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European Sensoria Band

European Sensoria Band

EUROPEAN SENSORIA BAND (E+S=B for short) are a well known local band from Ringsend who were formed between 2002 and 2003 after a few improvising sessions between Fergus Cullen (clarinet and lead guitar), Anthony Carroll (Bass) and David Carroll (drums). […]

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Au Revoir

Au Revoir

Since I’m at the end of my wonderful time here at the NewsFour office I thought it would be an appropriate time to say goodbye and farewell and take this opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone who […]

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Left-Field Fitness

A few months in and it is easy to feel that the novelty of the New Year has worn thin…even if our bodies haven’t. It is a time of year when maybe the resolutions we made for January are starting […]

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Dun Laoghaire Maritime Museum

Dun Laoghaire Maritime Museum

This year is the 1550th anniversary of King Laoghaire. Since his reign was the start of literacy and the dawn of Irish recorded history, we thought we would send our resident correspondent Jason McDonnell out to visit one of Dun […]

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Surviving Suicide

Surviving Suicide

I was 28 when Paul took a fatal overdose. He was my fiance and my first love. He was injured at work and what started out as a simple break, ultimately led to his death. His leg wouldn’t heal properly […]

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Silent But Deadly

Silent But Deadly

In 2014, ‘Formula E’, a new electric car alternative to ‘Formula One’, will host its inaugural ten race season. The project has been met with little enthusiasm. Motorsport fans are extremely cynical about the venture, feeling the lack of engine […]

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Artist in Profile: Nicola Kelly

Artist in Profile: Nicola Kelly

Nicola Kelly is a self taught artist from Bray Co. Wicklow. During 2007 she began painting using acrylics and more recently oils, she is influenced by surrealism right through to street art. Her earlier work is reminiscent and inspired by […]

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Has the Web Killed the Record Store?

Has the Web Killed the Record Store?

As a music-obsessed teen in the mid-nineties, I would often spend my Saturday afternoons traversing Dublin’s numerous record shops, blackening my thumbs with the dust of a thousand record sleeves. Even if I didn’t make a purchase, (being a broke […]

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Fair Lady’s Dark Past

Fair Lady's Dark Past

In Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin’s Harold’s Cross rests an unspoken piece of Hollywood history. There you can find the grave of one Anthony Hepburn-Ruston. His name may be meaningless to you, but if you read the inscription you’ll see […]

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City Fox Controversy

City Fox Controversy

In light of a recent much-publicised fox attack in the UK, Fine Gael Councillor Edie Wynne has expressed her concern over a perceived increase of the fox populations in urban areas of Dublin. Reacting to appeals from citizens, Cllr Wynne […]

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