Bossy technology – Alison Healy on the rise of the smart machines
Even the washing machine barks orders these days
A see-through fridge, cookers that take pictures - and other fancy tech for your kitchen
Who wouldn’t want a fridge that tells you what to cook tonight, or a robot that fixes your favourite martini every evening?
At home in Youghal with jockey – and dancer with the stars – Davy Russell
It’s a family affair for the retired champion jockey and horse breeder. Having renovated the family home in Co Cork, Davy and Edelle built a home for his father, Jerry, next door
Clues of destiny – Alison Healy on the Crossword Panic of 1944
An astonishing series of coincidences
An Irish designer in America: ‘Don’t overthink it ... if it makes you happy, then just do it’
A move to the US saw Phoebe Edmondson make the leap from pharma to interior design. Now she’s renovating a home in the Boston suburbs
Leaving Cert parent: ‘Someone opened a bag of crisps in our kitchen the other night. It was deemed too loud for our exam student’
Every day is a school day for our family nowadays, thanks to our student’s habit of sticking Post-It notes everywhere
Inside TV chef Clodagh McKenna’s new compact kitchen: why big isn’t always better
The Cork-born TV chef who spent months renovating her London home says larger kitchens can be exhausting
In the long run – Alison Healy on the bizarre Olympic marathon of 1904
There was a Mayo man in the mix because, after all, what story would be complete without one?
A 1930s Dublin redbrick transformed: ‘We have our dream house. I just love the mix of the old and new’
The owners of this 1930s redbrick house kept a close eye on the budget, but pushed the boat out on some design features
Change of tune – Alison Healy on not being a songbird
I was lumped in with the most tuneless caterwaulers in the class
‘Worst morning of my life’ – Alison Healy on tricky tourists
One disgruntled visitor described the Phoenix Park as ‘just grass, grass, grass’
This couple lived on Great Blasket with no electricity or running water. Here’s what they did next
As caretakers on the epic Kerry island for six months, Emily Campbell and Daniel Regan were taken by the simple life, and found it hard to adjust back to city living
Judgment Day – Alison Healy on predicting when the world will end
Forecasting the end of our days has taken up a lot of people’s time here on Earth
Egg on face – Alison Healy on the Warwick Egg Incident
Everything was going great for Australian prime minister Billy Hughes until Paddy Brosnan hurled an egg
From open-plan to broken-plan: a family’s dramatic transformation of a 1940s Raheny semi
With clean lines and a neutral palette, this ‘Japandi’ north Dublin house exemplifies practical and contemporary architecture