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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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  • Mick O'Brien, footballer

    Mick O’Brien – Part 4 (final)

    Mick O’Brien played for years in the lower leagues of English football before he made it to the Football League. He joined Third Division Queen’s Park Rangers, in May 1920. Within a year of that, he was playing international football for Ireland....
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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 ones in fancy dress, with free entry to Dublin Zoo for each child dressed in costume per full-paying adult...
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  • This is Halloween

    This is Halloween

    There’s no better time of year for lovers of all things spooky, kooky, creepy and chilling as Halloween is approaching fast!  The nights get darker, the winds of change begin to blow, bewitching scents of pumpkin spice, zesty orange and spicy cinnamon fill the air, and the forecast is strong for hocus pocus ...
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  • The Editor's Corner - Oct/Nov 2023

    The Editor’s Corner – Oct/Nov 2023

    I’ve just been thinking how in the last decade or so we’ve seen the proliferation of a new Halloween culture that has almost become an event in its own right, sometimes starting in September!  Perhaps it’s another American import – like the Big Mac! – who knows?...
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  • Glee Club Ringsend Launch

    Glee Club Ringsend Launch

    Liza Caulfifield’s Glee Club was officially launched in Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre with members of the kids and ladies wowing the crowd by performing a variety of songs that they had learned previously during the six week pilot scheme during the summer....
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  • Magic Happens at new Florist in Ringsend

    Magic Happens at new Florist in Ringsend

    Recently I have opened my new shop in Thorncastle Street and I am delighted to be here in Ringsend. Our clients are the centre of everything we do and we approach each brief with precision and sensitivity, interpreting your vision into flowers that we hope you and your recipient will love. ...
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  • Vodafone Foundation and the Irish Girl Guides launch partnership

    Irish Girl Guides to Teach Digital Skills to Older People

    Vodafone Foundation announces a new partnership with Irish Girl Guides to help close the digital divide between generations. The Irish Girl Guides have become a new charity partner of Vodafone Foundation’s Hi Digital initiative, which brings digital skills, training and support directly to older people across the country....
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  • Special prize painting

    Easy like Sunday Painting

    The Bath Pub on a sunny Sunday afternoon was the perfect venue to have an hour and a half painting session al fresco.  With their background music playing a chillout lounge playlist and two free drinks tokens for everyone, it was all prepped for budding artists alike. ...
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  • Brendan Courtney launches Shine A Light Sleep Out

    Brendan Courtney launches Shine A Light Sleep Out

    Bord Gáis Energy’s support of Shine A Light forms part of an ongoing partnership with Focus Ireland which began in 2015. To date it has supported over 7,000 families and directly prevented 458 vulnerable families from becoming homeless....
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  • Singing on the lawn, Guitarist Paul Lee and residents in fine voice

    Celebrations as Mount Tabor marks 25th Anniversary

    Mount Tabor Nursing Home and Care Centre in Sandymount Green had an afternoon of fun and entertainment as residents, staff, volunteers and family members all enjoyed a fantastic party atmosphere celebrating 25 years of service on August 8th last....
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  • The Lacey Report

    The Lacey Report

    Recently NewsFour caught up with Cllr Dermot Lacey and talked to him about his vision for a better Dublin....
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  • All aboard the Dublin GhostBus Tour - if you dare!!

    All aboard the Dublin GhostBus Tour – if you dare!!

    Back in 1995 Dan O'Donohue created and scripted Dublin's first GhostBus Tour for Dublin Bus. This is a double decker bus containing a specifically designed mobile ghost theatre on the upper deck, with a museum of all things macabre on the lower deck...
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  • Riding the Waves of Memory and Loss

    Riding the Waves of Memory and Loss

    This is the third collection of poetry by well-known Dublin poet James Conway. His previous collections were Vertebrae of Journey (2010), and The Purple Coat (2017), both which met with critical acclaim. Conway, a previous winner of the prestigious Jonathan Swift Poetry Award has a way of mesmerising with words. ...
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  • Songs from the High Stool

    Songs from the High Stool

    Bar Stool Notions of Poetry is one of Jonathan Roth's many books of poetry. This book consists of 45 funny, moving and heartwarming, easy read poems.  He dedicated his book to 'tolerators of national poetry, proud West of Ireland culchies, fellow bar stool residents' and a few more,...
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  • A Dublin Magdalene Laundry

    The Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry Revisited

    The Magdalene Laundry system which operated in this country for over 150 years will forever remain a stain on the Irish psyche, and one that cannot easily be expunged. Now a new book has emerged which deals specifically with one of these laundries, the Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry (DML),...
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