Creativity and innovation, along with an eye for design and detail, plus getting the attention of the most discerning clients, has helped make an Irish success story abroad, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Carol O’Callaghan meets Cork-born, Aiveen Daly whose furniture and interior design is in international demand.

AS Bord Bia pulls its hair out wondering why we are falling out of love with our national vegetable, nutritionists are warning the public not to turn their backs on the humble Irish spud.

WE’VE been running out of national superlatives here in Ireland in recent years: we’re no longer the richest/fastest-growing/youngest/friendliest and more island, ever since our economic bubble inflated and burst its banks.

GROWING up in Co Limerick, David Gleeson spent most of his spare time helping out in the cinemas his father, Eddie, ran in Cappamore and Kilmallock.