GROUND Wellbeing founder Peigín Crowley is encouraging women to slow down and check in with their bodies by elevating your self-care with purpose. The limited-edition ‘Minding Our Girls’ gift set (pictured above) in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is thoughtfully crafted to soothe and restore, it’s a perfect gift for yourself or someone you love and can help normalise self-checks that could save lives. Priced at €50 (€40 promotional), €5 from every set is donated to Look Good Feel Better, with an additional €5 matched by Brown Thomas Arnotts. This charity helps women manage the visible and emotional side effects of cancer treatment through beauty and confidence workshops. Available instore and online, the set features brand favourites Night Body Balm and Sleep Pillow Spray. See arnotts.ie and brownthomas.com AK
The limited-edition ‘Minding Our Girls’ gift set.
Add a touch of handmade magic to your Halloween with this beautifully crafted Spooky Witch Journal from Pumpkin Lodge Crafts, €14. Each journal is carefully assembled with Gothic flair, featuring a vintage-style cover with witchy motifs and high-quality blank pages inside, it’s perfect for jotting down spells or seasonal notes. Pumpkin Lodge Crafts owner Lainey Ní Mhórdha says: “My designs are based on traditional Irish shawls and clothing, folklore, myths and the Irish countryside. I’m also obsessed with Halloween and autumn which is evident in my work.” See crafts.pumpkinlodge.ie AK
Pumpkin Lodge Crafts owner Lainey Ní Mhórdha
Donegal gem shines on Condé Nast list
Looking for an autumn break but not sure where to head? Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards have announced their top 10 hotels in
Ireland, which include Cashel Palace Hotel in Co Tipperary, Glenlo Abbey in Co Galway, The Park Hotel in Co Kerry, Ashford Castle in Co Mayo and Lough Eske Castle in Co Donegal. Voted by over 750,000 readers, these stunning locations are luxurious and many celebrate the beautiful Irish countryside around them. DN
Lough Eske Castle Exterior Autumn.
The popularity of kitchen gadgets tend to come and go – how many of us have a juicer gathering dust in the back of cupboard? The airfryer however, is here to stay, and saves up to 70% on energy compared to a traditional oven. Bosch have now also entered the air fryer market with their Bosch Series 6 (€179.99) and Series 4 (€149.99).
Even cooking (goodbye shaking the basket!) and a viewing window are some of the perks. See bosch.ie DN
Bosch Series 6 Air Fryer RRP €179.99.
Painted Red For Dancing
by Seamus Ruttledge, Co Cork
With hands shaped by
The work that they did
And their faces shaped
And ground out
By weather from all
four seasons
One after another.
The winter’s tale has been
long in telling
The spring a beautiful interlude
That revives earth
and hope.
The joys of summer are
all too brief
The autumn has brought
to them grief
With falling leaves
and evenings that return
long bright days
to longer nights of
shadows and darkness.
They have heard it
They have seen it
They have spoken it
They have sung it
They have danced it
They have baked it
They have lived it
They have prayed it
They have sown it
They have gathered.
Between joy and
melancholy
They have sung
their songs to the hearth
To the open fire
Where they have baked
brown bread
Where they have nursed
sick lambs
On a concrete floor
Painted red for dancing.
GROUND Wellbeing founder Peigín Crowley is encouraging women to slow down and check in with their bodies by elevating your self-care with purpose. The limited-edition ‘Minding Our Girls’ gift set (pictured above) in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is thoughtfully crafted to soothe and restore, it’s a perfect gift for yourself or someone you love and can help normalise self-checks that could save lives. Priced at €50 (€40 promotional), €5 from every set is donated to Look Good Feel Better, with an additional €5 matched by Brown Thomas Arnotts. This charity helps women manage the visible and emotional side effects of cancer treatment through beauty and confidence workshops. Available instore and online, the set features brand favourites Night Body Balm and Sleep Pillow Spray. See arnotts.ie and brownthomas.com AK
The limited-edition ‘Minding Our Girls’ gift set.
Add a touch of handmade magic to your Halloween with this beautifully crafted Spooky Witch Journal from Pumpkin Lodge Crafts, €14. Each journal is carefully assembled with Gothic flair, featuring a vintage-style cover with witchy motifs and high-quality blank pages inside, it’s perfect for jotting down spells or seasonal notes. Pumpkin Lodge Crafts owner Lainey Ní Mhórdha says: “My designs are based on traditional Irish shawls and clothing, folklore, myths and the Irish countryside. I’m also obsessed with Halloween and autumn which is evident in my work.” See crafts.pumpkinlodge.ie AK
Pumpkin Lodge Crafts owner Lainey Ní Mhórdha
Donegal gem shines on Condé Nast list
Looking for an autumn break but not sure where to head? Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards have announced their top 10 hotels in
Ireland, which include Cashel Palace Hotel in Co Tipperary, Glenlo Abbey in Co Galway, The Park Hotel in Co Kerry, Ashford Castle in Co Mayo and Lough Eske Castle in Co Donegal. Voted by over 750,000 readers, these stunning locations are luxurious and many celebrate the beautiful Irish countryside around them. DN
Lough Eske Castle Exterior Autumn.
The popularity of kitchen gadgets tend to come and go – how many of us have a juicer gathering dust in the back of cupboard? The airfryer however, is here to stay, and saves up to 70% on energy compared to a traditional oven. Bosch have now also entered the air fryer market with their Bosch Series 6 (€179.99) and Series 4 (€149.99).
Even cooking (goodbye shaking the basket!) and a viewing window are some of the perks. See bosch.ie DN
Bosch Series 6 Air Fryer RRP €179.99.
Painted Red For Dancing
by Seamus Ruttledge, Co Cork
With hands shaped by
The work that they did
And their faces shaped
And ground out
By weather from all
four seasons
One after another.
The winter’s tale has been
long in telling
The spring a beautiful interlude
That revives earth
and hope.
The joys of summer are
all too brief
The autumn has brought
to them grief
With falling leaves
and evenings that return
long bright days
to longer nights of
shadows and darkness.
They have heard it
They have seen it
They have spoken it
They have sung it
They have danced it
They have baked it
They have lived it
They have prayed it
They have sown it
They have gathered.
Between joy and
melancholy
They have sung
their songs to the hearth
To the open fire
Where they have baked
brown bread
Where they have nursed
sick lambs
On a concrete floor
Painted red for dancing.
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