Ireland’s most awarded commercials production company, Blinder Films, was founded in 2005 by directors Richie Smyth and Kieron J Walsh, later joined by Executive Producer/Managing Director Michael Duffy, in an office on Irishtown Road. The outfit quickly established themselves, producing […]
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The Stunning were an Irish rock band that formed in 1987 gaining huge recognition within Ireland and selling over 100,000 albums. They split after business disappointments and a lack of progress internationally. They played a farewell tour in 1994 before […]
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Beef chop suey is packed to the florets with foods to keep you healthy. Instead of the same old vegetables try bamboo shoots. They can improve cholesterol levels, they’re low in calories and their anti-inflammatory properties may reduce the risk […]
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Donnybrook has never been shy of characters, of movers and shakers, despite its modest, gentrified atmosphere. One such figure, a long-time Donnybrook resident, was Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, also known as An Seabhac or The Hawk. An Seabhac was a prominent […]
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Author Frank Hopkins (pictured) was born in Birmingham but moved to Ringsend in the late 1960s with his family. Frank’s first two books Rare Old Dublin and Hidden Dublin were largely based on columns that he had written for the […]
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During February, I went with our photographer on the Aviva Stadium tour. The enthusiasm of the tour guide, as he brought us to this Colosseum of professional sport in Ireland, made the tour. During the tour, in my imagination we […]
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Many Irish people nowadays go to live abroad due to financial pressures, but Susan Kennedy’s journey began just as the Celtic Tiger was starting to roar. “I left Ireland in 1995 when I completed my degree at UCD. There was […]
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Dying is easy, they say, comedy is hard. Glynis Casson and Irene Gaffney (pictured) are two performers who have been treading the boards for their professional lives and have lived to tell the tale: many tales in fact, with a […]
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When it comes to small talk, the traditional Irish conversational fallback of the weather has been replaced in recent years by discussion of the cost of living. We constantly talk about the rising costs of bills and our struggle to […]
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Once a respected sport journalist, Paul Howard is best known for the cult character who we love to hate, or hate to love. Ross O’Carroll Kelly, a Dublin 4 has-been rugby jock, is the protagonist of fourteen books and a […]
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