My favourite room: ‘While I live in an ultra modern house, my stories are old-fashioned’ – At home with the creator of The Riordans and Tolka Row

My favourite room: ‘While I live in an ultra modern house, my stories are old-fashioned’ – At home with the creator of The Riordans and Tolka Row

Christopher Fitz-Simon was the first director of RTÉ News and pioneered soaps like Tolka Row and The Riordans, but far from resting on his laurels, he continues to write entertaining stories and novels in the modern home he shares with wife Anne Makower

Writer Christopher Fitz-Simon and his wife Ann Makower, former RTÉ producer/directors, outside their contemporary mews which they bought in 2011. It’s a complete contrast to their last home, a Victorian villa which they’d lived in for 50 years. Photo: Tony Gavin

Large expanses of glass are an integral part of today’s house design and when Christopher Fitz-Simon and Anne Makower found their very