Drum role: Alison Healy casts an incredulous eye over a much-loved Christmas carol
By all accounts, the stable in Bethlehem was busier than Heuston Station following Jesus’s birth
A Mayo family’s first Christmas in their new home: ‘We’re so excited to be spending it here’
For a Christmas-loving Mayo family, this first festive season in their newly built home will be a special time
Alison Healy on some regrettable wedding celebration traditions
Pelting newly married couples with cabbage stalks never seemed like the best idea
A Monaghan farmhouse transformed into a luxury getaway with a pool and hot-tub in the ruins
A refurbished century-old farmhouse and barn near Castleblayney was a labour of love for the owners, and is now available for getaways
You know you are getting old when... Alison Healy on life’s reminders of age
Some of us prefer to ignore those little signposts that we are hurtling along the highway of life
The strange case of Dr Achmet Borumborad and his Dublin-based Turkish baths
By all accounts, he was a likable chap and women compared their husbands most unfavourably to him
Donal Skehan on making a family home in Sutton: ‘I love things that have a story attached’
The TV chef and his wife Sofie bought a bijou cottage in the north Dublin suburb in 2023, but with no room for his vintage cookware collection a further renovation might be on the cards
‘Taking on these old houses is not easy’: Renovating a 19th-century family farmhouse in Wexford
For Lory Higgins and his family, bringing new life to the homestead and watching his children grow up in the fields of his youth is priceless
A look inside the Canadian ambassador’s home: ‘This would be a temple in Canada’
The historic Ranelagh property in Dublin with links to Patrick Pearse was built between 1848 and 1851
Transforming a traditional whitewashed cottage by the sea in Connemara
New meets old on the shores of the Atlantic, where these homeowners have added a modern pavilion to their traditional cottage to showcase the dramatic sea views
Off track - Alison Healy on how James Joyce disembarked in the wrong country
When the train pulled into a significant city, they thought they had reached their destination
Missing in action: Renewed push to honour Finnish sailor who fought in the Easter Rising
Antti Juho Mäkipaltio was sent to Kilmainham Gaol and Knutsford Prison following GPO surrender
Renovating room by room: Taking a phased approach to upgrading a Wexford house
Family took 11 years to complete home, but say this way it gave time to think about each space
‘I immediately fell in love with Cork’: From US gun culture to a cottage in Crosshaven
For this US couple, politics and healthcare are among the reasons they left Michigan. Now they’re living in a white-washed cottage by the sea
Klepto countess: Light-fingered Irish aristocrat Mary Monckton
The Countess of Cork and Orrery was notorious for purloining items and smuggling them in her hand muff