Sunburst-motif mirrors welcome customers ringing the bell of Louise Kennedy’s four-storey Georgian Dublin townhouse. Inside, the ground floor gifting rooms are spotted with art deco-inspired bottle-stoppers and crystal-adorned ceramic egg candles. Purples and pinks pop out from the rails of the first-floor fashion rooms, where later I spot the black lurex tweed biker jacket Kennedy … Read more
Some Catholic Church teaching “is rancid, has gone off and needs to be updated”, former president Mary McAleese has said. “But it’s not going to be updated by a bunch of, a tiny and increasingly small number of celibate male ordained bishops,” she added. There were “lots of wonderful young women who would make a … Read more
The renaming of Trinity College Dublin’s former Berkeley Library after Eavan Boland is “rooted in the determination of staff and students that the building should no longer commemorate a slave owner”, the audience at an event to celebrate the change has heard. Before helping unveil a plaque proclaiming its new name on Monday night, Boland’s … Read more