“At festivals we always try to make it kind of a zone of its own.” We sat down for a slice with Oliver Allison of The Big Blue Bus to find out the story of their fantastic pizzas.

Hand-picked apples harvested at Boyne Grove Fruit Farm outside Drogheda make up the sole ingredient of Dan Kelly’s, a popular new Irish craft cider. Olan McNeece tells us more about the family run enterprise.

“The best solutions are the ones that are not created in isolation. You want to know what the big picture is”. We chat with WorkGroup design veterans Conor and David.

Craft is relaxed and casual at the front of house, but the plates coming out of the kitchen feature some serious cooking.

Bloom Fringe Festival is reminiscent in some ways to Civic Systems Lab – in that the June Bank Holiday weekend festival aims to celebrate the grassroots initiatives, the urban interventions, the pop-up happenings that make Dublin what it is.

The Rag Trader is more an auxiliary set of taps that have been afforded their own stylised rebranding campaign more than anything else. The first thing that strikes you is that the entire place is made out of drawers.

Adrian Herlihy runs The Beach on Inishbofin with his wife Orla Day. He talks to us about great local produce, the Bia Bó Finne initiative and a unique project currently underway to develop a craft brew on the island.

The familiar is also present at Pickle, but it’s just better than you’ve had it before.

The Ivy styles itself as “luxurious continental style bar” suited to “watching the world go by whilst regaling old times”. While its oldness is contrived, it’s also strangely convincing.

“People are beginning to realise more that design is an intrinsic value as opposed to something you layer on.” We speak with George Boyle, founder of the Fumbally Exchange the new head of the IDI.

“I tell people that I make food pretty for a job, that’s the easiest way to describe it, but it starts with weeks of prep beforehand”. Creative all-rounder Jette Virdi talks to us about her work as a food stylist, her interest in design and her plans for a new home-ware collection later this year.

“The meal was a crescendo in enjoyment, starting off well and finishing on a triumphantly high note. Which is, of course, the direction you want a meal to go in”. We check out the Pigeon House Clontarf.

Totally Dublin is delighted to announce that we’ve teamed up with our pals at Yelp Dublin to host Live Well Dublin 2016, a great event focused on all things healthy.

Set in 1922, the fictional town of Puckoon on the Irish border finds itself partitioned by the Boundary Commission leaving the church and graveyard separated and, graver still, the drinks in one half of the pub costing more than in the other.

“We have to stop thinking of ourselves as an island connected by diaspora to America, and we have to get used to travelling as a nation to export our talent”. Andrew Griffen, Urban Agency.

“I never for a second even considered that I could be a wrestler. It was such an out-there dream.” Baldoyle’s Rebecca Quin is kicking ass and taking names across the world as Becky Lynch in the WWE.

‘Walking by the Christmas windows of Brown Thomas on Grafton Street last December and spotting my couture neckpiece in the window was the ultimate surprise!’ Designer Bláithín Ennis talks to us.

Wigwam feels more like a blank canvas than a hodgepodge… the beginning of another journey for the Bodytonic gang, rather than a definitive statement… And it’s all the more exciting to have a space in the city like that.