Rory Sweeney “is like a sorcerer when he’s bent over his laptop”, says collaborator Ethan Soost, a rapper from Philadelphia.
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Council Plans to Introduce Small Fees for Some Big Public Events
People who get free tickets often don’t show, which means it’s hard for planners to predict crowd size and ensure safety, a council report said.
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Girl (In Real Life), Reviewed
“I really liked this book, but what I liked the most was the way that it addressed how not all social media is good,” writes our 11-year-old reviewer.
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On an Otter-Spotting Expedition along the Grand Canal, a Painter Discusses His Methods
“I just paint what catches my attention, and that is compelling to me, and that beg to be painted,” he says.
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Dean: New Pagans’ Second Album Pulls Together Many Strands of Rock History
On it, they “incorporate various styles, tones and flavours … Most dominant is a feeling that this is music that could appear in a 1990s Hollywood teen comedy and/or teen slacker flick.”
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Atomic Hope, Reviewed
This documentary observes what it says is a small but growing global pro-nuclear movement that advocates argue could help mitigate the climate crisis.
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Photo of the Month: February 2023
I’ve named this photograph “The Kiss”. It was taken during one of the first nights after the end of a lockdown, in September 2021. The pubs had started reopening and the city was buzzing.
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Delayed Artist Studios in Artane Should Be Up and Running This Year
The council is subsidising the studios to try to keep the rents affordable.
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A Dublin 8 Short Film Tours International Festivals
“Dance Till Dán” offers a portrait of the Rialto-Kilmainham area, delving into personal histories, and impressions of isolation, mortality and self-expression.
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Let the Wrong One In, Reviewed
The streets of Dublin are overrun with vampires in this horror-comedy that favours big laughs over big scares.