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.
“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.
The Castle follows a three-generation Lithuanian household in Dublin, worn down by Ireland’s carelessness and hostility to the hopes and dreams of immigrants.
The project, On Chorus, started on 16 November and runs through to 29 November. “It’s a way of connecting people during a time where we have to be distant,” says creator Christopher Steenson.
Over the last week or so, James Kirwan has stashed paintings along Dublin’s streets as gifts to strangers. “This is my project to cheer people up,” he says.
