TOODLEOO TO THE HANDSHAKE?

I recorded an essay for RTE Radio 1 The Business about the demise of the handshake. You can listen here or read below or sure why not do both like a total rockstar. Of all the things I’ve missed over the last 18 months, the handshake has not been one of them. On my...

Grand Designs Vs Changing Rooms – FIGHT!

If the question, which home improvement show would win in hand to hand combat, Grand Designs or Changing Rooms, you’ve come to the right place! I wrote something for The Irish Times about the return of Changing Rooms here (alas, it’s behind the paywall...

Toodleoo Roadwatch….

I am so excited to have a piece in the Irish Times today on my 12 years at Roadwatch. Want to know what J5 on the M8 is?! You’ll just have to clicky dee click here.

‘Olive it there so’

I wrote about how over marketed olive can get stuffed in The Irish Times a couple of years ago. Oh yesiree, I’m not afraid to take on the big issues. Link to the original article here. According to a tub of Greek olives I bought recently, each one of them had been...

I think therefore, I yarden.

I bought a few packets of seeds during the first lockdown and became a bit of a fanatic. I was posting seeds to friends and family insisting they ‘TRY THIS. IT HELPS MARK THE PASSING OF TIME DURING THIS NIGHTMARE WE’RE LIVING THROUGH’. I wrote about my pandemic...

House and Home Column

Illustration credit: Karen Harte I bought my house two years ago by some minor financial miracle. About six weeks after I got the keys, I decided there was no time like the present (late Autumn) to rip all the plaster off the walls and leave myself with no heat or hot...