A show in this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival features the Liffey as one of its main characters. “The Irish name for the Liffey is Life,” says Olwen Fouéré, writer, director and the only performer of Riverrun. “She is the river […]
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With college grants being cut in this year’s budget, college registration fees rising and average rents increasing in Dublin, students either have to budget or go hungry. While cheap instant noodles, sliced pans, ketchup pasta and frozen pizza will do […]
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Orson Welles was the ultimate renaissance man; an actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theatre, radio, cinema and television. His early association with Dublin is well-known: in 1931, as a 16 year-old, Welles performed at the Gate Theatre […]
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Do you Love Lamp? Does that mean anything to you, beyond the obvious source (the 2004 movie Anchorman)? Artwork named and themed around the quote has been a staple of Dublin street art for quite some time now, stickered and […]
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Ireland’s unemployment rate stands at 13.4%. Youth unemployment is 30%. 415,300 people are on the Dole. 50,900 people have emigrated in the past year – a majority between the ages of 15 and 24, according to the Central Statistics Office. […]
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If you like Donna Summer, the Village People, Kylie Minogue, or any other artist that alludes even the slightest sense of camp, you’ll love Priscilla Queen of the Desert. The show, which is now in its seventh year since kicking […]
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Dublin is unique among European cities in having three naturally reproducing salmon rivers within the city boundaries; the Liffey, the Tolka and the Dodder. While salmon have the run of the former two, in the Dodder they are confined to […]
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A number of residents of George Reynolds House have been actively involved in a self-organised horticultural development project on its grounds. However, there is also an increasing frustration which has started to grow amid the new greenery. The Irishtown complex […]
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The pageant of the seasons continues and autumn the harvest season beckons, the season of mists and fruits; a lovely time to enjoy nature. The swallows have said goodbye and soon it will be fall. Each month has its own […]
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Last July, Lucy Nugent, from Ranelagh, visited Tamale in Ghana to volunteer with Operation Smile Ireland (OSI) a company based in Dublin 4. Operation Smile is a registered Irish charity providing free surgery for children born with clefts in the […]
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