Category: Arts and Culture
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Dude-Fest – Where have all the women gone?
We, as Irish people, love a good festival. Every year we wait patiently for the likes of Electric Picnic or Body & Soul to throw out their ever-expanding lists of who’ll be rocking the fields that summer, before spending the equivalent of a…
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Creative Christmas addition to Dublin
Frost is a seasonal shopping experience which opened in Dublin city centre this week. Keeva Tyrrell reports on the latest Christmas addition to the capital’s streets. Located on the ground floor of the Fumbally Exchange on Dame Lane, the shop will run from…
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Video: Interview with Kevin McSherry
Mary-Kate Findon interviews Kevin McSherry to learn what life is like as an artist in Dublin
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Dublin’s parks cost €3 million in 2016
Almost €3 million was spent on the maintenance of Dublin City’s parks in 2016, thecity.ie has learned. Over half of the total money was used to maintain the Phoenix Park with €1.57M spent, with costs ranging from pest control to animal welfare to…
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Access to music education on the rise
In 2016, then Taoiseach Enda Kenny pledged to have music education accessible to every young person in Ireland within the next five years. That might have seemed over ambitious to some; or to others, simply another case of the government making more false promises.…
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The Sinner Review: Biel stands out in latest Netflix original
The Sinner is about young mother Cora Tannetti (Jessica Biel), who one day on a family trip to the beach falls into a fit of rage and murders a seemingly innocent man right in front of her child. A group of men and…
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Fingal Graduate Award Winner 2017
Visual Artist Róisín McGannon has been awarded the Fingal County Council Arts with Block T Graduate Studio Award 2017. Róisín McGannon is a visual artist based in Dublin who will be graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art from NCAD…
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Barry Keoghan & Colin Farrell shine in psychological thriller
This film is certainly not for everyone, so if you’re not interested in psychological thrillers and dystopian films, choose Bad Moms 2 instead. The opening scene of Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, greets us with open-heart surgery. The…
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RHA Gallery to host Dublin Doc Fest
Dublin Doc Fest will take place on the 11th of November in the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin 2. The short documentary festival, founded by filmmaker Tess Motherway in 2013 uses alternative screening spaces like the National Library of Ireland to showcase the…
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Ireland continues to fuel ‘Heavy Drinkers’ stereotype
“The number of new cases of alcohol-related cancers in Ireland is expected to double by 2020.” This is the stark statement by the Irish Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Manager Kevin O’Hagan on the Central Statistics Office (CSO) report released on October 18th 2017.…
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