Gemma Tipton

Have you ever been simply knocked sideways by a colour? In these grey winter days, it could be a splash of a red dress in a sea of black, or perhaps (...)

Gerry Davis, a graduate of the Limerick School of Art and Design, has won this year’s Hennessy Portrait Prize which is worth €15,000 and comes with a (...)

How clean is your house? Is it Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie clean? (Remember the alarmingly efficient rubber-gloved TV duo who swooped in to swipe(...)

You know the way you get back from holidays, and jump straight back into life? It’s usually nice to be home, but then, if you’ve managed an autumn b(...)

Across the country, they’ll soon be leaving. Swapping your house for flats, digs, or if they’re going to college in Dublin, small corners of shared ro(...)

It might seem like a distinctly old-fashioned life skill, and it’s true that in generations past, young women were taught to do it as what Jane Austen(...)

Having trained as a furniture designer, Jonathan Legge set up Makers & Brothers with his brother, Mark, in 2011. The website has become an intern(...)

There’s a charming air of stepping somewhat back in time at No 13 Bushy Park Road. It is unlikely of course that this will survive new owners, who wi(...)

One of the things I remember most clearly through the aftermath of Leaving Certificate results and CAO offers was the sense of hurry. Embodied in the (...)

Remember those TV programmes where people did weird and wonderful things, including plate spinning, making human pyramids and experimenting with fire(...)