Why has some of the greenery in city planters been left to wither?
The council hasn’t been able to find a contractor willing to take on the job of looking after these plants, a council official says.
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The loss of Sam’s Collective, a special space in Dublin’s queer scene
Others should take the closure as an inspiration and fill the gap, says Coco Fabulasio. “Let’s build new things.”
Luke: New film “Four Mothers” is “equal parts heartwarming and heart-rending”
It’s from Darren and Colin Thornton, the sibling team behind 2016’s “A Date for Mad Mary”, “one of the truly great Irish films of the last 10 years”.
Photo of the Month: March
“As a street photographer you really see how much people have cut themselves off from each other via this little thing that fits in our hands.”
On Ormond Quay, a literary salon meets as Gaeilge
As, over the river, councillors again picked up the thread on long-standing plans for an Irish language quarter.
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”.
In Balleally, field recordings fill in the sound of the estuary’s missing birds
Garrett Phelan’s latest artwork is made of 28 radio shows broadcast on a loop, that force the listener to hear the landscape anew by showing the old.
Luke: There’s too much that’s familiar in this Irish-language horror film
And as the same horrors appear again and again, attention and scarewithall wanes.
In Balbriggan, an art exhibition looks back to a time when a “balbriggan” meant something
The group show Weaving Threads of Heritage opens 12 April at Ardgillan Castle.
Living in an angry phone box, and playing a video game where you get to smash up the Docklands, at a new exhibition
Liquid Urbanisms, a group show, is due to run from 14 March to 24 April at the Lab Gallery in Dublin 1.
New city arts plan aims to provide more arts spaces, and more money for artists
It also includes plans for broadening out who gets to decide what public art the council will commission and install around the city.
Council setting up registry to connect arts groups with arts spaces available in the city
The database is the latest step in Dublin City Council’s effort to make good on its “5 percent” policy.
A new play tells the too-common story of a homeless mother separated from her children
In different jobs, playwright Helen McGrath says she heard again and again from young mothers living apart from their children, trying to protect them.