Belles of St Mary’s ready for conversionUntil recently these two large houses formed a conjoined convent for the Holy Faith Sisters on St Mary’s Road in Dublin 4. They have now been returned to standalone use, and with a lot of work will make expansive family homesThu Sept 26 2013 - 00:00
Bigger, better, brighter: four great extensions in DublinSpace, light and storage are some of the benefits the owners of these four houses reaped when they added rooms to the back of the houses, linked into gardens and made the ground floors more open-planThu Sept 26 2013 - 00:00
Television: From panache to ganache, with not a soggy bottom in sight‘Cutting Edge’ was on to a winner with its fabulous fashionistas – as is TV3 with ‘The Great Irish Bake Off’Sat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00
Third time and still a charm on Herbert ParkBuilt to showcase the talents of some of the finest builders of the day, Milverton, with an AMV of €2.75 million, has seen plenty of drama on the market and could use another brush with flair but this house is about as stately and refined as they comeThu Sept 19 2013 - 00:00
Blue-sky design at knockdown price of €2m in KillineyBuilt in 2007 for Payzone founder John Nagle, no expense was spared in the design of this hilltop house, which has since seen a dramatic turn in its fortunesThu Sept 19 2013 - 00:00
Television: Razor-edge acting from Cillian Murphy in ‘Peaky Blinders’, and razor-sharp sports chat from the Second CaptainsThe Irish actor shines as a 1920s gangster in a complex British cousin of Boardwalk Empire, but it’s surprisingly easy to follow the blokey banter in Second Captains LiveThu Sept 12 2013 - 18:21
Get into the garden in Blackrock for €1.2mThis comfortable, bright family home, just a short stroll from Blackrock village, has all the charm and atmosphere that comes with a period house, not to mention an enormous back gardenThu Sept 12 2013 - 00:00
Second home selling on Highfield Road for €1.7 millionA five-bedroom family home in Rathgar with good garden and off-street parkingThu Sept 12 2013 - 00:00
Television: Belvedere, Ballymaloe and Brian Cowen’s hard-neck lifeDocumentaries on boys’ schools and a cookery school, and an examination of a former taoiseachSat Sept 07 2013 - 01:00
Irish advertising industry takes a good look at itselfThe top problem identified by agency bosses is ‘time pressure’ where everyone at every level is working longer hoursThu Sept 05 2013 - 01:00
Action stations for radio applicationsThe Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) is seeking applications for two 'sound broadcasting services'Thu Sept 05 2013 - 00:03
Don’t judge a book by its cover on Waltham TerraceBookseller Derek Hughes’s house may have a modest facade, but don’t be deceived – this beautifully renovated five-bedroom Georgian house has spacious reception rooms, light and airy halls and an expansive, family friendly, kitchenThu Sept 05 2013 - 00:00
Detached on Palmerston RoadOne of only four detached houses on this upmarket Rathmines is for saleThu Sept 05 2013 - 00:00
TV review: Jesuitical roots and cop-out crime dramasAlan Sugar’s sidekick reveals his Clongowes past, a show about female entrepreneurs falls flat and three new police series get under waySat Aug 31 2013 - 01:00
Three-storey house on seaside terrace in MonkstownProperty includes a two-bedroom apartmentThu Aug 29 2013 - 01:00
Four-bedroom house on one of Monkstown’s top terracesOngoing upkeep and multiple improvements keeps De Vesci Terrace property in walk-in conditionThu Aug 29 2013 - 00:00
TV review: Homebaked hugs, Dubai desserts and the annual Dome fandangoReality shows, steeped in confection, appear to have taken a turn for the touchy-feelySat Aug 24 2013 - 01:00
TV Review: Browne challenges God – and bores his viewers. Meanwhile, Southcliffe is chillingly on targetVincent Browne lorded it over his hapless guests in a self-aggrandising panel show, and the writers of Southcliffe mercilessly played with the viewers’ emotionsSat Aug 10 2013 - 01:00
TV review: A story woven in shades of grey through the first run of ‘The Mill’In a dire week for TV, a new drama lacks plot and an old one, while bidding adieu, looks likely to returnSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
TV review: Reliving the time when Burton and Taylor put their private lives onstageDominic West and Helena Bonham Carter are superb as Hollywood’s fiery couple in BBC Four’s drama, but there was more real-life drama in a new RTÉ series about struggling businessesSat Jul 27 2013 - 13:00
TV Review: Gary Cooke got the wooden spoon but he served up some top-notch humourBy insisting it’s all about the food, ‘Celebrity Masterchef’ judges have starved us of the funniest contestantSun Jul 21 2013 - 06:00
Style that stands the test of time in Rathmines for €1.8mThe pricey elements of style that were all the rage at the height of the boom are everywhere there to be seen in this period house, which was extended and modernised by Fiona HealyThu Jul 18 2013 - 00:00
TV review: Time to let Luas after two hours of a gripping, real-life murder trialA courtroom documentary about a man appealing his conviction for killing his wife was compelling viewingSat Jul 13 2013 - 06:00
Strand designs: sea views in Sandymount for €1.2m AMVThis fine three-bedroomed period house, part of a smart terrace in Dublin 4, needs just a little improvement to bring it back to its stunning bestThu Jul 11 2013 - 00:00
TV review: Luther up to his Elba in glossy gore but life under the Taliban is truly terrifyingThe week’s most shocking programme told the true story of the girls in Pakistan being shot for going to schoolSat Jul 06 2013 - 06:00
Bringing UK real life courtroom drama to TV screensTwo-hour documentary ‘The Murder Trial’ will be shown on Channel 4Thu Jul 04 2013 - 01:00
Another choice for buyers on Eaton SquareA second house is now for sale on Monkstown’s popular Eaton Square, this time for €1.2m, with five well-proportioned bedrooms, an open-plan living area and a lush but low-maintenance town garden to the rearThu Jul 04 2013 - 00:00
TV Review: Shock-horror viewing as Bono talks about taxGay Byrne reeled in another big fish when he spoke to U2’s frontman. For pure emotion, though, the winner was Davina McCall’s Long Lost FamilySat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
A bitter sweet ending for Mad Men but Hershey is happyHershey didn’t know that it was to feature at all and told Vanity Fair it was “thrilled and incredibly flattered to be part of such a popular television show”Thu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Rural scope in Foxrock for shy of €5mStanford House in Foxrock is not only surrounded by stables and stone outhouses, it also sits on a paddock, suitable for development, which could be purchased separatelyThu Jun 27 2013 - 00:00
Ice cream of the crop in Sandycove for €1.35mThis spacious five-bedroom house facing the sea in south Co Dublin was in a sorry state of repair when the current owners bought it 25 years ago. Since then, however, it has been sympathetically restored to create an elegant family homeThu Jun 27 2013 - 00:00
TV Review: Kitchen hero? This fish and chip vehicle isn’t worth its salt’n’vinegarDonal Skehan is a man with a van, but he cooks better in his own kitchen, where the locals can’t bombard himSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
TV review: Pleasantly surprised by a very unexpected return of the zombiesThe French series The Returned is a proper ghost story instead of a zombiefestSat Jun 15 2013 - 01:00
Television: Say hello to the family of friendly spies next doorStruggling through the sixth series of ‘Mad Men’? ‘The Americans’, with Emmy-worthy performances from Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, could be just what you needSat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
Size matters on Shrewsbury site for €4.95mThis five-bed, built in a former orchard of the main house when the owners were downsizing, is hidden from the road and has garden on all sides, with trees offering privacyThu Jun 06 2013 - 01:00
