New online course for Prediabetes & Type 2
We developed an online educational course that people can follow from the comfort of their own home following a visit to their GP where they have been told one of 2 things : “you have Type 2 diabetes” or “if you don’t change your diet and lifestyle you will get Type 2 – you have […]
Fleadh Cheoil Luimnígh On The June Bank Holiday In Kilfinane
What a weekend we here at Ballyhoura CCE have in-store for you all! For Competitors, Trad Lovers, Families, Foodies and the Outdoor Enthusiasts, there is something to offer everyone! Alongside the competitions, which all Limerick competitors must enter to progress to the All Ireland Fleadh, the weekend has a great Fringe Festival. A top line […]
New Concert Celebrating Jeanette MacDonald And Nelson Eddy
Sheldon Nulty Music presents “Will You Remember?” starring soprano Sandra Oman and baritone Simon Morgan in an unforgettable tribute in concert to Silver Screen Icons of the 1930s and 1940s, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. All of their famous songs, arias and duets – Will You Remember?; Rose Marie; Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life; Lover […]
We Banjo 3 Return To Birr Theatre and Arts Centre
After last gracing the stage in Birr in 2014, We Banjo 3 return to Birr Theatre & Arts Centre on Sunday 21 May 2017, 8pm. Hailing from Galway, Enda & Fergal Scahill and Martin & David Howley are among the most celebrated and distinguished young musicians in Ireland today, playing banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar […]
New start-up SwitchingRooms.ie provides students with rent-free accommodation
www.switchingrooms.ie is a new online start-up that provides a solution to the housing shortage and escalating rents third level students face. Switching Rooms provides a platform for students to advertise the room they are leaving behind, on its database, search for a suitable match in the required destination and do a direct swap thus eliminating the crippling […]
Offaly youth group gets behind the camera ahead of the Irish Cancer Society X-HALE Youth Awards
X-HALE is an initiative developed by the Irish Cancer Society to encourage young people to take action on the issue of smoking in their own communities. As part of X-HALE, the Irish Cancer Society hosts the annual X-HALE Youth Awards which sees youth groups from around the country enter short films and community action […]
President Higgins Becomes 1st Leader In Almost 1000 Years To Light Fire On The Hill of Uisneach
Last Saturday night President Michael D Higgins joined several thousand people from throughout Ireland and overseas on the Hill of Uisneach in Co. Westmeath where he lit the annual Bealtaine fire. He follows in the footsteps of, among others, Daniel O’Connell, Padraig Pearse and President Eamon De Valera in making an historic visit to […]
Bill to Ban Fracking in Ireland passes another major legislative hurdle
Friends of the Earth welcome the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and the Environment’s decision to pass a Bill which would ban hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas in Ireland. This marks the ‘third stage’ or ‘committee stage’ debate on this Bill. The proposed Bill received unanimous support from the Dail late last year, […]
Requiem By Leonard Cohen At Birr Theatre In June
Last summer, novelist and poet John MacKenna, a longtime friend of Leonard Cohen, began work on a requiem for theatre, in memory of young friends who had died and in honour of those who mourn them. The requiem was inspired, in particular, by Leonard Cohen’s hope-filled lines: Behold the gates of mercy, in arbitrary space, and […]
