Donnelly Fresh Foods

Sad as Dubliners were to see the 2012 closure of one of the city’s most iconic businesses, the Dublin Woollen Mills (where James Joyce, no less, once worked), it is cheering to see Elaine Murphy and the team from the equally iconic Winding Stair next door serving u ...

Going through Sutton Cross is enjoyable these days, with the pretty sage green frontage of Higgins Family Butchers to distract the eye when waiting at the lights - and there's a lovely bakery counter too, which will tempt you to try one of their gorgeous pastries while d ...

This is the last fish shop on the West Pier of Howth harbour, and many regulars make a beeline for it. A family run concern with a long tradition in the fish business in Howth, it was founded by Nicky McLoughlin (recipient of the Irish Food Writers' Guild Lifetime Achie ...

Third generation farmer Darragh McCullough has been a familiar face to viewers of RTE's Ear To The Ground for 20 years - and he's equally well known as a print journalist and author - but his heart is here in Co Meath, at the family's flower farm. Although most famous fo ...

Very conveniently situated just outside Dublin, between Bray and Greystones, Killruddery has been home to the Brabazon Family (the Earls of Meath) since 1618. The estate was designed on a large scale with a view to impressing visitors and, these days, it is a hive of act ...

Just 10 minutes' drive west of Athy, Burtown House is an early Georgian villa surrounded by beautiful gardens, parkland walks and farmland .  It is one of only two houses in Co Kildare to have remained in the original family, and an extraordinarily talented one at ...