Kya deLongchamps turns the spotlight on countertop stars to look out for in the last throes of the January sales.

Rise to the occasion and give your wardrobe a reason to celebrate, writes Annmarie O'Connor.

Making the dining table the focus of gatherings this weekend is an opportunity to experiment with fresh new styling looks and to utilise tablewares in a variety of new ways, writes Carol O’Callaghan

Your Christmas must-haves start here with some colourful home and utility artistic advice from Esther N McCarthy.

Some 1,200 local authority homes in Cork City have been earmarked for repairs or upgrades, as part of a massive €11m loan-funded scheme.

 

Check out these Hessian baskets, too at €6.99. Each pack contains a small, a medium and a large basket. Available in Aldi stores this week.

Irish coffee company Insomnia is set to move into the UK market in a partnership with UK and Irish retail giant Debenhams.

A slab table to die for, a heavenly gate and high design from affordable high street brands, Faith Ryan is feeling the love.

Cork entrepreneur Tracey Ryan has added an innovative twist to natural skincare products by producing a range that is made with only edible ingredients.

The founding premises of homewares specialist store, Meadows & Byrne, in Cork City’s Academy Street will only be vacated and leased to restaurant chain, Nando’s, if planning is secured for change-of-use.

As we move from outdoors in after a pleasant summer, we need to face the clutter that has been easy to ignore. Kya deLongchamps offers some tidy solutions.

Downpours be gone — this week Esther N McCarthy is all about the outdoors — lazing in the garden with a sizzling barbecue, billowing table linen, a chilled glass and a cosy blanket for eventide — bliss.

Springtime is inspiring some fresh and funky styles.

It’s the moo-cow boogy for Esther N McCarthy this week as she highlights bovine beauties in Day-Glo colours to shine on your wall ...oh and a few other things beside.

A Michelin-star chef has urged Irish consumers to avoid cutting back on household food budgets.

Each week, Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting bits for your home. This week she finds magic umbrellas and candle designs with moonlight magic.

Every week, Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting pieces for your home. This week she finds pretty prints, country kitchens and retro lamps to create cosy comfort at home.

The Blarney Woollen Mills Group is “trading successfully” and recorded “substantial” earnings last year.

Esther N McCarthy discovers hot kitchen gadgets and cool storage solutions.

Each week Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting pieces for your interiors. This week she discovers hot pink craft and baby pink shoes.

Add a little flutter to your walls with the butterfly box art trio, €23.50 from Littlewoods.

No 29 The Seasons in Carrigaline is central and well designed, Rose Martin reports.

THE presence of July rain showers proves a boon to retailers — a case made eloquently by the shoppers thronging the aisles at the Blarney Woollen Mills summer sale this weekend.

RECKONING that the best way to sell No 35 The Meadows is to let people see how good it is, its selling agents have decided to throw open the doors on Sunday afternoon, May 29, to reveal its glories.

Supermodel Kate Moss will not be charged over claims that she took cocaine, prosecutors announced today.

Former boxing champion Mike Tyson has stormed out of a rehabilitation centre just days after starting therapy for cocaine addiction.

Disgraced supermodel Kate Moss had reportedly checked into an Arizona rehabilitation clinic, two weeks after the beauty was photographed allegedly snorting cocaine.

A JUDGE in Britain yesterday wiped out a couple’s debt of €576,000, which had spiralled out of control from an original loan of €8,645.