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
A stepping stone for €700,000A Victorian two-storey redbrick in Ranelagh in need of renovationThu May 15 2014 - 00:00
Television: A life-affirming exchange beats the dark networking of misogynyGay Byrne’s ‘Meaning of Life’ inspires while ‘Blurred Lines’ explores disturbing trends in social mediaSat May 10 2014 - 01:00
Victorian grandeur for €3.95mLangara is a five-bedroom house in Glengageary that comes with a two-bedroom mewsThu May 08 2014 - 00:00
Television: ‘Prey’ delivers thrill of the chase while bingo documentary hits the jackpotIf ‘Prey’ is gripping drama, ‘Bingo Nights’ offers another sort of tension, and ‘The Savage Eye’ is welcome backSat May 03 2014 - 01:00
Detached in Dalkey for €1.25mA four-bed with office space is back on the market and going for auctionThu May 01 2014 - 00:00
Victorian villa in Sandycove for €1.2mDouble-fronted terraced house with four bedrooms and glimpses of the seaThu May 01 2014 - 00:00
Television: Biopic of comic genius far more fun than the weird atmosphere of ‘Fargo’David Threlfall is enjoyably bumbling as the lead in a classy biopic of one of TV’s most impersonated starsSat Apr 26 2014 - 01:00
Artists’ house in Howth for €750,000 has room to grow inIt has already been extended but this Edwardian redbrick could be made even biggerThu Apr 17 2014 - 00:00
Television: A feast for the eyes, but slim pickings for fashion-watchersThe President’s State visit to Britain was proper event TV – history in the making – and RTÉ’s coverage did it justiceSat Apr 12 2014 - 01:00
Light, space and a view of the sea for €2.3mThis elegant Victorian house in Sandycove is a stone’s throw from the harbourThu Apr 10 2014 - 00:00
Townhouse in Blackrock for €900,000Five-bedroom period house with literary connectionThu Apr 10 2014 - 00:00
Estate agents: "They tell lies. They cheat people."A new BBC documentary series about estate agents finds they are resigned to their negative public imageThu Apr 10 2014 - 00:00
1930s home in Blackrock for €950,000A long back garden and garage at the side offer plenty of room to growThu Apr 10 2014 - 00:00
RTÉ broadcast of Iftas a badly produced shamblesTV Review: Noise of guests chattering loudly drowned out speechesMon Apr 07 2014 - 06:45
Television: Crime and punishment, wrapped up in tweed or hidden behind barsIt’s all very well being tweedy, but elements of ‘Endeavour’ jar with the likeable aspects of ‘Morse’Sat Apr 05 2014 - 01:00
Detached grandeur in Dartry for €4.95millionFour-bed, detached Victorian house with landscaped gardens in excellent conditionThu Apr 03 2014 - 00:00
On the park in Rathgar for €1.2mVictorian redbrick with five bedrooms and large back gardenThu Apr 03 2014 - 00:00
Television: Can we put this pantomime of cliches behind us? Oh yes we can!‘The Centre’ has a few good one-liners, but RTÉ’s paper-thin sitcom is another one for the bad booksSat Mar 29 2014 - 01:00
Eco-friendly redbrick in D4 for €1.95mThis 150-year-old house been completely renovated using green technologies and now has a BER rating of B3. Better yet, there’s plenty of room at the back for a mewsThu Mar 27 2014 - 00:00
Television: Feeling queer? Meet the quacks who don’t want you in the pink‘Undercover Doctor: Cure Me, I’m Gay’, with Christian Jessen, misses its chance to challenge homophobia, but the cop drama ‘Line of Duty’, starring Adrian Dunbar and Keeley Hawes, doesn’t miss a trickSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00
Pristine redbrick raises the bar in Rathmines to €3.95 millionSubstantial house with seven bedrooms and three reception rooms has been upgradedThu Mar 20 2014 - 00:00
Sisters’ house could make a heavenly family homeHome to the Colomban Missionary Sisters for two decades, this fine redbrick property is in need of renovation to make it suitable for modern requirementsThu Mar 20 2014 - 00:00
Television: Of mice and men – how a cartoon drew Billy Connolly and Seamus Heaney togetherThe comedian and the poet join forces for an animated series of fables that also captures their camaraderieSat Mar 15 2014 - 01:00
Hidden gem in Terenure for €2.25mFortfield Lodge is not the type of property you’d expect to find nestling in a quiet cul-de-sac in south County Dublin. Originally built as a dower house for Lord Avonmore’s youngest daughter, it is a quite grand Georgian property which also includes a two-bedroom self-contained apartment in the basementThu Mar 13 2014 - 00:00
Terraced house in Rathgar for €1.795mTwo-storey-over-basement house has four bedrooms and a long rear gardenThu Mar 13 2014 - 00:00
Television: Meet the Walshes, the latest creation from the BBC-RTÉ mammy machineGraham Linehan’s much-hyped new comedy gets off to a bad start, but Gabriel Byrne’s ‘Quirke’ redeems itself in the endSat Mar 08 2014 - 01:00
Bright, spacious family home in RathgarFive-bed semi-detached house with a family-friendly layout has many original features and plenty of scope for extensionThu Mar 06 2014 - 00:00
Bedrooms a-plenty on Pembroke for €1.4 millionThis Georgian townhouse has a chequered recent history – almost all the rooms were made into en-suite bedrooms. But it retains its period features and with imagination – and cash – could be an elegant family homeThu Mar 06 2014 - 00:00
A duo of distinction from different eras in SandymountFour-bed 1930s semi-detached house with off-street parking and four-bed terraced property with long garden in need of upgradingThu Mar 06 2014 - 00:00
Television: A-list acting and cinematic quality lift crime drama out of pulp-fiction swampHBO produces a new genre-defining crime drama, a legal series loses the plot, and an aviation history nosedivesSat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00
A space to make your own in Foxrock for €2.5mFour-bedroom period house has outdoor pool and half an acre of mature gardensThu Feb 27 2014 - 00:00
Three big reasons to make a move to BlackrockSize isn’t everything, but these three plus-size properties in leafiest south County Dublin have a lot more than space and square-footage to offer anyone in search of a large, contemporary, well-appointed family homeThu Feb 27 2014 - 00:00
Television: There’s not much tension in watching this detectiveA problematic lead in Gabriel Byrne, a predictable plot, clunky dialogue and staying too close to John Banville’s Benjamin Black book dampen drama in ‘Quirke: Christine Falls’Sat Feb 22 2014 - 01:00
Walk in on Wellington in D4 for €1.9mThe choices made by the owners of this four-bedroom terraced period home when they renovated in 1999 – in terms of the style and layout of the kitchen and the look of the bathrooms – have stood the test of timeThu Feb 20 2014 - 00:00
Television: I’m in no mood for dancing – and curling has lost its appeal, tooThe BBC’s Winter Olympics coverage is a victory for biased tub-thumping, while a documentary on The Nolans has nothing new to add to the pop sisters’ storySat Feb 15 2014 - 01:00
Former Ailesbury embassy asking €3 million needs workDespite the high price expected for this six-bedroom house, the new owners will probably spend at least half a million euro modernising and reorganising the living space in the terraced propertyThu Feb 13 2014 - 00:00
Television: Light on their feet – plus-size dancers who soar above their limitationsIt could have turned into a cruel, fat-shaming contest, but Channel 4’s ‘Big Ballet’ treated its subjects with a light touchSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Regency home fit for a queen in Donnybrook for €2.95mDating back to the early days of Queen Victoria’s reign, Victoria Lodge, one of an adjoining pair of double-fronted Regency design houses in Donnybrook, has been sympathetically refurbished in the classic style of a bygone eraThu Feb 06 2014 - 00:00
Ready for an upgrade in Rathgar at €1.3mOn a third of an acre, back from the road behind mature hedging and with a rear garden that stretches more than 50m, this property is crying out for a major modernising programme to bring it up to date for more contemporary livingThu Feb 06 2014 - 00:00
Television: Pelts’n’ponytails – a historical epic that bucks the sex and nudity trendIt’s got the film-star looks, but ‘Vikings’, featuring Gabriel Byrne, Travis Fimmel and Katheryn Winnick, mainly hides them behind grime and goreSat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00
Sky isn’t the limit when it comes to YouTubeHBO also uploading free content to reach other viewersThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:00
Two by two beds in Dublin 6 for €675,000 and €475,000Renovated terraced house backing on to cricket grounds and end of terrace home in busy commuter shortcutThu Jan 30 2014 - 00:00
Television: ‘Amber’ alert: high expectations plus low tension equals mediocre dramaAfter committing four nights to RTÉ’s patchy missing-girl story, viewers were still left wantingSat Jan 25 2014 - 01:00
Makeover a marvel on Elgin in Ballsbridge for €3.75mThe elegance of this period redbrick in Dublin’s embassy belt has been preserved rather than destroyed by ultra-modern additions. It may look a little forlorn right now but it is still a ‘jaw-droppingly lovely’ homeThu Jan 23 2014 - 00:00
