Ó Sé juggles saints and surreal to make Rose of Tralee look easyTV Review: First night of ‘The Rose of Tralee’ was heavy on beauty but light on talent displaysTue Aug 19 2014 - 12:16
Television: Clothes have rarely looked as smelly, but it’s not all bad news for ‘The Village’The BBC series starring Maxine Peake and John Simm is a far cry from ‘Downton Abbey’. So how come it’s looking like good Sunday-night TV?Sat Aug 16 2014 - 01:00
Television: Strong women? Tick. Baby stuff? Tick. Great television? Er . . .A great cast can’t save ‘In the Club’ from its obvious plots, which lack the ingenuity of ‘The Honourable Woman’Sat Aug 09 2014 - 01:00
Television: Child geniuses, pushy parents and cycling dopesWhy would you want a child to memorise a deck of cards? And will Paul Kimmage get a chance to see the bright side?Sat Aug 02 2014 - 01:00
The Earl of Howth’s Sutton pad for €1.5mWhile the Earl of Howth renovated Howth Castle in 1840 he had two houses built down the hill in Sutton. One of them, for sale at €1.5m, has been given a boom-time renovationThu Jul 17 2014 - 01:00
Family home in Rathgar for €925,000Four-bedroom semi-detached 1940s property with extensionThu Jul 17 2014 - 01:00
Television: Banged up abroad – a Peruvian drug story that just can’t keep its distanceA documentary on Michaella McCollum Connolly, jailed in Peru for drug smuggling, gets too close to her family for cool appraisalSat Jul 12 2014 - 01:00
Clontarf semi-d with the light stuff for €950,000As well as completely renovating this family home, the current owners built a striking, light-filled contemporary kitchen extension.Thu Jul 10 2014 - 01:00
Television: Gyllenhaal dips her toe in television; Norah Casey puts a foot in the graveMaggie Gyllenhaal is terrific in ‘The Honourable Woman’ while ‘Way to Go’ looks at death in a roundabout waySat Jul 05 2014 - 01:00
Six-bed house in Meath for €950,000Large, detached property on 2.2 acres is approximately 20km from city centreThu Jul 03 2014 - 01:00
Consumers may be upbeat but they aren’t shoppingThe problem is the improvement in consumer confidence has not yet translated into anything more than a modest improvement in consumer spendingThu Jul 03 2014 - 01:00
Redbrick gets a revampThis Ranelagh three-bed has been renovated and redecorated and is now for sale for €795,000Thu Jul 03 2014 - 00:00
Simon Delaney’s the king of the castles, but Enda Kenny’s got God on his sideThe Taoiseach keeps it all very serious while chatting to Gaybo about religion – until the last five minutes, when he lights up. In his new series about Irish castles, Simon Delaney keeps it all jokey and blokeySat Jun 28 2014 - 01:00
Cyclists push for fizzy drink as Coke wheels out campaignCoke’s no-sugar brand Coca-Cola Zero has paid €2 million for a three-year sponsorship of the successful Dublin bike share schemeThu Jun 26 2014 - 01:15
Despite having store cards grocery buyers show little loyalty and are guided by pricesFragmentation and intense competition in the supermarket sectorThu Jun 26 2014 - 01:10
Making the most of data firms collectCompanies can fail to realise the opportunities in the data they already haveThu Jun 26 2014 - 01:04
Honey pot or money pit? The refurb riskThese two period houses in Rathmines, Dublin 6 are ready for transformation to former glory. But such ambitious projects require lots of patience, as well as deep pockets, in order to stay the course – and stay saneThu Jun 26 2014 - 01:00
In the bag: Brown Bag picks up three Emmys for ‘Peter Rabbit’The show is in its second series and is broadcast on NickolodeonThu Jun 26 2014 - 01:00
Highland licence renewedThe BAI will now enter into contract negotiations with Highland to fine tune the licence agreementThu Jun 26 2014 - 01:00
Television: In a flap about flippers? Take a leaf from Maureen Gaffney’s bookThe psychologist’s self-help series is as sincere as teaching extras from ‘Flipper’ to talk is barmySat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
Cannes features rise of the nerdsAdvertising’s shift to digital means not just audience accuracy for advertisers, it needs a different response from creativesThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:15
Ouch! HBO chief takes sideswipe at Belfast‘Game of Thrones’ is HBO’s most watched show with an average gross audience of 18.4mThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:10
Television scores best for watching World Cup soccer68% said in survey they would be prepared to pay for World Cup video contentThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:05
Forty campaigns make it onto ADFX awards shortlistUnusually for an industry awards, the judges never feel obliged to hand out every gong if the entries aren’t up to scratchThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:03
Golfer Shane Lowry signs sponsorship deal with Bank of IrelandThree-year contract with Pádraig Harrington ended in 2010Thu Jun 19 2014 - 01:00
Restored Rathgar redbrick for €2.595mThis early-Victorian end-of-terrace house has been extensively renovated but retains its period features and grand proportionsThu Jun 19 2014 - 00:00
Television: Beckham’s on target, but breadline film-makers move the goalpostsThe ex-footballer’s celebrity outlook is seemlier than the way children are asked to talk about living in food povertySat Jun 14 2014 - 01:00
1960s dream home for €1.6mWhen it was built, in 1962, this house was the last word in suburban style but new owners may be more interested in its potentialThu Jun 12 2014 - 00:00
Architect Thomas Deane’s seaside home for €2.6mThe 19th-century architect Thomas Newenham Deane lived in – and extended – this 18th-century house which is now a charming rambling five-bedroom family home with sea viewsThu Jun 12 2014 - 00:00
Landmark on Orwell Road converted into luxury apartmentsFive large units in a former hotel, converted just before the crash, have finally hit the marketThu Jun 12 2014 - 00:00
Television: Dead passengers? Whatever you do, don’t put them in the toilet‘A Very British Airline’ ends up feeling corporate. That’s not a problem ‘Orange Is the New Black’ has ever hadSat Jun 07 2014 - 01:00
Bolt-hole into the blue in BrittasWith the sand dunes a leisurely walk away from Sallymount Cottage, and its fresh Hamptons-style interiors, you could imagine yourself anywhere in this €375,000 coastal retreat located just 45 minutes from DublinThu Jun 05 2014 - 00:00
Updated Stringer home with scope in Terenure for €1.695mFive-bed family home in a quiet-cul-de sac has been renovated and extendedThu Jun 05 2014 - 00:00
Television: ‘Mad Men’ back on song, and hard times in ‘Happy Valley’A peak performance by Peggy Olson, Bafta beckons for Sarah Lancashire, and John Lonergan shows his mettle as a mentorSat May 31 2014 - 01:00
Park life in Dalkey for €2mProby Park House is a beautifully maintained, detached period propertyThu May 29 2014 - 00:00
Rathgar Riversdale: the sequelThe sale of Riversdale House at auction last week for €2.15 million has prompted the owner to put the adjoining property on the market with a guide price of €1.25 millionThu May 29 2014 - 00:00
Ranelagh redbrick for €1.1mThree-bedroom house with attic conversion and contemporary extensionThu May 29 2014 - 00:00
Television: Oozing and schmoozing their way through the week‘Penny Dreadful’, starring Timothy Dalton and Eva Green, is giddy with layers of melodrama. The same can’t be said of our politiciansSat May 24 2014 - 01:00
Greencore chief’s Rathmines townhouse on market for €1.3mThis spacious, Victorian period home has been stylishly decoratedThu May 22 2014 - 00:00
Redbrick in Killiney for €2.9mSix-bedroom family house set on beautiful groundsThu May 22 2014 - 00:00
Modern home on Eglinton for €2.75mDetached four-bed house in Dublin 4 with south-facing rear gardenThu May 22 2014 - 00:00
Television: A two-star hotel documentary, while politicians get the third degree‘Copacabana Palace’ is a poor man’s ‘Inside Claridges’; ‘Episodes’ comes good; TV3’s election debate is a turn-offMon May 19 2014 - 16:35
Gate lodge with a history for €1.15mThis once-dilapidated house in Clonskeagh has been fully renovated and extendedThu May 15 2014 - 00:00
A stepping stone for €700,000A Victorian two-storey redbrick in Ranelagh in need of renovationThu May 15 2014 - 00:00
Stately Victorian in Sandycove for €1.525mThe interior of this house has been reconfigured to give more light and spaceThu May 15 2014 - 00:00
