Brigit Fest 2024 – 5 Great Ways To Celebrate St Brigid’s Weekend in Dublin!
Dublin celebrates the long weekend with a special spring festival inspired by Ireland's matron saint and Celtic goddess Brigid/Brigit.
Bitesize: Freshly Baked Reads
Energetic publishers Blasta Books continue to celebrate the evolution and diversity of modern Ireland’s food culture in the year ahead.
To Dublin The Spoils – Bib Gourmands For La Gordita, Amy Austin and Lottie’s!
Dublin restaurants were given a well deserved lift with news that three new Bib Gourmands were on their way to the city.
Brand New Retro: Irish Showband Fashion 1974
"If you played in an Irish showband fifty years ago, you would have dressed in one of three styles." Brian McMahon takes us on a sartorial trip down memory lane.
Book Review: The Factory – Hiroko Oyamada
"Hiroko Oyamada’s The Factory is a sharp and slight workplace novella." - Eve Hawksworth
Roadmap: The Syrian Cassette Archive
As Mark Gergis watched Syria 'descend into madness’, he realised his collection of 500 cassettes could in their own small way help preserve and share the sounds of that era.
From The Archives: Music Matters – Music Therapy (2019)
Music therapy and its power to heal is slowly being recognised as a powerful component in rehabilitation. Zara Hedderman meets some of the people instrumental in championing its cause and…
What Makes You a Successful Content Marketer
Business development is an accurate process that requires making the right decisions. A professional marketer knows what steps to take to promote an IG account and increase the followers. Naturally,
Ross McDonnell (1979-2023) – A Tribute
"He saw the world as a small place that was easily navigable." Ross McDonnell was a towering figure in the creative scene. We asked a few close friends and acquaintances…
Cinema Review: All of Us Strangers
"All of Us Strangers is a tender and thoughtful portrayal of attraction, loneliness, grief and our desire to change the narrative of our pasts." - Michael McDermott
Med Inspo at L-Blanc Mezes Restaurant
Over on the city’s northside, L-Blank Mezes Restaurant has been taking sharing plates to a whole new level as it settles into its new home at Cloud Café in Clontarf.
DIY – Burns Night at Home
We've long been big fans of Burns Night. As what seems like the longest month of the year wends to a close, we're all for some comforting home cooking and…
Sounds Out: Nealo – November Medicine
"A reminder that there’s always a rainbow at the end of a storm and November Medicine is the light to lead your way home." - Cailean Coffey
Book Review: Beyond the Door of No Return – David Diop
"Once readers have submitted to walking this epistolary jungle straight through, Diop drops no unreasonable amount of botanical knowledge on them, and invokes the natural world with practical sensuality." -…
Roadmap: The Storms
The Storms is a journal of poetry, prose and visual art which has just brought out its third volume.
The Dunmore: A Taste of The Sunny South East in Rathmines
Siblings Clifton and Louise Foyle bring a touch of Waterford hospitality to Dublin with the opening of The Dunmore, their new culinary venture in Rathmines.
Gastro: Not putting the boot in… Kicky’s
“Everything about Kicky's is brash” – Conor Stevens
Hunting Down The Haggis – Burns Night at L Mulligan in Stoneybatter
Address a Haggis, sample some Irn Bru and raise a glass to a Mouse at L Mulligan's lively annual homage to Scottish poet Robbie Burns.