Arts & Culture

The Selznick of Sandymount

The Selznick of Sandymount

The prospect of making a film has always been a daunting task for those starting out in the industry. How will you raise the money? How will you promote it? Will anyone actually get to see it? Thanks to the […]

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The Lesser Spotted Valentine’s Day Ostrich

The Lesser Spotted Valentine’s Day Ostrich

If the title has you confused, don’t be. Chances are you have been, or have known a lesser-spotted Valentine’s Day ostrich. When that day rolls around as it does once a year, they bury their head in the sand, either […]

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Book Review: Maeve’s Times

Book Review: Maeve’s Times

It struck me the other day, as Maeve Binchy whisked me off the Luas and into an abortion clinic in London – via Maeve’s Times, a collection of her articles during an almost 50 year tenure at the paper of […]

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Book Review: Fateful Decisions

Book Review: Fateful Decisions

Fateful Decisions by Enid O’Dowd reaches deep into parental psyche to detail what happens to a parent when their children or loved ones go missing. At the beginning of Fateful Decisions we are introduced to Molly, our protagonist, who details […]

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Film Review: Dallas Buyer’s Club

Film Review: Dallas Buyer’s Club

In 1985, Dallas rodeo rider Ron Woodruff (Matthew McConaughey) is told by doctors he has a month left to live as he has contracted the AIDS virus from engaging in unprotected sex with drug users. Ron applies to become a […]

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2014 Oscar Predictions

2014 Oscar Predictions

On Sunday March 2nd, the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood will play host to this year’s Academy Awards, the annual gathering that sees Tinseltown’s finest indulge in an evening of back-slapping. It seems year on year the cut-throat race for a […]

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Event Guide: February/March 2014

Event Guide: February/March 2014

In this event guide there’s some originality, a bit of 1950s, something obscure and something freaky but to calm it all down some Irish roots on Paddy’s Day with lots of traditional Irish music. Guitarist and band member of Jupiter […]

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Jack L for Vicar Street

Jack L for Vicar Street

Jack L headed off to Amsterdam one summer at the age of 18, living in a tent on campsites for nearly six months whilst busking and working in fish factories. “At one stage I ended up losing the tent and […]

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Brugh Pádraig Manchester 50th Year Re-union

Brugh Pádraig Manchester 50th Year Re-union

Last year in the February March issue of NewsFour I wrote about a planned 50th year club re-union between Brugh Pádraig Youth Club (under 16 Football Team) and St Clare’s Boys Football club in Manchester. This was to mark the […]

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The Daily Quiet

The Daily Quiet

It being the time of year where people have sworn themselves to new habits, the word meditation gets bandied about quite a bit. Resolutions may come and go as January blends into later months but advocates for this ancient practice […]

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