More clouds at the Ryder CupBOOKMAKER PADDY Power, known for its cheeky and opportunistic advertising campaigns, pulled off a clever stunt at last weekend…Thu Oct 04 2012 - 01:00
In the market . . .AN ON-TREND jumper for €8, a pair of dayglo tights and the latest warbling by Rihanna (below) – Penneys has started selling CDs…Thu Oct 04 2012 - 01:00
Social media clicks with TV audiencesTELEVISION NEWS is under increasing threat from social media, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People…Thu Oct 04 2012 - 01:00
Marketeers get all loved up to win customer affectionMEDIA & MARKETING: THERE’S BEEN an outbreak of loved-up lingo among marketeersThu Oct 04 2012 - 01:00
Clouds gather for Guinness campaign“MADE OF MORE” – it’s a strapline that we’ll be seeing a lot of soon, and only time will tell whether it becomes a Guinness classic…Thu Oct 04 2012 - 01:00
Cheesy dog food and Nutella pie: is Nigella having a laugh?NIGELLA – SO FAMOUS she doesn’t need a surname – is back with a new cookery seriesSat Sept 29 2012 - 01:00
Downturned Downton? Shirley you can't be seriousTV REVIEW: LOSING A FORTUNE on shares, unemployment, the house at risk, a shouty Sinn Féin bloke arguing his listeners into …Sat Sept 22 2012 - 01:00
Grand home facing private parkRATHGAR: €2 MILLION: Much was spent on the refurbishment of this Victorian redbrick when it last changed hands but now it could…Thu Sept 20 2012 - 01:00
How 'New York Times' pictures IrelandCO LAOIS: €1.3 MILLION: When the US newspaper wanted to illustrate a feature on the Irish property market it opted for this …Thu Sept 20 2012 - 01:00
Westminster Road landmark returns to marketFOXROCK €1.65 MILLION: IT’S A safe bet that Grasmere, an impressive and completely refurbished Victorian house on Westminster…Thu Sept 20 2012 - 01:00
A hilarious, surreal and nostalgic ride into 1980s RoscommonTV REVIEW : IT HAS TAKEN UNTIL September for my comedy of the year to come alongSat Sept 15 2012 - 01:00
Cut and thrust: won't someone please think of the politicians?TV REVIEW: MINISTER FOR Education Ruairí Quinn has rather a lot of people around him: two secretaries, two political advisers…Sat Sept 08 2012 - 01:00
From the studio to the morgue and back againTHREE OF the Benjamin Black crime novels are to be adapted for television for the BBC, and Gabriel Byrne is to play the central…Fri Sept 07 2012 - 01:00
Sedate exterior hides interesting interiorMONKSTOWN: €1.85 MILLION This interior of this mid-Victorian house feels a little more rambling than first looks might suggest…Thu Sept 06 2012 - 01:00
Buns in the oven and bodies on the slabRESTAURANT CRITICS don’t book tables on opening night, theatre critics don’t sneak into rehearsals and I feel pretty much the…Sat Sept 01 2012 - 01:00
Crowning glories and crackling dialogue on the cusp of changeTV REVIEW: YOU THINK YOU’D be safe watching the nine o’clock News (RTÉ One) on Monday night, that you could zap in and zap out…Sat Aug 25 2012 - 01:00
Back to the real business of telly: sex, drugs, drama and murderTV REVIEW: THIS WEEK’S FEAST of TV drama was just the thing for telly watchers coming down from all that real-life Olympic drama…Sat Aug 18 2012 - 01:00
To bring the Olympics closer to home, RTÉ's your only man Get stuck into ...TV REVIEW: ‘I’VE SEEN very hard men crying in this studio,” said Tracy Piggott in the RTÉ studios on Monday after Katie Taylor…Sat Aug 11 2012 - 01:00
Taylor a knockout for RTÉTELEPRINTER: IT’S NOT quite the staggering 20 million people who tuned into the BBC for the Olympic 100 metres final and were…Thu Aug 09 2012 - 01:00
Tesco trials virtual shop at airportTELEPRINTER: WE’VE ALL BEEN there – coming home from holidays and realising as you turn the key in the door that there’s nothing…Thu Aug 09 2012 - 01:00
Rothco retains account with NUI MaynoothTELEPRINTER: NEW BUSINESS pitches are thin on the ground but Rothco has pitched for and retained its NUI Maynooth advertising…Thu Aug 09 2012 - 01:00
Stations move in for the kill from TV merchandising salesTELEPRINTER: PALE FACES, blood red nails, smoky eyes, and vampire obsessed teenage girls with fistfuls of pocket money – it …Thu Aug 09 2012 - 01:00
Advertisers go with the fast flow campaignsTELEPRINTER: USAIN BOLT’S 100m Olympic win on Sunday inspired Visa Europe to turn around a TV ad featuring the race on the same…Thu Aug 09 2012 - 01:00
RTÉ after a rich harvest with Format FarmMEDIA & MARKETING: IF THINGS go to plan, five programmes in RTÉ’s autumn schedule, which was announced yesterday, will end…Thu Aug 09 2012 - 01:00
From Kilimanjaro to Limerick, it takes your breath awayTV REVIEW: IN LONDON CALLING (RTÉ One, Tuesday) the Olympic-bound race walker Robert Heffernan was on a massage table in his…Sat Jul 21 2012 - 01:00
Putting the spook into suburbiaBroken Harbour By Tana French. Hachette Books Ireland, 534pp. £13.99Sat Jul 14 2012 - 01:00
Loose LeavesEnglander stories collect Frank O’Connor prize: Nathan Englander has won this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story…Sat Jul 14 2012 - 01:00
Faster, higher, stronger . . . or slower, lower, duller?TV REVIEW: The gymnastics programme was one to watch for the pure nostalgia of seeing Olga Korbut grown upSat Jul 14 2012 - 01:00
Coulter's classic tranquillity in BrayJust a short walk from Bray, Phil Coulter and Geraldine Brannigan’s period home has provided a serene setting to pursue their…Thu Jul 12 2012 - 01:00
Just what our current affairs shows need: more hugsTV REVIEW: IN THEIR PROGRAMMES on the economic wreckage, George Lee didn’t do hugs; nor did Richard Curran ever say, “Oh, don…Sat Jul 07 2012 - 01:00
A lodge in all but position and sizeBRAY €725,000: St Paul’s, Herbert Road, Bray, Co WicklowThu Jul 05 2012 - 01:00
Broadcasting charge puts licence fee debate back on agendaMEDIA & MARKETING: SINCE INDEPENDENT commercial radio was licensed 23 years ago, stations throughout the State have been…Thu Jul 05 2012 - 01:00
Washington's new monument to smart writing and comic timingTV REVIEW: THE FIRST EPISODE of a comedy series is always trickySat Jun 30 2012 - 01:00
Twitter gets serious about advertising, but who can put a value on a tweet?TWITTER chief executive Dick Costolo’s standing-room only talk at the Cannes advertising festival last week came with the warm…Thu Jun 28 2012 - 01:00
Supersize us: how we're being stuffed by the food industryTV REVIEW: REMEMBER WHEN Yorkie chocolate bars were huge? That was their big selling point in the 1980s – so big that only a…Sat Jun 23 2012 - 01:00
Blackly comic and slightly surreal - and that's just the economyTV REVIEW: MISERY ON Sunday and Monday: two depressing TV nights in a rowSat Jun 16 2012 - 01:00
Rambling redbrick in D4BALLSBRIDGE: €2.75M A rambling redbrick next to Wanderers rugby club has been owned by the same family since the 1950sThu Jun 14 2012 - 01:00
Not waving but sinking - in a deluge of pomp and ceremonyTV REVIEW: MEMORIES OF LAST weekend’s Late Late 50th Anniversary Special (RTÉ One) prevented this column taking quite so much…Sat Jun 09 2012 - 01:00
One word for five glammed-up pouting housewives: desperateTV REVIEW: THE OPENING shots of TV3’s much-hyped new series Dublin Housewives (Monday-Thursday) features five women in spangly…Sat Jun 02 2012 - 01:00
Big home with cottage feelGlenamuck Road €1.95 million Designed by the brother of painter William Orpen, Hillside is a very pretty house that offers a…Thu May 31 2012 - 01:00
Orange sponsorship leaves books for filmsLOOSE LEAVES So no more Orange Prize for Women’s Fiction – and not because of the annual bout of gender angst that accompanies…Sat May 26 2012 - 01:00
After Pat Kenny's meltdown, the meeting on the stairsTV REVIEW: THE PEOPLE AT TV3 keep sending press releases banging on about the number of times they’ve asked Taoiseach Enda Kenny…Sat May 26 2012 - 01:00
Has it really been seven years since we last caught 'Up'?TV REVIEW: FIFTY-SIX IS one of those nothing ages: neither the big-deal half-century nor the 60 slide-towards-retirement landmark…Sat May 19 2012 - 01:00
You’ve read the book. Now meet the authorLOOSE LEAVES: Good to see bookshops fighting back against online sales with their trump card: author eventsSat May 12 2012 - 01:00
Doing it for themselves: Edna O'Brien and the brides of FrancTV REVIEW: ‘LITERARY SCENES CAN be very over-rated,” said Edna O’Brien in Life, Stories (RTÉ1, Tuesday), a beautifully made, …Sat May 12 2012 - 01:00
Another great Dane or a bit of a dog's dinner?TV REVIEW: HAVING FOISTED box sets of The Killing (or Forbrydelsen, as I’d like to call it – if I could pronounce it) on friends…Sat May 05 2012 - 01:00
Masterpiece? More of a curate's egg. And as for Brian and Pippa . . .TV REVIEW: ‘THE NATION has its shortlist,” said Mike Murphy in a portentous kind of a way in his introduction to Masterpiece…Sat Apr 21 2012 - 01:00
Restored gate lodge with its own turret and touch of charmCO WICKLOW €350,000: RE-ROOFING A TURRET was one of the more unusual renovation tasks taken on by the owner of the Gate Lodge…Thu Apr 19 2012 - 01:00
Paul Durcan’s talking picturesLOOSE LEAVES: Only a brave actor would take on reading Paul Durcan’s work – the poet’s own readings are always sell-outs – but…Sat Apr 14 2012 - 01:00
