Dublin city’s last specialist wallpaper retailer to close

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The family-owned Gerry Keane wallpaper shop on Talbot Street in Dublin, which will close at the end of the year. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
The family-owned Gerry Keane wallpaper shop on Talbot Street in Dublin, which will close at the end of the year. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

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Government green energy targets are sliding out of reach experts warn following the latest effort to lure new renewable electricity plants. Barry O’Halloran has the details.

After 53 years on Talbot Street, Dublin city’s last wallpaper shop is preparing to close down. Hugh Dooley spoke to the family members behind Gerry Keane wallpaper shop.

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In Me & My Money, singer and actor Camille O’Sullivan says she’s stopped going to vintage and second-hand shops as they have become too expensive. She spoke with Tony Clayton-Lea.

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Acknowledging the strange nature of work, and injecting some humour, can make us feel better, writes FT columnist Isabel Berwick.

A company owned by former Panda Waste owner Eamon Waters has appealed “unwarranted, unreasonable and disproportionate” limitations placed on a proposed student housing complex in Dublin 8. Hugh Dooley reports.

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