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The Vinted effect: Charity retailers take to reselling apps with big-ticket items
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (915+ words) IRISH CHARITIES ARE reworking their sales strategies as secondhand clothing selling apps surge in popularity. Vision Ireland has fully embraced these apps and has opted to sell its big-ticket items on the online market. Jody Monaghan of Vision Ireland told…...
Naomi Campbell tells court she was 'victim of fraud' in appeal against charity ban
1+ week, 4+ day ago (313+ words) BRITISH SUPERMODEL NAOMI Campbell has arrived at London court to give evidence of how she was "deceived" in her appeal against a Charity Commission ban. In 2024, it was revealed the 56-year-old had been disqualified from being a charity trustee for…...
Getting married is a decision, not an achievement: why we should stop giving newlyweds money
3+ week, 1+ day ago (418+ words) In'Nobody Needs This, a new series for The Journal, Emer Mc Lysaght focuses her eagle eye on the trends, products and notions we can do without. It's not all giving out, however. She'll also be keeping up with what's catching…...
Lifting weights helps you live longer " but more than two hours a week doesn't add extra benefit
3+ week, 3+ day ago (396+ words) DOING AROUND ONE to two hours of resistance training per week is linked to a lower risk of early death, heart disease and neurological conditions, according to a new study, but researchers say there is no added health benefit beyond…...
'Skin cancer is not cosmetic': Calls for 23% VAT on sun cream to be scrapped
4+ week, 2+ day ago (695+ words) THERE HAVE BEEN calls for the added tax on sun cream and similar products to be scrapped on the basis that they are essential health products, not a cosmetic item." Under EU law, sunscreen is currently classed as a cosmetic…...
Imagine explaining to a Victorian child what we're doing to our eyelids in 2026 in the name of beauty
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (603+ words) In Nobody Needs This, a new series for The Journal, Emer Mc Lysaght focuses her eagle eye on the trends, products and notions we can do without. It's not all giving out, however. She'll also be keeping up with what's…...
Body of Evidence: Why your body starts storing fat in your 50s " and how it affects your brain
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1513+ words) What the hell is happening to me? Is this the middle-age spread?" ANYONE OVER A certain age may find themselves wondering why their weight has decided to just spiral as soon as they hit middle age. The arrival of the…...
Opinion: Women over 40 have been sidelined for too long. Now we push back
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (935+ words) THERE'S A PARTICULAR kind of pain that comes with invisibility. Not the dramatic, all-at-once kind but the slow, creeping kind. The kind of discomfort that shows up in a dressing room mirror, or in the scroll of an Instagram feed,…...
Two-thirds of websites investigated by advertising watchdog breached code by promoting botox
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (655+ words) TWO-THIRDS OF websites investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) were found to have potential breaches of prescription-only medicine advertising rules. The ASA, which promotes the highest standards of marketing communications, recently undertook a monitoring project to examine how online…...
Opinion: With a 'looksmaxxing' influencer rushed to hospital, is the war on ageing getting ugly?
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1654+ words) ANTI-AGEING, BIOHACKING, LOOKSMAXXING. Face lifts, Botox, fillers, rapamycin, Resveratrol, Senolytics" the list goes on. A whole ecosystem, offering us a shot at perfection, has exploded in the last decade, driven at speed by social media. Don't want to get old?...