The Irish start-up, which was created by Edel Lyons, has gone from strength to strength since it first launched - and it is now on its second collection.
If you thought you spotted Dáithí Ó Sé thumbing a lift at the crack of dawn in the Galway countryside recently, cancel that Specsavers appointment. The nation’s favourite Gaeilgeoir was indeed transported back to his backpacking days after his well-travelled car finally gave up the ghost, leaving him stranded on the side of the road in Aughrim. But that wasn’t going to stop the host-with-the-most completing the 227km cross-country schlep to the set of our exclusive cover shoot to herald the return of the Rose of Tralee after three years. “The last time I was hitching at six o’clock in the morning, I bet you I was heading home from someplace. How life has changed,” laughs the Kerryman of the misadventure.
Ireland’s leading representative body for digital and online businesses, Digital Business Ireland has today announced the appointment of Craughwell native Ashley McDonnell of global luxury powerhouse, PUIG as Chairperson of the representative body.
Maya Olsen has the kind of knockout personal style that people literally stop her in the street to admire.
The stylist has an impeccable eye for picking up quirky, unusual pieces and now she has launched her own website, Nobody’s Empire, which, she says, “is a land where vintage rules”.
The day we chat, Maya is on the receiving end of lots of admiring glances on Dublin’s fashion-forward Drury Street for her Versace-esque boots which, for the record, she picked up on Depop.
I wasn’t at all surprised to discover that Maya hails from Seattle, one of the best places in America to pick up seriously good vintage.