Category: Arts & Culture

Nature on our doorsteps: Letting things stand for winter

Nature on our doorsteps: Letting things stand for winter

Arts & Culture

Gardeners usually like to tidy up the garden before winter. Dead or dying plants are cut back and the last cut of ...

Summerhill: A new black comedy by Stephen Jones

Summerhill: A new black comedy by Stephen Jones

Arts & Culture

A new black comedy by a Tallaght playwright and actor is being performed on the Glass Mask Theatre stage on Dawson Street ...

Trilogy of EPs: Chronicling heartbreak and resilience

Trilogy of EPs: Chronicling heartbreak and resilience

Arts & Culture

Electronic musician Zach James Douglas recently released ‘6x3’, the first of a trilogy of EPs chronicling heartbreak and resilience. A past pupil ...

Food with JP Passion:  Guinness & Treacle Bread

Food with JP Passion: Guinness & Treacle Bread

Arts & Culture

I watched Nigella Lawson make a version of stout or Guinness Bread on her show Cook, Eat, Repeat which she called her ...

Nature on our doorsteps: The Noon Fly

Nature on our doorsteps: The Noon Fly

Arts & Culture

By Rosaleen Dwyer Ivy is a useful plant because it flowers late in the year. This provides an important source of pollen ...

Tallaght’s Own New Artist – Molijah

Tallaght’s Own New Artist – Molijah

Arts & Culture

Molijah, also known as Lucy Shah, is a Tallaght native and up-and-coming artist with her debut single ‘Going’ coming out on November ...

Philip Cairns: The boy who never came home

Philip Cairns: The boy who never came home

Arts & Culture

Last Saturday was the 35th anniversary of the disappearance of 13-year-old Rathfarnham schoolboy Philip Cairns, and a journalist is hoping to shed ...

Nature on our Doorsteps: Spooky faces in nature

Nature on our Doorsteps: Spooky faces in nature

Arts & Culture

Nature on our Doorsteps is a weekly column written by Rosaleen Dwyer, Heritage Officer with South Dublin County Council.  THE human brain ...

Food with JP: Meringue Ghosts

Food with JP: Meringue Ghosts

Arts & Culture

These spooky little meringues are easy-peasy to make and kids will love to get involved in making them. I can’t wait to ...

The Suspect: Aidan Turner takes on role in new ITV show

The Suspect: Aidan Turner takes on role in new ITV show

Arts & Culture

By Mathilda Harbering Playing Doctor Joe O’Loughlin in the new ITV show ‘The Suspect’ is former Walkinstown resident and Clondalkin native Aidan ...