Africa Day (25 May) will be celebrated online this year, with virtual events taking place across the country. Twenty-three local authorities and their community partners are hosting a diverse range of virtual activities, from storytelling to traditional crafts, musical performances to webinars.
Virtual events across Ireland to celebrate Africa Day 2021
Africa Day (25 May) will be celebrated online this year, with virtual events taking place across the country. Twenty-three local authorities and their community partners are hosting a diverse range of virtual activities, from storytelling to traditional crafts, musical performances to webinars. Members of the African diaspora in Ireland and the communities of African heritage are also invited to share their own Africa Day content by tagging @AfricaDayIreland on Facebook, @AfricaDay on Twitter or AfricaDayIreland on Instagram, and use the hashtags #AfricaDayIreland and #AfricaDay2021.
2021 is the 16th year in which Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs is supporting events to mark Africa Day in Ireland.
Mexican author Valeria Luiselli has won the 2021 Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive.
The novel, the first the author has written in English, follows an artist couple on a road trip from New York to Arizona with their two children in the heat of summer. As their parentsâ relationship frays, the children try to make sense of both their familyâs crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of children trying to cross the border into the US but getting detained or lost in the desert along the way. The winner was announced today online by Dublinâs Lord Mayor Hazel Chu at the opening of the International Literature Festival Dublin, which runs until May 30th. The presentation took place at the Irish Consulate in New York City, where Luiselli lives. Consul General Ciarán Madden and Colm TóibÃn, who won the award in 2006 for The Master, presented Luiselli with her prize on behalf of its sponsor, Dublin City Council.
Dublin City Council weighs up curfew for Portobello Plaza By Hazel Nolan
It’s one of the ideas being mooted to combat issues around street drinking there.
The Local Authority installed a temporary fence around the canal-side square for the weekend, but it has since been removed.
Dublin Lord Mayor Hazel Chu says they are starting a consultation on the future of the area: I proposed a curfew of a certain hour to the Gardaí, she explained. It could be 10 o clock or a little bit earlier, or a little bit later, but in consultation with the residents. It is a residential area, but there is a public plaza there. We would also want to make sure there were proper facilities in place.
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Former Fine Gael TD Kate O Connell has said she will not be contesting the by-election in Dublin Bay South.
The pharmacist has claimed she is not the desired candidate of party HQ and it s become clear she wouldn t win a selection convention.
Ms O Connell said her relationship with Leo Varadkar never recovered after she backed Simon Coveney in the last Fine Gael leadership contest.
The former TD has said in an interview with
RTE that she will not contest the by-election in her constituency as an independent and will remain a party member.
Fine Gael Councillor James Geoghegan is expected to seek a nomination, while Senator Ivana Bacik is set to contest the race for Labour.