This October Bank Holiday weekend sees the Bram Stoker Festival return to Dublin with four days of living stories and four nights of deadly adventures from October 27th to 30th. Highlights include Al Porter’s Camp Dracula comedy show; the Macnas […]
Read more →On Monday the 11th September Dave Tilly and Donnacha McCarthy set out for Rotterdam. Thanks to weekend overtime work at the Bicycle Design Centre, Naas, their tandem was repaired just in time and ready for the World Championship in Paratriathlon. […]
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The excellence of Irish craft was on show again this year from August 2-13 at the RDS Craft Awards Exhibition. There were 336 entries across ten categories on display and for judging and while they may have been somewhat overshadowed […]
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It seems, at nearly every festival nowadays, whether it’s about flowers, music or dogs, that a craft beer showcase is included as standard. However, when it comes to focusing purely on the booming Irish brewing and distilling industry, the RDS […]
Read more →Time is running out for all you food historians. It’s your final chance to visit the exhibition entitled “Jacob’s Biscuit Factory & Dublin: An Assorted History” on Pearse Street. Drawing on the vast 330 boxes of Jacob Biscuit Factory Archives […]
Read more →Think of going to a festival in Ireland and you imagine young people, DJ’s, odd substances and mucky fields. Well a different type of music festival is arriving in Ringsend on Saturday 21st October, and it features none of the […]
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Dublin Bus was created when the original CIE separated into the subsidiaries of Iarnród Éireann, Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann back in 1987. Since then, Dublin Bus has gone through many changes. The population of Dublin has grown significantly over […]
Read more →Perhaps the most iconic of Billy Joel’s songs is the stunning Piano Man. It is set in a lonely, beer-filled, smoky New York bar. It plays to many people’s sense of isolation and of unimportance. It teaches us that music […]
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An unexploded hand grenade thought to be from the time of the War of Independence was discovered under the Anglesea Bridge in the Ballsbridge area on August 28th. Gardai were immediately alerted and submitted a request to the Irish Defence […]
Read more →We’re into October, and that means it’s horror movie season. Tonight the Lighthouse celebrates the 30th anniversary of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser by screening a new restoration of the cult movie. A stark contrast to the goofy comedy-horrors that were popular […]
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