Tonight, Friday November 22nd, Camden Street’s Anseo bar is to play host to a special live music event, the proceeds of which will go towards helping the aid effort in the Philippines. Kicking off at 9 pm, the event will […]
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Computer Chess, my pick for the best film of 2013 thus far, opens on Friday at the Irish Film Institute. It’s a wildly inventive tale, set over a weekend in a rundown cat infested hotel where some of America’s greatest […]
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Michael Cullen and Dave Duggan launched their brand new online channel DubzTV today with the aim to capture what’s happening on our Dublin streets. “We want to film documentaries, comedy and music videos but from places in Dublin where you […]
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When it was announced early last year that acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy had written his first ever film script, to be adapted by veteran director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner), expectations were high. The Coen Brothers had successfully filmed his […]
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We’re coming into what is known in the movie business as “Oscar Season”, with film distributors releasing their award hopefuls over the next couple of months. This week sees the Irish release of two hotly tipped but wildly different movies. […]
Read more →RTÉ news reporter Frank Hall interviewed The Beatles when they came to Ireland to perform in November 1963 and tomorrow we mark the 50th anniversary. I stumbled across an interview on RTÉ player and was nearly in tears laughing at […]
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On the blustery afternoon of Sunday, September 15th, the River Liffey was transformed into a flight path for a variety of aircraft, both vintage and modern, for Flight Fest, a Gathering event organised by the Irish Aviation Authority in association […]
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Hundreds of paddlers flocked to Grand Canal Dock on the 14th and 15th of September to take part in the Annual Dublin Dragon Boat Regatta. The event has built up a cult following locally as a competitive race that promotes […]
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Faire by name and fair by nature, the Dublin Mini-Maker Faire took place during the summer at the Science Gallery on Pearse St, and on the Physics Lawn of Trinity College. This was the second annual faire of its type, […]
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My original intent for this month’s Poet in Profile was seasonal – I was on the lookout for a writer of Hallowe’en or spooky poems, someone with a whiff of brimstone in their work for this corner of the year. […]
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