Category: Arts & Culture

One week left to enter your 1984 bonny baby picture for the chance to win €1,000

One week left to enter your 1984 bonny baby picture for the chance to win €1,000

Arts & Culture

There is just over a week to go until the voting begins for this year’s Echo 1984 Bonny Baby competition. That means ...

Bloggers from Tallaght and Rathfarnham celebrated at awards

Bloggers from Tallaght and Rathfarnham celebrated at awards

Arts & Culture

By Aura McMenamin Bloggers from Tallaght and Rathfarnham were honoured at the recent V by VERY Blog Awards Ireland. The awards were held ...

There was plenty of cheese (and onion) on tonight’s Irish Blind Date

There was plenty of cheese (and onion) on tonight’s Irish Blind Date

Arts & Culture

The first episode of the Irish Blind Date aired tonight on TV3, and there was plenty of laughs, a little love, and ...

Children’s Book Festival 2017 across South Dublin County Libraries

Children’s Book Festival 2017 across South Dublin County Libraries

Arts & Culture

Sponsored WHAT do football, a priceless book lost for 100 years, a puppet who wants to be a real boy, Adrian Mole ...

Louise’s US release receives critical acclaim

Louise’s US release receives critical acclaim

Arts & Culture

Aideen O'Flaherty LOUISE Phillips’ novels delve into a dark but arresting world, where a Dublin-based forensic psychologist called Dr Kate Pearson sees ...

Darren pulling no punches for solo album release

Darren pulling no punches for solo album release

Arts & Culture

By Aideen O'Flaherty A SUCCESSFUL amateur boxer turned folk musician has just released his first solo album, which encompasses folk music rooted ...

Ireland’s spiciest curry powder manufactured in Clondalkin officially launched

Ireland’s spiciest curry powder manufactured in Clondalkin officially launched

Arts & Culture

By Maurice Garvey IRELAND’S spiciest curry powder – manufactured in Clondalkin – is so hot that it comes with gloves and requires customers ...

Volunteer of the Week: Kasey Shelley from Clondalkin

Volunteer of the Week: Kasey Shelley from Clondalkin

Arts & Culture

By Aura McMenamin This week we meet Kasey Shelley, who has thrown herself into fundraising for two vital animal welfare groups in ...

Robbie Keane: “I come from Tallaght, it’s a great area, a tough area, you have to be mentally strong”

Robbie Keane: “I come from Tallaght, it’s a great area, a tough area, you have to be mentally strong”

Arts & Culture

In an interview with journalist and broadcaster Graham Hunter, Tallaght’s Robbie Keane has spoken about growing up in Tallaght and how it ...

Unique show by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Tallaght’s Civic Theatre

Unique show by the Royal Shakespeare Company at Tallaght’s Civic Theatre

Arts & Culture

By Aideen O'Flaherty THE Civic Theatre will play host to The Royal Shakespeare Company’s performance of ‘Venus and Adonis’, which will see the ...