Category: Arts & Culture

Let’s paint village green during the St Patrick’s Day parade and festival

Let’s paint village green during the St Patrick’s Day parade and festival

Arts & Culture

By Aideen O'Flaherty ONE of the organisers of this year’s St Patrick’s Day Tallaght Parade and Arts Festival, which will be painting Tallaght ...

The Echo celebrates 8 local women on International Women’s Day

The Echo celebrates 8 local women on International Women’s Day

Arts & Culture

By Aura McMenamin Today marks International Women’s Day, which recognises the amazing women in history and modern-day times who have made strides in ...

Templeogue native Emma Quigley pens her first book

Templeogue native Emma Quigley pens her first book

Arts & Culture

By Hayden Moore  BANK is a teenage fiction book written by Templeogue’s Emma Quigley about a bunch of pupils in school who ...

Dafhyd Flynn – Killinarden actor impresses in film role

Dafhyd Flynn – Killinarden actor impresses in film role

Arts & Culture

TALLAGHT actor Dafhyd Flynn may have spent a few months in a real-life prison for his last film, but doing his Leaving ...

What would ma say? A warts and all look at Dublin life in the 50s and 60s

What would ma say? A warts and all look at Dublin life in the 50s and 60s

Arts & Culture

By Niall Sweeney  The Ireland in the 1950’s and 60’s is far removed from the Ireland we’ve come to know today in ...

Echo Rewind – Templeogue Castle

Echo Rewind – Templeogue Castle

Arts & Culture

Sean Heffernan I wonder if many people who travel to work in the morning via the Tallaght Bypass, as they wait for ...

Lives in Translation play explores the asylum industry

Lives in Translation play explores the asylum industry

Arts & Culture

Laying bare the realities of the asylum process in Ireland, Lives in Translation is a hard-hitting new play based on interviews with female ...

Clondalkin Rugby Club – Raising funds with the help of funny man Dave Young

Clondalkin Rugby Club – Raising funds with the help of funny man Dave Young

Arts & Culture

CLONDALKIN Rugby Football Club raised over €3,000 last month from their annual charity auction for at-risk teens, with some help from funnyman ...

The Vulpynes – In your face fusion of punk and garage rock

The Vulpynes – In your face fusion of punk and garage rock

Arts & Culture

By Aideen O'Flaherty  A LOCAL band who create an “in-your-face fusion of punk and garage rock” are gearing up for a string ...

The Fallout Patern – Exhibition by Russian artist Andrei Molodkin

The Fallout Patern – Exhibition by Russian artist Andrei Molodkin

Arts & Culture

By Aideen O'Flaherty  A FASCINATING exhibition by Russian artist Andrei Molodkin, which is influenced by WikiLeaks documents that were leaked in 2009 ...