Archive for April 2020

Element Pictures and BBC to film another Sally Rooney novel

By David Prendeville Local company Element Pictures will once again collaborate with the BBC on another adaptation of a Sally Rooney novel. This time they are set to tackle her first novel Conversations with Friends. Lenny Abrahamson is once again […]

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Tributes as Teresa Weafer moves from RDRD

Eoin Meegan Teresa Weafer has been the driving force behind the Ringsend and District Response to Drugs (RDRD) since its inception in 1995. A few short weeks ago, Teresa stepped down as manager of the project, a position she held […]

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Working from Home with Children

Glandore, Ireland’s longest serving and leading provider of serviced offices and co-working spaces, share helpful advice for those trying to juggle working from home whilst keeping their children occupied. Covid-19 is a phrase that wasn’t very familiar to us just […]

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Through Her Eyes: A new history of Ireland in 21 women

Geneva Pattison Author and journalist, Clodagh Finn, invites us to travel through time and pay tribute to 21 ground-breaking Irish women in her book ‘Through Her Eyes: A new history of Ireland through 21 women’. When learning about Ireland’s History […]

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Aware: Your Supporting Light Through Depression

By Eoin Meegan For over 30 years Aware has been pioneering education, support and information to people impacted by depression, bipolar disorder and other forms of mental illness throughout Ireland. This is done primarily through a variety of programmes the […]

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JOHNNY GAVIN: THE GOAL MACHINE

By Gavan Bergin Johnny Gavin was born in 1928 in Limerick. By the time he left school he had become one of the top footballers in Limerick and at the age of 19 he was playing with the League of […]

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Community Call answered

BY Kathrin Kobus It’s been a month now that all our local sports clubs saw their seasons cut short, interrupted and at the moment quite frankly unknown when leisure activities like sports might resume. The Community Call was launched by […]

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Step Up, Stay Put: Walk 10,000 steps every day to raise money for charity

As everyone adjusts to working from home and the kitchen table becomes a makeshift classroom, it’s important to also remain active within the confines of your own four walls. Step Up, Stay Put is a new charity fitness challenge from […]

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AVOCA launches priority food shopping for frontline staff

AVOCA has specialised in providing comforting and homely services to customers for decades and has pledged to go above and beyond for the community during these turbulent times by implementing customised shopping services to the elderly and vulnerable. As a […]

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Best ‘staying in’ streaming options

By David Prendeville In these trying times one small consolation is the wealth of films available to us at the click of a button. Here I look at a small portion of some of the best films to stream or […]

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