Look no further than Objekt for some brilliant interior design inspiration

When she drops in to Aoife Hayes’ store in Newcastle West, Carol O’Callaghan loves the sort-of stage sets that Aoife artfully assembles, as they give you a real sense of how the items might work in your home

My jaded interiors palate has been revived by a jaunt to Newcastle West, County Limerick, where a home interiors shop called Objekt has window displays to prompt a rubber-burning slam of the brakes.

It’s a happy discovery on the N21 to Tralee, beside the banks of the Arra, with a Fitzgerald-built castle a near neighbour: ancient and modern sitting comfortably together.