A curiously old fashioned look and feel. Printed on newspaper rather than the white, brilliant white or shiny white paper more usually used for magazines. Very nearly but not quite the size of the 'Economist', maybe 5mm higher and 5mm wider. Imperial rather than metric? 50 pages or so to the issue. Rather dingy, old fashioned colour printing of the sort that I remember from the comics of my childhood. But they have moved a bit with the times and they do have the web site at reference 1.
Decent, homely content with little if any coverage of the so-called private lives of celebrities. No pictures of ladies in states of undress. Quite a lot of coverage of nature, gardening, cooking, musical events and music, particularly traditional Irish music. Some sport. Advertisements for birthstone rings - something which BH had heard of but which I had not - and something which might cost several hundred euros. Puzzles and games. Short stories. A modest number of small ads., and usually including a page of older lonely hearts. Oddly, an article commemorating the life of one Reverend J. W. Foote, a Presbyterian Irish Canadian who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his services during the Dieppe Raid - oddly in that I had thought the southern Irish drew something of a veil over both world wars, to the sorrow of the many people who had lost someone in one of them.
Perhaps one can still see such magazines deep in the provinces over here, older places like Exeter or Derby, but I have never come across one. The best I can do is the small town weekly newspapers, newspapers like the 'Pullman's Weekly News' from Axminster in Devon. This last including, as I recall, lots of small ads., many of them agricultural.
Reference 1: https://www.irelandsown.ie/.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%27s_Own.
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