Beth-Ann Smith and brothers Owen and Ken Madden, three artisans with impressive family lineages in food, have combined their collective experience to launch The Lismore Food Company. Based in the historic Waterford town, their new venture is located in The Summerhouse, home to the brother’s family business for almost two centuries. Beth-Ann talked to us recently about biccies, the beauty of a ‘hot orange’ eureka moment and Lismore’s connection to Boyle’s Law.

“I’m not for everybody, I’m not throwaway fashion.” Lisa Ryder is the queen of printed leather handbags. Her distinctive and dynamic designs are a captivating snapshot into the imagination of the Mayo-based award-winning designer. Totally Dublin decided to find out how deep the flamingo hole goes.

Whether it’s the cloud of adolescent pheromones or the compounded nostalgia, there is a magnetic force in cinema’s ether.

By the time you get to the familiar opening of the closer Round Midnight, you will be repeating to yourself ‘By God, do I ever love jazz music.’

Laura Magahy is known for her work with Temple Bar Properties in the ’90s, the Craft Council, running MCO and the ID2015 campaign. Arran Street East, her latest venture, sees her designing pots inspired by the Markets Area of Dublin.

Paper Trail Records is a new label that’s not only striving to showcase exceptional music, but also embrace the shifting sands of ‘the biz’.

Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do in Dublin this weekend.

Cartoon Saloon are somewhat of a golden child of Irish animation at the moment. Hailing from Kilkenny, the group have been nominated for two Oscars, the most recent of which Song of the Sea, will be released in Ireland this summer.

We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to EACH one of the AbsolutDIY workshops that are running around the city in the lead-up to OFFSET 2015 at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on March 6th to 8th.

Fifty Shades of Grey is a movie that acts hardcore when it’s barely soft porn.

It’s fair to say that the principal motivator for our late January excursion to The Yacht was a series of hushed mutterings about the ownership changing hands.

Fifteen years after Erik and Michelle Robson first established ely, they remain dedicated advocates of seasonality. We caught up with Erik recently during a brief interlude in sourcing new wines and craft beers to talk about their latest successes, the closure of ely Gastro Bar and exciting new developments in the IFSC.

Tipperary businessman Martin Burke’s aim when he first opened the Shelbourne in 1824 was to ‘woo genteel custom who wanted solid, comfortable and serviceable accommodation at a fashionable address’.

Irish filmmaker Ian Lawton is putting together funding for a feature length, part-animated documentary called The Dharma Bum. The documentary investigates the travels and travails of Laurence Carroll, a free-thinking, atheist Irish hobo born in the 1850s who upped sticks for Burma, and traded booze for Buddhism, becoming known as U Dhammaloka. His incredibly fascinating […]

Climate change, as Naomi Klein points out in the opening pages of This Changes Everything, is an issue we’re not comfortable thinking about, at least for any extended period of time.

Napalm Death deliver another in a recent run of punishing and innovative death metal records.

Founder of Distinct Model Management Anne Morgan is putting Irish models on the international fashion stage with her keen eye for cutting-edge talent.

The Shakespeare / The Hop House on Parnell Street is the perfect embodiment of the duality that the street now represents.