With their seemingly endless self promotion and intense cross-platform selling of a handful of flagship programmes, are the big wigs over in Donnybrook setting the RTE ship on a rocky course towards self-destruction? It was journalist David Quantick, writing for […]
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Drones have made their way into the spotlight for a variety of reasons over the last couple of years. One notable incident in 2014, involved a drone called a ‘quadcopter’ which landed in the exercise yard in Wheatfield Prison carrying […]
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A free exhibition exploring the possibilities of artificial intelligence is currently showing at Trinity College Dublin. Humans Need Not Apply, the spring exhibition at the Science Gallery on Pearse Street opened on February 10th recently, and will run until May […]
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Two locally produced video installations, the product of creative work from the Ships Passing in the Night, Culture Connects project, are currently available for viewing at Pembroke Library, Anglesea Road. Ships Passing is part of the Culture Connects Dublin South […]
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Dublin is an historic port city. Central to its evolution as Ireland’s most important trading centre is the River Liffey and the mercantile trade that developed around it. For early settlers, the river’s estuary provided a substantial and easily defended […]
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The nights of February 26th, 27th and 28th saw local audiences treated to the ALIGHT! Mystery History Cabaret Tour, a magical bus tour around the Ringsend, Irishtown, Pearse Street and Sandymount area that incorporated innovative community-based storytelling, dance, art and […]
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During 2017, Ireland and Japan will celebrate 60 years of formal diplomatic relations. Since the first diplomatic exchanges took place in 1957, the relationship between the two countries has gone from strength to strength. Japan is now Ireland’s 11th largest […]
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The National Print Museum at Beggar’s Bush Barracks recently hosted an exhibition of creative print materials based upon Dante Alighieri’s epic 14th century narrative poem The Divine Comedy. The Typographic Dante is the result of an ongoing project by graphic […]
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A founder member of the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society, Alan Martin, has been named as a runner-up in a major national heritage award. Martin received the honour out of a group of 86 individual nominees at the Heritage Council’s Heritage […]
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On Valentine’s Day last, a romantically-themed Tea Dance was held in Clanna Gael Fontoy GAA club. It was a charming affair with many older couples and groups turning up to take in the ballroom atmosphere. Cary Posavitz and the Players […]
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