Tusla says it's an offence to run an unregistered children’s home, but it places children in them anyways
So how does it square the circle?
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Dean: Burglar put their own spin on Generation X mimicry
“Their songs are a veritable Lollapalooza of unflashy guitar play, stark aesthetics, gentle melodies, interlocking guy-girl vocal harmonies, and the spirit of Fugazi.”
Dean: John Blek’s aching folk music is comfortingly familiar
“I’ve found myself drawn to The Midnight Ache during the recent rainy days.”
Dean: Flynn Johnson’s debut album basks in beautiful nostalgia
“And Johnson is a good rapper, fluid and multifaceted, ‘fresh like a two back and sides’.”
Dean: Just Mustard still defy categorisation
On their new LP, “it is fascinating to witness how the band interpret what they see as more sunny and melodic into their established brutalism”.
Dean: Zoé Basha and Martina and The Moons light up an afternoon
From rich interpretations of Appalachian folk to belligerent alt-rock.
Dean: The classic hiss of Ireland’s first ever Pavement covers album
“I feel confident in declaring this to be the first local release to use such a concept.”
Dean: For Those I Love’s righteous anger cannot be faked
"Carving the Stone" is a gritty, gripping piece of work forged in fury and frustration at a darkening in the Dublin atmosphere.
Dean: Soda Blonde embrace the melancholy
And Danny Groenland puts “his activist spirit front and centre”.
Dean: deathtoricky emerges from the underground
Embracing “Grimy aesthetics, edgy soundscapes, songs that are short for a scrolling economy, a general sense of living on the internet”.
Dean: After a term of upheaval, punk troop M(h)aol are still hardcore
They may be a band with a membership that’s shrinking, and with a profile that’s rising, but they’re still M(h)aol.
Dean: On Meljoann’s Kandy-Kolored, Tangerine-Flake Techno Dystopia
“Pitched as ‘avante hyperpop’, her music can sound like what Mariah Carey might cook up if she spent more hours hanging out in video arcades and reading radical literature.”
Dean: KhakiKid and Travy are among the Irish rap elite
They’re “a pair of gifted boy wonders on very different ends of the stylistic spectrum from each other”.