Des Kelly

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Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp gestures on the touchline during the Champions League round of 16 first leg at Anfield stadium. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images
TV View: Liverpool’s bows and arrows fail to hit their target at Anfield

Granted, there’s been a blip or three of late, but still, Liverpool fans would surely have had a reasonable helping of hope in their hearts as they to(...)

Cristiano Ronaldo congratulates Paulo Dybala after he scored for Juventus in the Champions League match at Old Trafford. Photograph: Peter Powell/EPA
TV View: Mourinho walks alone as players lose their way once again

There’d been much talk of late of Jose Mourinho losing the dressing room, so it didn’t augur well when he appeared to have literally done so ahead of (...)

Pope John Paul II in Drogheda, 1979. Photograph: The Irish Times
Pope hysteria in 1979: 'I made 5,000 sandwiches, and sold only 2,000'

It isn’t clear why John Igoe decided 5,000 was the correct number of sandwiches to make for the pope’s visit to Knock in 1979. But he certainly oversh(...)

Fr Tony Flannery who chaired the Association of Catholic Priests’ public regional meeting in Tuam, Co Galway, ahead of the Papal visit. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Pope should say sorry during visit, laity tells priests

Pope Francis has been urged to avoid being “treated like a celebrity”, and to apologise to all those mistreated in the Magdalene laundries, mother an(...)

Messi after scoring his team’s first goal against Nigeria at Saint Petersburg Stadium. Photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images
TV View: Priceless Lionel Messi ensures all is right with the world

It was only 24 degrees in Moscow when day 13 got under way with France v Denmark, leaving us all wondering what it must be like to live in a temperate(...)

When the carpet fitters lifted the old carpet them made a surprise discovery. Photograph: iStock.
Carpet fitters make surprise discovery in spare room of south Dublin house

When carpet fitters lifted the underlay in the spare room of a south Dublin house this week they uncovered more than just floorboards. For gathering (...)

Wayne Rooney broke Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Manchester United European scoring record against Feyenoord. Photograph: PA/Martin Rickett
Rooney hits out at press after helping United to Feyenoord win

Wayne Rooney fired back at the media over his behaviour when on England duty after breaking Manchester United’s individual scoring record in Europe by(...)

Des Kelly Interiors in Phibsborough, Co Dublin.
Tributes paid after death of ‘carpet man’ Des Kelly

Friends and colleagues of Des Kelly have paid tribute to the well-known Dublin businessman following news of his death this week. The founder and own(...)

Des Kelly group of companies has been selling carpets, beds and furnishings in Dublin for more than 50 years. It had accumulated profits of €8 million at the end of April 2012
Des Kelly group sees signs of improvement

Des Kelly Carpets Ltd, the property-holding part of the Des Kelly Interiors group, had accumulated profits of €8 million at the end of April 2012, acc(...)