Best Salon 2015: The Grooming Rooms

With its manicures, facials, hot towel shaves and extra treatments, this salon in central Dublin is ‘a big step up from your normal barber’, according to our secret shopper


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Is it time for a change from identikit, fitted kitchens? Maverick designer Johnny Grey’s manifesto is to make the kitchen a room that reflects the personality of the whole home


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Irish people who have moved abroad explain their complicated relationship with homes old and new




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