Orna Mulcahy

Parknasilla resort buys Rossdohan Island in Kenmare Bay

The colour of this tiny Co Clare cottage is attracting as much interest as the price

Twenty-four tiny pieces of heritage china are boxed up in the collector's calendar from Wedgwood; plus Naoleon in wax, a true blue sofa and Sputnik-inspired armchairs

A stroll from Wexford’s opera house, this downsizer’s home zings with colour inside

Home Front: Supersoft throws will see you through the transition from autumn to winter

Home of late Guinness heir Garech Browne fetches less than €28m price tag

Cloneen Cottage on the market for the first time in more than 100 years

Plus, cool bedlinen and the new Danish lifestyle store, Jysk, offering bargain buys

‘Jewel of a painting’ dates from 1956, when Freud was a guest at Luggala, Co Wicklow

Artist, who eloped with a Guinness in the early 1950s, painted portrait in Co Wicklow

Grieving daughter Nadia pays tribute to mother and friend ‘inspired by generosity’

BidX1 sale also includes Chez Max bistro premises by Dublin Castle for €625k

Home Front: What to do and see across Ireland over the next few weeks

Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option

This couple made a snap decision to leave UK but it didn’t take them long to set up a cool new B&B

The Irish Yeast Co, dating from 1894, rejected a Celtic Tiger offer

Issue number one of ‘Playboy’ with Marilyn Monroe on the cover sells for £4,000 (€4.5k)

Tom Dixon's sofa for Ikea comes with a handy shelf for a cuppa while Aga has introduced a new shade, called Blush, to chime with a younger audience

Homefront: What’s new in interiors

Builders, renovators and those who simply like looking at the lastest style in mops are heading to the RDS this weekend

Here is our line-up of talks on the ‘The Irish Times’ Home & Design theatre stage at the Ideal Home Show next bank holiday weekend

Who's talking at the Home&Design Theatre at the permanent tsb Ideal Home Show at the RDS this weekend