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Incognito 2021 Online Art Sale
Take part in Incognito 2021 Online Art Sale on April 22nd and support the great work of the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation The Incognito art collection comprising 287 artists from Dublin is now live at www.incognito.ie with the online […]
The Majesty of Ice: BEACONS – new photographic exhibition by Daragh Muldowney
David Prendeville BEACONS, a new exhibition by Photographer Daragh Muldowney, celebrates the beauty of ice and the small pine trees found along the vast ice roads of Lake Baikal. Muldowney has been travelling to Lake Baikal, Siberia, the largest freshwater […]
DCC Notes for March / April 2021
Compiled by Dermot Carmody Citywide Introduction of 30 kph Speed Limit Councillors on the South East Area Committee (SEAC) meeting by Zoom on March 8th were given a presentation on the proposed citywide rollout of a default speed limit of […]
The Outlook for Cinemas in 2021
David Prendeville The landscape for cinema exhibition remains very uncertain in the early months of 2021. I have covered in this paper the impact Covid-19 has had on film productions and exhibitors. Despite the hope of vaccines on the horizon, […]
Remote Working: Is this the way of the future?
Peter McNamara Remote working is not new. Since personal computing and the internet came into its own in the late 1990s, people have been clocking-in from home. Up to this point, however, it has been a fringe phenomenon – an […]
A History of Vaccines – from Cowpox to Covid
Peter McNamara It’s no secret that vaccinations have revolutionised global health. Arguably the single most life-saving innovation in the history of medicine, vaccines have eradicated smallpox, slashed child mortality rates, and prevented lifelong disabilities. Possibly lesser known, however, are the […]
New in 2021 – NewsFour New Fiction:‘For the price of a sausage…’
Brid Fitzpatrick Early Morning and Mr. Thompson was busy as usual preparing for the day’s business in his butcher’s shop. Already the various meats were hung up behind him or displayed on the shelves before him. He was very proud […]
Another Dark Chapter from Ireland’s Chequered Past… Report on the Mother and Baby Homes
Eoin Meegan In 2015 the Irish government established the ‘Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters’, following concerns that a septic tank at St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, might contain […]
DCC Notes for December 2020/ January 2021
Compiled by Dermot Carmody SEAC Passes Emergency Motion On Strand Road Interim Cycleway The controversial Strand Road Interim Cycleway proposal was again a major bone of contention at the meeting of the South East Area Committee (SEAC) on January 11th, […]