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Then the Concrete Came
Photo credit: Shareef Sarhan After his home and studio in Gaza were destroyed by Israeli forces, Mohamed Abusal lost trust in art – now he feels a duty to start again. Mohamed Abusal talks to his cactus. He speaks to them all, in fact. In Gaza, he had 400 of them growing on his…
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A selection of Palestinian artworks, including some that were smuggled out of Gaza during the ongoing genocide, will go on display in Dublin next week. The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) presents How to Work Together?, an exhibition from the Eltiqa collective, curated by the Question of Funding community. Speaking from Amsterdam, curator Yazan Khalili told…
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Photo by Ernest Ojeh on Unsplash The recent ban on e-scooters for under 18s has left many questioning the practicality behind the new legislation. Speaking on behalf of Minister of State for Transport Sean Canney, his private secretary Amanda Corley said that “Several EU member states already require insurance cover for e-scooters”. …
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A new €2,000 Government grant for homeowners replacing fossil-fuel heating systems with heat pumps has come into effect, but the cost of a full retrofit could still leave some households facing significant bills. The boiler scrappage grant became available as part of a wider package of changes to the Government’s home energy supports, aimed at…
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The Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, has moved to ban loyalty card discounts on alcohol across all Irish supermarkets to curb excessive consumption. While previous legislation, which took effect in 2023, banned loyalty card points from being used on alcohol, many supermarkets got around it by leveraging their loyalty cards, such as Tesco Clubcard. Loyalty…
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Credit Kampus Productions at pexels.com The long-lasting social stigma of mental health prompts the question, why do men suffer in silence? Some men suffer due to childhood abuse, some struggle with day-to-day stresses such as work or college, while others suffer from domestic violence or even depression. Domestic violence is a difficult situation to escape,…
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COVID-19 arrives in March of 2020 with a peculiar pause as society closes its doors. In Dublin, IADT student Chloe Michelle Howarth begins to pack her bags to head back to her family home in West Cork to quarantine. Somewhere within that still isolation, Howarth began to write a queer coming-of-age novel which will go…
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