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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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Roy Keane’s new book is an intriguing masterpiece that finally reveals the hard-man midfielder’s well-hidden good points. Ghost written by Roddy Doyle The Second Half does little to dispel the notion that Keane could pick a fight in an empty room. At times it seems he is at pains to reassure us he was this…
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’71 is a war film about a British soldier in Belfast during the troubles left behind on a routine mission gone awry. He’s stranded and is trying, for the entire film, to get back to his barracks. ’71 adds a fresh perspective on the Troubles, in that it is told from the perspective of a…
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TheCity.ie took to the streets to find out what people in Dublin knew about their capital city – watch the video to hear the results.
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Two months off his 21st birthday, Ciaran Carr collapsed and later died during an indoor training session with the Clondalkin Round Towers football team. The nearest defibrillator was half a kilometre away, too far to save the seemingly healthy young man. Last weekend, a 15-year-old Junior Cert student from Galway died after collapsing during a football…
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Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin announced that the Government plans to build 10,000 social housing units over the next four years. The €2.2 billion sum will be the first major investment in housing by the Government since 2009. “The Government is determined to meet the scale of investment commensurate with the challenge,”…
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The rise in the contribution charge announced in the budget leaves a bad taste in the mouth for many students. Fees are up €250 making it an even €3,000 to pay most college registration fees next year. The Back To Education Allowance and the Student Grant scheme however have been left unaffected. There has been…
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