Gemma Tipton

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FAMILIAR FACEs On how their Four-legged companions enrich their lives, from ‘calming’ alpacas and magnificent horses to Basset-Hound bosses Derv(...)

I’m one of those people who has always found a simple question trckier than it ought to be: Where do you live? Answer: Mostly in Co Cor(...)

Colourful sinks Wash basins are going to get a lot more attention in renovations to come and the prettiest we’ve seen is this vintage industrial style(...)

It is being described as “a marriage of two great houses”, and the collaboration between the Merrion Hotel in Dublin and Ballyfin Demesne in Co Laois (...)

It’s like we’re in a film: the waters are turquoise, the sky pure blue. Our little boat is resting at anchor and, in the distance, we can see powder w(...)

A number of years ago I had an American boyfriend who was keen to see Cong, home of the 1952 film The Quiet Man, and Ashford Castle. Americans tend to(...)

On a sunny September afternoon, small sailboats scud about in the calm waters of Glandore Harbour. Above, the terrace of Hayes’ Bar & Kitchen is f(...)

My memories of England in 1977 are of Queen Elizabeth’s silver jubilee and a lot of red, white and blue, in the form of cheerily fluttering flags(...)

In our age of mass production and perfect manufactured replicas, does making things by hand matter any more? Exploring Homo Faber, a huge exhibition d(...)