Home, interiors, gardens, design and wellness — everything that makes a beautiful life, the Irish way.
Open House Dublin, the RIAI conference, Design Week Dublin, the Ideal Home Show and Irish Design Week — all the dates between now and January, checked against the organisers.
The Dean, the Vintage Cocktail Club, Sophie's and the Gravity Bar were all designed by the same Dublin practice. A guide to who is actually doing the work, at home and abroad.
The garden that won the concept category at Bloom's twentieth festival was planted with one tree for every EU member state. Plus the twenty-year-old who won Super Garden, and Kerry's three-time Chelsea gold medallist.
The European Commission referred Ireland to the Court of Justice in June. An Oireachtas committee took evidence in July. There is no retail ban — but a country made of bog now imports its peat.
Brown Thomas opened its Christmas shop in August, so the Irish table season has begun. Kildare's Tara O'Connor runs on a borrowed Chanel principle: take off the last thing you put on.
Forty-five per cent of households plan significant home improvement within two years. Nearly forty per cent say it is because they cannot move. The survey has a phrase for it: needs-based refurbishment.
Ireland's planning exemptions changed on 27 July for the first time in about twenty-five years. The garden structure limit rose from 25 to 30 square metres — and the figure being widely reported is wrong.
Twenty trends from Homes & Gardens, twenty-one from Pinterest, one outlook from ASID — and gilding appears in none of them. What gold is actually doing in Irish homes is smaller, seasonal and true.
Four trend sources, working separately in different countries, reached the same conclusion about 2026. Plus the colours, the Irish paint company operating out of a famine workhouse, and 3,800 makers.
Retrofit grants rose twice this year and applications are up 186 per cent. But the two biggest new grants are exactly the measures a protected structure cannot take — and there is a free letter that settles it.
A Pritzker, a RIBA Gold Medal, a museum in Giza and another in east London. Twenty-four Irish buildings honoured in June — and the one the public chose was a special school in Letterkenny.
Six empty homes come back into use every working day. The grant is four years old, it has paid out €348.6m on 6,312 houses, and it has grown a second grant worth €135,000 that 37 people have claimed.
Unexpected red theory went from one TikTok to a Sotheby's sponsorship in four months. Half the furniture we throw away isn't broken. A look at what the churn actually costs.
Nobody coined Japandi. Mid-century modern was a book title. And 'ma', the ancient Japanese concept, appears to date from about 1929. Where design labels really come from.
More than 27,000 Irish homes are empty because the owner died. On place attachment, ontological security, and what a home does that a house cannot.
TU Dublin puts 520,000 people in homes at risk of overheating. England has had an overheating standard since 2022. Ireland has none. What the evidence actually says.
The modern Irish kitchen is the shape of a planning exemption. On open plan, the pantry revival, the ventilation problem nobody mentions - and the vernacular house that solved it first.
Fendi Casa, Versace Home and Dolce&Gabbana Casa are licences held by the same company. What a fashion house actually contributes to the furniture with its name on it.
Vogue says the post-breakup glow is real and rooted in biology. Half of that is right. The cortisol story falls apart on inspection - and what actually changes is far more interesting.
Structured mini bags with a signature bow, from €15 to €265, made by a woman who spent 28 years flying for Virgin Atlantic — and still does.
A crystal pint with a pearl head, a €750 block of Kerrygold and a €3,000 packet of Tayto. Inside Kimberly Tino's range — and the hand-set craft that makes the joke land.
Ten labels — four of them Irish — demonstrating that ethical production, circular design and genuine luxury were never in opposition.
The question defining sustainable fashion in 2026 — and the Irish designers refusing to wait for a perfect answer before building the thing anyway.
Five Irish women whose morning routines are quietly radical acts of self-determination — intention, identity, and the clothes we choose to face the world in.
Why fashion's loudest statement right now is making no statement at all — and the Irish names who were speaking this language long before it had a hashtag.
The dinner party is back — but the rules have relaxed. How to host beautifully without losing the evening to the kitchen.
Sea swims at dawn, wood-fired saunas on the beach, and a national love affair with the changing robe. How cold water became Ireland's favourite form of self-care.
Despite the weather — or maybe because of it — the Irish garden has become a proper second living space. Here's how to do it without pretending you live in the Med.
She was decades ahead of every man who got the credit. A look at the Wexford-born modernist whose furniture still defines what "timeless" means.
The all-grey era is finally over. Inside the Irish home of 2026 — earthy colour, natural materials, and rooms built to be lived in rather than photographed.
