What could be better than lying in a park with friends and watching a good film on a cinema screen? On warm summer evenings in Dublin, and elsewhere around the country, there have been people enjoying just such a privilege, […]
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Three great movies of the past are returning to Dublin cinemas this week. Robert Wise’s classic musical West Side Story plays as part of the Lighthouse cinema’s ongoing summer musical season on Wednesday. It’s one of the greatest musicals ever made, and […]
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An abandoned warehouse sounds like such a good idea to throw up a fitness facility, right? But what if that gym stays open 24-hours a day? It’s all the part of a new phenomenon hitting Dublin, allowing people to be […]
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June 16th, Bloomsday, that devotional time of year when the disciples of James Joyce emerge in force to honour his timeless modernist novel Ulysses, widely considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century. It is a day when […]
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The Across Ireland motorcycle run is approaching again. 2014 marks the 10th year of this charity event and the call has gone out for willing participants. This year’s two-wheeled fun run takes place on the August Bank Holiday weekend (August […]
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Haven recently launched its €500 from 500 fundraising campaign, which aims to continue with its support to the people of Haiti by engaging with the top 500 businesses in the country to donate €500 each to the charity. The Haven […]
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Local primary school Star of the Sea is currently in the running for the prestigious Digital Schools of Distinction award. The Sandymount school is one of 190 Dublin primary schools that have signed up to the programme, which is a […]
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Death is a taboo topic in all cultures but some forms of taboo are more constructive than others. Social psychologists and cultural commentators are often given to comment on our unhealthy relationship with death at a cultural level, but particularly […]
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The Watersedge Community Drama Group recently performed their production of The Family Feud, a play directed by Paul Kennedy, in the RICC. The drama group has been performing for about seven years now and their usual brand of light humour […]
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A protest took place at lunch time on Tuesday 10th June outside the Dail to commemorate the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who was trampled to death in 1913 while trying to pin the suffragette colours to the King’s horse, racing […]
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