdall on winter gardening
Lorna Hogg examines our fascination with steam engines
Wine World:
79
which is no longer the preserve of schoolboys and ‘anoraks’.
Convert your spare rooms into cash:
84
What’s on in the arts:
32
Maretta Dillon reports on upcoming events in the arts
phenomenon that is Airbnb
around the country County Profile – Wexford: focusses on Co Wexford Activity Special:
50
Featuring a walk in the Comeraghs and how to keep fit Featuring the Mimozas resort near Cannes
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Meeting Place:
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Know your rights:
91
Crossword:
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Crafts/nature:
96
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In the first of a series of county profiles, Senior Times
Mimozas Cannes:
Pat Keenan saw at first-hand the accommodation
58 Cover photo of Deirdre Purcell by Adrian Weckler
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