Sounds Out: David Kitt – Idiot Check
"All told, this is possibly David’s best yet. You’d be an idiot not to check it out." - Paul McLoone
Digested Digest: Gerry Godley – Bread Man Walking, Rialto Dublin 8
"I constantly reflect on the price of bread; mine and everyone else’s. By everyone else I mean bakers both artisanal and industrial, chi-chi grocers in swanky neighbourhoods, discount retailers in…
Bitesize Green Bench Cafe on Montague Street
The friendly Green Bench Café has been plying its trade on Dublin's Montague Street for well over a decade now, with a nice selection of homemade hot pots, wraps, sambos…
Hiberna Moderna
A photographer returns home and finds his hometown unrecognisable and exhilarating. The old haunts have become mere landmarks mapping out his past between a new homogeneity in glass and steel.
Barfly: Difford’s Guide
With its tagline ‘for discerning drinkers’, Difford's Guide is a classy affair with endless jump off points of enlightenment.
Cinema Review: LOLA
"As is common with debuts, there’s almost a surfeit of ideas here." - Rory Kiberd reviews Andrew Legge's first film.
In the Pit: Shot From All Sides – Cormac Figgis
"I’ve narrowly missed being crushed by monitors and musicians falling off the stage, and crowd surfers. But I love shooting gigs. It’s my favourite thing to do." - Cormac Figgis
Book Review: The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell
"Once subtitled ‘A Survey of Irish Life’, perhaps the legacy of The Bell is at once more modest and more lasting: as a nursery to the day’s talent, it is…
Path Paving – Adetunji Paul
“STUDIO BLK is a multi-dimension business. I strongly believe an important conversation is to be had about people of colour and creating opportunities and recognition.” - Adetunji Paul
Easter Catch: The Salty Buoy Pops Up In Skerries
On Good Friday and Easter Saturday, the popular food truck will be dishing out some of the most incredible and sustainable seafood around, including their delicious oysters, lobster rolls, and…
Barfly: Not Berlin
The bar that lost everything to infamous poor choices mid-Pandemic is rebounding with a new name and licensee.
Anyone for the first of the 99s? Cafollas opens on the Seafront in Bray This Sunday!
Sun's out, guns out! It's time for a spot of promenading while indulging in a 99 or two, as Paolo and the team celebrate the opening of Cafollas on the…
Dublin Dining Guide: Daniel Hannigan – Head Chef, Orwell Road
"It sounds quite simple but the only rule here is to make the food delicious. I take huge inspiration from the suppliers we use and try to make the ingredients…
Big in Japan: Fresh Irish Wasabi
McCormack Family Farm are no strangers to innovation and 2023 brings news of their involvement in an exciting new development that sees the Japanese plant Wasabi grown commercially here in…
Artsdesk: Persistent Neglect – Brian Maguire
For his new body of work artist Brian Maguire travelled to Brazil to investigate what war reporter Ed Vuillamy has described as “the war on the world” – the destruction…
Cinema Review: God’s Creatures
"God’s Creatures is a slow-burning study on the conspiracy of silence that allows abuse to persist within a community." - Michael Lanigan
Path Paving – Farouk Alao aka Farouk858
“I’ve shown what I am capable of doing without having the connections. I was told by a creative director in an agency who looked at my portfolio that Ireland isn’t…
Roadmap: After Children
For After Children, Yokonami asked a number of his subjects, now junior high-school students, to restage the photographs of their childhood.