Festivals

After a highly successful introduction in 2021, the Dun Laoghaire Folk Festival returns on Monday 22nd August with an even bigger and better line up than its predecessor. Last year's inaugural event was a lower key affair yet still…

Ace newsman Richard Chambers joins Dave Hanratty in the NO ENCORE co-host hot seat, making his long, long-awaited return to the show. On the agenda for the last regular episode of the year? Plenty. Will the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines…

Looking to pack in some last-minute summer fun this August? Check out these visual arts events taking place around the country this month! Exhibitions: Land(ed) | Group Exhibition Lavit Gallery 1st - 31st August Land(ed) is the title…

Ballinlough Castle is, by now, a second home for many Irish music lovers. With Body & Soul consistently presenting a stellar card. Always full of the strongest Irish acts of the day, with more left-field headliners from Germany’s…

It seems that every year the amount of people who OD at festivals gets a little higher. Is this because festivals are one of the only places where wearing four day old clothes, being shirtless in the rain, and hiding a bottle of vodka in…

We went behind the scenes a few days early at Body & Soul Arts and Music Festival in Ballinlough Castle and chatted to some of the artists and decor team. It is all their hard work that ties this beautiful festival together and creates…

June is here! It's officially Degree Show month! We love degree shows and we encourage everyone to go - it's not only a chance to see what's coming out of art schools in Ireland while sipping on free wine, but a perfect opportunity to…

Festival Frenzy Due to of the number of literary festivals and talks taking place over the coming weeks, I'll kick off this week with a compilation of just a few events of note; along with other news from the world of literature. …

You wake again to the stench of sun-tormented nylon and a sickly warm open can of Hackenberg, the only survivor of last night’s frenzied brain raid, the one whose fortune came when your consciousness dwindled. You stare up at the beads of…

NaNoSessionMo This weekend at the Nine Worlds Geek Fest, science fiction fans will team up to create the novel of the decade in just over an hour.  OK, perhaps not the novel of the decade, but certainly a novel worth blogging about.…