Shopping trips abroad can yield designer bargains, objets d’art for your home or a bad case of buyer’s remorse. Rachel Marie Walsh outlines seven ways to shop smarter

WE’VE shivered through the extra-long winter and now it’s time for the after-effects — dire heating bills and drab skin in need of some TLC.

Consumer goods giant Unilever today unveiled a deal worth £2.3bn (€2.7bn) to add VO5 shampoo and Simple soap to its line-up of hair and skincare products.

A record label is hiring a private detective because one of its artists – jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux – has gone missing.

“RUBY WALSH again, what more can you say”, exclaimed trainer, Michael Philips, after he had watched the maestro pilot his Red Square Lady to victory in the Sand and Gravel Products Hurdle at Cork last night.