Flaming underwear, a chair leg and a plum pudding can: the great Olympic torch hoax
Prank in advance of 1956 Olympics was brainchild of university students in Sydney with Leitrim link
A dream house in Cavan: ‘If anyone thinks it’s too late to do something like this, it’s not’
Rather than downsize, Dr Sabina Brennan and her husband took on a sprawling 19th-century lakeside retreat, where they intend to keep living life to the full
‘Our lives have changed unimaginably’: The people who quit city life for rural Ireland
Families who moved from city life share the freedoms, challenges and surprises of building a new life in the countryside
A new-build home in Mayo: ‘We left two six-figure jobs in Florida to come to Ireland with no plan’
Photographer Jessica Glynn gave up life in Florida to move to Co Mayo with her husband and daughter. She’s enjoying the slower pace and the chance to put her stamp on their new-build home
Not so simple: Alison Healy on errant behaviour by fans at a recent Paul Simon gig
People were standing up to leave. I longed to interrogate them
We went on RTÉ’s Cheap European Homes and ended up buying our dream house in France
Nuala and Dick Harpur had thought about buying a property in Béziers for years but it took an appearance on the show to push them over the line
How a Kildare couple built their dream garden for half its original €25k quote
When quoted as much as €25,000 to landscape the area around their newly built home, this Kildare couple opted to cut their bill in half by doing the work themselves
The Simplex crossword at 75: a complex business of thrilling and annoying readers
Mary O’Brien estimates she has compiled about 12,000 of the crosswords, and her 15th book will appear in August to mark the anniversary
A look at the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Foxrock: ‘Our Irish friends are not only very kind, but very open’
A mix of Japanese culture and Irish crafts, the ambassador’s residence offers a home away from home for newly appointed Manabu Miyagawa and his wife Noriko
The Irish photographer who put Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier at ease in early courtship
Edward Quinn also helped make Audrey Hepburn famous and took thousands of pictures of Pablo Picasso over a 20-year span
Shape-shifting alien known as ‘The Thing’ traumatised a generation of Irish children
The Bowl of Light was filled with coloured plastic flames and had a short tenure on O’Connell Bridge
Grace Kelly’s Mayo holiday hideaway: ‘Maybe her dream will come true some day’
Late Hollywood star and Monégasque princess visited her ancestral home in 1961, later buying the plot, with a view to transforming it into a holiday home
Running through the theory that a person’s name can determine what they do
Athletics really does seem to attract people whose names suggest they are destined for great things
‘I just hope more people do the same thing’: The Dublin homeowner splitting her house in two
Failing to find a suitable home in their coastal Sandycove neighbourhood, this enterprising interior designer and her family opted instead to turn their original home into two
How to create a garden room of your own: ‘It’s somewhere to go without going anywhere’
From a garden pub filled with memorabilia to a stained-glass porch, these inventive homeowners have put their own stamp on their space outside