Joan Scales
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Short let advice from long term experts
- Interiors
- November 22, 2018, 00:00
We are currently hooked on Stay Here, a new Netflix series that shows holiday-let landlords how to ramp up returns on their property by redecorating a(...)

Airbnb helped my family and me out of a financial ‘pit’
- Homes & Property
- October 26, 2018, 06:00
When Ceire Sadlier was renting her apartment in Townsend Street Dublin – bought at the height of the boom – on Airbnb a couple of years ago, she atten(...)

When things go wrong abroad, who do you call?
- Travel
- May 15, 2018, 12:00
This week the consular services of the Department of Foreign Affairs held a consultative forum with stakeholders. Led by head of the consular servic(...)

Linda Barker and more to give advice at the permanent tsb Ideal Home show
- Interiors
- April 14, 2018, 06:00
Friday, April 20th Ipm: Introduction to the Ideal Home Show followed by Liz Dwyer interview with TV interiors presenter Linda Barker on the latest lo(...)

The Republic of Conch
- Long Haul
- March 10, 2018, 06:00
In April 1982, during the Nixon era, the US border patrol introduced a road block on the Florida Keys to screen traffic for drugs and refugees in fron(...)

The suite life: Irish hotels get a style lift
- Interiors
- March 10, 2018, 06:00
If you haven’t stayed in a hotel lately, you are in for a big surprise. All over Ireland hotels are refurbishing and renovating after 10 languid years(...)

How to cash in on Airbnb: 10 tips on how best to do it
- Homes & Property
- November 14, 2017, 16:22
The news that a property could be earning over €100,000 on Airbnb is probably encouraging people to think about doing it themselves. Before you sign (...)

Tales from bedsitland: a grubby rite of passage for young Irish
- Irish News
- September 16, 2017, 06:00
Banned finally in 2013, bedsits often provoke nostalgia amongst their one-time occupants – even if the conditions were often grim. The often-maligned(...)

Wanted in Adare: 50 chefs, scores of staff to make beds and the perfect Irish coffee
- Ireland
- July 12, 2017, 11:00
Can you set a wood fire? How are your flower-arranging skills? What about about making the best Irish coffee in the county it was invented in? Can you(...)

Life without my car: ‘I miss it but I’m saving €700 a year’
- Motors
- May 10, 2017, 05:25
Arriving home late on a Friday night in December, I was shocked to discover that I had been burgled, and it was the next day before I discovered they (...)