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Ireland welcomes a wave of international visitors for the St. Patrick’s Day weekend festivities
Hundreds of thousands of international tourists are expected to travel to the country over the bank holiday weekend for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. By Alex Cloud Fáilte Ireland estimates that over 589,000 people attended the three-day St. Patrick’s Day festival last year, which generated €138 million in visitor revenue. While the figures for the current year are undetermined, Dublin Live reported that over half a million people were in…
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Digital technology has become such an inseparable part of people’s lives that most of the time it’s hard to notice the improvements that always-changing technology brings. People from different groups of society find different ways of employing technology for their own needs. Laura Matjusaityte discusses how digital technology and especially use of social media have…
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Photographs that emerged online of a gathering that took place in RTE last week have sparked outrage as they show a number of broadcasters standing close together with no social distancing or masks. Megan O’Brien explored the reactions on Twitter. Miriam O’Callaghan, David McCullagh, Bryan Dobson and Eileen Dunne were among the staff that appeared…
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Innocent Drinks Ireland became inundated with requests for stickers and magnets recently following a viral Tik Tok. Amber Baxter looked at this bizarre phenomenon. “One morning I woke up, I think it was a Friday. I went on Facebook first and there was a couple of notifications saying hi my name is [xxx], I love…
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Dublin’s white-water rafting facility was met with a lot of backlash when it was first announced. Eibhin Kavanagh looks at what the White-Water Rafting facility could be in a post-Covid world. Dublin’s white-water rafting facility could be in deep waters in a post-Covid environment. The controversial facility, costing €22 million, would be used for training…
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James Kirwan, a graduate in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, was selected as one of the artists by the Art Council for the Covid19 Response Award. He proposed planting a number of his paintings along the streets of Inner-City Dublin as gifts to those who find them.
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COVID-19 has affected businesses all around the country. However, the hospitality sector in particular has been one of the worst to be hit. With over 7,000 pubs in Ireland, publicans, hoteliers and restaurateurs have been left in the dark with regards to the future of their businesses Erin Killoran spoke to Kildare publican, Vivian Carrol…
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