Category: City Voices
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Video: Dublin’s First Traditional Christmas Market
Dublin’s first city centre traditional Christmas market opened on 13th November outside the St Stephen’s Green Park. The market offers a selection of Irish crafts, including hand-made accessories, wood-crafts, jams, cookies and knitted jumpers. A large selection of food and drinks are also available, with crepes,…
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The “it” Generation
Winter has finally arrived and with it gender-bending fashion is becoming a style staple for how we wrap up. It liberates gender stereotypes and sexuality. Combining a male and female style aesthetic, androgynous fashion is giving way to a unified gender whose ambiguity…
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Whats your favourite thing about Xmas?
With Christmas just over a week away the city took to the streets of Dublin to ask people what they love about the holiday season.
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Your favourite YouTube video of 2013
Sminky Shorts? What does the Fox say? The one with the cat in a shark costume riding a roomba? What was your favourite YouTube video of 2013? http://youtu.be/GRymg9P8GAQ Reporter/video editing-Diarmaid Murray Camera-Greg Synnott
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Copping for the coffers
Copper face jacks is renowned for its cheesy music, flirtatious banter, inappropriate groping and questionable dance moves, but now the Dublin nightclub has something it can actually be proud of, its €6.81mn pre-tax profit last year. That’s a lot of Jägerbombs right there.…
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OPINION: Is Dublin Bus a reliable service?
According to the National Transport Authority’s (NTA) quarterly figures, less than 5% of Dublin Bus services have been more than five minutes late for scheduled departure times between January 2012 and May 2013. On its website the NTA, which publishes performance reports on…
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Should colleges ban smoking on campus?
Students of University College Dublin recently voted in a UCDSU referendum to ban smoking on campus. Although the ban is not in place yet, it looks likely to come into force in the coming years. Could this be the start of a trend…
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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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Does Love/Hate do justice to Dublin City?
With the anti-climactic end to Love/Hate this month, we took to the streets of Dublin to see if its inhabitants believe the RTE drama is an accurate portrayal of the city. Do you think Love/Hate is accurate? Let us know in the comments…
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A dream start for the Dream Team?
The Irish dream-team of Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane have now presided over two friendly matches, and the country is once again tentatively optimistic about Irish soccer. We asked the people of Dublin what they thought: How do you think Martin O’Neill and…
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