Kilkenny manor with an attic fit for a princessFive-bedroom house in glorious gardens just minutes from city for €1.1 millionWed Feb 22 2017 - 06:00
President’s Chair maker John Lee scoops €15,000 prizeMeath furniture-maker who created seat for Michael D Higgins wins Golden Fleece AwardTue Feb 21 2017 - 11:00
House Rules: The many ways of seeing colonial styleStyle and design smooth a path over historical inequalitiesSat Feb 18 2017 - 06:00
Upgraded cottage is a Dalkey delight for €1.75mFour-bedroom Sorrento Road detached with space to play and thinkThu Feb 16 2017 - 05:00
Phepotstown House in Co Kildare has proved a very good sportElegant country house and lands, selling for €1.6m, are perfect for horse and sports loversThu Feb 16 2017 - 00:00
Next big country? Trend towards green means it could be usPantone says colour of 2017 gives us ‘reassurance we yearn for’ amid global tumultSat Feb 11 2017 - 07:00
The next big thing? Not doughnutsIt’s tempting to imitate what’s already popular but that’s not progressSat Feb 11 2017 - 00:00
House Rules: on balancing your lifeLook east for Chinese inspiration on balancing all aspects of life – including your deskSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00
Goodbye Dry January, hello to the best bars in the worldGemma Tipton finds some of the best places to wet your whistle in Ireland and around the globeWed Feb 01 2017 - 08:00
Joy Gerrard: ‘I was thinking about how crowds react to a space of fear’Shot Crowd’s large-scale paintings of protests are overwhelming and empoweringWed Feb 01 2017 - 05:00
Capturing Ireland’s ‘lawless, wild irreverence’ on cameraIrish photographer Seamus Murphy has an extraordinary eye for capturing humanitySat Jan 28 2017 - 02:00
‘Mother River’: photographs of life along China’s YangtzeYan Wang Preston’s exhibition captures sweeping landscape of third-longest riverThu Jan 26 2017 - 05:00
House Rules: On hiding your tellyIt’s back to ‘Generaton Game’ with Neptune’s new version of the home entertainment centreSat Jan 21 2017 - 06:00
Eugeen Van Mieghem: Docklands denizen who drew a world on the moveThe Belgian artist was inspired by poor people emigrating at the port of AntwerpWed Jan 18 2017 - 05:00
House Rules: I’m being stalked by unicorns. For realFrom greeting cards to mugs to T-shirts, the mythical horned horse is turning up all overSat Jan 14 2017 - 00:00
House Rules: on Loving JanuaryIt may be the darkest month of the year and have the gloomiest day of all, but things may be looking up for JanuarySat Jan 07 2017 - 06:00
STEM subjects all very well, but it’s art that will create undreamed of jobsIt’s a convincing exhibition, exploring what it means to be from a place, how landscape affects us, and how we live in societySat Jan 07 2017 - 00:00
Mark Neville: waging an ethical war with his cameraFrom boy soldiers to stock traders, Neville’s photos set out to spark change, and he has even seen his books burned in ScotlandThu Jan 05 2017 - 05:00
House Rules: on keeping the recovery goingBuying shiny new stuff might keep sales figures up but it doesn’t help the environmentSat Dec 31 2016 - 06:00
Click for your art in 2017 but be discerningCulture review 2016: It was a year of madness, brilliant takes on 1916 and continuing State starvationSat Dec 24 2016 - 05:00
House Rules: on making traditionGemma Day proposed as a new tradition for dreary JanuarySat Dec 17 2016 - 06:00
The Irish Hygge? It’s time to get ClutharedBanish Christmas anxiety with a dose of the Celtic cosinessSat Dec 10 2016 - 06:00
Blues, blacks, pinks, fugitives: there’s nothing grey about the colour warsPigments have a fascinating history and can come from some unexpected sourcesSat Dec 10 2016 - 00:00
House Rules – how to do Dictator ChicTrump can get tips from the world’s despots when he does up the White HouseSat Dec 03 2016 - 06:00
Female portraits to go on RIA’s walls for first time in 230 years‘Women on Walls’ project aims to redress imbalance and inspire other offices to do sameSat Dec 03 2016 - 05:00
Home is where the art is for Cavan coupleWill and Rebecca left London to run literary magazine from their refurbished farmhouseWed Nov 30 2016 - 17:00
The best places to experience Irish culture overseasFrom Joyce manuscripts in Buffalo to Bacon paintings in Bilbao, a globetrotter’s guideSat Nov 26 2016 - 06:00
House Rules: on the peculiar popularity of pineapplesThey’re commonplace now, but when the fruit first reached these shores they were so expensive that people rented rather than bought themSat Nov 26 2016 - 06:00
House Rules: The art of showing off at homeThe key is to be generous – and not to look as though you’re trying too hardSat Nov 19 2016 - 06:00
Was a travel blogger stalked around the world by someone copying their work?A plagiarism row over a travel blog is hardly headline news. But it does show how facts are not as important as the number of followers you haveFri Nov 18 2016 - 12:00
House Rules: Get your home in order and feel cleansed in spiritTime to make like pre-prince Cinderella and give your castle a really deep cleanSat Nov 12 2016 - 06:00
Enemas, laxatives and one nut: my 10 days at a German fasting clinicPutting up with an entirely liquid diet and constant toilet visits is one thing, but who’s going to stop the killing spree when your blood sugar drops?Fri Nov 11 2016 - 06:00
Growing old in the cityNew ‘Public Age’ competition calls for ideas on how to make city living better for everyoneThu Nov 10 2016 - 01:00
Villa in Sandycove outlines the history of interiors trendsVictorian terrace near the sea styled for sale by owners who have moved down the roadThu Nov 10 2016 - 00:00
House rules: Why traffic buttons make you feel goodThat sense of control you get from pushing buttons may be all in your headSat Nov 05 2016 - 06:00
Think before you throw it out – clutter is backUse your home as a cupboard and you may happen on memories hidden insideSat Oct 29 2016 - 06:00
Talk radio for the anti-snowflake generationHeed FM is a radio station that is also an artworkFri Oct 28 2016 - 15:00
RDS Visual Arts Awards: encouraging a new generationRevamped event, with prize fund of €20,000, showcases the work of emerging artistsThu Oct 27 2016 - 12:00
House Rules: Discover your dark sideGet that magical fallen-down-the-rabbit-hole effect with deeper shades in your homeSat Oct 22 2016 - 06:00
House Rules: You quickly feel happier by slowing downI’m starting the Slow House movement where you can enjoy holiday bliss at homeSat Oct 15 2016 - 06:00
Gemma Tipton: Creativity needs to be given room to breatheThe Golden Fleece Award takes the financial pain out of getting creative work doneSat Oct 08 2016 - 07:00
The modern wedding present: what to buy and what to avoidEveryone has a toaster, regifting and selling on eBay is rife so why bother anymore?Sat Oct 08 2016 - 06:00
Luxurious five-bed in Dublin 6 for €4.5mCaherdaniel on Temple Road has an A2 rating and is finished to the highest standardThu Oct 06 2016 - 00:00
Minister's former D4 rental on the market for €2.35mOnce the rental property of MInister for Transport and Sport, Shane Ross, this Anglesea Road house has been refurbished to a very high spec by the current ownersWed Oct 05 2016 - 00:00
Too many cookbooks and not enough cooking?Hardly any of the recipes lined up in pretty books in our kitchens will ever get madeSat Sept 24 2016 - 06:00
Land of the free: frugal ways to enjoy New YorkForget the price tags – there are lots of ways to enjoy NYC without breaking the bankSat Sept 24 2016 - 03:30
How being shot in the back inspired an Irish artist’s painting'I thought I was dying.' When Emma Sheridan was the victim of a random shooting in London, she used painting to help her healWed Sept 21 2016 - 16:00
The teenage bedroom: stop seeing it as part of your houseGive them a blank canvas and one or two boundariesSat Sept 17 2016 - 00:00
Glorious vistas from Killiney HillVictorian five-bed with sea views and star-studded history for €2.9 millionThu Sept 15 2016 - 05:00
