Mary O’Sullivan meets Maria and David Bourke and their architect son Robert Bourke who redesigned their home in Dalkey
Maria and David Bourke decided to move house one summer when their eldest Robert was away. On his…
Interior stylist Sarah Twigg Doyle talks to Mary O’Sullivan about her upcycled home for My Favourite Room
Sarah Twigg Doyle first got interested in interiors when she had to decorate her new home on a…
My favourite room Carla Benedetti
Carla Benedetti studied graphic design but when she bought her first house, she discovered she loved decorating so…
One More Thing entrepreneur Vivian Wong shows us inside her Kildare five-bed
Vivian Wong left a sunny Hong Kong and came to live with her husband Philip in a rainy…
Inside Mary Coughlan’s Co Wicklow home
Mother, grandmother, Earth mother, shaman but above all legendary vocalist, Mary Coughlan says she’s singing better than ever…
Alexandra de Schonen shows us around her Brussels home decorated by her artist sister Ashlinn
Sisters Alexandra and Ashlinn de Schonen are very different – Alexandra is a pragmatic policymaker while Ashlinn is…
Businesswoman Jennifer O’Neill-Mardokh’s renovated Paris home
Jennifer O’Neill-Mardokh fell in love with a renovated pub dating from 1938 in the western suburbs of Paris…
My favourite room: Bree Allen of Ballymaloe Grainstore in Cork
Bree Allen arrived at Ballymaloe for a three-month stopover. Just over 20 years later, she’s part of the…
PR consultant and artist Riki Neill’s renovated cottage
Riki Neill studied art, then fell into a different career. However, when she and husband Michael bought and…
My favourite room: Wicklow-based artist Lucy Doyle
Lucy Doyle’s paintings are vibrant, often containing an unlikely mix of objects and people, yet they work. Her…
My favourite room: ‘I came up with the idea of making eating fun for fussy children’ – Inside the family home of plate creator Samantha Forrest
Scientist Samantha Forrest says she’s not usually creative or artistic but when it came to getting her young…
My favourite room: ‘Surrogacy is very costly, it’s a luxury. We have a lot of friends who weren’t able to do the journey. So they’re all our babies’ uncles’
Insurance entrepreneur Ciaran Mulligan has been starting businesses all his working life and is about to launch another.…