A decade-long collaboration with Dunnes Stores has taken Joanne Hynes mainstream, but the fashion designer has kept her avant-garde sensibility and channelled it into a variety of artistic ventures, discovers Marie Kelly.

Tech entrepreneur and director at Puig Ashley McDonnell is transforming the perception of Irish fashion both at home and abroad. She tells Marie Kelly about the country’s inaugural Ireland Fashion Week.

Fashion and retail entrepreneur Colm Dillane, aka KidSuper, tells Marie Kelly how he journeyed from selling T-shirts out of his parents’ basement to guest-designing for Louis Vuitton.

Group singing is proving more than an enjoyable pastime. It’s becoming an antidote to loneliness and diffidence, discovers Marie Kelly.

End-of-summer sadness is an affliction for many. Marie Kelly asks the experts how to make the transition into September less anxiety-inducing.

Humour isn’t something we’re born with but a skill we develop through practice. Marie Kelly talks to several experts who explain how to find fun in the humdrum.

A recent global sleep survey reported that 49 percent of Irish people wake up feeling tired almost every day. Marie Kelly talks to the experts and finds that good sleep hygiene is more straightforward than you might think.

The natural diamond industry has battled controversies for decades. With an increase in climate anxiety and the growing popularity of lab diamonds, are the storied gemstones still a girl’s best friend, asks Marie Kelly.

Like vinyl, film cameras and the Irish language, letter writing is enjoying a renaissance. Marie Kelly speaks with four individuals who love putting pen to paper.

Highly personal, multi-day celebrations requiring budgets of a million euro upwards are now the norm for many Irish couples tying the knot. Marie Kelly speaks with industry professionals about the rise of the ‘super wedding’.

The wool from indigenous Irish sheep lost its value in recent times as consumers shopped for softer merino fibres or cheaper synthetic fabrics. As the industry reaches crisis point, several innovators are making a persuasive case for using Irish wool in interior design, says Marie Kelly.

Thanks to a new generation of producers, and a viral trend on TikTok, Irish seaweed is now regarded as a luxury ingredient by the culinary and cosmetic industries. Marie Kelly speaks with the founders of several burgeoning businesses.

As her new podcast with co-host Vicky Pattison finds its audience, broadcaster Angela Scanlon talks to Marie Kelly about collaborating, celebrating women and raising independent young girls.

Artist Dorothy Cross tells Marie Kelly in her own words what drew her to art as a child, how it became a personal addiction and why the concept of home has informed her latest work.

Musician Wallis Bird tells Marie Kelly in her own words how Berlin captured her imagination, what she misses about home and why she thinks Trad music is a truthful genre.

Over a lunch of crispy duck and turnip cakes, Asia Market commercial director Eva Pau tells Marie Kelly how she built up her parents’ company from a niche Dublin retail outlet to one of the capital’s culinary and cultural touchpoints.

Broadcaster and biologist Liz Bonnin tells Marie Kelly in her own words why she was horrified by Irish cuisine in the eighties, how community is the key to climate change and why she’ll always remain under the spell of the Burren.

Founder and chief executive of Tilting the Lens Sinéad Burke tells Marie Kelly in her own words where she learned to advocate for herself, how Ireland is failing those with disabilities and why there’s nothing better than coming home.

Podcaster and author Blindboy Boatclub tells Marie Kelly in his own words about his early school trauma, adult autism diagnosis and how a plastic bag protects his privacy.