A friend of mine, Aine Rynne, is a founder member of Bluepatch Productions, and they’re doing Portia Coughlan by the mighty Marina Carr next month. They’re having a table quiz in the Ha’Penny Bridge Inn on the 26th January at 7.30pm to raise funds: “Come along and support our fundraiser for Bluepatch’s production of Portia … Read more
Una cogging Rick’s playlist while Derek glares out from between them. Rick can text and DJ at the same time. Rick lets one off. Una’s too polite to mention it. Fire alarm goes off. I happened to be in Dublin as I’d a couple of gigs. It was eventful. I was drawing caricatures at Legal … Read more
While I’m a huge fan of Antony Gormley and in particular Angel of the North I’m not convinced that the scale of his proposed work for Dublin’s docklands is entirely appropriate. A human form of that scale in such a tight urban setting actually dimishes the innate human scale intrinsic in that setting, for example … Read more
I’m planning a post later on the Concern development education workshops I facilitated around the country last month. I had a great bunch of Transition Year students in Galway, Dublin and Cork. This is an ongoing project aimed at raising awareness of global child exploitation. There are currently over 200 million children being used for labour in the world today.
