The suite spots: hotel designs that inspire

Looking for the word's coolest hotels and bars? A new book, Night Fever 5, has 100 of the best. Editor, Carmel McNamara explains how she chose the venues

Building your home, one mistake at a time

There’s a steep learning curve when you’re building or carrying out a big refurb. People who have lived through it describe what they did – and what they’d do next time

Contemporary cool on Baggot Lane for €1.5m

Former coachhouse in Dublin 4 incorporates an old wall that slices through the kitchen adding character to the new build

Inspired design in Clonakilty for €595,000

Four-bedroom contemporary timber-frame house with separate studio in Co Cork

Travel Desk: Venice, Van Gogh and a London tourist tax

Fionn Devenport rounds up the latest travel news from scross the globe

Travel gear: Gadgets to get you through the Christmas holidays

Parrot headphones, Jeep go-kart and a carry-on cockatail kit

Travel Desk: Gladiators and Christmas getaways

Fionn Davenport rounds up all the travel news and best deals from Waterford to San Francisco

The Earl of Howth’s Sutton pad for €1.5m

While 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 renovation

Mid-century modern comes of age

Starck, Foster, Gray – 20th-century design classics in Dublin auction tomorrow

French newspaper editor resigns after journalists’ strike

Liberation shareholders plan to conver paper’s headquarter into a conference centre

Take Five for about €425,000

Lisney is seeking €425,000 for this three-bedroom house at 10 Lansdowne Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. We find homes at a similar price in Turkey, France, Germany and Spain

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