Author: Jim Maddox

Supporting local Dublin business is vital firstly to keeping the culture alive of business in Dublin and secondly to preserving generations of history with some local business services. You’ll be able to put money back into your area and the other people who call it home, too. If its a local shop, a local electronic…

Lots of people think the culture of Dublin is to eat and especially drink. Over the years, I have been fairly fond of both of these things to excess. However, there is much more to our Dublin culture than just going out and having the craic. At our core, since young, we were brought up…

With the mix of cultures we have in Dublin, it makes a great place for trying out different types of cuisine. Ranging from local Irish food to more European style food like Italian or French food. What’s even better is that some of the pubs in Dublin have a great menu for eating and you…

Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 The Smock Alley Theatre is featuring “Bronte by Polly Teale” from Mon 06 – Sat 11 March. “Destined to lonesome, isolated lives in the English countryside, three sisters (Emily, Charlotte and Anne) face their brothers decline into alcoholism and insanity. As chaos descends on the…

The “Feel Good Slot” at this place in the Dublin Event Guide is to share some inspirational, motivational or thought provoking quotes, stories or video clips. I have been going around quoting Tony Robbins here in the feel good slot. That has a number of reasons: 1) A free seminar about his courses will be…

RBS 6 Nations is the 17th series of the Six Nations Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. It is is the oldest rugby championship in the world, dating back to 1882. Originally held between the four United Kingdom countries England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, France joined in 1910 and Italy joined in 2000….

A fundraising Ceili will take place in the Teacher’s Club and all proceeds will go to Care4Calais who provide food, books and household supplies etc to refugees living in the camp in Calais in France. A Ceili is Irish dancing at its purest form. There will be a instructor who will explain the dances and…

The Dublin International Film Festival (DIFF) has fast become Ireland’s premier feature film festival, taking place in Dublin over 11 days each spring, 2016’s festival will turn the city cinematic from 18th – 28th Feb. DIFF continues its commitment to celebrating film as an art form by presenting over 120 films from the four corners…

VIEWTempleBar is an upcoming event in Temple Bar about arts and politics. It’ll run from Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd November 2015.

This year’s Dublin Theatre Festival features a production of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa by Lyric Theatre Belfast. Here’s how the theatre festival describes it: “Set in County Donegal in 1936 during the Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa, the play tells the story of the five Mundy sisters and their brother Jack, who has returned…