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You would be extremely hard-pressed to find someone in Kildare or, following her appearance on RTE’s Home Rescue, the island of Ireland that doesn’t. ....
The atmospheric setting of St. Mary s Church of Ireland, Maynooth, will be the setting for two events featuring the spoken word and music. An evening of spoken . ....
Updated / Friday, 8 Jan 2021 16:00 Geoff Finan (AKA The Poet Geoff) presents Empowering Voices at this year s First Fortnight festival Throughout January, the First Fortnight festival presents than 70 events online, as they mark 10 years of challenging mental health stigma. Below, Geoff Finan (AKA The Poet Geoff) writes for Culture about a fascinating project that explores issues around identity and mental health in communities of Traveller men. Like so many good ideas, the idea for the Gloke project came from a chance meeting. I was giving a workshop on presentation skills in The Axis Theatre when I met Andy O’Hara and Michael Collins. Both men work for Pavee Point and as we spoke after the presentation, the conversation quickly began to focus on Mental Health in the Traveller community. I proposed using Creative Writing as a means of exploring these issues within the community and so the project began. ....