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An Artist’s Perspective on Dublin’s Changing Landscape in Before I Go: Vanishing Dublin
A new exhibition by artist Gerard Byrne highlights the impact of modernization on Dublin’s architectural character and cultural identity. By Peace Okolo An exhibition portraying Dublin’s evolving cityscape has opened at the Gerard Byrne Gallery on Trinity Street, with artist Gerard Byrne presenting a series of paintings that reflect the city’s architectural and cultural change. Before I Go. Vanishing Dublin focuses on Georgian and Victorian buildings…
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‘Real men wear pink’. This is the slogan of one of the biggest cancer awareness events in America, organised by the National Football League. ‘A Crucial Catch’ is the NFL’s annual event aimed to raise awareness throughout the country – and the globe- based on their campaign to increase their international audience. The campaign involves players, coaches and…
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The Hobbit trilogy have to date cost a whopping £561 million – which is approximately €415 million. Peter Jackson will undoubtedly see this as money well spent, but here is are a few alternative ways he could have spent that pocket change.
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Last week, Gardaí seized over €100k worth of cannabis from a house in Galway (http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1009/479382-cannabis-seizure/). While drug seizures may not be as shocking to Irish society as they used to be, there have been a surprising amount of them of late. I took a look at some of the biggest hauls the country has seen…
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The online social networking and microblogging site is to flood the stock market next month when its shares will be made available on Wall Street. The popular website, launched in 2006, has an estimated net value of between $12 billion and $15 billion. Twitter is set to go public in November and is proposing to…
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Red Line Luas users are still subjected to frequent anti-social incidents, despite additional security and Gardaí patrols. Though that particular Luas line has become infamous in recent years, the frequency with which incidents take place (of which only a fraction are actually reported) is startling. Despite regular checks by ticket-inspectors and STT Luas Rail Security…
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When you look to Irish national teams for a source of pride, rugby comes to mind first. It is a great testament to this small nation that we compete with countries that have 10 times the population to work with. So based on that, one would assume that any possible question regarding an amalgamation of…
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