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Chubbys46 Clontarf Road, Dublin 3★ 8/10Jamais vu, a feeling of something or somewhere being familiar yet the experience ...
23/07/2025

Chubbys
46 Clontarf Road, Dublin 3
★ 8/10

Jamais vu, a feeling of something or somewhere being familiar yet the experience appearing unusual or unfamiliar. A hundred and twenty or so reviews ago we were in this same warehouse behind Lotts & Co on the Clontarf Road when it was occupied by a food truck slinging tacos. Now it has shape-shifted into a full-service restaurant with a menu that stretches beyond the pop-up, and Chubbys 2.0 feels both familiar and foreign

The chef-owner Barry Stephens quietly closed in late 2024 after a couple of years in the taco trade. Seven months later he flung open the same doors with an incredible interior facelift, a serious menu evolution and a slimmer moniker: from Just Chubbys to simply Chubbys

Contributors to a new book of essays about the singer weigh up her cultural and political legacy | ✍️ Lauren MurphyRead ...
22/07/2025

Contributors to a new book of essays about the singer weigh up her cultural and political legacy | ✍️ Lauren Murphy

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Tweed, tech and a touch of trad — Paul Costelloe is set to headline the first Ireland Fashion Week, describing the event...
22/07/2025

Tweed, tech and a touch of trad — Paul Costelloe is set to headline the first Ireland Fashion Week, describing the event as a “historic moment”

Not to be confused with Dublin Independent Fashion Week which returns for its third year from September 22, Ireland Fashion Week will run from October 6 to 10 in venues in Dublin, Connemara and the midlands

It will feature three flagship shows, two spotlight events and two mixed showcases, highlighting graduate and professional designers

Michael Flatley has been approached by “people in the know” about a potential run for the Aras, the dance star has saidF...
22/07/2025

Michael Flatley has been approached by “people in the know” about a potential run for the Aras, the dance star has said

Flatley, who is best known for his internationally successful shows such as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, said that he had not yet made a decision about whether to run for president but did not rule himself out of the contest

The 67-year-old retired performer said he had not been approached by any political party about the election

‘Don’t open a restaurant if you can’t cook. Don’t cook just for restaurant critics. Don’t use your imagination just for ...
22/07/2025

‘Don’t open a restaurant if you can’t cook. Don’t cook just for restaurant critics. Don’t use your imagination just for the sake of seeming imaginative.” This was the philosophy of Myrtle Allen, the undisputed doyenne of Irish food. And it’s quoted on the menu of Myrtle in Chelsea, Anna Haugh’s restaurant, named in Allen’s honour, which brings fine Irish food to one of the world’s great gastro cities

This missionary work also involves her recent 15-part television series for the BBC, Anna Haugh’s Big Irish Food Tour, which aired throughout the UK

It’s all a long way from Presentation Community College, in the Dublin suburb of Terenure, where the careers teacher said to a 16-year-old Haugh, “You’ll be sick of cooking when you’re married,” and refused to give her advice on how to make a culinary career

Mary Lou McDonald or Catherine Connolly for president? Sinn Fein can’t decideWhile many favour a unity candidate of the ...
22/07/2025

Mary Lou McDonald or Catherine Connolly for president? Sinn Fein can’t decide

While many favour a unity candidate of the left for the Irish presidential election 2025, others believe their party leader would be a formidable choice

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The state has paid out more than €1.2 million in college fees for civil servants over the past three years, while paid s...
22/07/2025

The state has paid out more than €1.2 million in college fees for civil servants over the past three years, while paid study leave is also offered to hundreds of staff. The figures come amid continued uncertainty around a potential cut in third-level fees in the next budget

There has been political controversy in recent weeks after James Lawless, the minister for higher education, indicated that students would be paying an extra €1,000 in fees because no dedicated cost of living package had been planned for the 2026 budget

The minister’s comments sparked a war of words between the coalition parties of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail after a backlash from parents and students. The government remains under pressure to implement a cut to fees when the budget is announced later this year

Eamonn Crowley, chief executive of PTSB, should buy one of those bar-room signs that declares how all patrons make us ha...
22/07/2025

Eamonn Crowley, chief executive of PTSB, should buy one of those bar-room signs that declares how all patrons make us happy: some by coming, some by leaving

Last week Crowley would have been happy enough to see NatWest leave the register, and absolutely delirious to welcome Fidelity International and Wellington Management in its stead

The British bank was an accidental investor; its stake part payment for the loan book and deposits sold to PTSB as part of Ulster Bank’s exit from the market. It was never a long-term holder

In January 1988, Kevin Branigan and Mike Ormonde, two 15-year-old budding entrepreneurs, appeared in an interview in the...
22/07/2025

In January 1988, Kevin Branigan and Mike Ormonde, two 15-year-old budding entrepreneurs, appeared in an interview in the Sunday World newspaper

The Dubliners had set up an “illegal” radio station, Signal FM, in the shed of Ormonde’s family home in Rathfarnham and reckoned they were Ireland’s youngest owners of a pirate station

The article, complete with photos of Ormonde “at the controls” and Branigan “cueing up a record”, recorded how the pair spent IR£600 of their pocket money on the venture. They had “100 per cent backing” from their parents, who knew the boys wanted to work full-time in radio and saw it as an education

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked for a plaque celebrating her attendance at the reopening of a pub in her constituency to...
22/07/2025

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill asked for a plaque celebrating her attendance at the reopening of a pub in her constituency to be removed as she felt it was inappropriate given her role as minister for health

Carroll MacNeill, a Fine Gael TD for Dun Laoghaire, attended an event celebrating the reopening of the Queens in Dalkey, south Co Dublin, on Saturday, July 12. Photographs showed a clearly elated Carroll MacNeill unveiling the plaque alongside her fellow constituency TDs Barry Ward, of Fine Gael, and ­Cormac Devlin, of Fianna Fail. However, the plaque, which said the pub was “officially reopened by the minister for health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill”, has now been removed on request by the minister

A spokeswoman for Carroll MacNeill said: “The minister attended an event for the reopening of a local food and beverage business in her constituency

For anyone dreaming of an idyllic holiday home with the sea on their doorstep, to facilitate a summer of swimming, saili...
22/07/2025

For anyone dreaming of an idyllic holiday home with the sea on their doorstep, to facilitate a summer of swimming, sailing, surfing, lying on the beach and coastal walks, the best properties also provide a glimpse of the shimmering blue water

These come at a price and they’re in demand — from Irish and international buyers. John Daly of Sherry FitzGerald Daly Kenmare points to a strong interest from American buyers that he says wasn’t there 12 months ago. “This is happening in all the Sherry Fitz offices up along the west coast,” he says. “A huge number of Americans are coming in looking at holiday home-type properties or even full-time homes in nice locations.”

Captain Americas is a bona fide Dublin institution. Located at the bottom of Grafton Street, its patrons have been climb...
22/07/2025

Captain Americas is a bona fide Dublin institution. Located at the bottom of Grafton Street, its patrons have been climbing up the narrow stairs to the first-floor burger joint for the past 54 years

Founded by a 26-year-old Mark Kavanagh, whose Hardwicke would later develop the first buildings in Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre, it was bought in 1993 by another developer, Paddy McKillen Sr, who would later buy Claridge’s hotel in London

That’s quite the pedigree

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