From Father’s Day gifts to fancy breakfast trays, Esther N McCarthy rummages through the best of this week’s offerings

Annmarie O’Connor unveils her carefully curated collection of luxury gifts to inspire you.

Cork Craft Month, starting this week, is a showcase of wood turning, ceramics, and textiles in locations across the county. Carol O’Callaghan reports on the list of exhibitions and demonstrations on offer.

Carol O’Callaghan visits a new exhibition and talks to its curator about the making, impact and collecting of craft across a range of practices — ceramics, furniture, glassware, textiles, stone, and jewellery-making.

A Cork-based artist has been cast into the spotlight after her work appeared not once, but twice, on EastEnders.

Esther N McCarthy finds a blue kettle, pink jar and a finally honed chair and more...

Carol O’Callaghan checks out a long-running exhibition where Irish design is attracting growing numbers of buyers from overseas and from the home market, too.

Esther N McCarthy has lanterns, linens and lots of other lovelies on her list this week. 

Give your home a lift with a splash of seasonal colour. Esther McCarthy unearths some chic and cheerful gems.

Irish movie-lovers will be rooting for Cartoon Saloon tomorrow evening when the Kilkenny-based animation studio takes on the giants of Hollywood at the 87th Academy Awards ceremony with its feature film, Song of the Sea.

The Chinese President has been officially invited to visit Ireland.

Some inexpensive and some elegant gifts make up Esther N McCarthy’s Christmas wishes.

This week Esther N McCarthy fills her hand-made basket with some early seasonal treats.

Get into the 70s vibe with this peacock green retro TRIM phone. Launched by the GPO in the UK in 1965 as a fashionable alternative to its regular model, TRIM stands for Tone Ringer Illuminated Model.