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  • Irish poets at the ILF this May
    Irish poets at the ILF this May
    20 May 2022 by
    Introductions | Céadlínte: A showcase of poets representing the electrifying future of Irish poetry, with special musical guests From May 24th to May 26th, Introductions| Ceadlinte will have fifteen of the most exciting new poets in the English and Irish language performing […]...
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Community

  • Information notice: Codling Wind Park
    Information notice: Codling Wind Park
    Codling Wind Park is hosting a Public Information Sharing event on May 1st in Sandymount Community Centre. We are inviting people/groups from the community along to view our virtual reality experience and to learn more about the project and...
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Culture

  • The Editor's Corner – Apr/May 2024
    The Editor’s Corner – Apr/May 2024
    In a world dominated by mobile phones and video games, encouraging young people to read and develop a love of books has probably never been more important. The reading habit needs to be instilled at a young age. In a...
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Memory Lane

  • Ringsend International Airport 
    Ringsend International Airport 
    While it may seem strange to the readers to think of an aerodrome at Ringsend, the concept is not a particularly new one. Indeed, it had been floated as far back as 1930 and was taken even further in 1935...
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Events

  • Your NewsFour Local Christmas Events Guide
    Your NewsFour Local Christmas Events Guide
    Friday December 1st Women’s Seasonal Swap at the Sandymount Community Centre. 10.30am-12.30pm. Free event. All are welcome. RCSF Holiday Fair and Markets. Irishtown Sports Stadium. Sensory Hour 3.30pm-4.30pm Full fair 4.30pm-8.30pm. ...
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  • Spooktacular Celebrations at Dublin Zoo
    Spooktacular Celebrations at Dublin Zoo
    Dublin Zoo is celebrating Halloween weekend with a spooktacular schedule of family fun activities, including themed magic shows, creepy crafts and ghoulish games, a special Spooky Trail, and much more! There will be a special offer for little...
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Sport

  • Oars for Angels
    Oars for Angels
    St Patrick’s Rowing Club and their rowing friends up and down the East Coast are endeavouring to complete a sponsored relay row starting from Wicklow Rowing Club to their club in Ringsend on Saturday 27th April from 8am. This fundraising...
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Food & Wine

  • Comfort in Words
    Comfort in Words
    There have been many times in my life where I needed to make an important decision or I was worried or stressed about situations I was going through at the time, and at those times I would have a default...
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  • Support Urgently Needed for Children Returning to School

    Support Urgently Needed for Children Returning to School

    Eoin Meegan Barnardos Back to School Survey 2021 A total of 1,473 parents and 121 children and young people participated in Barnardos Back to School Survey conducted over the summer. The findings clearly show that many parents believe their children need […]...
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  • History to be made with opening of Dublin 4’s first Gaelscoil

    History to be made with opening of Dublin 4’s first Gaelscoil

    A new, multi-denominational primary school, Gaelscoil Eoin, will open this September on Haddington Place in Dublin 4.  Speaking as building renovations progressed to the final stage, Cormac Mc Cashin, school manager said: “We are really excited about opening our new […]...
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  • Selective Memory presents: AM & ÁIT Featuring Lisa Hannigan and band Saturday 21st August

    Selective Memory presents: AM & ÁIT Featuring Lisa Hannigan and band Saturday 21st August

    Iarla O’Lionaird plus very special guest Aoife Nessa Frances Sunday 22nd August 2021 performing live on the steps of the Pepper Canister Church, Dublin Prepare to bask in the summer air and the breath-taking talent of some of Ireland’s most […]...
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  • DCC Notes for June / July 2021

    DCC Notes for June / July 2021

    Compiled by David Prendeville June Councillor Dermot Lacey put forward a motion, agreed, that requests a working group be established to review future use of the former School of Music building now vacated by the CDETB which could include cultural […]...
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  • Our proud Olympians

    Our proud Olympians

    A gold medal and one bronze for Ireland at time of going to print. Hopefully more to come… Big congratulations to Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy who won Ireland’s first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics in the early morning […]...
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  • The Editor's Corner

    The Editor’s Corner

    We have all been enjoying the spell of fabulous weather that graced these shores in the summer just past. It was delightful to see people, so long confined to barracks, as it were, out and about again enjoying an ice […]...
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  • Local Poetry: Post Lockdown, by Áine Ní Chaoimh

    Local Poetry: Post Lockdown, by Áine Ní Chaoimh

    Geneva Pattison Post Lockdown What did you do in Lockdown ?Why are you asking meI don’t know what day it is.Are you from RTE ? No l am not learning a new languageNor reading the latest booksKeeping body and soul […]...
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  • August September Issue Out Now

    August September Issue Out Now

    August September 2021 Aug-Sept 2021 Press Copy by dara o riordain...
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  • Residents Successfully Challenge Tower–  and Launch New Group

    Residents Successfully Challenge Tower– and Launch New Group

    Peter McNamara Ringsend community members have successfully prevented the expansion of a proposed tower development on York Road. The developer, Melville Properties, was given permission to build a seven-storey tower in March 2020, on the site currently occupied by Dynorod. […]...
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  • Here Are The Young Men

    Here Are The Young Men

    Brian Quinn A Dublin Odyssey filled with Dark Potential. “Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders, Here are the young men, well where have they been? We knocked on the doors of Hell’s darker chamber, Pushed to […]...
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  • Maritime Roads

    Maritime Roads

    David Carroll Dublin remembers her honourable seafaring past in her modern highways “To the men of the Mercantile Marine who faced all the perils of the ocean to bring us essential supplies the nation is profoundly grateful.” Taoiseach Éamon de […]...
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  • Back on the Streets

    Back on the Streets

    Brian Quinn Dublin Canvas ready to brighten up the Capital this summer. You can bump into a lot of colourful characters while walking through Dublin, now more than ever. On a single outing, you could cross paths with a mermaid, […]...
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  • Wild Mountain Thyme

    Wild Mountain Thyme

    Brian Quinn Begosh and Begorrah! “Once Upon A Time in Ireland,” narrates Christopher Walken, welcoming us into a country as grand as it is unfamiliar. This isn’t Ireland as we know it, as we knew it, nor how we’d ever […]...
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  • Continuing our New NewsFour Fiction: Forgotten Dreams

    Continuing our New NewsFour Fiction: Forgotten Dreams

    by Ruth O’Leary Bernie squinted as she tried to read the label on the back of the noodle packet…carbohydrates 3g. Yes, that looked okay. Justine should be able to have that. Bernie was getting a pain in her face, literally, […]...
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  • Darkness Into Light 2021

    Darkness Into Light 2021

    Michael Greene Under one sunrise, we’re brighter together Founded in Dublin in 2006, Pieta was established to provide free, accessible counselling to people suffering from suicidal ideation, engaging in self-harm or to those impacted by suicide. With over 200 qualified […]...
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