Category: Arts & Music
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One4All Launch Gift Card Competition
One4All, the multi outlet gift card company, has launched its annual Design a Card Competition for the third year in a row. The competition is open to all budding artists and designers, in which they are required to design a cover for the new One4All…
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Will the real comic please stand-up?
We Irish are usually typecast as a rowdy, drunken bunch with good anecdotes and generally fun to be around. Not the worst stereotype out there, not by a long shot! Would you rather be identified as loud-mouthed, fat and stupid or unhygienic with…
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Top 5 Quentin Tarantino Movies
5. Inglourious Basterds (2009) Classic Tarantino, this ultraviolent World War 2 romp about an elite squad of Jewish-American soldiers hunting Nazis was met with mixed reviews upon release. However, the film remains one of Tarantino’s most popular pictures. Why is it in the…
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Keeping warm in Dublins Winter
With the cold spell set to stay for another while yet, the city took to the streets of Dublin to find out how you are keeping warm this winter. Credits: Photography: Stephanie Quilligan & Niamh Casey Voice recordings: Stephanie Quilligan Production: Graham Barry
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The 5 worst Christmas songs in the history of forever. Ever.
Christmas songs are like marmalade; you either love them or hate them. Many Christmas songs are undeniably very good songs ( ‘Let it Snow’ The Rat Pack, ‘Little Drummer Boy’ famously performed by David Bowie and Bing Crosby in 1977 and ‘Driving Home…
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Colin Farrell: TV Crime Boss?
Rumours have been rife in the Irish media for a long time that RTÉ’s top crime drama “Love/Hate” is set to be remade by the US market. Last week, the Irish Daily Star reported that if the series were to go ahead, Colin…
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An artist’s conception: Francis Bacon’s studio
Last week, Francis Bacon’s triptych of painter and peer Lucian Freud sold at Christie’s auction house in New York for an astounding $142.4m dollars (€105.8m), breaking the previously held record for most paid for a painting at an auction, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,”…
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Electric Picnic set a date for 2014
Electric Picnic organisers have just announced the dates for their 2014 festival. Similar to previous years the popular music festival will take place on the last weekend in August (Friday, 29th August – Sunday, 31st August 2014). There is some exciting news for…
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Getting crafty at the Knitting and Stitching show
Last Sunday, the annual Knitting and Stitching show in the RDS came to an end. The Knit and Stitch as it is more commonly known is Ireland’s biggest crafting event and is a must-see for every knitter, sewing and craft enthusiast. I have…
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A Swashbuckling Adventure
After the cliff hanger ending of Assassin’s Creed III, where fans of the video game series were left to wonder if protagonist Desmond Miles was dead or alive, last week’s release of Assassin’s Creed IV was hotly anticipated. The sixth multi-console release in…
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