Living it up: Luxury penthouse apartment facing Trinity College seeks €1.95m

Immortalised in a line by poet Patrick Kavanagh, all manner of the great and good have ‘tripped lightly along the ledge’ of Grafton Street from the time it was a mere country lane to its current status as one of the most expensive rental shopping locations in the world.

King George V and Queen Mary processed regally along it during their royal visit of 1911, while nowadays it’s royalty of the celebrity variety who are ...