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
Double entry fits bill in Churchtown for €875,000The owners of this property have done a considerable amount of work over the years,dramatically increasing the detached bungalow’s size to make room for a large eat-in kitchen, a conservatory and a granny flatThu Jan 23 2014 - 00:00
Eva Orsmond: ‘Young women have no reason to be overweight’The weight-loss expert, known for her sharp tongue from her time on RTÉ’s ‘Operation Transformation’, says Irish GPs are letting their overweight patients downTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:00
Television: Thrills in Washington DC, a bellyful of pills in Mumbai‘Hostages’, Channel 4’s new political thriller, could struggle to keep viewers. For really involving TV, try ‘Her Body, Our Babies’Sat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
The right note at Elton Park in Sandycove for €1.535mThough recently refurbished, this Victorian redbrick in Sandycove has plenty of potential for improvement – and comes with full planning permission for a two-storey house at the rearThu Jan 16 2014 - 00:00
Look on the Brighton side in Rathgar for €1.1mFive-bed house with 50m back garden and off-street parkingThu Jan 16 2014 - 00:00
Television: Culinary egos clash in blind taste test, passion fuses strangers on a trainNigella’s battles moved to the kitchen, in ‘The Taste’, while infidelity between commuters made for charming drama in ‘The 7.39’Sat Jan 11 2014 - 01:00
Television: A look back at the great drama on TV in 2013‘The Fall’ epitomises TV drama’s rise and rise while Netflix flexes its musclesSat Dec 28 2013 - 01:00
Television: A spoiler alert for ‘Homeland’, and a crafty way of idealising ChristmasThe spy thriller starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis went out with a whammy, but the glut of festive craft and cookery programmes is sickeningSat Dec 21 2013 - 01:00
Television: Not so lucky Lord LucanFor all anyone knows, the vanished peer could have been watching his own story from a Bournemouth bungalowSat Dec 14 2013 - 01:00
Television: Supernanny fragilistic: the weak link in the Mary Poppins legendIt’s a part of PL Travers’s life that Hollywood glossed over: when the author adopted a baby in IrelandSat Dec 07 2013 - 01:00
Television: Keeping up with Kerry’s Kardashians, and Sinn Féin’s supermarket sweepDocumentaries on the Healy Rae dynasty and the Sinn Féin leadership shed scant light on either subjectSat Nov 30 2013 - 01:00
Room to improve in Ranelagh for €2.8mAlthough this six-bedroom redbrick at 1 Cambridge Terrace was renovated about 10 years ago by its current owners, there are some elements a new purchaser might consider changing, including reconfiguring the bedrooms and bathrooms for more practical use and rethinking the development potential of the long rear back gardenThu Nov 28 2013 - 00:00
Room to improve in Ranelagh for €2.8mThis six-bedroom Victorian in Dublin 6 was renovated about 10 years ago by its current owners, making many welcome changes, but the eclectic colour scheme and the accommodation layout may need rethinking. Development potential in the long rear garden might also justify the price tagThu Nov 28 2013 - 00:00
Television: Danish politics, German war stories and Irish builders blowing the budget‘Borgen’ returned, with the former prime minister making new starts amid familiar, nuanced themesSat Nov 23 2013 - 01:00
Elegant proportions in Monkstown, €1.7mThe new owners of this two-storey-over-garden-level house with five bedrooms will have little to do when they move in – but there is potential for a mews should they feel the inclination to add something extra to the propertyThu Nov 21 2013 - 00:00
Television: All filler, no killer as ‘Love/Hate’ runs out of ammunitionIt started off with a bang and a cat killing, but it looks as if RTÉ’s biggest drama has used up its nine lives. At least ‘Downton Abbey’ has given up all pretence of making any senseSat Nov 16 2013 - 01:00
After a promising start, Love/Hate loses itRTÉ says finale of fourth season had average audience of more than 1 million peopleMon Nov 11 2013 - 14:29
Television: Two faces of composure – one defying cancer, the other denying the pastThe ‘Morning Ireland’ presenter Áine Lawlor kept cool in ‘Facing Cancer’, but ‘The Disappeared’, about victims of the IRA, had some genuinely chilling momentsSat Nov 09 2013 - 01:00
Take the Highfield Road in Rathgar for €1.95mA considerable amount of work, extending and modernising, carried out by the current owners has stood the test of time at this large Stringer-built family homeThu Nov 07 2013 - 00:00
Television: The bloodsucker, the barrister and the boil-encrusted bodiesThere’s good reason to revamp the vampire story, and a barrister has plenty of bloodcurdling momentsSat Nov 02 2013 - 01:00
Five-star rental in Glenageary for €2.65mLimasol, a five-bedroom house asking €2.65m, has been a high-end rental commanding over €7,000 a month. Its interiors are a masterclass in transforming a Victorian house into a sunny, comfortable homeThu Oct 31 2013 - 00:00
Television: You’d do a reddener watching these parish pumped-up politicians at workA documentary on TDs in their contituencies highlighted a waste of resources, while a programme on redheads saw so-called gingers snap snap back at stereotypesSat Oct 26 2013 - 01:00
Pickering classic in Cowper, Dublin 6, for €1.295 millionFive-bed 1930s semi-d with internal garage and located near the LuasThu Oct 24 2013 - 09:10
The Tunnel: Scandi noir takes on an Anglo-French aspect‘The Tunnel’, a remake of Danish-Swedish murder drama ‘The Bridge’, begins with a dead body being found half in England, half in FranceMon Oct 21 2013 - 01:00
Television: Bigotry in homophobia hotspots, and philosophy in the back seats of taxisStephen Fry got personal with zealots, and a timely fly-on-the-dashboard documentary ticked a lot of boxesSat Oct 19 2013 - 01:00
Arts and crafts charm in Killiney for €2.45 millionThis pretty house, built in 1898, has well-proportioned, light-filled rooms, sea views at all levels, a large, attractive conservatory and mature gardens. It is in walk-in condition.Thu Oct 17 2013 - 00:00
Large house that grew at Little Oaks in Blackrock for €1.75 millionBordered by trees in a small, quiet estate, this family home has bright, open-plan living areas, a country-style kitchen with Aga, converted attic and a large, mature back gardenThu Oct 17 2013 - 00:00
Television: Drop the dead cat. Nidge’s nine lives keep us watching ‘Love/Hate’The fourth series of Stuart Carolan’s drama is darker, grimmer and even more addictive, but ‘Homeland’ has lost the plotSat Oct 12 2013 - 01:00
Embassy style in Churchtown for €3.6mThis fully refurbished six-bed Georgian house on an acre of landscaped gardens feels like an upmarket country house hotel, but in a very suburban setting. Formerly the Dutch embassy residence it comes with a home gym, bar and its own generatorThu Oct 10 2013 - 00:00
Family homes to go under hammerApartments and investment properties have been the norm at Allsop’s auctions but family homes in need of renovation are starting to make an appearanceThu Oct 10 2013 - 00:00
Love/Hate review: A taut, emotionally draining hour that lived up to the hypeThe return of RTÉ’s gangland drama belonged to the brilliant Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as NidgeMon Oct 07 2013 - 09:34
Television: Carrie on crying in ‘Homeland’, and a visit to the house with wombs to rentThe third series of the spy thriller starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis is a touch humdrum, but the documentary ‘House of Surrogates’ hits its targetSat Oct 05 2013 - 01:00
A buyer’s-eye view at €1.1m property in SandymountAt a viewing of this five-bed modern townhouse last Saturday, there’s was no shortage of interested parties, but opinions were varied about the prospect of buying via the auction processThu Oct 03 2013 - 09:32
Television: Straight from the big craic handbook of cliches‘London Irish’ and ‘Damo & Ivor’ scraped the barrel of laughs – but ‘The IT Crowd’ finale rebooted the genreSat Sept 28 2013 - 01:00
Bigger, better, brighter: four great extensions in DublinSpace, light and storage are some of the benefits the owners of these four houses reaped when they added rooms to the back of the houses, linked into gardens and made the ground floors more open-planThu Sept 26 2013 - 00:00
Belles of St Mary’s ready for conversionUntil recently these two large houses formed a conjoined convent for the Holy Faith Sisters on St Mary’s Road in Dublin 4. They have now been returned to standalone use, and with a lot of work will make expansive family homesThu Sept 26 2013 - 00:00
Television: From panache to ganache, with not a soggy bottom in sight‘Cutting Edge’ was on to a winner with its fabulous fashionistas – as is TV3 with ‘The Great Irish Bake Off’Sat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00
Third time and still a charm on Herbert ParkBuilt to showcase the talents of some of the finest builders of the day, Milverton, with an AMV of €2.75 million, has seen plenty of drama on the market and could use another brush with flair but this house is about as stately and refined as they comeThu Sept 19 2013 - 00:00
Blue-sky design at knockdown price of €2m in KillineyBuilt in 2007 for Payzone founder John Nagle, no expense was spared in the design of this hilltop house, which has since seen a dramatic turn in its fortunesThu Sept 19 2013 - 00:00
Television: Razor-edge acting from Cillian Murphy in ‘Peaky Blinders’, and razor-sharp sports chat from the Second CaptainsThe Irish actor shines as a 1920s gangster in a complex British cousin of Boardwalk Empire, but it’s surprisingly easy to follow the blokey banter in Second Captains LiveThu Sept 12 2013 - 18:21
Get into the garden in Blackrock for €1.2mThis comfortable, bright family home, just a short stroll from Blackrock village, has all the charm and atmosphere that comes with a period house, not to mention an enormous back gardenThu Sept 12 2013 - 00:00
Second home selling on Highfield Road for €1.7 millionA five-bedroom family home in Rathgar with good garden and off-street parkingThu Sept 12 2013 - 00:00
Television: Belvedere, Ballymaloe and Brian Cowen’s hard-neck lifeDocumentaries on boys’ schools and a cookery school, and an examination of a former taoiseachSat Sept 07 2013 - 01:00
