Esther N McCarthy is away with the fairies this week — and has picked up a few other bits along her way.

All-Ireland Sundays

Christmas is coming and the list is getting fat — with cool, yuletide gifts handpicked by Esther N McCarthy for your Christmas time present perusal.

Some of the world’s most popular bloggers were eating, drinking and sightseeing their way around Cork and Kerry for the past few days.

The true grit of the men from Currow is legendary in rugby circles.

Every week Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting pieces for your interiors.

Every week Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting pieces for your interiors. Today she discovers pretty piggies and divine dressers.

Multi-stem casserole dish by Orla Kiely is earthenware — dishwasher and microwave safe.

’I’M like a bionic woman,’ joked actress Brenda Fricker, her arm in a sling, as she arrived at the Kerry Film Festival to accept yet another award.

ONE of the country’s leading potters is recovering after a crackpot wave injured him and ruined a promotional photo shoot on one of Kerry’s most spectacular beaches.

THE prospect of a ready made tree-house might swing a trading-up decision for young viewers, but the rest of this property at Coolflugh, Tower, Co Cork should tempt the mammies and daddies too.