Greater use of red-light cameras on Dublin roads inches closer
On Monday, the National Transport Authority published a tender looking for someone to help it plan and oversee the roll-out of red-light and speed cameras.
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A new film carefully explores the interpersonal toll of falling for hate
“What I tried to do was that two different people could watch this movie, and have two different reactions,” said director Alan Hopkins.
Exhibition showcases works by Liberties painter Valerie Gannon
Portraits, self-portraits, highly abstract renderings of cityscapes, recollections of sights at Dublin Airport, and much more.
Luke: New film The Three Urns is “puzzling, haphazard, funny ha-ha, funny peculiar, and messy”
“The head struggles to make sense of it all, but the heart beats along with every haphazard second of it.”
In Howth, an artist looks to blur the lines between the gallery and the sights on its doorstep
Róise McGagh’s exhibition “sticks and mountains and huge lone birds” is on now at the College Lane Gallery.
A new night in Portobello focuses on experimental musicians
Four bands cycled through the stage at the underground candle-lit Bello Bar last Thursday for the first outing of the monthly Off Grid Fusion.
Dean: On Curtisy’s boundlessly imaginative blog rap
“This singular eccentric is on an exciting trajectory.”
Luke: In a new Irish-language film, “secrets can’t stay buried forever, even at the bottom of a lake”
Báite (The Drowned) is “measured and tight in the fashion of the most watchable mysteries”.
New film documents Dubliners’ resistance to subordination of social life to profit
“The market is a monster,” says filmmaker James Redmond. “It turns living spaces into dead space.”
Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds
Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.
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.”
Luke: In "All that Glitters", Shakespeare's ghost coaches an apathetic schoolboy in life and love
"If it sounds silly, it is. But it’s also charming, heartfelt, moving and much else."