Tag: Lifestyle

Here’s how you can help Tallaght’s Al Porter get his big break in the USA

Here’s how you can help Tallaght’s Al Porter get his big break in the USA

Arts & Culture

Tallaght’s Al Porter is looking for you to help him break the USA. The Blind Date host has been having a remarkable ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you know about Tallaght’s links to the Franciscans stretching back to the ninth century?

Do you know about Tallaght’s links to the Franciscans stretching back to the ninth century?

Tallaght

In case you did not know, today marks the feast day of St Francis. Although Tallaght is better known for its links ...

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 ...