THE Dublin restaurant and café scene is really humming once again.

Fred Cooke did a spectacular job for RTÉ of mortifying this girl in Dublin’s Powerscourt Centre.

Tommy Barker visits a fine, venerable Bandon property, once home to a swashbuckling adventurer, now home to a doyenne of cafe business

It may have been a fashion faux pas for Fair City’s Aoibheann McCaul, but it was publicity heaven for designer Dawn Fitzgerald and her daring designs.

A GIRLS’ weekend away was on the cards for months. Time for me (and a willing buddy) to ditch the husbands and the childers, hit the motorway, fork out for the tolls and head to the big smoke. Our check list: shoe shopping, a concert in the O2, plenty of pubs and lots of lie ins. Dublin, here we come.

FASHION and technology may seem like odd bedfellows.

Annmarie O’Connor is inspired by crystalline snow queens, ice wind goddesses and pitch black nights for our Christmas fashion shoot. Think glittering festive baubles, champagne fizz and iridescent lights

To mark Dublin Fashion Festival, five resident movers and shakers tell Deirdre Reynolds what gives the city its edge.

THE customer might be king, but don’t get Mary Rose going on the royal pain that is coffee choices.

IMAGINE falling into an Alice-type wonderland of guilt-free shopping.

A witness has told a Central Criminal Court jury that he saw his friend fall to the ground after he had been fatally stabbed after a night out to celebrate leaving school.

YESTERDAY was Ladies’ Day at Cheltenham and while the men outnumbered the women by about nine to one, the Sunday best could be seen scattered around the course.

Three food outlets in the speciality Powerscourt Centre in central Dublin have been shut down following serious health fears.