Archive for August 2015

Cycle For Aware

Cycle For Aware

A charity event raising money for Aware Ireland was organised by the Bath Pub for June 6th. Aware is an organisation that provides support for people who suffer from depression, a condition that affects 450,000 people in Ireland at any […]

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Pricey Property in Ringsend

Pricey Property in Ringsend

The last few years have seen an explosion of commerce and activity in the Grand Canal Dock and the IFSC. Ireland’s corporate tax rate has made Grand Canal Dock an attractive prospect for large multinational tech corporations. The most famous […]

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RDS – beyond the horse show

RDS – beyond the horse show

The Dublin Horse Show is rolling around again soon – the famous international show run by the RDS in Dublin 4 every August. In the mind’s eye, the RDS most probably conjures up images of The Horse Show or a […]

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D4 bookworms revere Joyce and Yeats

D4 bookworms revere Joyce and Yeats

Summer seems like the appropriate time to celebrate some of Ireland’s most famous literary talents. This June saw the annual Bloomsday tribute to James Joyce, as well as a special celebration for the 150th anniversary of the birth of William […]

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Cinema Roundup August 14th

Cinema Roundup August 14th

The Lighthouse cinema continues its season of ‘Films you’d love your kids to see’ on Tuesday with one of the key movies of the ’80s, Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, the movie that unleashed Indiana Jones on the […]

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Burls-Bridge Lady

Burls-Bridge Lady

By day, Nikki Brooks works in the commerical property industry in Ballsbridge, but by night she transforms herself into Lady Veneray, a comedy/cabaret performer on Dublin’s nascent burlesque scene. The burlesque scene in Dublin has been expanding over the years, […]

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Message in a Bottle

Message in a Bottle

Find out how a Message in a Bottle could save your life! Join Dublin Fire Brigade in St Patrick’s Catholic Men and Women’s Society next week, when they will be explaining how the Message in a Bottle system lets the […]

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Modern Wife, Modern Life

Modern Wife, Modern Life

A new exhibition had its debut in the National Print Museum at Beggars Bush Barracks on July 1st and will be running up to August 30th. Modern Wife, Modern Life explores the representations and expectations of Irish women through the […]

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Sober Lane App Blast Off

Sober Lane App Blast Off

Irishtown’s Sober Lane staged the launch of a new app on the night of Thursday June 25th. NewsFour was on hand to report from the frontlines of the Sober Lane App inaugural, an application that is suitable for both iOS […]

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Did Someone Say Break a Leg?

Did Someone Say Break a Leg?

On the night that Irishtown Stage School held their end-of-year show, someone screamed, “Break a Leg!” It was meant to be the traditional good luck phrase bantered about by showbiz folk as they take to the stage. Liza Caulfield, however, […]

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