Arts & Music
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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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Bram Stoker Festival in images/sound
Audio extract from ‘Dracula in the Cathedral’, Saturday 26 October 2013 in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin. Performance by Gerard Lee (Jonathan Harker) and Michael James Ford (Count Dracula). https://soundcloud.com/diarmaid-murray/dracula-audio
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Cork Jazz Festival
It was a filthy night. The rain beat against our backs and bounced up onto our bodies, as we weaved our way heads-down, hoods up, through the torrent of water, towards the Everyman Theatre on MacCurtain Street. We passed a lone saxophonist propped…
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Bastille grace Olympia stage
There’s something endearing about a band that repeatedly thanks the audience for coming out to see them. It’s a refreshing display of humility and gratitude in an industry that is becoming increasingly dominated by money. But as Bastille took to the Olympia stage…
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Reviving the spirit of 1913
As many of you will know, this year marks the hundredth anniversary of one of the seminal events in this country’s history- the 1913 Lockout. Centred around a dispute between employers and workers about the abhorrent living and working condition that affected one third of the…
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New movie takes quirky look at sex addiction
Modern society is bombarded by sexually themed marketing but when it comes to getting personal, it often comes with an air of disillusionment. People with a desire for sex may walk the walk but not talk the talk. Such an attitude seems unbelievable. In…
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Hard Working Class Heroes
Hard Working Class Heroes has passed us by for another year and continues to improve upon itself; showcasing the finest in independent Irish music every time. This year played host to numerous new acts as well as some of the bigger up and…
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