Photo Gallery Feature: Birds of a Feather
Well, they do flock together. We meet a few of Dublin's most creative couples and ask them some cheesy Blind Date questions.
Glasnevin Museum
Steeped in Irish national history, Glasnevin Cemetery is an interactive visitor attraction that offers a fascinating view of Ireland’s many renowned figures that shaped the country we live in today.
Book Review: The Great Explorer
Dublin based illustrator Chris Judge won the Irish Children’s Book Award last year for his debut The Lonely Best and he follows up on that success with another humourous picture
You can’t hurry love
Table -hopping and cheesemongering with Dublin's speed dating scene
Friendly Fires
Like cut-offs or longjohns, some bands are tied to particular seasons. Friendly Fires are St. Albans summer boys, as their second album, the poppy Pala, will testify. Despite the Balearic
Interview: Junior Boys
Don’t call it a comeback. Because it isn’t really. That said, the critical response to Junior Boys’ third album, 2009’s Begone Dull Care was markedly less enthusiastic than that of
Lunice
Lunice’s first gig in Ireland at the Twisted Pepper was the right in the middle of a tour that would wear out even the most seasoned producers. Kicking off his
Footloose
The original Footloose, rife with self-conscious absurdity, is now an established icon of popular culture. Released in 1984, it has been the subject of a revamp in order to translate
Justice – Interview
It’s only five years since Kitsuné and Ed Banger ran the world. Fuelled by a hybrid nostalgia for rave fashion eccentricity and that exact moment disco morphed into house, French
Nicola Roberts – Cinderella’s Eyes
Forget Born This Way, 4, and, uh, Jedward’s Victory, Cinderella’s Eyes is far and away the pop album of the year so far. If the Diplotastic Beat of My Drum
Lisa Hannigan – Passenger
While Sea Sew was (literally) homespun and charming and garnered a positive reception, it was a bit plain song and arrangement-wise, only really enlivened by the loveliness of Lisa’s pipes.
Lil B – Black Flame
Still dropping innumerable mixtapes per year, Lil B finally held good on his promise to continue the series that the Romulus and Remus of swag rap, Red Flame and Blue