Magazine Minute: Róisín Gartland, Trish McEvoy, technology blackout and Richard Ford

COVER STORY: GO YOUR OWN WAY

"For 17 years I’d had that framework, you know: there’s the staff, there’s the person in the office doing all the bookkeeping, there’s the people making, there’s the accountant, there’s the lawyer... and then suddenly it was - poof - gone!" Irish designer Róisín Gartland marks 30 years in the business of Irish fashion in this weekend’s Sunday Business Post Magazine, and reflects on a career of two halves. Part one: the thriving studio business, which saw Gartland and team make magic with animal skins for fellow creatives in the order of John Rocha. Part two: Gartland’s decision to go it entirely alone, defining a personal language through which she now expresses herself.

“It was quite an emotional thing, because when you’re look after everyone but yourself you can get lost,” she says. “But I had this sense of elation at putting myself first. My staff were distraught, I was distraught, but I knew it was the right thing to do.” Read the full interview, and see Gartland’s latest ready to wear collection in this Sunday’s Magazine.

BRUSH WITH GREATNESS

From Dublin to Berlin, to becoming a global queen of cosmetics, Trish McEvoy is a businesswoman to be reckoned with. Loved by discerning women for whom organisation is the key to impeccable grooming, McEvoy is interviewed by Gillian Nelis in this week’s Magazine. “My makeup brand was super-successful from the beginning,” McEvoy says, “but it all came through word of mouth. To this day, actually, most of the company’s growth has been through word of mouth, through one woman telling another woman about one of our products.” Find out what all the fuss about, while swotting up on Trish’s personal favourite beauty products, in this Sunday’s Magazine.

OFF MESSAGE: NADINE O’REGAN

In the week that brought you ‘covefefe’, Nadine O’Regan argues the case for a technology blackout in this Sunday’s Off Message. "Is technology turning us into fat, lazy eejits?” she writes, "It’s a valid question, albeit one that no-one on a tech marketing team would be caught dead asking, not to mind confess an interest in having you answer. But seriously: for the good of our health, isn’t it time that, instead of shouting ‘more, please!’ to all new personal technology, we uttered the less easy phrase ‘Stop!’?" Empathise with her sentiments? Log off, power down, and pick up Off Message, in all its printed glory, in this Sunday’s Magazine.

ARTS INTERVIEW: RICHARD FORD

Richard Ford has long been fascinated by the everyday lives of ordinary people - people like his parents, whose lives he contemplates in his latest, non-fiction book. This Sunday, the Pulitzer-winning author tells Catherine Healy why he’d likely never have written anything had his father lived to an older age, and describes the responsibility he felt to pay tribute to a pair for whom “history had not much to offer”. Ford also speaks to us about holidays in Ireland and current events in the US. “I don’t think there’s much in the force that moved Trump into the White House that we can be proud of,” he says. “You had the evangelicals and the unemployed and the nihilists, and then the contingent of pure racists who just hated Obama because he was black.”