Category: City Voices
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A catch up with Pan Cooke
Pan Cooke is a 25-year-old freelance artist working and living in South Dublin. The City’s Laura Larkin nabbed five minutes with the busy painter to chat about how a strange twist of fate caused him to stumble onto his new career. Can you…
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Gerry’s Cafe – a local favourite thirty years in the making
Businessman Gerry Horgan opened his doors more than thirty years ago on Camden Street. In the three decades that he has been serving coffee on the street, he has witnessed Camden Street undergoing a dramatic change. Once a quiet market street, it is now…
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A catch up with Conor Flynn from A Slice of Home
A Slice of Home is a new website started by Conor Flynn to deliver Irish products to all the homesick Irish living abroad, specialising in Tayto, Cadbury chocolate, and tea bags. The City caught up with Conor to talk about the site and its…
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It’s the story that really matters
Apollo Entertainment is a recent start-up entertainment company based in Dublin, which can attribute its name and brand to such shows as ‘Wake to Wake’ on Setanta Sports, and its follow-up TV series ‘Off the DOC’. We caught up with CEO/Producer Jonny MacCann. MacCann…
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Has Christmas come too early?
As Christmas preparation is in full swing across the city, retailers are expecting the biggest Christmas splurge since 2008. We hit Dublin’s busiest streets to find out what the city thinks on the countdown to Christmas. Follow us on twitter at @NiamhHaskins, @MichelleDardis_…
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A catch up with the World Young Chef of the Year, Mark Moriarty
Mark Moriarty is one of the busiest men in Ireland at the moment. After winning the title of World Young Chef of the Year, it has been all systems go for the young over-achiever and last weekend was certainly no exception. Moriarty served…
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Locals march for mental health as budget brings hope
World Mental Health Day took place last Saturday, and the afternoon saw a determined group of young people marching the streets of Dublin in the hopes of speaking up for mental health awareness. With the help of ‘Action For Suicide Prevention Dublin’, approximately…
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From burritos to design: three Dubliners make their mark on the Irish urban design scene
Design is a key component to what keeps Dublin ticking and as the year of Irish Design continues The City met with a group of designers who seem to be doing everything right. Extra Meat Apparel demonstrate that, like much of life, a…
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Highest STI rates found in young adults
Ireland has experienced huge changes in society over the last thirty years. While traditionally Ireland was a predominantly catholic and conservative country, attitudes and behaviours around sex are changing and with a more liberal contemporary Irish population emerging, our sex lives have transformed…
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Can calorie information tackle Ireland’s growing obesity crisis?
Photo by Ingo Bernhardt, Flickr. Most of us don’t question how many calories are in a steaming plate of creamy tagliatelle when out for a meal or while ordering our favourite takeaway, but very soon we will not be able to avoid this.…
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