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Category: Arts & Culture
Nature on our Doorstep – Cuckoos in the insect world
By Rosaleen Dwyer Rosaleen Dwyer is the County Heritage Officer at South Dublin County Council – every week she gives us an insight ...
The Vegan Terrorist: Clondalkin man put pen to paper on new book
By Aideen O'Flaherty A childhood passion for writing essays led Clondalkin author Chris Quinn to put pen to paper again in his late ...
TV People: Local band are gearing up for the release of their third single
By Aideen O'Flaherty Post-punk band TV People are currently rising through the ranks of the city’s burgeoning music scene, which has seen bands ...
Dementia – what you can do for your community
As part of World Alzheimer Month this September, The Echo, in partnership with the HSE’s Dementia: Understand Together campaign, is featuring a ...
Self-Portrait: Marcus Woods talks about his debut album
By Aideen O’Flaherty Ambient, lo-fi beats drive the music that producer Ryan Cullen, aka Marcus Woods, creates, and three years on from ...
Nature on our Doorstep: Woody Nightshade
WOODY Nightshade is currently trailing over hedges, walls, or tall vegetation along riverbanks. As the plant’s small star-shaped flowers open, the pointed ...
Nature on our doorsteps – The magic of cocooning
By Rosaleen Dwyer Rosaleen Dwyer is the County Heritage Officer at South Dublin County Council – every week she gives us an ...
Camera, action! Associate producer Jordan, living his dream
By Aideen O'Flaherty F rom a childhood spent relishing the excitement of watching films, to spending the past four years working in the ...
Analysing the art of songwriting – Gavin helping budding musicians in Kylemore Abbey
By Aideen O’Flaherty Clondalkin musician Colm Gavin has been selected to lead a songwriting retreat, in the University of Notre Dame’s Kylemore ...
New novel from Fran O’Reilly has Clondalkin as the backdrop
By Aideen O’Flaherty Families moving from the inner city and into new suburbs in the 1980s set the backdrop for author Fran ...