Archive for April 2020

Balcony Bingo in Ringsend

Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre are continuing the fun of the latest initiative ‘balcony bingo’ during the Covid crisis. On Saturday March 28th kicking off at 12pm, O’Rahilly and Whelan House on Thorncastle Street will hold a ‘Rock n Roll […]

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Create Hope and Stay Positive with GROW during Covid-19 GROW’s new Mental Health Recovery six-week programme

One of Ireland’s best known Mental Health service providers, GROW Mental Health Recovery, has launched a new initiative to help people cope with the restrictions surrounding the Coronavirus. Following the Government’s decision to impose further restrictions in the fight against […]

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Protective shields for frontline workers

BY online editor I-Form, the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research centre for for Advanced manufacturing is using its experience in 3D printing to provide PPE to frontline staff working at the health service across Dublin. Since last Friday, 27th March […]

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The Sacred Geometry of Life Geomantic by Paula Meehan

By Geneva Pattison There are patterns in existence, so random and seemingly imperceptible that we simply miss them completely. Paula Meehan’s poetry collection, ‘Geomantic’, seems to attempt to fight this idea by creating order out of chaos. The word Geomantic […]

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Writing home: The ‘new irish’ poets

By Geneva Pattison What is your perception of ‘home’? Is it a house, a state of mind, or maybe a feeling? For everyone, the idea of ‘home’ is different. The collection, ‘Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets’, published by Dedalus […]

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Derek Jarman at IMMA

By David Prendeville Running from now until February 23rd at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is PROTEST! – a major retrospective of the work of one of the most influential figures in 20th century British culture, Derek Jarman. While […]

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Behind Every Young Scientist is an Exhausted Science Teacher

By Kathrin Kobus The RDS was packed again for three days from the 9th-11th January. Over 1,000 students represented 244 schools of Ireland at the 56th BT Young Scientist Fair. More than 50,000 visitors, young and older students from primary […]

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Conversations in Singapore

By Eoin Meegan In ‘Conversations in Singapore: Searching for True Success on the Silk Road One Question at a Time’ Michael Daly sets out to answer the question, what is the meaning of true success? This may seem innocuous enough, […]

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Recovering by Richie Sadlier

By David Prendeville Richie Sadlier’s new autobiography is a serious-minded, unflinching and often harrowing account of his journey from childhood in Dublin, to the realisation of his dreams of playing football professionally with Millwall, to early retirement forced upon him […]

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DCC Notes

The DCC South East Area Committee (SEAC) met on January 13th with Cllr Dermot Lacey (LAB) in the chair. Docklands Visitor Experience Development Plan Ms Caroline O’Keefe from Fáilte Ireland gave a presentation on the Docklands Visitor Experience Development Plan. […]

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