Remembering Cathleen O'Neill, who beat down a path for other women
“A force bigger than life itself,” said a eulogy by O’Neill’s friend Carmel Jennings. “Working-class warrior,” said Rita Fagan, another friend of O’Neill’s.
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In "Terratoma", director Liadán Roche explores artistic authenticity and obsession
The short film is an eerie, sometimes frantic psychological drama about Alice, an artist who is haunted by a toxic former relationship.
Council pauses plans for social housing on Howth site, after price tag rises to €750,000 each
This isn’t viable, so another use for the site will have to be found, a council official said.
Councillors push council to fix up Howth railway station forecourt
The redesign has proven to be more complex than originally considered due to the matter of land ownership, a council official told them.
Council drops plan for new playground in Clonsilla
“There was a fear, I think amongst people, that if you provide additional playgrounds in the area that they act as magnets to anti-social behaviour.”
Things To Do: A “monster meeting", a dystopian phone box, 30 years of LGBTQ+ art and activism – and festivals, festivals, festivals
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A Dublin electronic artist moves on from frogs and Celtic futurism, to DIY bagpipes
Mel Keane took the stage Saturday as part of Dublin Digital Radio’s annual festival, Alternating Current, at The Complex.
A city-centre gallery hosts the subconscious of Richard Proffitt
Sculpting through assemblies of objects is the main aspect of his practice, he says. A scarecrow-like figure wearing a Mickey Mouse t-shirt, with cigarette butts, and a Madonna cassette, for example.
Things To Do: Visit Richard Proffitt's Spent Dreams, walk the Poetry Trail, see The Graceless Age, hear a Song for Ghosts
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With their funding halved, Fingal councillors join chorus begging for more money for tenant-in-situ scheme
“I just cannot get over that they didn’t maintain the same level of funding at a minimum, because it’s a bloody great scheme,” says Fine Gael Councillor Tom O’Leary, of the homelessness-prevention scheme.
Council plans to start major upgrades to Meath Street in August
The scheme for the iconic Liberties shopping street has been years in the making.
Council plans to turn St Werburgh’s church into 250-seat venue
The idea is for this spot next to Dublin Castle to host choirs, chamber music, trad music, poetry performances, and more.
In Irishtown, plans for a new sports centre with two swimming pools are taking shape
“The plan is that the new centre in Irishtown will be fully completed before the Markievicz centre closes” in Townsend Street, a council official said.