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Tasmania resident Kathleen Murray is the proud winner having beat stiff international competition
Good garden bone structure: what is it and how can you achieve it?
Bringing in an expert can make a big difference to the permanent structure of your garden
Beyond Noel Kelly: Who are the other agents managing Ireland’s ‘talent’?
Controversy around broadcaster has shone light on little known sector of Irish business
Baz Ashmawy blinks back tears. Then everybody else has to as well
Television: On DIY SOS – The Big Build Ireland, the presenter and his team of volunteers restore a row of Irish homes for Ukrainian refugees
Spring into action: Plant these bulbs now for beautiful flowers this summer
It’s not too late to plan for a gorgeous garden this summer-autumn
A partnership made in heaven: climbing roses and clematis
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Dunnes Stores ramps up rollout of smaller suburban shops
Grocery giant sets up shop at Magic Carpet as plan for Monkstown village raises ire of some locals
The Irish business allowing you to get ready like a Hollywood star
GlamDoll’s Andrea Griffin on growing her mirror and lighting company during Covid
Dial down the guilt, you don’t have as many hours in the day as Beyoncé
Mega-productive people usually have teams running around for them
Irish households never wealthier but for how long?
Cantillon: Reports show plenty of cash available for discretionary spending
Martina Cox: ‘In my eyes, Seán was always coming home’
Seán, back in his family home, is not defined by what he can’t do but by who he is
RTÉ has remade The Field. It is called Gardening Together with Diarmuid Gavin
Patrick Freyne: Gavin hasn’t had a land-hungry American visit yet, but it’s surely coming
Diarmuid Gavin invites us inside his Xanadu of split levels, balconies and fancy foliage
Gardening Together: Gavin is the Dark Knight to Dermot Bannon’s caped crusader
‘Things may be easing but the fear persists’
There may be hope but, for someone with COPD, the fear won’t go away easily
Let Diarmuid Gavin solve your knotty garden issues and give outdoor yoga a try
Home Front: The Irish garden designer is filming a new TV series for RTÉ and BBC
Planners probe Dermot Bannon’s garden bath den
Architect’s garden extension featured prominently in RTÉ hit series Room to Improve
Dr Eva Orsmond loses the run of herself. Her husband goes mad. It’s perfect Irish TV
Patrick Freyne: We have an endless taste for shows about stressed people doing up houses
Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wives
The Room to Improve sun god has enlisted them to build his Great Pyramid of Giza
Patrick Freyne: It is now late-period Dermot Bannon. He is on the verge of losing it
That’s why this show is about Dermot Bannon designing a house for Dermot Bannon
Spread a little garden love this Christmas
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Room to Improve: ‘I always thought there was a lack of imagination here’
Review: Even special guest gardener Diarmuid Gavin teased Bannon over his lack of imagination
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: A south Dublin borbecue – what could possibly go wrong?
Christian is horrified to find his Wagyu steak looks tougher than Billy Vunipola
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Trees to plant, gloves to wear, cards to write trowels to dig, seeds to sow and a pad to rest
It’s the 1970s all over again as house plants grow on us
Thank Instagram for endless shots of spider plants dangling from macrame pot-hangers
How to plant a perfect window box – and then keep it alive
If you’re something of a serial killer when it comes to window box plants, then you’re probably not watering them enough
An art college day out, sticky lights and a gardening festival in Kildare
Home Front: What to do and see across Ireland over the next few weeks
Diarmuid Gavin’s Dunnes deal: How the seed was sown
The TV gardener’s plantation-style home and American travels inspired a joint venture
Dunnes Stores considers buying Donnybrook Fair chain
Group is in advanced talks about potential acquisition of the chain
Ranelagh Victorian where Diarmuid Gavin got big break for €1.95m
Terry Keane’s former home was a gathering place for Ireland’s cultural elite
Arytza stock plunges, Macquarie plans expansion and Smurfit makes €460m move
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Diarmuid Gavin and Dunnes Stores aim for Outer Spaces
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