absolutely love it... i had never been but on saturday i took a stroll into Swords - just at the bottom of main street adjacent the swords castle - is where it's all happening [10am - 4pm]. It's not huge but it's enough to...

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"Propaganda Beds" = Guerilla planting of veg in towns. Briliant! Inspirational programme packed with ideas.

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Received as a gift, I look forward immediately to devouring this book as an avid Pixies fan. With the exception of a foreward written by...

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Matter is the latest in Ian M. Banks Culture novel. It follows the usual format for Culture novels: weaving a very personal story into a...

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Who knew gardening could be this much fun? While up in Cork last week I went to BQ Mahon Point to pick up a much-needed loppers. The trees and shrubs around our little patch of West Cork have been much neglected of late… it was time for some serious...

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I have selected gardens… whose design clearly illustrates a particular period of garden history, and whose plantings demonstrate an almost obsessional love of plants and the surrounding Irish landscape irish gardens by olda fitzgerald The...

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What distinguishes Ian M. Banks's novel is the shear scale of the universes he creates. He paints a picutre not just of the his characters...

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book review - food for free At €17.60 - this ‘life enhancing classic' could nearly buy you a good meal and a glass of fine wine… In the scheme of things it's pricy. But is it well worth it? From revealing the...

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T photo credit: houseoftext My 3 primary school going kids got their book lists for next September a week or so ago and having learnt my lesson from previous years of leaving their purchase till August, I decided to get it all done and dusted...

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An organic slug pellet which is about as effective as tits on a bull. Utterly failed to stoppa any sluggas. Avoid.

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