There are plenty of gadgets and suggestions to improve your home on show at the Mansion House.
The 13th Ideal Homes and Gardens Exhibition opens at the Mansion House in Dublin. The latest in garden furniture, building your own grandfather clock, a window washing gadget, energy saving double glazing and solid fuel heating are among the many items on display. There is also the latest in audiovisual technology for the home.
The Ideal Homes and Gardens Exhibition runs for 12 days.
From ceiling to floor, there's almost everything for every home and every bank balance.
The theme of saving energy and making greater use of the resources which we have is dominant at the sixty stalls.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 3 September 1980. The reporter is Colm Connolly.
