Irish women have become remarkably chilled about the prospect of rain in summer because it allows them to keep wearing their Colin Horgan trench coats!
Sir For more than 43 years the Stardust families sought truth and justice. For much of that time it must have seemed that the families with grief and love in their hearts walked alone, except for the few who stood by them.
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Bookmark it: The First Fortnight Festival kicks off on January 5 with two weeks of theatre, poetry, music and textile art on a range of topics related to mental health. The line-up includes Louisa Ní Éideáin’s Dopa-Mean Girl, a one-woman, cabaret-style show she wrote after receiving a late diagnosis of ADHD in 2022. Performed in both English and Irish, it is designed to “recreate the polyphony of a brain that must do at least two things at all times”. Neurodiverse people will relate; neurotypicals will leave with a better understanding. It runs from January 11-13 at the Boys’ School in Smock Alley, Temple Bar, Dublin 2; tickets from €15. firstfortnight.ie
Nobel laureate author Ernest Hemmingway penned a novel called ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ which earned him the big prize in 1954. Like that grizzled old man of fiction, Niall (pronounced Kneel as in saying prayers rather than Nile as in the river) Meehan can also claim a special relationship with the sea.