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Tuesday 27 September 2022
Put yourself in prime position for the buying journey with a few simple actions.
Elaine Verdon of Leo + Cici shares her trend predictions for the year to come.
If you’re facing into many more months working from home, here’s how to liven up your space.
Plus a few mistakes they’ve learned from along the way.
Just because a sofa fits in the room doesn’t mean it’s the right size, says Emily Westbrooks.
From the storage to the bedding, some forward planning can save you time and money later.
Emily Westbrooks takes a look inside a selection of homes across the country.
Featuring homemade artwork, IKEA furniture hacks, and lots of bright paint colours.
‘You might not need exactly 20 blueberries counted out… but your kids don’t know that.’
Seasoned home-working veteran Emily Westbrooks has a few tips.
It only takes a few seconds – and we’ll look after the rest.
Eilin O’Carroll takes us through a day behind her front doors – the former stables she lives in, and the manor she is renovating.
Breda Meere takes us through a day behind her front door.
From comfy chairs to vibrant kids’ beds.
Loretta Kennedy takes us through a day behind her front door.
And what kept them motivated through the savings journey.
Rachel takes us through a day behind her front door.
Magda Watroba takes us through a day behind her front door.
The former horse truck as been “permanently put to pasture” – and now sleeps five comfortably.
Including a Wicklow cafe with some of the soundest staff in Ireland.
Rosemarie Durr takes us through a day behind her front door (starting with breakfast al fresco).
Including the best beach for a sunrise swim.
Once home to cows and chickens, the Crows’ Hermitage is now a breathtaking stayover spot.
Tríona and her husband moved from city to country last summer.
If feeding hens and milking goats sounds like your kind of holiday activity, book a stay on Kiltale Farm.
From a town destroyed by plague to a memorable banoffee pie – the highlights of a life well travelled.
Aisling Donnellan talks us through a day inside her front door.
Stay alongside a growing family, ponies, dogs and a terrapin.
From Sligo’s best breakfast to a unique beach – the highlights of a life well travelled
Marketing manager and mum Joanna Carley takes us through a day behind her front door.
Spend the night on the spectacular grounds of this 18th century manor.
Here’s where the New Zealand native goes for incredible photos (and an Irish fry).
Here’s how to fix them (and avoid dried-out day #2 lasagne).
Digital marketer Aoife Porter takes us through a day behind her front door.
The Roisin Dubh in Sallins, Co Kildare is warm, cosy, and unique.
From isolated hikes to a very special ice-cream – William Barry on the highlights of a life well travelled.
From Strandhill to the Copper Coast, here are the places to get off the beaten track in 2019.
No home is perfect. So what’s the best way to tell the difference between wants and needs? We talked to the experts.
We got the inside scoop from the agents themselves.
Heading out to see a home? Here’s what to keep in mind as you walk in.
BUDGET 2023 IS to be announced at 1pm today, but its contents have been in the headlines for weeks, if not months, already.
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, the government has brought forward the Budget by two weeks from its usual mid-October date. Various groups from students to pensioners, and everyone in between, have been calling loudly for support to help them make ends meet.
Much of what Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will announce is in the news to read already – renters will receive a much-discussed tax credit, social welfare payments set to increase by €12 per week and a 25% reduction in childcare costs has been agreed as well.
So, with the national finances all over the news, we want to know: Do you keep a personal budget?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Economist Victor Duggan has some good advice for the finance minister ahead of tomorrow’s budget.
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