Gay Byrne begins a new series of The Meaning Of Life on Tuesday at 10.15pm on RTÉ One with an interview with Mary McAleese.

THERE are two times in the year when single people get serious about trying to find a partner.

IT’S a case of sell the house, or have another baby, laughs auctioneer Lucy Wolfe, as she puts her own young family’s home on the market.

WATCHING Sarah Beeny on Channel 4’s Property Ladder could make you come over all entrepreneur-like about houses like this one, at Passage West, Co Cork.