Dormer down a hidden cul-de-sacKilliney: €1.5m Drivers motoring down Church Road in Killiney, Co Dublin, could easily be unaware that behind the new stone …Thu Jul 08 2004 - 01:00
State of independenceRadio Reveiw: A radio production company that calls itself Mixed Bag is really handing it to a reviewer on a plate, but it is…Sat Jul 03 2004 - 01:00
Small is beautiful on Ranelagh terraceDublin 6 /€ 500,000: Number 4 Bessborough Hall, Bessborough Parade, a curved residential cul-de-sac off Mount Pleasant Avenue…Thu Jul 01 2004 - 01:00
Is folic acid the hero?RadioScope Outside the Box RTÉ 1, June 22nd There are 40 children born every year in Ireland with spina bifida and in the 1970s…Tue Jun 29 2004 - 01:00
How hospital can be bad for your healthRadio Reveiw: As the Government parties sniped away at each other all week in a bizarre game of compassion one-upmanship, all…Sat Jun 26 2004 - 01:00
Victorian era townhouse in popular spot near cityDublin 8/€875,000: An end-of-terrace four-bedroom townhouse at 49 Synge Street is expected to make over €875,000 at a Lisney…Thu Jun 17 2004 - 01:00
Doorstepping out with Matt and RoystonRadio Review: The Matt 'n' Royston roadshow hit the streets on Tuesday night and provided the best value radio of the weekSat Jun 05 2004 - 01:00
Extended Strain-built redbrick with period charmGlasnevin/€900,000: The houses built by Alexander Strain around 100 years ago in the Iona area of Glasnevin, Dublin 9, vary …Thu Jun 03 2004 - 01:00
Security and easy money in post-war IraqRadio Review: 'From what I gather it's good to have the likes of Iraq on your CV," said Paul Johnson, a coach in a boxing club…Sat May 29 2004 - 01:00
Eurovision and other charity casesRadio Review: 'I love these bored housewives ringing up having an opinion," said Louis Walsh on Liveline (RTÉ1, Monday), and…Sat May 22 2004 - 01:00
Solid redbrick with plenty of scope for extensionDublin 6: €1.5m: With all the completely renovated houses that have come on the market on nearby roads this year, 7 Palmerston…Thu May 20 2004 - 01:00
Getting savaged by weekend business talkRadio Review: A couple of weeks ago a pompous- sounding investment analyst on Today FM described the fall in the share price…Sat May 15 2004 - 01:00
Solid redbrick with plenty of scope for extensionDublin 6: €1.5m: With all the completely renovated houses that have come on the market on nearby roads this year, 7 Palmerston…Thu May 13 2004 - 01:00
Bald facts offer little reliefRadioscope: Hairy Story, BBC Radio 4 It's dead but it's very responsive, said the scientist in Procter & Gamble's hair …Tue May 11 2004 - 01:00
Extended redbrick that took the 1970s a little too seriouslyDartry: €1.65m: St Kevin's Park is one of the most desirable roads in Darty. It's a quiet, out-of-the-way cul-de-sac.Thu May 06 2004 - 01:00
Blowing the whistle on 'Strasbourg Friday'Radio Review: Hans-Peter Martin isn't the sort of co-worker you ask to clock in for you or help you pull a sickieSat May 01 2004 - 01:00
All done up and ready to go on Belgrave SquareRathmines: €1.6m: Cherry Lodge has been given a total makeover in the past eight years and is now on the market with a guide…Thu Apr 29 2004 - 01:00
Survivors, celebrities and stolen fur coatsRadio Review: At the end of the documentary Surviving Suicide: A Mother's Story (RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday), an announcer gave …Sat Apr 24 2004 - 01:00
City townhouse for village peopleDublin 4: €750,000: A townhouse in the Leeson Village development off Upper Leeson Street in Dublin 4 is for auction through…Thu Apr 22 2004 - 01:00
Extended Victorian era lodge is quite a charmerHowth: €725,000: Period houses with character in Howth are always much sought after and The Old Lodge on Thormanby Road should…Thu Apr 22 2004 - 01:00
Why hemp is hot stuffWhat do they do/Steve Allen, Hemp Building: No, this hemp isn't wacky tobaccy, it's an eco-friendly building material that provides…Thu Apr 22 2004 - 01:00
Get three to a nunneryRadio Review: You didn't have to be a psychologist to figure out early in the programme which of the three women interviewed…Sat Apr 17 2004 - 01:00
Stylish redbrick with wonderful gardenDublin 8: €575,000 The last time I saw this house on 12 Dolphin Avenue off the South Circular Road in Dublin 8 it was when I…Thu Apr 15 2004 - 01:00
Modern two-storey mews in a country styleBlackrock: €1m The mews house at 7a Anglesea Avenue in Blackrock, Co Dublin is very different in style from the period houses…Thu Apr 15 2004 - 01:00
Large redbrick with commanding viewsMonkstown: €1.8m: Since the mid-1970s Ardvarna at 13 The Hill, Monkstown has been a congregation house and the nuns are now …Thu Apr 15 2004 - 01:00
Spotlight on superbugsRadio Scope Case Notes BBC Radio 4, Tuesday During the course of his lifetime, the average British man will take 50 courses …Tue Apr 13 2004 - 01:00
It's one thing laughing at ourselves . . .Radio Review: If you sat in front of the telly on a Saturday evening during the late 1970s you could be guaranteed that at some…Sat Apr 10 2004 - 01:00
Solid redbrick built by StrainGlasnevin/€700,000: The last time this house at 13 Ballymun Road in Glasnevin was sold the owners would have dealt directly …Thu Apr 08 2004 - 01:00
Little to do in extended redbrickDublin 9/€700,000: Interest should be strong in a four-bedroom house at 3 Lindsay Road in Glasnevin when it goes to auction…Thu Mar 25 2004 - 00:00
Learning the hard way and loving itRadio Review: Ten years ago Jo Rowling arrived in Scotland as a single parent with a young daughter and no moneySat Mar 20 2004 - 00:00
Finding the perfect fireplace - or making itWhat do they do Stephen Aiken, period fireplaces You don't have to be a genius to figure out why the supply of genuine period…Thu Mar 11 2004 - 00:00
Home and income in RathgarDublin 6: €1.5 million Many buyers have found that the way to make a two-storey over basement property a manageable reality …Thu Feb 26 2004 - 00:00
Getting your home ready to viewWhat they do/Home Er, makeovers: No time to prepare your home for a viewing? Don't worry, let somebody else do itThu Feb 26 2004 - 00:00
Room to grow in refurbished Bushy Park redbrickDublin 6: €1.7 million The houses in Bushy Park Road in Dublin 6 vary in style and size, with the ones that line the road at…Thu Feb 26 2004 - 00:00
The giant on their shouldersFiction: So much of this novel feels like a literary exercise that the story at the heart of it, the distance that grows between…Sat Feb 21 2004 - 00:00
Eavesdropping on private conversationsRadio Review: They keep their opinion to themselves in Castlebar, or at least they did this week when it came to Beverly Cooper…Sat Feb 14 2004 - 00:00
Dungan qualifies for the Partridge V-neckRadio Review: Push up there on the sofa, Pat Kenny, your days of being called Ireland's Alan Partridge are overSat Jan 31 2004 - 00:00
Substantial Rathgar villa for €1.45 millionDublin 6: Zion Lodge is a substantial detached house at 5 Zion Road in Rathgar which will be auctioned by Lisney on February…Thu Jan 22 2004 - 00:00
What are they trying to do to Marian?Radio Review: Was Marian Finucane (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays) really that broken that it needed such a radical fix? It has lost…Sat Jan 10 2004 - 00:00
Reviews, repeats and New Year resolutionsRadio Reviews: It was a week of reviews and repeats although there were some fine original broadcasts - the trick was to listen…Sat Jan 03 2004 - 00:00
Location is everythingWhat they do: Could your house be on TV? It doesn't have to be flash - think how many dramas you've seen set in two-up-two-downs…Thu Dec 04 2003 - 00:00
Thrilling fun with Bridget BondFiction At a glamorous face cream launch in Miami, beauty journalist Olivia Joules finds Osama bin Laden.Sat Nov 29 2003 - 00:00
Scams too embarrassing to reportRadio Review Items on radio about buying property abroad usually feature some smug git who bought a villa somewhere hot for …Sat Nov 29 2003 - 00:00
'Late Late' rites of passage revisitedRadio Review: The Late Late Show began as summer filler in 1962 and went on to become the longest running chat-show in the world…Sat Nov 15 2003 - 00:00
A Cooke who McDonaldises mum's saladRadio Review: The head of McDonalds in Ireland has one of those "how could his parents have known" type namesSat Nov 01 2003 - 00:00
Gracious residence on Grosvenor RoadRathgar: Number 44 Grosvenor Road in Rathgar is a fine, double fronted period house that is for auction through Sherry FitzGerald…Thu Sept 18 2003 - 01:00
Imposing home for €1.9mMonkstown Sloperton Lodge is a fine, imposing detached house just opposite De Vesci Park and tennis club in MonkstownThu Sept 11 2003 - 01:00
