Chris De Burgh
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Take a look inside Chris de Burgh’s Wicklow mansion
- Homes & Property
- January 18, 2021
While living in a lockdown has its limitations, those with deeper pockets looking to get away from it all without the necessity of leaving home could (...)

We’ve had decades of poverty, stifled dreams and lives unlived. But look on the bright side
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 17, 2021, 23:05
RTÉ catches a lot of flack over the uneven quality of its scripted drama and comedy but one genre at which the broadcaster has long excelled are docum(...)

Patrick Freyne’s favourite art: Things that should be trash but are actually brilliant
- Culture
- January 5, 2021, 05:00
My favourite type of art is “things that are better than they ought to be”. I realised this a few years ago when watching Z Nation, a joyfully silly p(...)

Phil Lynott: ‘I didn’t know how shy he was, how awkward, and scared of rejection’
- Music
- December 26, 2020, 05:00
With input from the late Dublin rock star’s close friends and family, Emer Reynolds’s new film, Songs for While I’m Away, puts forward a different (...)

Did you know Last Christmas used to be called Stephen’s Day Is a Bit Sh*t?
- Culture
- December 11, 2020, 05:00
This week I have undertaken a critical analysis of some of my favourite Christmas songs. Last Christmas by Wham Wham’s Last Christmas video was (...)

To the manor born? Nine country estates to buy now
- Homes & Property
- September 19, 2019, 06:00
Abbey Leix Estate Address: Abbeyleix, Co Laois Value: €20m-plus Agents: Colliers and Sotheby’s Designed in 1773 by noted architect James Wyatt, and (...)

Extra Ordinary: The film's most valuable asset is Maeve Higgins
- Film
- September 12, 2019
You couldn’t accuse Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman, writer-directors of this amusing Irish comedy, of selling us short on knockabout content. Extra Ordi(...)

Surprising sea views beside Dalkey village – and Chris de Burgh – for €2m
- New to Market
- September 3, 2019, 06:00
When the owners of a house on a quiet road in Dalkey moved in about 40 years ago, the one thing they sought was to enhance the view of the sea. And so(...)

Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’
- Film
- July 15, 2019, 10:10
Jack Reynor is returning to the Galway Film Fleadh. “Yes, I am bringing down my spare liver in my suitcase,” he says. The Fleadh does have that reput(...)

Miriam Lord: Scuttling things in the Dáil bars
- Politics
- July 13, 2019, 05:00
Imagine the scene. Micheál Martin sitting down in the members’ bar having a cup of tea with a party colleague when a dirty great rat scuttles across (...)