Arts & Culture

Cinema Roundup April 18th

Cinema Roundup April 18th

Few movies have dealt with adolescence in such an honest fashion as Lukas Moodysson’s We Are the Best, a joyous tale of a trio of 13-year-old girls who decide to form a punk band in eighties Stockholm. All too often, […]

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Local Agency Wins Design Award

Local Agency Wins Design Award

The creative design agency Clickworks have become the first Irish company to win an award from the prestigious Design Business Association (DBA). DBA annually dispense the coveted Design Effectiveness Awards for agencies and design teams who produce the finest “strategic […]

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Young Hopefuls for Brain Olympics

Young Hopefuls for Brain Olympics

February of this year saw the commencement of a major talent search across the nation, as part of the build-up to the All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2014. More than 750 candidates from across the nation undertook the qualifying challenges, and more […]

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€600,000 for Female-Led Businesses

€600,000 for Female-Led Businesses

Enterprise Ireland is to invest €600,000 in 12 female-led businesses as part of their new Competitive Start Fund for Female Entrepreneurs. The new fund, gives female-led start-up companies funding of €50,000 and a clear path to commercial vitality with guidance […]

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Cinema Roundup: April 11th

Cinema Roundup: April 11th

Fans of surrealist horror are in for a cinematic treat this week with the release of The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, a stunningly beautiful and atmospheric homage to the stylistic Italian ‘Giallo’ thrillers of the seventies. The Belgian […]

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National Amateur Photography Competition

National Amateur Photography Competition

Have you got a keen eye for a great shot? If so, then get clicking for Top Oil’s National Amateur Photography Competition. The company have announced that Ireland Uncovered is the theme for this year’s competition, which will see 12 […]

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Dublin’s Grand Canal Longboarders

Dublin’s Grand Canal Longboarders

If you ever find yourself in the Grand Canal Dock area and spot a blur of helmets and kneepads, you have probably just caught a sight of one of Ireland’s fastest-growing sports, longboarding. The Dublin Longboard Crew (DLC) has grown […]

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Book review: Rugby Warrior

Book review: Rugby Warrior

Gerard Siggins’s Rugby Warrior charts the rise of rugby star Eoin Madden as he battles new responsibilities, deals with the friction amongst his friends and tries to solve the mystery of a deceased Irish-born rugby star. Rugby Warrior begins in […]

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Ringsend’s Mad Men

Ringsend’s Mad Men

Ireland’s most awarded commercials production company, Blinder Films, was founded in 2005 by directors Richie Smyth and Kieron J Walsh, later joined by Executive Producer/Managing Director Michael Duffy, in an office on Irishtown Road. The outfit quickly established themselves, producing […]

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Steve Wall: State of the Irish Music Industry

Steve Wall: State of the Irish Music Industry

The Stunning were an Irish rock band that formed in 1987 gaining huge recognition within Ireland and selling over 100,000 albums. They split after business disappointments and a lack of progress internationally. They played a farewell tour in 1994 before […]

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