The craft and graft of the comic creator can often be a solitary affair but the online world is reaping broader connections and an instantaneous feedback loop. We look at some of those flourishing in their trade.

One of the five greatest comic stores in the world.

It bears the feel of something curated rather than created.

“It was only fitting that the magazine’s last get-together was, literally, more of a wake than a launch party: a coffin made from past issues was carried into the Sugar Club.”

Life on Inishbofin and Inishturk is precarious, adrift from the mainland and from the ancestral lifestyle of self-sufficiency, in search of a way forward or a way back to the past.

On the 25th September, Dublin Pop-Up and award-winning chef Barry Fitzgerald, will be taking your hands and guiding you to a Dine In The Dark banquet in a top-secret, underground venue. They’ll be serving up a menu created especially for the night, and you’ll be relying on your tastebuds alone to eat it.

“If I’m talking to someone and go, ‘D’you know John Cooper Clarke?’ and they say, ‘Oh yeah, he’s a genius’, I’m then like, ‘Good, you’ve saved me a lot of time.’” For John Cooper Clarke evangelists such as myself, Steve Coogan kind of nailed it when he voiced the above words in BBC4’s 2012 documentary […]

Alison Spittle has been playing the Dublin comedy circuit for two years, starting off with a quick weekly round-up on Bernard O’Shea’s radio show and now bringing the Republic of Telly crew back to her hometown of Mullingar for a tour. I chatted with her about her new show *Stoat Toast*, being a woman in comedy and…Morrissey.