The Centre is wrapping up a glorious weekend hosting design promotion professionals and consultants from Europe and the US. We had the privilege of entertaining the group at Coopershill House. The O’Hara family’s hospitality was second to none and the 5-course dinners were spectacular. Have a look at the history of the house and family. [...]

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Google was promoting a 3D program along with Google Earth and so Lisa and I downloaded SketchUp to see if we could create a rendering of her studio. What a cool and powerful little app. With no previous 3D experience, we had what I thought was a pretty nice scale model of the structure after [...]

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Google Earth has been updated to include detail of the area around Sligo, including our house!! There is also a MAC native beta version for download. I may be the last person on earth (haha) to know this, but happily wasted plenty of time flying around the countryside looking at the windfarm and other walks [...]

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Lisa claims it was unfair of me to post a review since I missed the last 30 minutes of Under the Tuscan Sun, but frankly I had seen Florence a few days before and didn’t want the memory tarnished by Italian stereotypes, bad acting and sappy storywriting. Maybe the book is better?

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