Repair People: The Typewriter Repairer – Joe Millar
With typewriter manufacturing coming to a halt in the 90s, there simply aren’t enough typewriters left to repair.”
Repair People: The Hoover Fixer – Fergus Doyle
“I’m probably the only person left in the city now who could take a 1950s or 1960s Hoover apart and put it back together again.”
Raft Race Against Homelessness
St Vincent DePaul’s fundraising event
Park(ing) Day Dublin
Throw your creativity into full gear
Restaurant Review: The Legal Eagle
God is in the details for ventures like this and it is abundantly apparent that a lot of consideration has gone into The Legal Eagle.
Repair People: The Luthier – James Beatley
“To make a violin white model (unvarnished) takes 200 hours” We talk to the master craftsmen who serve dwindling demands with pride and passion.
Pop-up: The Crate
Pop in to this pop-up of The Crate
Soundbite: Brid Carter Honest2Goodness
Brid Carter tells us more about the Glasnevin based food and wine business she founded with her brother Colm in 2009.
Soundbite: Stephen Kavanagh: Marine Health Foods & Temple Bar Food Market
“I started as an artisan producer processing oysters and then we evolved into extracts and other activities.”
A Statue for Bill Clinton
Theatrical japes about Bill Clinton
Frankie Cosmos
Frankie Cosmos breezes into town tonight. Danny Wilson talks labels, diaries, celebrity and muses with her.
Roadmap: Meet Your Maker
Liam Geraghty is striking out with Meet Your Maker – “a podcast about the people who make the things we love”.
Design: People & Projects
People & Projects is a new collaborative studio space which is opening its doors to the public.
Bitesize: The Legal Eagle
The latest venture from Elaine Murphy, the queen of quayside dining whose myriad culinary initiatives have revitalised dining out North of the Liffey.
Cinema Review: Dunkirk
Dunkirk is a film that seeks to remind its public of something quite remarkable, and perhaps even prescient: success is never quite as sweet as when stolen from the jaws of defeat.
Belle and Sebastian
I spent the summer wasted!
Sound: Other Worldly – Autre Monde
From the ashes of Popical Island rises the phoenix that is Autre Monde
I, DUBLIN CITY: Malcolm McGettigan
Malcolm McGettigan remembers a face. And behind every one there’s a story.