Juliet Kinsman

Wednesday 13 August 2025 07:16 EDT Comments T he tractor ahead of us was moving at a pace to make city dwellers twitch, yet on the winding road from Cork, the speed felt just right.

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Juliet Kinsman If we care about the world, every time we spend our money, we should think about the true cost of what we're buying and

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Teresa Tarmey's all-white sanctuary on Kensington Park Road, tucked just behind my beloved Portobello Road, is a masterclass in calm — and this is such a beautiful space to experience a treatment with no needles, no chemicals, no gadgetry. Just expert hands — and, uniquely, fingers inside your mouth. Sounds weird. But it is so clever, and so effective.

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From flower safaris in Africa to tracking snow leopards in Asia and clocking up citizen-science eDNA samples in the Americas, these travel experiences are protecting and regenerating nature

From flower safaris in Africa to tracking snow leopards in Asia and clocking up citizen-science eDNA samples in the Americas, these travel experiences are protecting and regenerating nature