Is this why there is a crisis? Developers say it’s now more expensive to build apartments than it is three-bed semi-detached houses.

Developers have been calling for the lifting of height restrictions on building in Dublin but a new report from the Society of Chartered Surveyors in (...)

It was a school friend who revealed to me the revelatory power of eyeliner. At first, I feared her. The friend, that is, not the eyeliner. She was sub(...)

Dilger’s task as non-executive chairman at Eason will be to help its new managing director Liam Hanly consolidate the progress that has been made in recent years. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

David Dilger is set to begin a new chapter in his career as non-executive chairman of Eason, the State’s biggest bookseller. The circumstances would(...)

Retro-communication: Mike (Finn Wolfhard) forms a plan with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) in the hit first season of ‘Stranger Things’, a Netflix Original  that returns to the platform this week.

There’s a countdown on the Netflix landing page designed to bludgeon home the fact that Friday marks the landing of season two of Stranger Things, its(...)

Boosting your finances: “It’s really just about taking back control of many of your everyday household expenses, by either switching – or threatening to switch – a host of service providers.” File photograph: Getty Images

The kids are back in school, Christmas is coming, and the coffers are severely depleted. So what can you do to boost your spending money? Well, it ma(...)

David Dilger, who has been appointed as the new nonexecutive chairman of Irish bookseller Eason. Photograph: Eric Luke

Irish books and stationery retailer Eason has chosen former Greencore chief executive David Dilger to be its new nonexecutive chairman from November 1(...)

Richie Sadlier: When I first spoke publicly about attending therapy, years after I first went, four friends contacted me to say they had done likewise

Stigma: a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality or person. I didn’t tell anybody when I attended therapy in my 20s. It w(...)

L'Occitane

For over 40 years L’Occitane has been developing natural beauty products inspired by the Provençal  art-de-vivre. Known for the luxuriousness of (...)

Leinster centre Noel Reid says tackling technique is key when coming up against bigger men. Photograph: Oisin Keniry/Inpho

Leinster might be basking in the warmth of a satisfying opening two games in Europe. But there’s an elephant in the room. More than 50 missed tackle(...)

Donald Trump: The 1,000-point thresholds “continue to drop like flies these days”, noted Bespoke Investment Group. This was the fifth such crossing since Trump’s election win last November. Photograph:  Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Last week marked the 30th anniversary of Black Monday, when stocks suffered their biggest one-day plunge in history. There were the usual warnings reg(...)