“So the council is allowing horses in Dublin City,” says horse owner David Mulraney. “But they’re not allowing them to put their horse manure anywhere.”
Since June, there’s been a shift in how the Department of Justice has ruled on these applications – more rejections, says immigration solicitor Imran Khurshid.
“In a way, Róisín Machine finally brings her around to the kind of record that might have launched her star in the mid-2000s,” writes Dean Van Nguyen on the Irish disco musician.
In this futuristic imagining of an afflicted and dystopian Ireland, rising sea levels have taken vast swathes of the midlands and brought on a new way of life.
Anthony Freeman’s moss art, which can be seen around the Oliver Bond flats, is inspired by growth. “People grow, people evolve and this represents them.”
A Girl from Mogadishu is an earnest championing of an inspirational and courageous activist. The film works best as an overview of, or a jumping-off point into, Ifrah Ahmed’s life and work.
“My dad and his friends formed a football team called the Dorset Boys in the seventies,” says Patrick Osborne. This was an inspiration for his book, Baxter’s Boys.
In The Connacht Peep Show, by The Deadlians, the poems of Seumas O’Kelly are set to melodies. “His poems are a bit melancholic but there is a bit of humour in them,” says singer Sean Fitzgerald.
