Orna Mulcahy

China blues Advent calendars have come a long way since the days when children opened cardboard windows and doors to find tiny pictures of a star or (...)

The exterior of number 3 St Peter’s Square in Wexford looks very like its tall townhouse neighbours, but the canary yellow Fiat 500 parked outside the(...)

Cool, damp evenings call for the warmth of a throw that can do double duty as a room accessory and a cosy wrap. Luckily there’s plenty of choice from (...)

Luggala, the Co Wicklow estate that was home to the late Guinness heir Garech Browne, has been sold for what is believed to be significantly less than(...)

A former miner’s cottage overlooking the round tower in Glendalough, Co Wicklow, is for sale for the first time in more than 100 years. Cloneen Cotta(...)

Look of the Danish Just over a week away, the opening of the first Jsyk stores in Naas Retail Park is likely to cause plenty of traffic. The Danish h(...)

A Lucian Freud portrait of the late Guinness heir Garech Browne as a boy has been sold in London for €6.7 million. Head of a Boy was painted in 1956, (...)

The late Guinness heir Garech Browne was proud of his portrait by Lucian Freud, which shows him as a young boy with a thatch of blond hair. Browne, w(...)

Literary critic, author and journalist Eileen Battersby was a “brilliant”, “beguiling”, “beautiful”, “courageous”, “dynamic” romantic who lived by her(...)

A majestic castle set on an island in Lough Key in Co Roscommon is one of the most striking lots for sale in the upcoming BidX1 pre-Christmas auction.(...)