Hidden gem in Terenure for €2.25mFortfield Lodge is not the type of property you’d expect to find nestling in a quiet cul-de-sac in south County Dublin. Originally built as a dower house for Lord Avonmore’s youngest daughter, it is a quite grand Georgian property which also includes a two-bedroom self-contained apartment in the basementThu Mar 13 2014 - 00:00
Television: Meet the Walshes, the latest creation from the BBC-RTÉ mammy machineGraham Linehan’s much-hyped new comedy gets off to a bad start, but Gabriel Byrne’s ‘Quirke’ redeems itself in the endSat Mar 08 2014 - 01:00
Bright, spacious family home in RathgarFive-bed semi-detached house with a family-friendly layout has many original features and plenty of scope for extensionThu Mar 06 2014 - 00:00
Bedrooms a-plenty on Pembroke for €1.4 millionThis Georgian townhouse has a chequered recent history – almost all the rooms were made into en-suite bedrooms. But it retains its period features and with imagination – and cash – could be an elegant family homeThu Mar 06 2014 - 00:00
A duo of distinction from different eras in SandymountFour-bed 1930s semi-detached house with off-street parking and four-bed terraced property with long garden in need of upgradingThu Mar 06 2014 - 00:00
Television: A-list acting and cinematic quality lift crime drama out of pulp-fiction swampHBO produces a new genre-defining crime drama, a legal series loses the plot, and an aviation history nosedivesSat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00
A space to make your own in Foxrock for €2.5mFour-bedroom period house has outdoor pool and half an acre of mature gardensThu Feb 27 2014 - 00:00
Three big reasons to make a move to BlackrockSize isn’t everything, but these three plus-size properties in leafiest south County Dublin have a lot more than space and square-footage to offer anyone in search of a large, contemporary, well-appointed family homeThu Feb 27 2014 - 00:00
Television: There’s not much tension in watching this detectiveA problematic lead in Gabriel Byrne, a predictable plot, clunky dialogue and staying too close to John Banville’s Benjamin Black book dampen drama in ‘Quirke: Christine Falls’Sat Feb 22 2014 - 01:00
Walk in on Wellington in D4 for €1.9mThe choices made by the owners of this four-bedroom terraced period home when they renovated in 1999 – in terms of the style and layout of the kitchen and the look of the bathrooms – have stood the test of timeThu Feb 20 2014 - 00:00
Television: I’m in no mood for dancing – and curling has lost its appeal, tooThe BBC’s Winter Olympics coverage is a victory for biased tub-thumping, while a documentary on The Nolans has nothing new to add to the pop sisters’ storySat Feb 15 2014 - 01:00
Former Ailesbury embassy asking €3 million needs workDespite the high price expected for this six-bedroom house, the new owners will probably spend at least half a million euro modernising and reorganising the living space in the terraced propertyThu Feb 13 2014 - 00:00
Television: Light on their feet – plus-size dancers who soar above their limitationsIt could have turned into a cruel, fat-shaming contest, but Channel 4’s ‘Big Ballet’ treated its subjects with a light touchSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Regency home fit for a queen in Donnybrook for €2.95mDating back to the early days of Queen Victoria’s reign, Victoria Lodge, one of an adjoining pair of double-fronted Regency design houses in Donnybrook, has been sympathetically refurbished in the classic style of a bygone eraThu Feb 06 2014 - 00:00
Ready for an upgrade in Rathgar at €1.3mOn a third of an acre, back from the road behind mature hedging and with a rear garden that stretches more than 50m, this property is crying out for a major modernising programme to bring it up to date for more contemporary livingThu Feb 06 2014 - 00:00
Television: Pelts’n’ponytails – a historical epic that bucks the sex and nudity trendIt’s got the film-star looks, but ‘Vikings’, featuring Gabriel Byrne, Travis Fimmel and Katheryn Winnick, mainly hides them behind grime and goreSat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00
Sky isn’t the limit when it comes to YouTubeHBO also uploading free content to reach other viewersThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:00
Two by two beds in Dublin 6 for €675,000 and €475,000Renovated terraced house backing on to cricket grounds and end of terrace home in busy commuter shortcutThu Jan 30 2014 - 00:00
Television: ‘Amber’ alert: high expectations plus low tension equals mediocre dramaAfter committing four nights to RTÉ’s patchy missing-girl story, viewers were still left wantingSat Jan 25 2014 - 01:00
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
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
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
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
