Eurovision and other charity casesRadio Review: 'I love these bored housewives ringing up having an opinion," said Louis Walsh on Liveline (RTÉ1, Monday), and…Sat May 22 2004 - 01:00
Solid redbrick with plenty of scope for extensionDublin 6: €1.5m: With all the completely renovated houses that have come on the market on nearby roads this year, 7 Palmerston…Thu May 20 2004 - 01:00
Getting savaged by weekend business talkRadio Review: A couple of weeks ago a pompous- sounding investment analyst on Today FM described the fall in the share price…Sat May 15 2004 - 01:00
Solid redbrick with plenty of scope for extensionDublin 6: €1.5m: With all the completely renovated houses that have come on the market on nearby roads this year, 7 Palmerston…Thu May 13 2004 - 01:00
Bald facts offer little reliefRadioscope: Hairy Story, BBC Radio 4 It's dead but it's very responsive, said the scientist in Procter & Gamble's hair …Tue May 11 2004 - 01:00
Extended redbrick that took the 1970s a little too seriouslyDartry: €1.65m: St Kevin's Park is one of the most desirable roads in Darty. It's a quiet, out-of-the-way cul-de-sac.Thu May 06 2004 - 01:00
Blowing the whistle on 'Strasbourg Friday'Radio Review: Hans-Peter Martin isn't the sort of co-worker you ask to clock in for you or help you pull a sickieSat May 01 2004 - 01:00
All done up and ready to go on Belgrave SquareRathmines: €1.6m: Cherry Lodge has been given a total makeover in the past eight years and is now on the market with a guide…Thu Apr 29 2004 - 01:00
Survivors, celebrities and stolen fur coatsRadio Review: At the end of the documentary Surviving Suicide: A Mother's Story (RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday), an announcer gave …Sat Apr 24 2004 - 01:00
City townhouse for village peopleDublin 4: €750,000: A townhouse in the Leeson Village development off Upper Leeson Street in Dublin 4 is for auction through…Thu Apr 22 2004 - 01:00
Extended Victorian era lodge is quite a charmerHowth: €725,000: Period houses with character in Howth are always much sought after and The Old Lodge on Thormanby Road should…Thu Apr 22 2004 - 01:00
Why hemp is hot stuffWhat do they do/Steve Allen, Hemp Building: No, this hemp isn't wacky tobaccy, it's an eco-friendly building material that provides…Thu Apr 22 2004 - 01:00
Get three to a nunneryRadio Review: You didn't have to be a psychologist to figure out early in the programme which of the three women interviewed…Sat Apr 17 2004 - 01:00
Modern two-storey mews in a country styleBlackrock: €1m The mews house at 7a Anglesea Avenue in Blackrock, Co Dublin is very different in style from the period houses…Thu Apr 15 2004 - 01:00
Stylish redbrick with wonderful gardenDublin 8: €575,000 The last time I saw this house on 12 Dolphin Avenue off the South Circular Road in Dublin 8 it was when I…Thu Apr 15 2004 - 01:00
Large redbrick with commanding viewsMonkstown: €1.8m: Since the mid-1970s Ardvarna at 13 The Hill, Monkstown has been a congregation house and the nuns are now …Thu Apr 15 2004 - 01:00
Spotlight on superbugsRadio Scope Case Notes BBC Radio 4, Tuesday During the course of his lifetime, the average British man will take 50 courses …Tue Apr 13 2004 - 01:00
It's one thing laughing at ourselves . . .Radio Review: If you sat in front of the telly on a Saturday evening during the late 1970s you could be guaranteed that at some…Sat Apr 10 2004 - 01:00
Solid redbrick built by StrainGlasnevin/€700,000: The last time this house at 13 Ballymun Road in Glasnevin was sold the owners would have dealt directly …Thu Apr 08 2004 - 01:00
Little to do in extended redbrickDublin 9/€700,000: Interest should be strong in a four-bedroom house at 3 Lindsay Road in Glasnevin when it goes to auction…Thu Mar 25 2004 - 00:00
Learning the hard way and loving itRadio Review: Ten years ago Jo Rowling arrived in Scotland as a single parent with a young daughter and no moneySat Mar 20 2004 - 00:00
Finding the perfect fireplace - or making itWhat do they do Stephen Aiken, period fireplaces You don't have to be a genius to figure out why the supply of genuine period…Thu Mar 11 2004 - 00:00
Home and income in RathgarDublin 6: €1.5 million Many buyers have found that the way to make a two-storey over basement property a manageable reality …Thu Feb 26 2004 - 00:00
Getting your home ready to viewWhat they do/Home Er, makeovers: No time to prepare your home for a viewing? Don't worry, let somebody else do itThu Feb 26 2004 - 00:00
Room to grow in refurbished Bushy Park redbrickDublin 6: €1.7 million The houses in Bushy Park Road in Dublin 6 vary in style and size, with the ones that line the road at…Thu Feb 26 2004 - 00:00
The giant on their shouldersFiction: So much of this novel feels like a literary exercise that the story at the heart of it, the distance that grows between…Sat Feb 21 2004 - 00:00
Eavesdropping on private conversationsRadio Review: They keep their opinion to themselves in Castlebar, or at least they did this week when it came to Beverly Cooper…Sat Feb 14 2004 - 00:00
Dungan qualifies for the Partridge V-neckRadio Review: Push up there on the sofa, Pat Kenny, your days of being called Ireland's Alan Partridge are overSat Jan 31 2004 - 00:00
Substantial Rathgar villa for €1.45 millionDublin 6: Zion Lodge is a substantial detached house at 5 Zion Road in Rathgar which will be auctioned by Lisney on February…Thu Jan 22 2004 - 00:00
What are they trying to do to Marian?Radio Review: Was Marian Finucane (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays) really that broken that it needed such a radical fix? It has lost…Sat Jan 10 2004 - 00:00
Reviews, repeats and New Year resolutionsRadio Reviews: It was a week of reviews and repeats although there were some fine original broadcasts - the trick was to listen…Sat Jan 03 2004 - 00:00
Location is everythingWhat they do: Could your house be on TV? It doesn't have to be flash - think how many dramas you've seen set in two-up-two-downs…Thu Dec 04 2003 - 00:00
Thrilling fun with Bridget BondFiction At a glamorous face cream launch in Miami, beauty journalist Olivia Joules finds Osama bin Laden.Sat Nov 29 2003 - 00:00
Scams too embarrassing to reportRadio Review Items on radio about buying property abroad usually feature some smug git who bought a villa somewhere hot for …Sat Nov 29 2003 - 00:00
'Late Late' rites of passage revisitedRadio Review: The Late Late Show began as summer filler in 1962 and went on to become the longest running chat-show in the world…Sat Nov 15 2003 - 00:00
A Cooke who McDonaldises mum's saladRadio Review: The head of McDonalds in Ireland has one of those "how could his parents have known" type namesSat Nov 01 2003 - 00:00
Gracious residence on Grosvenor RoadRathgar: Number 44 Grosvenor Road in Rathgar is a fine, double fronted period house that is for auction through Sherry FitzGerald…Thu Sept 18 2003 - 01:00
Imposing home for €1.9mMonkstown Sloperton Lodge is a fine, imposing detached house just opposite De Vesci Park and tennis club in MonkstownThu Sept 11 2003 - 01:00
Bungalow bliss by the beach in KillineyCo Dublin Kilmore Avenue is a private lane lined with exclusive houses beside the beach in Killiney, Co Dublin, and one of its…Thu Sept 04 2003 - 01:00
Toy Show will be €300,000 moneyspinner for RTEADVERTISING & MARKETING: With an advertising take of €300,000, this year's Toy Show will be the biggest Late Late Show moneyspinner…Thu Nov 21 2002 - 00:00
McCann-Erickson wins €10m Heineken account with local knowledge and humourHeineken has moved its €10 million advertising account to McCann-Erickson in what is thought to be the biggest account move of…Thu Oct 31 2002 - 00:00
Thirtysomethings seem to know what they like and like what they knowAdvertising & Marketing: By 35 most people know who they are and what they like which makes them the hardest market for …Thu Oct 24 2002 - 01:00
Advertisers should soon discover GAA players are worth itCould DJ Carey be swooshed, will there come a day when Oisín McConville pouts on the cover of a woman's glossy magazine or will…Thu Sept 26 2002 - 01:00
O2 disputes report critical of rebranding driveA report into the rebranding of O2 has revealed that despite the €285 million pan-European rebranding campaign, nearly 80 per…Thu Sept 05 2002 - 01:00
Owens DDB appoints managing director from world of telecoms and hints at plans to go soloMr Derek Handley, former marketing director of Digifone, is to move to Owens DDB as managing director.Thu Aug 22 2002 - 01:00
Women's magazines from Smurfit stable overstate circulation figuresThe circulation figures of three of the Republic's top women's magazines have been overstated by as much as 30 per cent during…Thu Jul 18 2002 - 01:00
FAI's Sky deal will see Irish advertisers lose outADVERTISING/MARKETING: The FAI/Sky deal means Irish football viewers could be seeing advertisements for Bradford & Bingley…Thu Jul 18 2002 - 01:00
Those looking at buy-to-let must be ready for the long haulCompared to the stock market, bricks and mortar have never appeared so solidFri Jul 12 2002 - 01:00
