How Arklow turned a major sewage problem into an opportunity to build something spectacular
Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant, designed by Clancy Moore, is the first in the world with an architect as an integrated part of the design team
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We already have Great House Revival. What we need now is Feck the Preservation Order, Let’s Knock It and Build an Office Block
Or maybe If We Just Leave It Derelict We’ll Make Money on the Land Value Alone. Hugh Wallace could still present it
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
January 12th-17th: including new series of Room to Improve and The Dry, and Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show
Room to Improve review: Dermot Bannon’s fancy pants design runs into a client’s wish for a lovable and liveable home
Television: Room To Improve turns an everyday makeover project into an engaging story and tells it with passion and empathy
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
January 5th-10th – including Dancing with the Stars, Michael Lynn: The Fugitive and Neven’s Portuguese Food Trails
Dermot Bannon-designed cottage with central courtyard in Blackrock for €1.05m
The renovation of number 5 Avoca Place featured on RTÉ's Room to Improve
Dermot Bannon’s Super Spaces review: Starchitect lights up the screen like sunlight through a megabucks extension
Television: New series exploring ‘spaces where we work, live, socialise’ occasionally lacks sensitivity in this housing crisis era
TV guide: The best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
September 1st-6th: From Dermot Bannon’s cosy abodes to Billy Connolly’s look back at his life
Dermot Bannon: ‘All three kids were born during the Room to Improve time. Obviously, there’s sacrifices’
Parenting in My Shoes: The architect and TV presenter on juggling parenthood with his career and what he enjoys most about being a father
Michael D Higgins’s dogs, Cillian Murphy’s blue eyes and Enya’s voice: Patrick Freyne’s 30 real Irish icons
Forget national heroes, martyrs and rank celebs. These are the certifiable emblems of our small but great nation
Patrick Freyne: In a housing crisis, Room to Improve feels like a barometer of our national derangement
There are three people in every Room to Improve marriage if you include Dermot Bannon
Room to Improve: Dermot Bannon refuses to change, which is precisely what Ireland loves about him
Television review: This year, RTÉ's most bulletproof brand has demonstrated signs of wear and tear
Room to Improve review: ‘Oh my god,’ exclaims Dermot Bannon. ‘They are doing everything back to front’
Television: Dermot Bannon’s show celebrates successful makeovers – but it is the near-disasters that live in the memory
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch
Highlights include Dancing with the Stars and a new series of Room to Improve with Dermot Bannon
Like Scooby-Doo and The A-Team, Dermot Bannon is up there with the best crime-solving TV shows
Patrick Freyne: A compelling protagonist going from town to town solving crimes is my favourite TV trope
Room to Improve’s Patricia Power: ‘I can’t see any drop in prices in the short to medium term’
Quantity surveyor says costs will remain high but supply is catching up with demand
Glenveagh chief and Dermot Bannon: Simple rule change could cut cost of new homes by 20%
Stephen Garvey says replacing apartments with more houses will benefit everyone, not just developers, in new campaign with architect Dermot Bannon
Ten beds, eight baths, one big refurb bill: Foxrock mansion ready for multimillion euro investment
Setauket, off Torquay Road in the south Dublin village, could cost the new owner more than €2.5m to renovate or rebuild
Room to Improve: Dermot Bannon goes through the wringer at the end of a season that ‘nearly killed’ him
Television: The wow wars are only the beginning of Ann-Marie and Andy Gray’s woes
TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week
From current affairs to the Arctic, the Welsh Valley and the world of Putin, this week’s TV has something for everyone
Patrick Freyne: With its overconfident boors and swaggering sexpots, it’s like any small Irish town
An outlandishly dressed foreigner arrives in France, where she struggles to adapt to their sexy Gallic ways. No, it’s not Emily in Paris but Marie Antoinette
Room to Improve: house whisperer Dermot Bannon goes to battle over a pergola
Television: the magic ought to be fading, yet the series is thriving – and Bannon’s mix of charm and chutzpah plays big part
TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week, starting tonight
Including Dancing With the Stars, Room to Improve, the Annual Golden Globe Awards and Hunters
Kitchen kit: What to pack for your holiday rental
In an Irish holiday home don’t assume there’ll be sea salt and a pepper mill
Motherhood on Clare Island: A freedom suburban parents can only dream of
It was a time of flowery aprons, hairnets and rhubarb tarts, writes Áine Ryan
Do a ‘brain dump’: Dermot Bannon on how to work with an architect
In Open Door, architects offer hour-long consultations in return for charity donations
Baz Ashmawy gives us a property show that makes the lips wobble
DIY SOS: The Big Build Ireland builds a home for motor neurone disease patient Johnny Aylward
If you’re part of the cult of Dermot Bannon, you’ll enjoy this
TV review: Room To Improve – Constructive Criticism avoids being a backslapping bacchanalia
Unlike Dermot Bannon’s design choices, Room To Improve will never go out of fashion
TV review: Episode one of a new series follows parents doing everything they can for a child
Home of the Year: It’s not MMA, but an architect-designer squabble is the next best thing
TV review: The season is off to a lively start. Hopefully the judges will continue to disagree
Generation Dating: The real love affair is the friendship between Tony (81) and Isabel (22)
TV review: Virgin Media’s new dating show proves friendship can blossom in unlikely places
Katie Price morphs into Dermot Bannon with hair extensions and a barbie tracksuit
TV review: Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion sees the return of the ultimate marmite celebrity
Emer McLysaght: No home improvement show is too bonkers for me to watch
Tinie Tempah’s Extraordinary Extensions? Healy Rae’s Cow Shed? I’m in
‘I have found peace’, says Charlie Bird amid outpouring of public support
Journalist with motor neurone disease plans to lead fundraising climb of Croagh Patrick
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