Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre are currently preparing the schedule for the Autumn/ Winter period. We aim to provide services and activities for all members of the Community. If you would like any additional activities organised, please call down, we […]
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These days, Hallowe’en is a time for costumed antics for all ages. Everyone knows the origins of the festival – a holdover from the days of our ancestors who believed the world of the supernatural was “close at hand”. It […]
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While we all should know that Pearse Street is named after Padraig Pearse, it’s not as obvious that other streets in the area, and a lot of social housing, is named after others who died in the 1916 Rising. An […]
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RTÉ let themselves go after the death of Gerry Ryan. Well they let their allotments go, which had originally featured on the late presenter’s show. Until recently they lay abandoned in the grounds of RTÉ. Their CountryWide radio programme, presented […]
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For two days in September Sandymount Strand was transformed by a highly unique live art installation. Between Friday 20th and Saturday 21st, as part of this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival, 4/704 was staged, its purpose to highlight the issue of […]
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The South West of the United States was truly a mad, wild and lawless territory. Everybody was armed and would shoot you dead for a chance remark or a perceived dirty look. It really was the Wild West. This was […]
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A new Private Members Bill by the Seanad concerning the installation of defibrillators in public areas has been broadly welcomed. The Bill titled Public Health (Availability of Defibrillators) Bill 2013 was sponsored by Independent Senator Feargal Quinn and deals directly […]
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As the days grow shorter and the sunshine fades, giving way to rainy days and dark nights, many of us get a touch of the blues. Most people are only mildly affected by feelings like this during winter and can […]
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When we think of hypnosis, we often picture the cliché of stage acts with overgrown moustaches telling random audience members to “look into my eyes, look into my eyes”. Hypnotherapy, however, is an increasingly respected form of healing. You’ve probably […]
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Bryan Dobson, a journalist and presenter of RTÉ’s Six One News, met me for a coffee at Browne’s Coffee Shop in Sandymount. “I wasn’t born in Sandymount, but I was brought up here,” he said. In fact he was brought […]
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