Pest Pulse, which recently launched in the UK, now has its eyes on the US, writes Trish Dromey.

Seamus Gill is a silversmith and jewellery designer. He spoke to Aileen Lee.

A design retrospective informed by transatlantic journeys, serendipitous meetings, recession, and a whole host of plot twists launches next week at the National Museum of Ireland, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Attendances at sexual consent workshops at universities has “skyrocketed” this year following a number of high-profile cases.

The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) had to abandon a HR software system on which it spent €138,000 over three years because management failed to properly implement it.

Aileen Lee Aileen Lee chats to Amanda Vencatasamy, co-founder of Hey, Bulldog! Design.

A child therapist turned fine arts student has created a collection of tiny porcelain hearts as a tribute to the babies of Tuam.

Q&A with product/ textile designer and author Helen James.

Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin are in the world’s top 50 for nursing and other subjects but other universities have mixed fortunes in the latest discipline-specific rankings.

New York and Ireland are inextricably linked. Marjorie Brennan talks to five creative people about their time there.

Orla Barry’s farming background has found its way into her current exhibition at the Crawford, writes Colette Sheridan

Ciara Silke: Textile designer

The Dublin Cookie Co is a mix of old traditions and an entrepreneurial approach, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

A remarkable art project at a Co Limerick school has combined bronze sculpture, Newton’s theories and local apple trees, writes Ellie O’Byrne

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The River Island Design Bursary will give an invaluable insight to the trade, as winning student Caoimhe Hill explains to Carolyn Moore.

It’s hats off to Galway hat designer Philip Treacy as new accounts show accumulated profits at his fashion firm last year totalled £335,082 (€386,487).

Ailbhe Keane began creating stylish spoke guards for her wheelchair-using sister Isabel. They now have a proper business, writes Ruth O’Connor

A free programme is published online today aimed at helping young people become digital entrepreneurs.

I’m confident enough not to be a perfectionist. I move on with things. Try and get them done.

Sophie White refreshingly explores topics from her life that are often seen as taboo in polite society. Clodagh Finn meets for a chat and finds out the recipes that helped her through motherhood.

Student accommodation in Dublin is regularly on the mind of anyone looking at third-level education in Ireland.

The Restaurants Association has changed the name of their former Foodie Town destination initiative, now calling it Foodie Destination 2016.

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A bag within a box is this start-up’s innovative way to enable households to recycle and compost more, writes Trish Dromey.

MUSIC NEWS: It may be legally classed as hearsay, but NME reports that a Stone Roses fan met Reni recently, and the drummer told him the band have recorded music other than their recent release ‘All For One’ and that it “sounds beautiful”. 

Poor performances at three colleges mean they have been threatened with €1m worth of penalties.

Fifty years ago, an IRA bomb belatedly decapitated one of the most iconic monuments to British rule in Ireland, writes Billy O’Riordan.

Siptu is to fully drape three sides of the landmark 60m-tall Liberty Hall with images from 1916 to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.

Just how did a Japanese artist begin drawing characters from Father Ted and publishing them every day? Noel Baker finds out from Dublin-based sketcher Shota Kotake

IS IT surprising that someone who enjoyed inventing things as a child should end up designing, or in some cases reinventing, everyday household objects?

Stayhold Limited has officially launched its award winning boot organiser range in the Irish market.

WHAT little girl doesn’t love to play shop? For me it was a favourite game after Christmas to set up my store with empty chocolate boxes and biscuit tins, and left over wrapping paper.

As one of the longest running and most well-known competitions in Ireland, the Texaco Children’s Art Competition is always a huge draw.

I watched with regret the cry for funding by hundreds of National College of Art and Design students on RTÉ News recently, and wondered why the college management has responded to such an amateur approach.

THE design exhibition Fresh Talent is taking place at the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny, bringing together recent graduates from third-level design colleges with designers who have been working for a few years.

Even a serious training accident hasn’t dented Bryan Keane’s passion for triathlons.

Governance issues at the National College of Art and Design will come under scrutiny this morning.

The Higher Education Authority has been criticised for failing to properly monitor the financial affairs of the National College of Art and Design to which it has given more than €100m in funds in the last eight years.

Will Irish artist Duncan Campbell win the Turner Prize tonight? He talks with Alan O’Riordan