In praise of daytime TV: comforting chicken soup for the brain

The Beast from the East will drive more people indoors so it's a chance to check out the mad-cap genius of midday programming

Diana photograph could be star of bank holiday sales

Irish photographer John Minihan’s famous study of Diana Spencer dates from 1980

Home Front: interiors, design, people, events

A special toy for bored dogs; home improvements on the rise, and woman designers at dlr Lexicon

What it went for: auction results

A `sleeper' Chinese bowl makes €37,000, a Tricolour flown in Enniscorthy during the Rising, plus a host of Irish art at Dolan's

Auctions and results

Tributes paid to chef and critic Paolo Tullio at funeral

Humanist ceremony held in crowded Examination Hall at Trinity College Dublin

RTÉ’s hugely popular ‘man of all the talents’

Derek Davis: April 26th, 1948 - May 13th, 2015

‘Derek Davis could have been with me on Lough Sheelin today, waiting for the mayfly to rise’

Always open about his struggles with obesity, Davis had over the past year lost a third of his body weight

Former RTÉ presenter Derek Davis dies aged 67

Broadcaster won two Jacob’s awards and was twice presenter of the Rose of Tralee

Derek Davis: ‘Everybody comes off a little bit scarred by RTÉ’

Patrick Freyne remembers a happy few hours spent with the broadcaster in 2008

Auctions

Bank Holiday art auction in Rosslare