Category: Arts & Culture

Camera, action! Associate producer Jordan, living his dream

Camera, action! Associate producer Jordan, living his dream

Arts & Culture

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

Analysing the art of songwriting – Gavin helping budding musicians in Kylemore Abbey

Arts & Culture

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

New novel from Fran O’Reilly has Clondalkin as the backdrop

Arts & Culture

By Aideen O’Flaherty Families moving from the inner city and into new suburbs in the 1980s set the backdrop for author Fran ...

Nature on our doorsteps – The many uses of mint

Nature on our doorsteps – The many uses of mint

Arts & Culture

Rosaleen Dwyer is the County Heritage Officer at South Dublin County Council – every week she gives us an insight into the ...

Nature on our doorsteps: Helping our butterflies

Nature on our doorsteps: Helping our butterflies

Arts & Culture

By Rosaleen Dwyer We have 35 different species of butterfly in Ireland. About 20 of these are referred to as being ‘general countryside ...

Making a Time Difference: Pandemic created a moment for creativity

Making a Time Difference: Pandemic created a moment for creativity

Arts & Culture

By Aideen O'Flaherty A daily routine becomes inverted in the video for Ailbhe Reddy’s single ‘Time Difference’, which sees the Terenure woman clocking ...

Power of Dreams: Releasing new album auslÄnder later this year

Power of Dreams: Releasing new album auslÄnder later this year

Arts & Culture

By Aideen O'Flaherty Thirty years ago, a group of four teenage musicians in a band called Power of Dreams released their seminal debut ...

Turning heartbreak into hope: The story of unwavering love in the wake of a brain injury

Turning heartbreak into hope: The story of unwavering love in the wake of a brain injury

Arts & Culture

By Georgia Knoles Martina Cox’s upcoming book With Hope In Your Heart tells a story of familial perseverance and unwavering love in the ...

Nature on our Doorstep – The Drone Fly

Nature on our Doorstep – The Drone Fly

Arts & Culture

By Rosaleen Dwyer Rosaleen Dwyer is the County Heritage Officer at South Dublin County Council – every week she gives us an insight ...

The Covid Tapes: Comedy through audio

The Covid Tapes: Comedy through audio

Arts & Culture

By Georgia Knoles Sightless Cinema brings lighthearted comedy to local, national and international listeners with its new YouTube series, ‘The Covid Tapes’. The ...