Fallen off maps
You find them, these forgotten country towns, more by accident than design. It is as if they had fallen off maps, places for passing through rather than going to. Frozen in time, draped in a patina of grey stone and flaking paint, their grimy windows blind any sign of life. Abandoned in times of austerity for better climes and
MAGIC IN THE CATHEDRAL
It was useful to delay writing in order to process the complexities of the extraordinary experience that Irish fashion designer Helen Cody created at Christ Church Cathedral on Tuesday 6th. September. When she first told me that she had secured the venue I knew she intended something special and that somehow she would make light of the weight of
THE STYLE STAKES
The ‘season’ is upon us. In Ireland that means regular horse racing, a rare polo match, the odd ‘celebrity’ wedding and one day in five when it does not rain… heavily. It is time for a style statement. The trouble is in many will insist on wearing an entire ‘book’ . Easy elegance is drowned under a mayhem