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The Irish Sun
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
‘Makes me smile' – American viewers blown away by hit RTE show as they discover it for first time
AMERICAN TV viewers were blown away by the arrival of The Great House Revival on the streaming service Hulu. The hit show sees renowned architect Hugh Wallace transforming derelict and unloved properties into stunning dream . Advertisement 2 The Great House Revival is available to stream in the US Credit: Instagram 2 Fans were delighted by the show's arrival Credit: Reuters Hugh took to his Instagram today to share some exciting news about The Great House Revival with fans. The 65-year-old revealed that the home renovation show is now available to stream in North America. The popular RTE series is now available to watch on Hulu, with the streaming service showing all five seasons. Making the announcement on social media, Hugh shared a snap of himself from the show. Advertisement Read more on Hugh Wallace The TV star was wearing a high vis vest standing in front of one of the derelict buildings that featured in the most recent series. Sharing the news with fans, he wrote: "Hulu is now streaming all five seasons of The Great House Revival! "If you are based in North America and have just discovered us we would love to know what you think." One fan wrote: "Working my way through every series. Love it." Advertisement Most read in News TV Martina commented: "I love watching you presenting this rock. Such a funny but gentle way you have with people. Makes me smile." Maureen gushed: "I love this show Hugh! You're such a great host with lots of charisma!" Hugh Wallace left speechless by home transformation Jill said: "It's just brilliant from start to finish. So enjoyed all of it- yes, watched in its entirety! Could listen to you all day long." In one episode of the show, viewers fell in love with an "eccentric" couple who Advertisement In this new series, Hugh guides viewers through a diverse range of restoration projects in the Irish countryside, from Cork to Donegal. For the third episode of the new series, Hugh headed to Roscommon to meet Dublin-based architects Fiona Brugha and Paddy Dunne. 'GREAT TV' The couple found a substantial 1870s colonnaded stone building, which was once the cowhouse belonging to the vast Rockingham Estate, nestled in the dense forest of Lough Key. They planned on turning the thick stone walled ruin into a contemporary family home for themselves and their two small children. Advertisement The defining feature was the row of tall arches running the full length of the building, which gave most rooms in the house a view of the surrounding forest. They purchased the property for less than €100,000 and had a budget for the works of €350,000 but a restoration project among the trees didn't come without challenges. With the help of Hugh, Fiona and Paddy worked around the old building's quirks to construct their sleek dream home in the forest.
STV News
11-06-2025
- General
- STV News
Community fundraiser for memorial 150 years on from fishing disaster
A Fife fishing community is raising £30,000 to build a memorial garden commemorating the worst fishing disaster to ever hit the Kingdom. Some 37 men from the close-knit fishing villages of the East Neuk all died when a storm hit off the Norfolk coast in the 19th century. Around 80 Fife boats had spent months following the East Anglian herring season. But three from St Monans and two from Cellardyke never returned. Mary Henderson from St Monans Heritage Centre told STV News: 'You can just imagine how awful it was for the wives, children and parents, waiting at the harbour, looking out to see if these boats were anywhere, waiting for a telegram to arrive and…nothing. 'They were all related to each other – there were brothers, uncles, son-in-laws. The entire community was affected in one way or another.' The only permanent memorial marking the disaster is hundreds of miles south in Norfolk, where eight of the men are buried. Fife Architects via Supplied The community in St Monans is hoping to build a permanent memorial in the 150th anniversary year of the disaster Four of James Paterson's ancestors died in the tragedy. He told STV News: 'My great-great grandad was the skipper of the Beautiful Star. 'It's really emotional. It would be fantastic, and we're really hoping that everything goes ahead. We want to help as much as we can.' Hugh Wallace, a member of the St Monans Memorial Garden Committee, said: 'These were families that were known, people would have been in each other's homes, and this would have changed everything for them. 'We want to have this place so that people who are coming as visitors, as well as people in the community, can remember and always be grateful for those who gave their lives…just as there is in King's Lynn where the accident took place.' STV News Hugh Wallace is part of a group fundraising for a permanent memorial garden in St Monans. As devastating as the disaster was for Fife, it also had a profound impact on the fishing communities of Norfolk. A memorial, in the shape of the 'Beautiful Star' boat, was erected in the town of King's Lynn, where eight of the fishermen are buried. STV News The 'Beautiful Star' memorial lies in the Hardwick Road Cemetery in the English town of King's Lynn. The memorial was paid for by public subscription and records detail how people lined the streets for the funerals of men they treated as their own. 'The whole town turned out, the grief was deeply felt,' said local historian Dr Paul Richards Representatives from King's Lynn are to be invited to Scotland for an opening ceremony if the memorial garden can be built in time for the 150th anniversary in November. STV News Local historian Dr Paul Richards told STV News that people lined the streets for the Fife fishermen's funerals. Dr Richards said: 'That community response I know was much appreciated in Fife but the people of King's Lynn are very proud that they were able to help and to show respect and to honour their fisherfolk. 'We have not forgotten and we hope to be together in November.' Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
Extra.ie
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Home of the Year' judge Hugh Wallace still four-years behind on his own dream home renovation
Celebrity architect Hugh Wallace, who loves nothing more than poking around complete strangers home, is somewhat lacking when it comes to putting his home affairs in order as the property show presenter is a full four years behind renovating schedule on his new abode. Home of the Year head judge Hugh, bought a doer-upper in the heartland of Dublin City Centre some years back, and despite having a wealth of experience and a top notch construction team on speed dial, Hugh is surprisingly tardy when it comes to completing his own grand design. 'We are a teeny tiny bit over time, Hugh told 'Well four years over time to be precise. It's terrible, there's really no excuse for that,' said Hugh. 'It's being plastered at the moment, so we are planning on moving in at the end of August.' And once Hugh steps foot inside his dream home he has no grand designs on stepping foot outside his new front door. 'So once we're in I'm going to lock the door and never come out,' he joked. But Hugh may some excuse for being so behind on renovating his inner city pad, as he has just signed off on a mammoth project that will radically regenerate Waterford City. 'Waterford has all the essence of a fabulous town. You have the bridges, the Opera House and all of the magnificent infrastructure. But there is only one bridge into the town so the project was to interlink the city and make everything far more accessible. 'It's all very well having envisioned the finished project but there are so many drawings and redrawing to get to that point. On the Waterford project it was as well, well in excess of 100 designs.' Pic: Seán Dwyer 'We have to examine the minutiae of documents and then we work closely with other consultants and with Harcourt Developments,' Hugh told 'But I am enormously proud of the plans and can't wait to bring it to life.' The multi-million Waterford project is set to get underway next year. 'Work will begin in the first quarter next year. That's when the bridge is going in and there will be a new pedestrian bridge across the river. Then there will be the new bus station; that will be an integrated bus station, then there's the train station and cycleway. 'There's only that one bridge now, and soon all of a sudden, you'll have the pedestrian bridge coming right into the centre of town. And that's just fabulous,' said Hugh. As one of Ireland's most feted architects, Hugh has notched up a plethora of gongs for his etchings and sketches's But he told if he had his way, he would like to fashion himself as the Miranda Priestly of the Devil Wears Prada fame- of the architectural sphere. New Home of the Year judge Siobhan Lam (left) with Hugh Wallace and Amanda Bone. Pic: RTÉ 'My day job in Wallace Architects is very different to being on the telly. I like to take all the credit in the office,' said a modest Wallace. 'I wave my arms around, and I thoroughly enjoy it, and I like to give inspiration to clients,' he said. 'I love the waving your arms around and being creative. You know, putting out ideas and clients thinking about and saying, 'No, that doesn't work for me' , Or, 'yes that's fabulous',' he laughed. 'The creative genius who kind of likes delegates.' Home of the Year judge Hugh Wallace. Pic: RTÉ And the flamboyant Great House Revival presenter will be back on screens in the new year with another instalment of Home of the Year and another outing of The Great House Revival.
Irish Examiner
29-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Architectural firm of Home of the Year judge records €176,408 profit for 2024
The architectural firm co-owned by Hugh Wallace, a judge on RTÉ ratings winner Home of the Year, has recorded post tax profits of €176,408 last year. New accounts show that the post-tax profits of €176,408 for the 12 months to the end of June last followed post-tax profits of €166,678 in the prior year. Douglas Wallace Consultants Ltd paid out dividends of €57,412 last year and this followed a dividend payout of €30,000 in 2023. In an interview, Mr Wallace said: 'Business was very good last year. Very stable.' He said that the hotel and leisure business is back after it was decimated during the covid pandemic with the main work in the sector now refurbishments. Mr Wallace said that the company is now involved in house building in Dublin, Cork, Sligo and Dungarvan and 'we were not in the residential space four or five years ago'. The company is also the designer of Harcourt Development's €200m redevelopment of the North Quays in Waterford city that recently secured planning permission from Waterford City and Council. The plans include 350 apartments across six blocks and a nine-storey, 160-room hotel. Mr Wallace said that 'roadblocks' in house building are the implementation of building regulations and fire regulations. He said that the company employs 24 with the majority architects and architect technicians. Accumulated profits at Douglas Wallace Consultants Ltd at the end of June last totalled €702,147 while cash funds declined from €315,982 to €217,498. Housing crisis Asked to comment on measures to combat the housing crisis, Mr Wallace stated that the hiring of 'Super Marios' for the Government's Housing Activation Office is not the answer in addressing the crisis. Mr Wallace said that rather than having a Housing Activation Office, the Land Development Agency (LDA) when it was established should have been granted the powers to address the housing crisis 'and make it more robust and give it proper authority'. Mr Wallace dismissed the Government's Housing Activation Office as 'just another quango'. He said that the largest bottlenecks today in the effort to build more housing are securing finance from lenders and the cost of construction. He said: 'They are interlinked. Planning is a bottleneck as well but not to the same extent as these two issues. The banks are not lending.' Mr Wallace said that he advises clients that the planning for projects may take up to two years and 'they can't understand why this should be the case'. Read More Home of the Year winners share secrets to creating a dream dwelling
The Courier
27-05-2025
- General
- The Courier
£30k memorial planned for 21 St Monans men killed in fishing tragedy
A Fife community is creating a £30,000 memorial to 21 men killed in a 19th century fishing disaster. Three St Monans boats, were lost after being caught in a severe storm in November 1875.. The tragedy left 11 women widowed and 43 children fatherless, and devastated the close-knit community. Two further boats from nearby Cellardyke also went down in the disaster. Now St Monans villagers aim to commemorate the local lives lost through the creation of a memorial garden. The area at the corner of East Street and Station Road will include vessel-shaped pedestals, one for each boat lost. And each will be engraved with the names of the men who died. A sculpture is also planned. It is hoped the memorial will be unveiled in November, in time for the disaster's 150th anniversary. The three St Monans boats – The Quest, The Beautiful Star and The Thane – went down as they returned from Norfolk. The crews had been fishing for herring off the coast of Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. And the tragedy also touched the community of King's Lynn in Norfolk, where eight of the recovered fishermen were laid to rest. The memorial has been designed by local architect Fermin Beltran Dos Santos. And is hoped it will provide a place of reflection and remembrance. Along with the pedestals, it will include a new community planter, seating and a community noticeboard, Hugh Wallace, from the St Monans Memorial Garden Committee, said it would be a reminder of the sacrifices made by fishermen, both in the 1875 tragedy and throughout the village's maritime history. The community is holding a series of fundraisers to pay for the project. And an online Crowdfunder page is already up and running. It is hoped representatives of the King's Lynn community, and the wider fishing fraternity, will attend the official dedication ceremony. Mr Wallace added: 'The committee is dedicated to creating a beautiful and meaningful space that will stand as a testament to the village's heritage and the enduring bravery of its fishing community.'
