Fiachra Garvey: From sheep dipping to Shostakovich Pianist and farmer talks about agriculture, classical music and protecting his hands
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Fiachra Garvey is not just a musician and a farmer. He’s a talker, too. When I catch up with him at home in London, it’s he who gets the first question in, about the day’s weather in Dublin. Somehow we end up chatting about some of the worst downpours we’ve been caught out in.
He’s in an upbeat mood. As he later says of himself, “I’m no doomer and gloomer.” This is a serious understatement. He comes across as someone with the kind of skill to find the positives in the worst of situations. And, although we spend time mulling over the problems we’ve all been living with for 13 months, his takeaways are almost always positive.
ICO Leader Katherine Hunka
Reaction to this diverse online series has been every bit as strong as the first series and has enabled the Irish Chamber Orchestra to collaborate with more art forms including mime, marine film, and illustration.
This final episode ETERNAL BLOOMS is a four-part tapestry with Limerick-based Illustrator and Printmaker Eva Byrne, ICO Leader Katherine Hunka, Guitarist Jimmy Smyth and Film Editor, Dominik Kosicki.
Eva’s inspiration for ETERNAL BLOOMS came from the transient beauty of wildflowers, short-lived when plucked. As her daughter Polly struggles with the fading beauty of the flowers she picks daily for her mother, Eva captures this memory forever for her in her artwork.
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#RTEVirtualParade has been trending on Twitter in Ireland all day and there have been thousands of posts from home and abroad.
What a brilliant toy parade in #Kildare, it goes on and on showing the huge effort that went in to setting it up
Some told the story of St Patrick in their own words, including two young girls decided to re-enact St Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland with jelly worms.
Children in Killorglin in Kerry carried a cut out Sam Maguire in their floats, while one musical family used the Hamiliton soundtrack to tell the story of our patron saint.
21 arrested over breaches of public health regulations
Updated / Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021
20:48
Crime Correspondent
Twenty-one people - 17 males and four females - have been arrested in connection with public order offences and breaches of Covid-19 legislation in Dublin.
Fourteen people appeared before a sitting of Dublin District Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice this evening. Seven were charged and released on station bail.
Gardaí say the vast majority of people are complying with the regulations, and added that overwhelming levels of compliance were reported throughout today.
A number of events which were organised on social media took place, but gardaí said limited numbers were in attendance.