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25/07/2025

Fitzgerald’s Park appreciation post. Trees, slides, swings, p***c art, a cafe, public toilet(s), flowers, grass, more trees, a mosaic tree, a band stand, a museum, an ice-cream van, graffiti, more trees, people eating 99s, climbing trees, smoking, dogs running, balls flying, ducks swimming, a public, public PUBLIC park. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

23/07/2025

West Cork for Palestine and The Spirit of Mother Jones Festival presents The Gaza Monologues at The Firkin Crane. A theatrical performance produced by the Ashtar Theatre, from Ramallah in the West Bank, it is directed by Nasser Swirki, and there are a number of speakers and musicians participating, including Maeve Higgins, Gerry Kelly, Tina Neylon and Thomas Heising. Taking place at 4pm tomorrow, admission is free.

22/07/2025

Build the wall!
No. Not that wall, the wall on damaged section of Parliament Bridge, part of which ended up in the river Lee when a car was driven into it in 2024z The single-arch bridge, which has a lovely rise and fall to it, was first built in the early 1800 from limestone. It had a significant repair and reconstruction in 1992. As to why it’s called Parliament Bridge? Well, that’s to commemorate our colonial past!! Last pic via the Anthony Barry collection.

16/07/2025

God speed William Harrington. Born just off Shandon Street, tragedy struck the Harrington family early: his father died of TB when William was four, his brother George died at the age of seven and William was hospitalised with TB as a toddler. He drew throughout his childhood and into his life, encouraged by his mother a dressmaker and saddle maker.

A few years back Elsha De Souza Twomey very kindly took me to visit William in the care home he was living in. His speech was very poor, but he still had a spark in his eye. He was fond of a drop of the craytur, and pubs and the drinking public featured in his many drawings. I never did get round to writing that piece, but I’ll return to it.

Next time you stop into The Constellation have a look for one of his drawings, also to be found in Stone Mad. I think Le Chateau has one too.

William died on July 14 and will be buried on Friday July 17 at 10am. Requiem mass in the North Cathedral.

Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann

12/07/2025

You heard the man. Only looking for a dozen or so. Thanks in advance;)

08/07/2025

Two free tickets* to the All-Ireland if you can place where these apples (peaches?) are in Cork.
No clues.
*Also no tickets.

04/07/2025

Out + About is back!

Did you have a mad week? Did you go to Duran Duran or Joe Bonamassa? Well why don’t you keep the party going?
Here are some of our picks for the weekend that’s in it.

03/07/2025

There’s a lot to be said for flowers too. And they don’t cost the price of a house. Still, somewhere in a City Council warehouse a small “forest” of “robo trees” weeps. And possibly even a City Council official.

02/07/2025

What can’t we have both?
WE DO! (in Cork)
Where u pops in for a toastie and they reward you with a bun.
Poor London. So behind. So sad.

27/06/2025

Is that a mobile phone we see behind the bar of the ???? Well Holy God it’s not but it is Bobby Ewing himself reincarnated and now working weekends in the bar that’s harder to get into than North Korea!!!
Photo via the Hi-B:)

22/06/2025

Final day of and last chance to see Bottlenose at the Granary. Pádraig O’Connor was there for Tripe to review. Full review on T+D. Photos

There is a lot to like about Bottlenose: A Murder Mystery for Ireland, Aaron O’ Neill’s latest play, which sees a host of colorful characters entwined in a complex web of crime, secrets, and suspense all revolving around one central question. Who killed Fungie the dolphin?

Set in the touristic mecca of Di**le in County Kerry, the play combines classic elements of detective caper with a running commentary on the changing face of rural Ireland, as dim witted, but likable detective Frank Finger (O’ Neill) takes on a case to solve a mystery the locals seem intent on keeping under wraps.

The action begins with the arrival of Fungie’s widow, the aptly named Velvet Nixon (Gillian Roberts) into the detective’s office, who pleads with him to find the perpetrator of the murder. Finger is entranced by Nixon’s sultry charm and agrees to go to the seaside town to find answers to a puzzle which has the entire nation enthralled.

As Finger gets to work, he encounters a number of shady individuals beginning with the fascist priest (Kyle English), who gives a memorable sermon at Fungie’s funeral. English nails the slippery country clergyman and has his thick Kerry accent down to a tee, all the while giving Finger no clues as to what happened to the money making mascot of the region.

20/06/2025

What he said;)

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