Category: Arts & Culture

Cute Crochet classes and crafty knitting circles

Cute Crochet classes and crafty knitting circles

Arts & Culture

By Mary Dennehy I DREADED crochet in primary school. Once a week, our teacher painstakingly thought the girls how to crochet while the ...

I’m so lucky to be back in Ireland and working on Exposé

I’m so lucky to be back in Ireland and working on Exposé

Arts & Culture

By Mary Dennehy A PAST student of Ballyfermot College, Xposé presenter Cassie Stokes recently made the ‘40 under 40’ list of next ...

Waverley are voted the top training academy at awards

Waverley are voted the top training academy at awards

Arts & Culture

By Maurice Garvey ESTEEMED Naas Road beauty and fitness college, The Waverley Academy, have been voted Ireland’s number one training academy at the ...

Old County Pitch and Putt Club celebrates 50 years

Old County Pitch and Putt Club celebrates 50 years

Arts & Culture

By Mary Dennehy SOME 50 years ago a group of pitch and putters who met regularly in the County Bar on the Old ...

Julianne Gillen on the Irish Sign Language Recognition Campaign

Julianne Gillen on the Irish Sign Language Recognition Campaign

Arts & Culture

By Mary Dennehy WORKING in the Dublin South office of DeafHear in Tallaght, Julianne Gillen is a mother-of-two who is actively engaged ...

Maria Lucia Bakes goes from strength to strength

Maria Lucia Bakes goes from strength to strength

Arts & Culture

By Maurice Garvey RATHFARNHAM business Maria Lucia Bakes exhibited their range of gluten-free breakfast cereals at the recent Speciality & Fine Food Fair ...

36 pictures that show Tallaght is a beautiful place to live

36 pictures that show Tallaght is a beautiful place to live

Arts & Culture

Over the past six weeks we at Echo.ie have been asking you to send us your favourite pictures of Tallaght and the ...

Janet Grogan: “I’m not going anywhere so stay tuned”

Janet Grogan: “I’m not going anywhere so stay tuned”

Arts & Culture

Tallaght native Janet Grogan had her X Factor dream snatched from her for a second time as she was sent home from ...

Ly Garden, Sunflower and Food Inn to battle it out for Best Spicebag Award

Ly Garden, Sunflower and Food Inn to battle it out for Best Spicebag Award

Arts & Culture

The battle of the much-loved Spicebag is set to reach fever pitch later this year after several local takeaways were pitched against ...

‘Helen and I’ at the Civic Theatre

‘Helen and I’ at the Civic Theatre

Arts & Culture

By Mary Dennehy AHEAD of the arrival of promising production ‘Helen and I’ to Tallaght, we caught up with the Civic’s artistic director ...