Got room to improve? Get your house in order at the Ideal Home Show
Whether you’re doing a new build or a refurb, draw up plans to visit the RDS
The great dining room revival
After years of casual kitchen suppers, the dedicated dining room is making a comeback
Miriam Lord: Zappone puts Tuam scandal to the fore during pontiff’s visit to Ireland
Minister addresses him in the language of her forebears and Francis replies in English
Work to be done on Blackrock secret seafront terrace for €1.8m
Property in need of an update boasts views of Dublin Bay and south-facing garden
The Irish Times Home & Design Theatre
Who's talking at the Home&Design Theatre at the permanent tsb Ideal Home Show at the RDS this weekend
Fashion Forward: how to buy Topshop Unique’s runway looks
Dominique McMullan and Deirdre McQuillan round up this week's style tips and fashion news
The top 10 interiors trends for autumn – and four fads to leave behind
Before you pick up a paintbrush or seek out a swatch, read what some of Ireland’s leading interior creatives are forecasting for the season ahead
Pieces of me: Helen McAlinden, fashion designer
Quality and simplicity are the most important things for fashion designer Helen McAlinden, and her Co Dublin home reflects her love of simple but well-made objects. ‘I prefer to pare things back, not bling them up,’ she says
Fashion: The look of the Irish
For the next week a range of homegrown talent will be showcased in Arnotts. Enter Orla Kiely, Peter O’Brien and Helen McAlinden, Natalie B Coleman, Niamh O’Neill, Emma Manley, Ale Walsh and more
Shoptalk: Westport, Co Mayo
From gift stores to adventure-sport emporiums, inexpensive beauty salons to outlets for Irish-designed jewellery, this is a town that knows how to make shoppers welcome
Planners take restaurants off menu on retail streets
Planning policy appears to be hardening in Dublin’s southside retail core
Irish fashion makes the cut at start of President’s state visit
Sabina Higgins’s wardrobe for the visit was nearly all bought from about a dozen Irish designers
Higgins arrives in London for four-day State visit
President and his wife driven away from Heathrow in a maroon coloured Bentley flying an Irish tricolour
Dunnes loses latest round in legal battle with Karen Millen
UK firm alleges Dunnes breached regulations by copying a woman’s shirt and top
Restaurants come second in new order
Planning policy appears to be hardening in Dublin’s southside retail core
Future Proof: Ó’Máille, Galway
The Aran jumper is still the biggest part of a long-standing Galway shop
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