First Fortnight 2015 Media Book

2015 Media Book 01.11.2014 to 20.01.2015

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Table of Contents Irish Times: ‘This might be awful’: the Theatre Machine test............................................................................ 6 Kildare Nationalist: 13/01/2015 0................................................................................................................................................... 9 Irish Examiner: 12/01/2015 5 things to do this week.............................................................................................................. 11 The Star: 06/01/2015 A Frank Film Discussion.............................................................................................................. 12 Wicklow Times: 03/01/2015 A Shadow That Leans - Dance finds a natural home in First Fortnight Festival............................13 Wicklow Times North: 03/01/2015 A Shadow That Leans - Dance finds a natural home in First Fortnight Festival............................14 The Sun-Eire: 02/01/2015 A TIME TO CELEBRATE................................................................................................................ 15 Irish Times: 30/12/2014 Antidote in the arts to stigma of mental illness........................................................................... 16 The Sun-Eire: 23/12/2014 BRONAGH FOR 1ST FORTNIGHT.................................................................................................. 18 The Herald - National Edition: 09/01/2015 Celebrity Diary............................................................................................................................ 19 Laois Nationalist: 23/12/2014 CENTRE....................................................................................................................................... 20 Leinster Leader: 13/01/2015 CONVERSATIONS........................................................................................................................ 22 Daily Mirror Eire: 09/01/2015 Corner boys are up your street................................................................................................... 23 Bray People: 14/01/2015 Dance show................................................................................................................................ 24 Irish Times-The Ticket: 09/01/2015 DUBLIN....................................................................................................................................... 25 Irish Times-The Ticket: 09/01/2015 DUBLIN....................................................................................................................................... 26 Irish Times-The Ticket: 02/01/2015 DUBLIN....................................................................................................................................... 27 The Herald - National Edition: 05/01/2015 Dubliner's Diary.......................................................................................................................... 28 Laois Nationalist: 13/01/2015 Dunamaise plays host to Frank................................................................................................... 29 Carlow Nationalist: 13/01/2015 Dunamaise plays host to Frank................................................................................................... 31 Irish Examiner: 12/01/2015 Edge closer to happiness.............................................................................................................33 Irish Independent Tabloid - Seachtain Supplement: 07/01/2015 Feile na Seachtaine..................................................................................................................... 35 The Star: 26/12/2014 FEST HAS FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY........................................................................................... 36 Irish Times - Health and Family: 06/01/2015 Festival to focus on effects of social media................................................................................. 38 Irish Times: 02/01/2015 Festival to highlight ‘ordinary’ nature of mental health issues.................................................... 40 Totally Dublin: 01/01/2015 FESTIVALS.................................................................................................................................. 41 The Sun-Eire: 09/01/2015 FESTIVALS First Fortnight, Ireland's mental [...]........................................................................ 42 Totally Dublin: 01/01/2015 Film.............................................................................................................................................43 Bray People: 07/01/2015 Film Trank’ to be shown in the First Fortnight festival................................................................ 44 Irish Times-The Ticket: 02/01/2015 First amongThis equals.....................................................................................................................

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The Herald - National Edition: First Forthnight........................................................................................................................... 48 The Herald - National Edition: 02/01/2015 First Fortnight............................................................................................................................. 49 Irish Independent Tabloid-Health & Living supplement: 05/01/2015 First Fortnight............................................................................................................................. 50 NewsTalk - The Pat Kenny Show: 02/01/2015 First Fortnight Arts Festival........................................................................................................ 51 Leinster Leader: 13/01/2015 First Fortnight at Riverbank........................................................................................................ 52 RTE Radio 1 - Morning Ireland: 05/01/2015 First Fortnight Festival................................................................................................................ 53 FM104 - 13:00 News: 01/01/2015 First Fortnight Festival brightens up January.............................................................................. 54 Metro Eireann: 15/12/2014 First Fortnight festival challenges Ireland’s mental health stigma.............................................. 55 Irish Times: 28/11/2014 First Fortnight festival details..................................................................................................... 57 Bray People: 24/12/2014 First fortnight festival show........................................................................................................ 58 The Herald - National Edition: 07/01/2015 FIRST FORTNIGHT: TWO WEEKS, ONE THEME............................................................................. 59 The Mail on Sunday-Eire: 04/01/2015 FORMER Cork hurler and GPA [...]...............................................................................................60 Galway City Tribune: 09/01/2015 Frank at Town Hall for First Fortnight......................................................................................... 61 Connacht Tribune-Section 2: 09/01/2015 Frank at Town Hall for First Fortnight......................................................................................... 62 Limerick Leader Saturday County-Leader 2: 27/12/2014 Frank screening.......................................................................................................................... 63 Limerick Leader Sat City-Leader 2: 27/12/2014 Frank screening.......................................................................................................................... 64 Limerick Leader West Edition - Leader 2: 27/12/2014 Frank screening.......................................................................................................................... 65 Leinster Leader: 06/01/2015 'Frank' screenings for First Fortnight.......................................................................................... 66 Irish Times-The Ticket: 02/01/2015 FRIDAY 02.01.15........................................................................................................................ 67 Irish Times-The Ticket: 09/01/2015 FRIDAY 09.01.15........................................................................................................................ 68 The Star: 01/12/2014 GIG IS KEVIN SENT..................................................................................................................... 69 Irish Times-The Ticket: 09/01/2015 GOING OUT BROWSER................................................................................................................ 70 Irish Times - Health and Family: 06/01/2015 Health Board............................................................................................................................... 71 Irish Times - Health and Family: 16/12/2014 Health board............................................................................................................................... 72 Irish Times - Weekend Review: 10/01/2015 Lenny speaks Frankly at First Fortnight...................................................................................... 73 Northside People East: 14/01/2015 Let’s be ‘Frank’ about your mental health this month................................................................. 74 The Sun-Eire: 02/01/2015 LIFTING the weight off shoulders............................................................................................... 76 The Sun-Eire: 02/01/2015 Love, hatred, paranoia... in more extreme cases that is what mental illness is........................... 77 Leinster Express: 13/01/2015 Mental Health Event.................................................................................................................... 78 The Star: 09/01/2015 Movies........................................................................................................................................ 79 The Sunday Times-Eire: 21/12/2014 My frozen heart thaws when I discover Disney merchandise...................................................... 80 Copyright Material. 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Irish Times - Weekend Review: Naked romps in the pursuit of art............................................................................................... 81 Donegal News-Friday: 12/12/2014 New mental health mural prompts ‘No More Secrets’..................................................................82 Irish Independent Tabloid – Review: 10/01/2015 One woman show may end our national shame.......................................................................... 84 Sunday Business Post-Magazine: 11/01/2015 Out of the darkness.....................................................................................................................85 The Mail on Sunday-Eire: 07/12/2014 PartyPeople................................................................................................................................ 89 Irish Times: 03/01/2015 Performance therapy First Fortnight 2015 tackles mental health prejudices through art............90 Irish Times-The Ticket: 09/01/2015 PICK OF THE WEEK..................................................................................................................... 91 Cork News: 09/01/2015 Playtime......................................................................................................................................92 Kildare Nationalist: 13/01/2015 Riverbank hosts film screening for mental health arts festival....................................................93 Totally Dublin: 01/12/2014 ROADMAP................................................................................................................................... 94 Irish Times-The Ticket: 02/01/2015 ROCK/POP.................................................................................................................................. 95 Irish Examiner: 09/01/2015 Scene & Heard............................................................................................................................ 96 Irish Times: 24/12/2014 Sea..............................................................................................................................................97 Irish Examiner-Weekend: 10/01/2015 SOMETHING FOR THE WEEK AHEAD............................................................................................ 98 Irish Independent Tabloid – Review: 27/12/2014 SOPHIE’S NEW YEAR CHOICES.................................................................................................. 100 Irish Independent Tabloid – Review: 10/01/2015 Sophie's Choice......................................................................................................................... 101 The Herald - National Edition: 12/01/2015 Storytelling and baking............................................................................................................. 102 Northside People West: 14/01/2015 Supporting good mental health in 2015.................................................................................... 103 Southside People: 14/01/2015 Supporting good mental health in 2015.................................................................................... 104 The Herald - National Edition: 08/01/2015 The future’s here and there isn’t a hoverboard in sight.............................................................105 Irish Times-Sports: 03/01/2015 The unbreakable athlete is a cliche that cloaks more complex reality....................................... 107 Leinster Leader: 06/01/2015 The Week Spot.......................................................................................................................... 110 Image: 01/01/2015 This month, we're excited about............................................................................................... 111 The Star-Chic: 03/01/2015 THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS........................................................................................................112 Irish Times-The Ticket: 02/01/2015 THURSDAY 08.01.15................................................................................................................. 113 RTE Radio 1 - Drivetime: 09/01/2015 Upcoming concerts and films.................................................................................................... 114 Daily Mail Eire: 09/01/2015 Vulture THE............................................................................................................................... 115 Hot Press: 21/01/2015 WE CUT CORNERS SPEARHEAD FIRST FORTNIGHT INITIATIVE................................................ 116 Irish Times: 08/01/2015 What’s On................................................................................................................................. 117 Leinster Leader: 13/01/2015 WHAT’S ON AROUND COUNTY KILDARE.................................................................................... 118 Irish Times: 03/01/2015 What’s on Something for the weekend......................................................................................120 Copyright Material. 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Irish Independent Tabloid – Review: When art is good for the mind...................................................................................................121 Irish Examiner: Where arts meet mental health.................................................................................................122 Hot Press Yearbook: WHO'S WHO.............................................................................................................................. 123 Hot Press Yearbook: Who's who in publicity.............................................................................................................. 124 Daily Mail Eire: Your Weekend...........................................................................................................................131

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‘This might be awful’: the Theatre Machine test

Each evening, audiences pay €14 to see four short works in progress. You might see a disaster or an embryonic hit

This

week, Theatre Machine, or to sure. I’mloving it, but I’msick ofhaving to give it it’s full title, The Theatre ask people: ‘Can you do this? And I can’t Machine Turns You On Volume pay you.’ People will do it and there’s a lot Four, will be cranking into life. ofgoodwill,and it is important... but look Sixteen theatre pieces, three at the effect [Theatre Machine} has, with shows touring around the country.” gigs, and one “interactive sound experiment” called Sonic Whisperswill be chugging into the Project Arts Centre in Temple When they were young Bar. Things, however, will not run The event has a solid track record ofshowcasing the hits when they’re embryonic. smoothly, and that’s the point. Expect engines to break down. Expect spanners in One of the highlights of Theatre Machine the works. Expect the occasional glorious volume twowas IAma Homebird (It’sVery Hard), byShaun Dunne. Volumethree featured idea revving to life.

Dolls by Sorcha Kenny, which went Established by TheatreClub, Theatre Machine is a starting point for work to on to win the First Fortnight Award at the peek out of the chrysalis before stretching DublinFringe Festival in 2013.Hugh Travers showediam5o, which got a one-month its wings. Every evening, for €14, audiences can see four short productions at varying run at Bewley’sCafeTheatre lastyear.

Noelle Brown’sPostcript toured for six points of creation. Some will develop and move on to festivals. Some will disappear.weeks. And Dead Centre showed Lippy as a work in progress. It went on to win multiple Somewillbecome hits. It’s an opportunity awards at the Dublin Fringe Festival, to experiment, to test, to see what works and what fails on a stage in front of the Edinburgh Fringe, and the Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Production. an audience.

“For this festivalwe have nothing,” says It opens at the Peacock on January 29th. If Shane Byrne of TheatreClub with regards there were A&R theatre scouts running to funding. “It would be nice to have some around Dublin, you would imagine Theatre Machine would be a first stop. money from somewhere in future, for y

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Pat McGrath won acclaim with Small Plastic Wars, a Fringe show that played at Bewleys Cafe Theatre. His new show, Always Going Home, will, he says, get a “kick up the arse” from Theatre Machine.

It’s about a man who decides he wants to walk the Camino de Santiago, “but he can’t, so he decides to recreate it by walking between James’s Street church and Ballymun. I used to live in Ballymun, and the place I lived in, at the top of one of the towers, is gone. It’s just an empty space.

And I think, I used to live up there somewhere.

Lots of Dublin is likethat for a lot of people; something is gone.”

If he was left to his own devices, he says, “I’dbe tooling around saying, ‘I’mwriting a play’, and not writing it... It’s a chance to try something out.”

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“There’s an element where Shane Byrne has been saying, ‘Please, try not to polish these - dare I say - turds’. We don’t know what’sgoing to happen. It’s kind of liberating to think the people go in to that room going, ‘Thismay be awful’.”

Backto the rehearsal and they’re working on an introductory scene. “I’mgoing to rewrite this, especially the bit about the phones. It’sjust first draft, I think it’s written a bit badly. I can do better,” says Martin. Betweenreads, the team chats constantly, dissecting the issues.

A few days later, Pat McGrath is upstairs in Rough Magic’s office on South Great George’s Street in Dublin with Barbara Bergin directing him. McGrath is running through a scene that has a gag about borrowing a lawnmower. “Try the joke again, but more stripped-back,” says Bergin. He does. “Way better, Pat. Like that. It’s just much tighter.” Then they keep going. It’swork in progress.

At the rehearsal space for Players in Trinity, write that down on a funding form, but the team making Love+ is warming up that’s what I’mmotivated by.” for rehearsals. Nicolas Jaar’s Almost Fell In the Lantern Centre on Synge Street, The Theatre MachineTurns YouOnVolume plays, a track that begins with a B the company Red Bear is rehearsing Fourisat ProjectArts Centre,January 21-24. movie-like voiceover: “A human figure Harder Faster More. The show is about slopes up from the ground, its toes touch pom. On a freezing Sunday evening, they projectartscentre.ie.theatrecLub.ie the toes ofits mirror image...” are sharing the building with a Before the rehearsal, director Claire one-year-old’s birthday. In the rehearsal O’Reillyexplains the piece. “It kind of imagines room, there’s an incongruously large the potential and anticipated relationship glitzychandelier. between humans and robots and Director and writer Tracy Martin starts androids. We’re trying to explore what it talking about the show’s content. “That would be like in a plausible mainstream society; was God leaving the room,” she deadpans your average Joe getting one ofthese when the door rattles in the quasi-religious and how that might work.” setting. “The aim would be that by For this bunch, Theatre Machine acts as the end of the year we would have a scripted a useful platform to trial O’Reilly’sfuture play.We’re kind ofthrowing everything show for the Beckett Theatre. in here, vomiting up for this.

Assistant director Darren Sinnott says, “Thebest thing about doing Theatre Machine “It’s brilliant for young companies to test is that it gives us the chance to go their work in an environment that’s not through all ofthat first before wemake the necessarily final or complete. It’sso importantmistake of putting it up on the stage finished. to have someone in to see your stuff, to Maybe I’ll go, ‘Jesus, I’m never have it in front of an audience and see how f***ingtouching that again.’ It’sa good excuse it feels, get feedback before going into a final to have these conversations; otherwise production, and then you see all those I’dbe on my own, writing.” things like,‘Shit,I could have done that better.’ Producer Aoibheann McCann says: ” They repeat one scene over and over again, before moving on to another, trying it with a drum kit at the back of the room.

A week later, at another rehearsal, actors Maeve O’Mahony and Breffni Holahan are chatting about a scene that ends with them undressing. “That formation is right,” says O’Mahony,“but I think you’re right in that movingthe boxes in our underwear is naff.” They rethink the direction.

TheatreClub are idealists, and Theatre Machine has about 50 shows to its name.

Byrne says the pressure is off in many ways,because everyone knows none of the shows they’ll be watching are finished.

They support the artists, taking care of some of the grunt work.

“Insome small wayI think we’recontributing to the ecologyoftheatre and the audience experience,” Byrne says. “I wouldn’t

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Theatre Machine: ‘It's brilliant for young companies to test their work in an environment that’s not necessarily or complete. It’s so important to have someone in to see your stuff before going into a final production'

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Launching the FirstFortnightmentalhealtharts festivalwere musicianConall0 Breachain(WeCutCorners),comedian EleanorTiernan,FrankfromLennyAbrahamson's acclaimed movieFrank,andactressandmusicianTaraLee(TheFall)at street art inTempleBar.TheFirstFortnightfestivalaimsto challengementalhealthstigmaandwillruninDublinandvarious venuesnationwidethroughoutJanuary

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By Chris Fingleton

IRISH director Lenny Abrahamson’s acclaimed film Frank will be screened in the Dunamaise Arts Centre, Port-

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laoise, tomorrow their aspects, however difficult or extreme. night Wednesday 14 The film feels like January at 8pm.

Starring Michael a great fit for First Fassbender and Fortnight. I’m a big Domhnall Gleeson fan of the festival and Frank is part of First I’m really happy to Fortnight, Ireland’s be involved for the only mental health second year running.” arts festival. The film John Saunders, will be preceded by director of See Change, added No More Secrets, a that the campaign new documentary on mental health-related “is delighted to street art in Ireland. partner with First First Fortnight, Fortnight and bring Ireland’s only mental the message of the health arts festival, festival to cinemas extends to selected across the country venues nationwide as with screenings part of two weeks of of Lenny Abrahamson’s arts events aimed at acclaimed challenging mental movie Frank in the health prejudice hope of sparking a and discrimination. national conversation The screenings are on mental health being held in association problems that can with See touch any one of us.”

Change, the national Frank will be mental health stigma preceded by No More reduction partnership, Secrets, which was and Access produced by First Fortnight and Mental Cinema.

Of the programming Health Ireland. The of Frank in film was directed the First Fortnight

by Aidan Kelly and festival, Lenny Abrahamson, Wissame Cherfi and said: “Many follows the making of the musicians who of six street art pieces inspired Frank were in Limerick, Letterkenny, people who battled Dublin and with mental health Portlaoise. issues and somehow First Fortnight managed to transform festival is partnered those battles into

by Mental Health wonderful art.

Reform; St Patrick’s “While Frank Mental Health doesn’t draw any easy Services; Mental conclusions about Health Ireland and the link between See Change, the mental illness and national mental creativity it is underpinnedhealth stigma by a view of reduction partnership. people that values all

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THINGS TODO THISWEEK

cinema |

FOXCATCHER TODAY:Steve Carell gets all dark and serious in a film that will be challenging Birdman when the Oscars come around.

GO: Cinemas nationwide.

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MATCHED WEDNESDAY: Former UCC drama lecturer, Ger Fitzgibbon, turns gamekeeper with a lighthearted piece inspired

by Chekhov's one-act comedy, The Bear

and The Proposal.

GO: www.everymancork.com

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SLIPKNOT WEDNESDAY: Unpack those Halloween masks, as the Des Moines metal merchants bring their mayhem to Dublin, complete with support from Korn.

GO: 3arena.ie

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WHITNAIL & I WEDNESDAY: A screening of the 1987 classic at the Triskel in Cork is accompanied by recent Irish film, Frank, as part of the First Fortnight event on mental-health awareness.

GO: triskelartscentre.ie

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CHRIS KENT FRIDAY:The Knocknaheeney funnyman brings his ‘Corked’ show to Whelan’s in Dublin for the first of two appearances.

GO: theacademydublin.com

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A Frank film discussion FIRST Fortnight, Ireland's only mental health arts festival, extends its reach from today —with screenings of Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank at selected venues nationwide.

The festival’s aim is to

challenge mental health stigma.

Frank director Lenny Abrahamson will take part in a Frank post-show discussion in Dublin today with the film’s soundtrack composer, Stephen Rennicks.

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A Shadow That Leans - Dance finds a natural home in First Fortnight Festival

There is a growing interest in contemporary dance in ing, and has the capacity to integrate several brain functions Wicklow, a result of a dance artist residency at Mermaid at once - kinesthetic, rational, musical, and emotional.

County Wicklow Arts Centre in Bray. On 14th January A As an art form, it is a fitting addition to First Fortnight Shadow That Leans, a site-specific dance performance Festival. consisting of four short works and spontaneous happenings This will be an evening of short dance works merged will take place at Mermaid. This evening and related into one theme, giving audience members a new experience workshops are presented as part of the First Fortnight that will make them think again about how they perceive Festival. mental health.

Mermaid are hosting the year-long residency of three Nick Bryson and a long-term collaborator Jeff Wallace Wicklow-based dance artists, Nick Bryson (Legitimate have co-curated the evening. Jeff is a dancer, psychotherapist Bodies), Karen Gleeson and Aisling O’Coineen. The residency and experienced teacher. is supported by the Arts Council and will allow the Of the evening Nick has said, “This will be an evening artists to produce new work, research and engage with the of short dance works merged into one theme, giving audience community of Wicklow. A Shadow That Leans is the first members a new experience that will make them of three dates where the artists-in-residence will showcase think again about how they perceive mental health. The their works. first step is to rediscover that maybe a perception of a First Fortnight is a charity-based organisation with the familiar building can in fact be changed to something aim of challenging mental health prejudice through the unstable and impermanent. Mermaid as a venue has versatility. creative arts. The arts allow us to create a space where Mermaid’s programme of residencies, Mermaid people can talk about mental health issues in a non-scripted SPACE, makes the arts centre in to a makers’ space. manner. Once that conversation has begun, it will help The evening will consist of short performaces: A solo to change people’s perceptions about an issue that affects work by Jeff Wallace; Does it Get Easier by Karen us all with one in four of us set to experience a mental Gleeson and Aisling O’Coineen (a direct result of the residency health problem at some point in our lives. at Mermaid); Crestfallen by Nick Bryson and Jeff Dance is a proven route towards psychological heal¬ Wallace; Milk by Aisling O’Coineen.

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A Shadow That Leans - Dance finds a natural home in First Fortnight Festival

There is a growing interest in contemporary dance in ing, and has the capacity to integrate several brain functions at once - kinesthetic, rational, musical, and emotional.

Wicklow, a result of a dance artist residency at Mermaid As an art form, it is a fitting addition to First Fortnight County Wicklow Arts Centre in Btay. On 14th January A Festival.

Shadow That Leans, a site-specific dance performance consisting of four short works and spontaneous happenings This will be an evening of short dance works merged will take place at Mermaid. This evening and related into one theme, giving audience members a new experience that will make them think again about how they perceive workshops are presented as part of the First Fortnight mental health.

Festival.

Nick Bryson and a long-term collaborator Jeff Wallace Mermaid are hosting the year-long residency of three Wicklow-based dance artists, Nick Bryson (Legitimate have co-curated the evening. Jeff is a dancer, psychotherapist Bodies), Karen Gleeson and Aisling O’Coineen. The residency and experienced teacher.

Of the evening Nick has said, ‘This will be an evening is supported by the Arts Council and will allow the artists to produce new work, research and engage with the of short dance works merged into one theme, giving audience members a new experience that will make them community of'Wicklow. A Shadow That Leans is the first of three dates where the artists-in-residence will showcase think again about how they perceive mental health. The first step is to rediscover that maybe a perception of a their works.

First Fortnight is a charity-based organisation with the familiar building can in fact be changed to something aim of challenging mental health prejudice through the unstable and impermanent. Mermaid as a venue has versatility.

Mermaid’s programme of residencies, Mermaid creative arts. The arts allow us to create a space where people can talk about mental health issues in a non-scripted SPACE, makes the arts centre in to a makers’ space.

The evening will consist of short performaces: A solo manner. Once that conversation has begun, it will help to change people’s perceptions about an issue that affects work by Jeff Wallace; Does it Get Easier by Karen us all with one in four of us set to experience a mental Gleeson and Aisling O’Coineen (a direct result of the residency at Mermaid); Crestfallen by Nick Bryson and Jeff health problem at some point in our lives.

Dance is a proven route towards psychological heal¬ Wallace; Milk by Aisling O’Coineen.

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Antidote in the arts to stigma of mental illness JP

Swaine

Opinion Arts festival aims to raise awareness of clumsy way people deal with issue

Growing

up watching MTVin the early and mid-1990sleft its mark on me. First, it left me with the long since outmoded idea that MTV could be reasonably relied upon to playmusicvideos; second, that changing the world didn’tneed to be dull.

MTVexposed the teenage me to the most enthralling of social campaigns.

From the cerebral “free your mind and the rest will follow”adverts to the slick “if you are goingto do this ... you’dbetter do this” safe sex ads,we were enticed rather than instructed to do the right, good or healthy thing.

No such campaigns existed back then for mental health.

Who wouldhave thought that our own minds could scare us more than Aids or Slobodan Miloseviccombined?

But they did. And they do.

In the manyyears that have passed since my 1990s couch potato days,I have witnessed little or no change to the level of terror with which we approach mental health as a social issue or as a human right.

When it comes to mental health we hide behind doctors, who in turn hide behind desks that hide behind walls.

When webegan First

When webegast FortnightbackinJ anuary 2010, the goalwas to energise the mental health sector with a fresh approach. We wanted to create a space in the calendar where mental health as an issue couldbe heard through the noise.

We organised events that used the arts to illuminate the diverse waysin which mental health can be seen to affect the world.

We alsoknew that what we developed needed to be repeatable, familiar and ritualistic, hence the decision to host the festivalin the first two weeks ofJanuary every year.

Patience and repetition

When your goal is to change social attitudes you need to be prepared to do the same things over again, saythe same things over again and be patient with how the outcome evolves.You must alsobear in mind the necessary challenge in finding new and interesting conversation starters, points of abrasion, pictures, sounds and smells.

When youwant people to keep talking about the same thing you have to givethem different reasons to do that.

Mental health awareness is

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The area of mental health not our goal. In truth, it’snot a promotion needed the arts goal worth having. We have more than it ever knew and never wanted people to willneed the arts in the future become more aware of mental ifwe are to continue to reduce health problems, to have a the stigma of experiencing a greater knowledge ofthe mental health problem. pathology of a group of Mental health problems and Mental health illnesses broadly categorised the arts both dwell in the problems and the as psychiatric. peculiar and idiosyncratic Instead, we want to raise aspects of the human condition; arts both dwell in people’s awareness of how the messy, unkempt parts the peculiar and silent they are when the issue of us that we bundle into the of mental health is brought up; idiosyncratic cupboard when we hear to acknowledge how afraid •someone coming. aspects of the they are to discuss it and come For two weeks at the human condition to understand how clumsy, beginning of every year you underdeveloped and stilted are invited to enjoytheatre, the national “conversation” on visual arts, poetry, music, mental health truly is. spoken word, dance and film.

We challenge the prejudicial There are worse waysto begin attitudes and discriminatory your new beginning. actions that maintain the social stigma of mental ill J P Swaine is co-founder of health and we do this by First Fortnight, a two-week inviting an audience to meet mental health arts festival this challenge in themselves by aimed at challenging mental redesigning their year’s health stigma. Its programme beginning into a themed arts of events gets under way on and social experience: a Januarylstandrunsin Dublin mental health arts festival. and selected venues nationwide.

Details atfirstfortnight.ie Love and pain

How many ofus, when we think of love,remember the dictionary definition of it?Or when we think of pain try and remember the symptoms listed on the back of a pack of Ibuprofen?

The arts bring us closer to the world bytaking us briefly awayfrom it. Art is not for ornamentation or distraction, but for provocation and inspiration.

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FIRST Fortnight, Ireland’s only mental health arts festival, got underway last week with a special event in Christ Church Cathedral and runs until January 17.The festival’s aim is to challenge mental health stigma and there are numerous events such as therapy sessions, gigs, movie screenings, plays and much more as part of the festival.

For more information and to see the full range of events, visit www.firstfortnight.ie.

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New programme unveiled for Spring at Dunamaise Arts Centre

The much-anticipated new Spring programme of arts has been unveiled at Dunamaise Arts Centre this week complete with a generous spattering of music, theatre, dance, film, visual art and kids entertainment.

Tickets for the upcoming programme are already on sale at the box office and make wonderful stocking-fillers for someone special.

This season, expect drama with Donal Kellyʼs Catalpa, (Feb 3), Theatre CLUB presents Heroin, Katie Oʼ Kellyʼs Counter Culture (Feb 14), The New Theatreʼs A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man (March 10) and the hilarious Weighing-In with Isobel Mahon and Rose Henderson. (April 24).

Music is really hitting high notes in January with a great tribute to Irelandʼs much-loved Luke Kelly (January 17). This amazing show will be followed closely by The Fureys (Feb 6) who return to Dunamaise for their 10th concert! Stocktonʼs Wing (March 1) are a firm favourite with Portlaoise audiences and Johnny McEvoy (March 8) will lift the roof with his dulcet tones. Dominic Kirwin (March 20) has a huge fan-base in County Laois and Don Baker (April 17) returns this season with his unique and individual sound on the harmonica and guitar. Finally, Comhaltas Fleadh are hosting a fundraising concert for Dunamaise Arts Centre with Goitse (May 2).

Kids are not forgotten this season and Lambert Puppet Theatre are back with

Irish times Columnist - this is a Cinderella and Bosco (March show not to be missed.

8) for two performance on A full season of fantastic Sunday afternoon. The Ark cinema is also available with also returns with the world premier of Far Away From Me our ʻElevensesʼ film club a theatrical childrenʼs offering and the Wednesday night inspired by the Princess screenings. and the Pea fairytale and This season expect First Fortnightʼs Frank; Funny Face, infused with wild energy, ariel Noble, Jimmyʼs Hall, Patrickʼs performance, dance, music Day, The Theory of Everything, and storytelling. Children will Mary Poppins and Me Myself love this beautifully created and Mum to mention but a few. performance for ages 6+.

Get five movies for 20 euro Local theatre groups, speech and give someone the gift of and drama schools and cinema this Christmas! dance troops are also wellrepresented The Dunamaise Art Gallery this Spring with Laois Open Door presenting is also full of interesting and The Hen Night Epiphany (Feb creative works from artists near 20/21), Laois dance Platform and far including Paul Moose will showcase their talented - A Retrospective (14 Jan - 14 dancers (March 7), Harney Feb), William Hamilton and School of Speech and Drama Diarmait Grogan - Shanghai (March 15) with ten new plays Ritual (19 February - March 22), Davey Moore, I See A written and directed by Francis Darkness (26 March - 22 May).

Harney and Chatterbox School of Speech and Drama (March Finally this seasonʼs special 22). Portarlington Drama offer is the Early Bird offer.

Book your tickets before 30 Society present A Wake in the West (March 26/27), Curtain January 2015 and receive a Call Stage School with Give 10% discount on shows with the Early Bird Symbol. There My Regards, to Broadway (March 28) and Ceiltis School are a limited number of Early of Speech and Drama will Birds Seats available...so donʼt delay, get yours today!! present choral pieces, short plays and dance (March 29).

Bonus Bird Offer: Book any 3 Jesters Stage Academy is up or more Early Bird Shows and next (April 1 / 2) and Midlands receive a further 5% discount Drama School presents Wicked off your order. (Min. 2 tickets Oz (April 11). Schools are also per show to avail of Bonus returning this Spring with Scoil Bird). Early Bird Shows include: Dominic Kirwan |Michael Chriost Ri presenting You Canʼt Harding| Don Baker |Counter Stop the Beat (Feb 10 -12).

Culture jstocktonʼs Wing | Other headline acts to look THEATREclubʼs Heroin| Johnny forward to include Michael Hardingʼs Hanging with the McEvoy |Weighing In. Elephant (Feb 26) which is a Dunamaise Arts Centre looks unique one-man-show during forward to welcoming you this which Michael speaks about season to your community arts his life, love and growing old. A centre - (re) discover the arts in former author, playwright and Laois this Spring!

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The Conversation Salon (First Fortnight Festival) will take place on Friday 16th January between 10.00am -12.30pm in Maynooth Library. Much like a ‘Think Tank’,come along and choose from a menu of conversation topics.

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A ShadowThat Leansis an exciting expansion of First Fortnight Festival into dance consisting of five short works.

With insight into the human psyche, from emptiness to empowerment and chaosto acceptance,co-curators Nick Bryson and long-term collaborator Jeff Wallace (US based dancer and

psychotherapist) shape an evening j that glimpsesa rangeof experiences j of those with mental health issues, j The evening plays to the streng- j hts of the hugely expressivedancers j KarenGleesonandAisling O'Coineen. j Theperformanceisonat Mermaid I Arts Centre tonight (Wednesday) j at 8 p.m. j

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DUBLIN We Cut Corners Very fine Irish duo plug latest album, Think Nothing;special guests include BookaBrass Band,I Havea Tribe and State Lights. As part of First Fortnight 2015.

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DUBLIN Masks The Youth Empowerment Servicestage a play by young peopleforyoung people exploring a range of mental health topics, from conditions to masked performance and realising what goeson under the surface of everyday disguises.As part of First Fortnight. St Patrickʼs Hospital. Jan 12 7pm €5 firstfortnight.ie My Name is Saoirse Revived after its Irish premiere on last yearʼs Fringe,EvaO'Connor's sensitively judged and sharply performed story of ayoung Limerick girl who gets pregnant and sets out on a journey farfrom her carefree adolescencereturns for inclusion in the First Fortnight Festival. SmockAlley Theatre EndsJan 10 8pm €12 firstfortnight.ie The National Therapy Project Eleanor Tiernan returns with her one-woman diagnosisof the nation's problems, from Viking invasionand famine, through colonisation and religious oppressionand upto TV talent shows. As part of First Fortnight Festival, Also Kildare andWicklow. Liberty Hall.

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Stories From the Front BasedonAugusto Boat's Forum Theatre method, this performance tells the personal stories of people with mental ill-health, carers and professionals through recorded narrative and dramatic enactment, on a journey towards understanding.

As part of First Fortnight.

Liberty Hall. Jan 14 7pm €5 firstfortnight.ie User Not Found Stefanie Preissner stages a reading of a work in development about harm and social media.Whena young woman goesmissing, herfriends scour her statuses andtweets for clues. As part of First Fortnight. Axis, Ballymun.

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The Dead Dinner With echoes of the famous reception of the MissesMorkan in James Joyce's TheDead,the Joyce Centre host a modern take on the celebrated meal with a f-course menu and a performance from Pettycash who bring the sceneof the Feast of Epiphaniesto life with songs and portrayals of the story's guests. The James Joyce Centre. Jan37pm€55 (includes 5 course meal) jamesjoyce.ie Jack and the Beanstalk Inan effort to solve his family's financial problems, Jack swaps his last valuables for a magic bean,it grows into a towering beanstalk, which he ascends,discovering a castle, a cruel giant and an imprisoned young princess.Adventure ensues in Coolmine Panto Group'snew staging. Draiocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown.

Jan 3-17 7.30pm (mats 1pm, 2pm, 5pm) draiochtie My Name is Saoirse See SevenDays.Revivedafter its Irish premiere on last year's Fringe,EvaO'Connor's sensitively judged and sharply performed story of ayoung Limerick girl who gets pregnant and sets out on a journey far from her carefree adolescencereturns for inclusion in the First Fortnight Festival.Smock Alley Theatre Jan 8-10 8pm €12 firstfortnight.ie The National Therapy Project EleanorTiernan returns with her one-woman

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diagnosisof the nation's Sleeping Beauty class divisions and chicanery problems, from Viking invasion Careful who you jilt. When a where an upper-class young andfamine, through colonisation woman impersonates a maid to local witch isn't invited to a party in celebration of the woo a socialLyanxious and religious oppression and upto Television talent new-born princess, she casts a gentleman, while manners shows. As part of First spell that will eventually send alter according to the circunstances.

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EndsJan 317.30pm (Sat Jan 8-101.15pm & 8pm Dame or the Prince savethe mat 2.30pm) €L3-€45 €15/€13 firstfortnight.ie day? Causeway Productions also introduce disgruntled abbeytheatre.ie Peter Pan SeeSevenDays.

Johnny Ward,who recently played Love/Hate's thuggish Pauley,now stars as Peter Pan...Viewers who stayed up later than the watershed to see that story resolved may have difficulties accepting him as a boywho can fly. But Ward has goodform with pantos (he'sa former Buttons) and director/ choreographer Daryn Crosbie steers the Darling children, the Lost Boysand Captain Hookon course for Neverland in Dublin'stime-honoured panto.

GaietyTheatre. EndsJan 25 Mon-Sat 6.30pm (Sat mat 1.30pm,Sun 5.30pm) €19.50 €36 gaietytheatre.ie Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Buccaneers The Holding Court Theatre Group voyageto the Islands of Bago with RobinsonCrusoefor their annualpantomime. Aided my his mother, MaCrusoe,and a crew of cut-throat pirates, Crusoemeets Man Friday,his enemy King Boolaand Count Draculation. axis,Ballymun.

Jan 3 - 25 (Thurs-Sun) 7.30pm (Satand Sun mat 2,30pm) axis-ballymun.ie She Stoops to Conquer Conall Morrison directs Oliver Goldsmith's 18th Century comedy of marriage markets,

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WITH ELAINE McCAHILL email: ehdiaiY@herald.ie FIRST Fortnight, Ireland’s only mental health arts festival, got underway last week with a special event in Christchurch Cathedral and runs until January 17. The festival’s aim is to challenge mental health stigma and there are numerous events such as therapy sessions, gigs, movie screenings, plays and much more as part of the festival. For more information and to see the full range of events, visit www.firstfortnight.ie.

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Launching the FirstFortnightmentalhealtharts festivalwere musicianConall6 Breachain(WeCutCorners),comedian EleanorTiernan,FrankfromLennyAbrahamson’s acclaimed movieFrank,andactressandmusicianTaraLee(TheFall)at street art inTempleBar.TheFirstFortnightfestivalaimsto challengementalhealthstigmaandwillruninDublinandvarious venuesnationwidethroughoutJanuary

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IRISH director Lenny Abrahamson’s acclaimed film Frank will be screened in the Dunamaise Arts Centre, Port-

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laoise, tomorrow their aspects, however difficult or extreme. night Wednesday 14 The film feels like January at 8pm. a great fit for First Starring Michael Fassbender and Fortnight. I’m a big fan of the festival and Domhnall Gleeson Frank is part of First I’m really happy to Fortnight, Ireland’s be involved for the only mental health second year running.” arts festival. The film John Saunders, will be preceded by director of See Change, added No More Secrets, a new documentary on that the campaign mental health-related “is delighted to street art in Ireland. partner with First First Fortnight, Fortnight and bring Ireland’s only mental the message of the health arts festival, festival to cinemas extends to selected across the country venues nationwide as with screenings part of two weeks of of Lenny Abrahamson’s arts events aimed at acclaimed challenging mental movie Frank in the health prejudice hope of sparking a and discrimination. national conversation The screenings are on mental health being held in association problems that can with See touch any one of us.”

Change, the national Frank will be mental health stigma preceded by No More reduction partnership, Secrets, which was and Access produced by First Fortnight and Mental Cinema.

Of the programming Health Ireland. The of Frank in film was directed the First Fortnight

by Aidan Kelly and festival, Lenny Abrahamson, Wissame Cherfi and said: “Many follows the making of the musicians who of six street art pieces inspired Frank were in Limerick, Letterkenny, people who battled Dublin and with mental health Portlaoise. issues and somehow First Fortnight managed to transform festival is partnered those battles into

by Mental Health wonderful art.

Reform; St Patrick’s “While Frank Mental Health doesn’t draw any easy Services; Mental conclusions about Health Ireland and the link between See Change, the mental illness and national mental creativity it is underpinnedhealth stigma by a view of reduction partnership. people that values all

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Launching the First Fortnight mental health arts festival were musician Conall 6 Breachain (We Cut Corners), comedian Eleanor Tiernan, Frank from Lenny Abrahamson’s acclaimed movie Frank, and actress and musician Tara Lee (The Fall) at street art in Temple Bar. The First Fortnight festival aims to challenge mental health stigma and will run in Dublin and various venues nationwide throughout January

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laoise, tomorrow their aspects, however night Wednesday 14 difficult or extreme.

The film feels like January at 8pm.

Starring Michael a great fit for First Fassbender and Fortnight. I’m a big Domhnall Gleeson fan of the festival and Frank is part of First I’m really happy to Fortnight, Ireland’s be involved for the only mental health second year running.” arts festival. The film John Saunders, will be preceded by director of See No More Secrets, a Change, added new documentary on that the campaign mental health-related “is delighted to street art in Ireland. partner with First First Fortnight, Fortnight and bring Ireland’s only mental the message of the health arts festival, festival to cinemas extends to selected across the country venues nationwide as with screenings part of two weeks of of Lenny Abrahamson’s arts events aimed at . acclaimed challenging mental movie Frank in the health prejudice hope of sparking a and discrimination. national conversation The screenings are on mental health being held in association problems that can with See touch any one of us.”

Change, the national Frank will be mental health stigma preceded by No More reduction partnership, Secrets, which was and Access produced by First Cinema.

Fortnight and Mental Of the programming Health Ireland. The of Frank in film was directed the First Fortnight

by Aidan Kellyand festival, Lenny Abrahamson, Wissame Cherfi and said: “Many follows the making of the musicians who of six street art pieces inspired Frank were in Limerick, Letterkenny, people who battled Dublin and with mental health Portlaoise. issues and somehow First Fortnight managed to transform festival is partnered those battles into

by Mental Health wonderful art.

Reform; St Patrick’s “While Frank Mental Health doesn’t draw any easy Services; Mental conclusions about Health Ireland and the link between See Change, the mental illness and national mental creativity it is underpinned health stigma by a view of reduction partnership. people that values all

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January canbeadepressing month, butthatdoesn't mean youhavetobe.Exercise, talking with friends, agoodnight's sleep andgratitude forsmallthingsallimprove mood, writes Clodagh Finn

Edgecloser tohappiness THERE’S

a formula for the most days, however, will be different for 2. Feel-good songs everybody. “Mental health is a very depressing day of the year.

One of the opening events of the Take a hostile Monday morning personal thing,” says Swaine. “It’s important hot to raise an expectation First Fortnight mental-health arts in January, mix in postChristmas that there is a quick-fix. Youneed to festival was a call to people to gather debt, a little winter malaise, some rotten weather and it find the right mix of action and support in Dublin, armed with a four-song playlist of “songs that get them to suit you.” all adds up to Blue Monday, which through”.

Yet, there are general mood-improvers. supposedly falls on January 19.

This is one you can try at home.

Here are ten of them: It’s tosh, of course. That Blue Monday Make a playlist of songs that lift you is the most depressing day of the 1. A personal mental-health when you are down, put them on a year was first mooted by a psychologist device, and plug in whenever you in 2005.It has been dismissed as manifesto need a boost.

Devise your own mental-health pseudoscience. maintenance plan. Write it down and 3. Little things matter But in January many of us feel a pin it to your fridge; save it on your little raw. phone or carry it about in your wallet. Little Things, the HSE’S mentalhealth That is why First Fortnight, the social-marketing campaign, is mental-health arts festival, takes a great way to remember that all of us List the activities that make you place in the first two weeks of the feel well—walking the pier, chatting feel the pressures of daily living, yet year. to a pal, watching a film, chilling out there are things you can do to help Co-founder, JP Swaine, says the festival challenges the stigma of mental on the couch. Make another list of the you cope.

To see the #littlethings that work health by opening up debate. After things you do when you feel low — for others, and to share the little all, one in four of us will experience a comfort-eating, isolation, hiding things that work for you, see the under the duvet. mental-health problem — that’s Be as specific as you can and consult @littlethingshub on Twitter and enough of us to fill Croke Park 14 the ‘feel well’ list when you need Facebook, at www.facebook.com/ times. httlethingshub. a lift. If you need help to write your How you get through those dark Here are two #littlething tweets manifesto, do an online wellness workshop at www.yourmentalhealth.ie. that made us smile: @KarlaNigro:

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work is vital to well-being. A study by make the other 16a lot easier — and business adviser, Annie McKee, for good reason. Lack of sleep can found that people needed three wreak havoc, causing everything things to be happy at work. from irritability and slower response 1) A meaningful vision: workers times to an increased risk of high want to be able to see how they fit blood pressure, heart disease and into the organisation’s future. diabetes.

2) A sense of purpose: people want And beware of those who say they to feel that their work matters. can get by on four or five hours. Most 4. Mood Food 3) Good relationships: Bad relationships adults need seven to eight hours of with bosses and colleagues quality sleep to function at their A good diet won’t cure depression, peak. but medical researchers have shown are bad for business. that there is a ‘food-mood’connection. 6. Mind how you go 8. Shake a leg No surprises to hear that fruit Everyone, from the Dalai Lama to Youcan’t overstate the importance and vegetables are ‘good-mood’foods, of exercise. Do whatever you can — while refined foods and saturated fats Sr Stan, talks about the benefits of mindfulness and meditation.

Studies walk, run, swim, go to the gym or are likely to make you dip. take a simple stroll around the block.

A recent study, by the University of show it can reduce stress, lower It has been well-documented that exercise Warwick’s medical school, found that blood pressure, and improve mood and sleep —and that’s just for a start. releases endorphins, the 33.5%of those who had good mental Mindfulness is the opposite of happy chemicals, and lifts mood even well-being ate five or more portions of multi-tasking. It means slowing among those who suffer from clinical fruit and vegetables daily. down, taking one task at a time and depression.

Another study, carried out by universities However, exercise has a whole in Australia, found that eating concentrating on every moment.

Being truly present in everyday tasks range of added benefits — it releases whole-grains and high-quality —from washing your teeth to tasting creativity, it lessens anxiety, fish and meat cut the risk of anxiety the myriad flavours in every morsel sharpens memory and boosts brainpower. disorders by 30%. of food — is one simple way of introducing 5. Being happy at work matters mindfulness to your life.

9. Count your blessings It’s obvious, but the latest research, 7. The A to Zzzzzzz of sleep It sounds like something an evangelical published in the Harvard Business They say that eight hours’ sleep Southern preacher might tell you, Review, proves that being happy at “I’m sick and fell asleep on the couch, then woke up with extra blankets on me and all tucked in. #1 reason I love my mom.” @mumthomas: “That lovely surprise when you find you haven’t eaten all your KitKat yet and there is a finger left.”

but science shows a little gratitude can go a long way.

In several studies, psychologists Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough found that gratitude was associated with more positive emotions, better health and the ability to cope with adversity.

In one study, they asked a group to write about the things for which they were grateful, and a second group to note all their daily irritations. After 10weeks, those who had kept a gratitude list were more optimistic, felt better about their lives and had fewer visits to the doctor.

10. Talk about it George Bernard Shaw had a point when he said: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

Talking (or listening) can be an extremely effective way of boosting your mental health. It might just mean talking to a friend or a relative, or you might want to talk to a professional counsellor or psychotherapist.

New research, published in the Lancet, shows that talking therapy may even be better than medication for those suffering from social anxiety.

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First Fortnight, Baile Atha Cliath

Is feiiebheagIseoa dhirfonnar chursal meabhairshlainte.

Betdhtaispeaantais scannan,drama!, oicheantafiliochta, cainteannaagus taispeantaisealalne ar siul —iad uiligag diriu ar fheasachta ardfii leithmeabhairshlainte.

Cegobhfuilformhor na n-imeachtaiagtitim amach i mBarraan Teampaill, BaileAthaCliath ta failnaisiunta ar chuid de na himeachtai fosta agus iarrachtarbun chun an clar a leathnfiamach.

Ta roghaimeachtai gachoicheas seogoceann deichla.Anocht,leifidh na fillPeterSirr,DoireannNi GhriofaagusGerardSmyth cuid de shaotharAustinClarke, filea d’fhulaingfadhbanna meabhairshlainte.

Beidhleiriuscannan ann chomh maith le plosacainte le John Saunders, fileagusstiurthoir aitheanta.

Tuilleadh eolais: www.firstfortnight.ie.

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FEST HAS FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY..

THE Three Countdown Concert

by MARK KAVANAGH may be the climax of NYF Dublin Sessions at Smock Alley, the — but itʼs far from the only mustattend Dublin Gospel Choir at Christ event in the three-day Church, and lots more live festival packed with arts, culture music and DJ sessions across and live entertainment.

The test kicks off on December the city — although itʼs worth remembering some are ticketed 30, with many of its events so you might want to check out running right through to the first www.NYFDublin.com in advance day of 2015.

You can follow the familyfriendly to avoid disappointment.

As well as hosting Kodaline — and free — NYF Arts and Co in College Green, Trail to check out the works of New Yearʼs Eve will also see a new and established artists at ʻProcession of Lightʼ.

Dublin galleries, or see a talk or The event will take place under pop-up performance as part of the stars on a journey from the NYF Spoken Word Festival, Stephenʼs Green to Dublin which brings together the best of Castle from 7pm to 8pm on New Irish wit, poetry slam and Yearʼs Eve — and attendees will literature, with lively discussion experience the city enchanted, and debate. as some of Dublinʼs most wellloved Or prepare to be wowed in streets erupt in a stunning three locations across the city by street procession with dazzling the spectacle that is Luminosity. light installations, music, From 5pm to midnight over performers, fire and a touch of the festivalʼs three days, light New Year magic. projections will bring to life the Of course, the fun doesnʼt stop facades of some of Dublinʼs most on December 31. The festival is iconic buildings — at Barnardos also giving you the chance to get Square, Wolfe Tone Square and 2015 started on the right foot, Trinity College — with cuttingedge with January 1 being dubbed 3D digital displays. ʻResolution Dayʼ.

Those calling by Barnardos The CHQ Building in the Square — beside City Hall on Docklands will be the starting Dame Street — will also be point for a fun run at noon, treated to the tempting aromas, and will also host a fitness artisan foods and coffees of the workshop with celebrity trainer to NYF Food Festival, which will be the stars Paul Byrne, and other running from noon to 9pm. free fitness classes.

And, of course, even if youʼre And over at Christ Church not going to the Countdown Cathedral, The Trailblazery in Concert there are still plenty of association with First Fortnight other live acts you can check out and NYF Dublin present around the city on the NYF RESOLUTION, a 90-minute Music Trail on December30 and creative exploration of life by 31. The trail will include live people who have met adversity performances from Le Galaxie at with courage and compassion.

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Festival to focus on effects of social media

Colette Sheridan

Festival'saim isto create a better understanding of young people’s mental health issues

The

use ofsocialmedia byyoungpeople will be under the spotlight at First Fortnight, the mental health arts festival that continues until January 17thin Dublin and selected venues nationwide.

The festival,now in its sixth year, aims to create discussion and understanding of mental health problems as wellas challenging prejudice and discrimination through music, film, theatre and visual arts events.

It is partnered by St Patrick’s Mental ‘Ihave an going on. What struck me about working Health Services and See Change, the national with people younger than me is their absoluteinterest in working mental health stigma-reduction partnership. dependence on social media. They with young people have grown up in a context where they and how they see Twenty-sixyear old award-winning playwright don’t remember a time when it wasn’t the world,' says Stefanie Preissner’s new play-in-development, UserNot Found, willbe presented there. Versions of themselves online and in playwright Stefanie at the Axis in Ballymun on January 9th real life can be in such huge contrast. It’s Preissner, who suffers from as part of the festival. The play has four hard to pair the two.” depression. characters as well as the missing Rachel PHOTOGRAPH: who has a presence only on social media. It Sick of Facebook was inspired by Preissner’s work with Light Preissner, whose autobiographical play, NICK BRADSHAW Bulb,a youth theatre company in Cork,and So/padeine is My Boyfriend, premiered at First Fortnight in 2013, deleted her Facebook Dublin Youth Theatre. page in February 2014. “I was absolutely “Ihave an interest in working with young sick ofit. I thought it was toxic. I kept people and how they see the world,” says Preissner, who suffers from depression. comparing my lifeto the livesof other people “As a young person, I didn’t have the support online. My real self was so different to systems in place to process what was myonline selfthat it was no longer reasona-

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ble to have that page. I used to post pictures people are intelligent and have their own of myself in make-up, constantly at parties shorthand.” But she agrees that overdosing and theatre openings. I perpetuated this image on social media can have a desensitising effect. “Youngpeople don’t have the social which I felt I had to continue. But it skills to actually have a real conversation wasn’t the real me. It was me being upbeat because all their conversation happens and having a great time all the time and nothing about having political views and intelligent online. Learning how to ask for help in a rational and reasonable way is alien to things to say.”

If,saysPreissner, a certain image ofyourselfthem.” is online and you’re privately struggling, Since deleting her Facebook account, “it’sreally not the friendliest or most Preissner says her life has changed for the supportive place. It’s difficult to know how better. “I have real contact with people to ask for help. If you say you’re really sad now although at first, people think you’re and you’re having the worst day ever, it dead when you get rid of Facebook. Facebook is a passive way of checking in with seems likeyou’re looking for attention.

“People don’t seem to appreciate that people. You’renot really in touch with your it’s a cry for help. You might have 800 friends.” “friends” on Facebook but where do you Preissner hopes her play will open up a turn to when you need help? People can be discussion and she feels that the platform clicking “like” when they really should be of a mental health arts festival will reach a calling an ambulance.” broader audience than just a theatre-going Preissner feels that cyber bullying is one. She is an ambassador for See Change. treated as an anomaly. “But actually, the “Mary McEvoy and some comedians, artists bullying that happened in school is now and writers, are also ambassadors for happening online because that’s how children it. I suppose there’s a preconceived idea, engage with each other. It’smore difficultrightly or wrongly, that mental health issues to monitor it and it’sslightlymore insidious. affect a lot of artists.”

We need to treat the problem rather User Not Found received funding from than the symptom. The symptom isjust the Arts and Disability Ireland. “I actually had internet. It’s not the problem. With social to ask them if depression constituted a disability media, you need to set a level for yourself.” for my application. That sparked an UserNot Found is “not a mystery play. A interesting debate. It’s kind of interesting third of the way in, audiences will know that I had to ask that. It was great to have that Rachel is dead. The playis about reconciling Axis as a place to go and do mywork. the other characters’ guilt and what “I felt supported when I had anxiety they should have done.” around things like meetings with people I Preissner, a graduate ofdrama and theatre hadn’t accessed before.” A case of real life studies from UCC, devised and wrote interaction being more nuanced, but ultimately, the play, based on workshops with young more satisfying than cyberspace. people. “What came up for me was the fact that as consumers of social media, young firstfortnight.ie

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develop literacy, oral language and numeracy skills through participation in the fair.

Entrance to the YoungScientist event also provides access to the Primary Science Fair.

The primary fair runs on January 8th, 9th and 10th.

Festival to highlight ‘ordinary’ nature of mental health issues the fortnight’s events, are very close to.

Mental health issues are a “For many generations, “normal experience rather there was a veryheavyveilofsilence that surrounded mental than something extraordinary”, JP Swaine says as he health and where there is a veil of silence, people imagine takes a break from the lastminute preparations for this that it’s something to be year’s First Fortnight festival. ashamed of,”he said. “That’sa The festival, which runs cocktail for a problem that will never get solved.” through January, aims to challenge mental health prejudice through the creative arts with Honouring a series of events, most of Mr Swaine had his own experience of mental health issues which are Dublin-based.

In 2009, Mr Swaine, a mental when he was 16his older brother David died by suicide. The health social work manager and cognitive psychotherapist,idea for the festival began as a and arts professional Davidway of honouring David’s Keegan decided to “test memory while also aiming to out” an idea they had to use be beneficial to others.

“I think it’s valuable that the arts as an aid in opening up discussion around mental when bad things happen, we don’t try to undo the pain that health. is caused but that we integrate that experience into something ‘Ordinariness’ that could be useful for “We decided to take our passion and our experience of the someone else,” Mr Swaine arts and see if we could do said.

In 2010, the first event took something different,” he said. place and now the line-up encompasses The idea of the “ordinariness” music, poetry, theatre, of mental health issues is one that he, and the other organisersart, film and dance and a and volunteers who tongue-in-cheek national therapy are the driving force behind project.

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FESTIVALS

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Wednesday 28 January - Sunday i February

Since 2005, businesses in the Temple

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com for more information.

First Fortnight

2015

Thursday 1January - Friday 31January

This art festival is organised by a

charity dedicated to ending mental

health prejudice through creative art

takes place across the whole month of

January this year, which is fourth year

it has run. For four weeks, visual artists, musicians, actors, and spoken word

artists will gather to share their work

and bring attention

to the stigmas surrounding

mental health and illness. See

firstfortnight.ie

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Part of the First Fortnight festival, which aims at raising awareness at mental health issues and takes place across the whole of January this year, Nicholas Rossi’sHeavenAdoresYouis a documentary on the life of songwriting great and sadly troubled genius Elliott Smith. Over ten years on from his death, Smith’swork continues to resonate through the craft of both his music and his words, and this film deftly weaves together many of those friends and musicians whose lives he touched living in during a career spent in Portland, New Yorkand finally Los Angeles. Rossi’sfilm receives its Irish premiere this January, having won acclaim from its limited release in the US last year. A talk and Q&A session follows the screening.

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FilmTrank’tobe shownintheFirst Fortnight festival

who battled with mental health THE movie ‘Frank’,starring Michael Fassbender and Domhnall issues and somehow managed Gleeson, will be screened in to transform those battles into Mermaid Arts Centre on January wonderful art,’ said the Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson.

13 at 8 p.m.

While Frank doesn’t draw This is part of First Fortnight, Ireland’s only mental health any easy conclusions about the link between mental illness and arts festival.

The film will be preceded by creativity, it is underpinned by a view of people that values all No More Secrets, a new documentary on mental health-related their aspects, however difficult or extreme. The film feels like street art in Ireland.

Thefestivalthis week extends a great fit for First Fortnight.

I’m a big fan of the festival to selected venues nationwide as part of two weeks of arts and I’m really happy to be events aimed at challenging involved for the second year mental health prejudice and running.’

No More Secrets, which was discrimination.

The screenings are being held produced by First Fortnight and in association with See Change, Mental Health Ireland. The film the national mental health stigma was directed by Aidan Kellyand reduction partnership, and Wissame Cherfi and followsthe making ofsix street art pieces in Access Cinema.

‘Manyof the musicians who Limerick, Letterkenny, Dublin inspired Frank were people and Portlaoise.

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Richie Egan’slatestJapealbumis hismostpersonalyet.Hetakesus Sea’ HforasailonThisChemical

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Whatsongsdoyouturntoforsolacewhenthings gettough?AspartofFirstFortnight, youcan sharethem.HereLaurenMurphy askssomeof themusicians playing thefestivalfortheirpicks

Firstamong equals Oneofthemostunusualevents atthisyear’sFirstFortnightis Co-Motion atStStephen’s GreenthisSundayat2pm.

Celebrating thehealingpower ofmusicinrelationtomental health,attendees(it’sfree,FYI) areaskedtocome armedwitha playlistoffoursongsthatthey turntoinroughtimes.They’ll bepairedwithastranger,given apairofheadphone splitters andwilllistentoeachothers’ selections.

Onthatnote,we askedsomeofthemusicians playing FirstFortnightwhat foursongsthey’dchoose.

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PlayingTheTherapySessions at TheWorkman'sClubon January9th

Jonathan Richman- I'm Just Beginningto Live

Whenitcomestoone’smoodor temperament, orwhatever, sometimes theeasiestsolution toisputonaverysimplepop song.Youdon’twantlavish production ororchestral arrangements; youjust wantsomedudewitha guitarandaninfectious senseofpositivity, andI guessthat’swhatJonathan Richman has;it’s veryreal,his happiness, and that’sinfectious.

Thissongisan obvious choice, becausehe repeatstheline adnauseam throughout the song:“I’mjust beginning to live”.

NewYorkDolls

- Trash

Thisisprobably the mostimportant songonthe

list,becauseit’ssavedmyasson twooccasions.

ThefirsttimeI wasaloneinahouseforweekin Rosslare -1wroteasongabout itcalledlater,calledRosslare Tapes.

Iwasdrinking heavily, darkthoughtswerearound,but ontheTVinthebackground therewasamovieaboutNew YorkDolls,andthissongjust burstintolife- thatguitarand thedrumsintro.I thought:“If theycansingsohappily about beingtrash,thenwhoamItobe complaining?”

Intermsof depression, formeitcomeson reallyhardandIfeelitinmy headfirst,thenmyshoulders andmybody.You’re overcome withtheworstkindofirrational thoughts.Irememberbeingon anightoutandthinking: “I wannaleavethisplace,I wanna walktothecanalandI’mgonna throwmyselfin.”Thenoutof nowhere, theDJplayedTrash.

There’ssomething aboutthis songthat’slikewaving a magic wandoverdepression - atleast frommyownpersonal experience.

PattiSmith- Land It’sreallynota chirpysong,butit’s thesongthatmost approximates depression forme-that “Idon’t wannafeel thisway” sortof feeling.

One minute she’s talking about

thissea of positivity, and §i then the nextit’s

all“cuttingthroatswithrazors” andstufflikethat.Butultimately, whenever Ilistentothissong, thelightalways winsoverthe dark.

TheBand- TheNight They DroveOTDixieDown (live version) Ifyouwatchtheliveversionof thisfromTheLastWaltz-or evenlistentotheaudio- there’s something somagicalaboutthis song.It’stheclosestthingI’ve everseenpeopleexhibiting the joyofmusic,thesightofabunch ofreallyseasonedmusicians exhibiting purejoy.Youcan hearitinLevonHelm’s vocals, thebacking vocals,theguitar playing.

There’ssomething reallyspiritualaboutit,andfor me,it’sprobably themost uplifting thingeverrecorded.

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Hosting‘1100100000/ at St Patrick'sHospitalonJanuary 3rd

Jack Kerouac/SteveAllen

Octoberin theRailroad Earth

I’dbeenafanofKerouacfora longtime-1startedwithOnthe Roadinmyteens,asmany peopledo.Iresearchedmore andmoreabouthimandfound thisalbumcalledPoetryfor the BeatGeneration bySteveAllen andJackKerouac.

Thewhole albumisonethatstillgetsme through,totellyouthetruth butonesonginparticular standsoutforme,called October intheRailroadEarth.

Hisaccentisaddictive andthe music’s great,anditjustputs meinthis reallypensive, relaxedmood.

JulieFeeney-Stay

JulieandI are friends,andshe’s beenan amazingmusical

confidante formeoverthe years.Thisparticularsongison heralbumPagesandit’sareal believe-in-yourself song.

Because shebelieved somuchin mewhenitfeltlikenotmany otherpeopledid,itmeansalot.

Iusedtolistentoitindarkdays, whenIwasthinkingabout givingup,anditalwayshelped methrough.

GarretBaker- DonʼtEnvy

the Dead Garret’snot wellknownat all, but he’sbeencirclingthe Dublinscenefora while andhe’sincredible.This particularsongopenswith the line:“Itmaymakenosense

thewaythatwefeel,butit’s thewaythatwefeel.”

Alotoftimeswe’renot readyfortheanswertoour problems, butthere’ssomething soothingaboutaccepting thatthereisaprobleminthe firstplace.

PeggyLee- Is ThatAll ThereIs?

Thereisasadnesstothissong, butthechorusisinfectious and upbeateventhoughthere’sa toneofmelancholy onthere, too.It’sultimately a victoryover it,though.Thechorusgetsme themost:“Ifthat’sallthereis, myfriends,thenlet’skeep dancing.”

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CONALL 6 BREACHAIN Dublincitycentre.Itwasatime ofgin-soaked bar-room blues,

ofconsiderable emotional theemotional andmusical instability - mythoughtprocessessucker-punch isdelivered with becoming increasingly more thesimplest oflines:“Whenyou irrational anderratic. getthesefeelings, nexttime, ItwasduringthistimethatI nexttime,besureyou’regonna NickCave- IntoMyArms Weallneedsomeone tocarryus realised tellsomeone aboutit.” thatit’softenthe throughperiodsofdarkness simplest songsthatcanhelp andI’dimagine NickCavehas untangle themostcomplex of Gavin Bryars-Jesus’Blood donehisfairshareofheavy humanemotions.

I GetNervous NeverFailedMeYet lifting.

WhenIfeeldown,I wasthesoundtrack tomy Having usedthispieceto instinctively reachforIntoMy recovery; generally, itsounds navigate aperiodofinsomnia, its simple mantra now feels Arms.I’velistened toitliterally likethesonicequivalent of enmeshed inmyDNA - inanice hundreds oftimesatthisstage. cottonwool. way.Theundeniable humanity GetNervous TheSunAlso thatinflects therecording is LowerDens- / RyanAdamsSets Isuffered fromaperiodof endlessly affecting, irrespective post-traumatic stressdisorder Coming fromtheinnerreaches ofwhichsideofthehistorical or havingbeenthevictimof oftheAdams canon,and religious divide youfind on. violentunprovoked attackin channelling Hemingway byway yourself (FromWeCutCorners) playing TheButtonFactory onJanuary 10th

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FIRST Fortnight, Ireland’s only mental health arts festival, got underway last week andruns until January 17.

The festival’s aim is to challenge mental health gstigma and there are numerous events such as therapy sessions, gigs, movie screenings and plays.

For more information and to see the full range of events, visit www.firstfortnight.ie.

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Launchingthe First Fortnight mental health arts festival were Frank,from acclaimed movie ʻFrankʼ musicianConall6 Breachain,actress amd musician TaraLeeandcomedianEleanorTiernan at street art in TempleBar that wasspecially commissioned for the festival. First Fortnight aims to challengemental health stigma andwill run in Dublinandvarious venuesnationwide in January.

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Mental Health

First Fortnight at Riverbank

Riverbank Arts Centre, in play a huge part in engaging conjunction with First Fortnight, people with thoughts, willhost three events ideas, and challenging perceptions. aspart ofFirst FortnightFestival It is also widely 2015tohelpbreak down acknowledged by mental barriers and stigmasassociatedhealth professionals that with mental health. participation in the arts has First Fortnight is a charity-based a positive benefit on mental organisation with health so for us we see the express aim ofchallenging the benefit ofthis festival as mental health prejudice two-fold.” through the creative arts.

On Wednesday 14 January Speaking ahead of the festival, Riverbank Cinema will screen Frank ahilarious, offbeat Marketing and Development ManagerofRiverbank comedyto mark the begining ofthe festival.

Arts Centre said “Weare excited to be part ofFirst Fortnight Logon to Riverbank.iefor Festival2015.The arts full details

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The First Fortnight Festival uses creative arts to address mental health issues over two weeks at the start of the year. Yesterday in Dublin City Centre, music was the centre of the Mental Health Awareness when a group of strangers came together to share their song play lists on a walk through St Stephen's Green. RTE's reporter Louise Byrne went along to find out how music can affect people's mental health.

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FirstFortnight festivalchallenges Ireland’s mentalhealthstigma to turn too. I know what it’s like to feel like you can’t ask for help. I know what it’s like IRELAND’S ONLY mental to be embarrassed by your own health arts festival has announced feelings, but I also know what the line-up for its 2015 it feels like to have that weight programme of arts and cultural events taking place across Dublin lifted off your shoulders by talking to someone. Talking helps. and selected venues nationwide There is no shame in experiencing during January. a mental health problem, it Now in its sixth year, First Fortnight will see live music, happens to a lot of us. film, theatre and visual arts “I’m delighted to join the call of First Fortnight and all the events staged to create open great artists and acts taking part discussion and understanding of mental health problems, and in this year’s festival to make 2015 the year when we end challenge prejudice and discrimination. mental health stigma.”

FirstFortnight2015 will open RTE personality Eoghan at Christ Church Cathedral on McDermott, who was on hand New Year’s Day with Resolution, for the festival’s launch in late a 90-minute exploration of November, said: “I’m delighted life from people who have met to have been asked to be an ambassador adversity and challenge with for First Fortnight. Its courage and compassion. call to challenge mental health Other events include a reading stigma is something that really resonates with me. of Austin Clarke’s poem “Like many people, there ‘Mnemosyne Lay in Dust’ in St Patrick’s Hospital, inspired have been times in the past when I’ve been depressed and

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Voice of Ireland presenter Eoghan McDermott joined Sorcha Lowry and First Fortnight co-founder David Keegan to launch the 2015 festival at Dublin’s Clarence Hotel Photo: Conor McCabe Photography Irish music acts We Cut Corners, Smith, stagings of acclaimed the life of US musician Elliott Booka Brass Band, I Have theatre productions My Name Smith who tragically died at the A Tribe, Kevin Nolan, Oliver is Saoirse and Eleanor Tiernan’sage of 34.

Cole, Lethal Dialect, The Lost The two-week festival will National Therapy Project, Brothers and Paddy Hanna. a nationwide tour of Lenny also see a panel discussion on There will also be readings Abrahamson’s film Frank and sports stars and mental health, by poets Peter Sirr, Stephen the Irish premiere of Heaven among many visual arts and Murray and Stephen James Adores You, a documentary on dance events and more. The full

First Fortnight will once again be centred around Dublin but will also host dance, theatre and film events in Galway, Wicklow, Laois, Limerick, Waterford and Kildare.

“This is our most interesting and provocative line up for the festival to date and one which we hope leads to new and interesting reasons for people to talk about mental health,” said JP Swaine, festival co-founder and project manager. “Conversations started by ordinary people are the only way we can change the stigma and discrimination that persists in the area of mental health.

“First Fortnight hopes to inspire these conversations through provocative arts events.

We are also really delighted that, despite being entirely run by volunteers, we have been able to bring festival events to seven different counties across Ireland this year.”

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First Fortnight festival details Details of the First F ortnight arts festival in January have been announced in Dublin, including a reading of the Austin Clarke poem Mnemosyne Lay in Dust.

Run by volunteers in the first fortnight of the new year, the festival aims to challenge mental health prejudice through the creative arts.

First F ortnight festival events take place at venues across Ireland from January 1st. See firstfortnight.ie.

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CHALLENGINGmental health A Shadow That Leans is the stigma willbe the theme behind first of three dates where the artists-in-residence will showcase a series of dance pieces at Mermaid their works.

Arts Centre on January 14.

The arts allow us to create There will be four short performances a space where people can talk as well as ‘spontaneous happenings’ in the about mental health issues in a foyer in what is expected to be non-scripted manner.

Once that conversation has a transformative evening.

The show, ‘AShadow that begun, it will help to change Leans’ is part of First Fortnight people’s perceptions about an Festival which aims to challenge issue that affects us all with one mental health prejudice in four of us set to experience a mental health problem at some through the creative arts.

Mermaid are hosting the point in our lives.

Dance is a proven route towards year-long residency of three psychological healing, Wicklow-based dance artists, Nick Bryson (Legitimate Bodies),and has the capacity to integrate several brain functions Karen Gleeson and Aisling at once —kinesthetic, rational, O’Coineen.

The artists will produce new musical, and emotional. As an work, research and engage with art form, it is a fitting addition to First Fortnight Festival. the community of Wicklow.

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FESTIVAL PREVIEW RUNNING CITY-WIDE > CHRIS WASSER

FIRST FORTNIGHT: TWO WEEKS, ONETHEME...

WE’RE almost a week in, but it’s not too late to get on board the annual First Fortnight arts festival, running until January 17th.

Challenging mental health prejudice through creative arts, First Fortnight was established in 2009 as a means of bringing together artists and audiences to discuss mental health issues in a “non-scripted manner”. So, there’s a whole lot of music, film and theatrical treats in store - and we’ve picked five of the best to get you started...

My Name is Saoirse at Smock Alley Theatre This celebrated, coming-of-age story set in late 1980s Ireland went down a treat at both the Edinburgh and Dublin Fringe festivals last year.

Running Jan 8 - 10 @ 8pm. Tickets: €12 Therapy Sessions at the Workman’s Club An evening of live music (The Lost Brothers are on the bill - not to be missed, those lads) and kd spoken-word for f less than the price of a pint. Jan 9 @ 8pm. Tickets: €5 National Therapy Project at Liberty Hall Writer and comedian Eleanor Tiernan (pictured) attempts to gently heal Ireland’s collective, historical wounds (or something). We’re advised to “wear comfortable clothing”... Jan 8 -10 @ 1.15pmand 8pm. Tickets €13/15.

We Cut Corners at the Button Factory The raucous Irish rock combo will be joined by Booka Brass Band, I Have a Tribe, State Lights and Le Galaxie DJs. Could be a late one... Jan 10 @ 8pm. Tickets: €12 Milk&Cookies Stories at the Irish Writers’ Centre Basically, you get to eat biscuits, drink tea and engage in a spot of storytelling. The floor is open to anyone, with spoken word artist Stephen James Smith leading the way. There may be bean bags.

We’re in. Jan 13 @ 6pm. Free entry.

For more, visit www.firstfortnight.ie.

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Frankat TownHallfor First Fortnight IRISH director Lenny Abrahamson’s acclaimed and discrimination. The Galway screenings film Frank - starring Michael Fassbender,are being held in association with See Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal Change, the national mental health stigma reduction and Scoot McNairy- will be screened partnership, and Access Cinema. in the City’s Town Hall Theatre next Monday, Frank tells the story of aspiring musician January 12, at 8pm as part of First Jon (Gleeson) who joins the Soronprfbs, an Fortnight, Ireland’s mental health arts festival. eccentric band led by the unique Frank (Fassbender), who insists on wearing a giant fake The film will be preceded by No More Secrets, head.

“Many of the musicians who inspired a new documentary on mental health-related street art in Ireland.

Frank were people who battled with mental The First Fortnight mental health arts festival health issues and somehow managed to Michael Fassbender as Frank with Domhnall transform those battles into wonderful art,” is largely Dublin based, but the two-week Gleeson as Jon. event, which is in its sixth year, is now extending says Lenny Abrahamson.

“While Frank doesn’t draw any easy conclusions ness and creativity it is underpinned by a to selected venues nationwide as it view of people that values all their aspects, about the link between mental illaims to challenge mental health prejudice

however difficult or extreme. The film feels like a great fit for First Fortnight. I’m a big fan of the festival and I’m really happy to be involved for the second year running.”

Frank will be preceded by No More Secrets, which was produced by First Fortnight and Mental Health Ireland.

That film was directed by Aidan Kelly and Wissame Cherfi and follows the making of six street-art pieces in Limerick, Letterkenny, Dublin and Portlaoise.

The full festival line-up can be viewed at www.FirstFortnight.ie while tickets for the Town Hall screening cost €9/7 concession and are available at tht.ie, by phone at 091569777and at the box office.

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TheGalwayscreenings IRISHdirectorLennyAbrahamson’sacclaimedanddiscrimination. arebeingheldinassociation withSee filmFrank- starringMichaelFassbender, DomhnallGleeson,MaggieGyllenhaalChange,thenationalmentalhealthstigmareduction partnership,andAccessCinema. and ScootMcNairy-willbe screened inthe City’sTownHallTheatrenextMonday, Franktellsthestoryofaspiringmusician Jon(Gleeson) whojoinstheSoronprfbs, an January12,at 8pmaspart ofFirst Fortnight,Ireland’smentalhealtharts festival.eccentricbandledbytheuniqueFrank(Fassbender), whoinsistsonwearingagiantfake Thefilmwillbe precededbyNoMoreSecrets, head.

“Manyofthemusicianswhoinspired a newdocumentaryonmental Frankwerepeoplewhobatdedwithmental health-relatedstreetart in Ireland.

MichaelFassbenderasFrankwithDomhnall TheFirstFortnightmentalhealthartsfestival healthissuesandsomehowmanagedto islargelyDublinbased,butthetwo-week transformthosebattlesintowonderfulart,” Gleesonas Jon. event,whichisinitssixthyear,isnowextending saysLennyAbrahamson. toselectedvenuesnationwideasit “WhileFrankdoesn’tdrawanyeasyconclusions nessand creativityitisunderpinnedbya aboutthelinkbetweenmentalillaimstochallengementalhealthprejudice viewofpeoplethatvaluesalltheiraspects,

howeverdifficultorextreme.Thefilmfeels likeagreatfitforFirstFortnight.I’mabigfan ofthefestivalandI’mreallyhappytobeinvolved forthesecondyearrunning.”

Frankwillbe precededbyNoMoreSecrets, whichwasproducedbyFirstFortnightand MentalHealthIreland.

ThatfilmwasdirectedbyAidanKellyand WissameCherfiandfollowsthemakingofsix street-artpiecesinLimerick,Letterkenny, DublinandPortlaoise.

Thefullfestivalline-upcanbeviewedat www.FirstFortnight.ie whileticketsforthe TownHallscreeningcost€9/7concession andareavailableattht.ie,byphoneat 091569777and attheboxoffice.

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‘Frank’ screenings for First Fortnight

MaynoothFilm ForAll’snext presentation in association with First Fortnight is the critically acclaimed Frank, which willbe screened onWednesday,January 14,at 8pm in the Callan BuildingNorth Campus, MaynoothUniversity.

The film will also be screened at the RiverbankArts Centre in Newbridgeon the same night, also at 8pm.

Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson star in this hilarious, offbeat comedy about a wannabe musician, Jon (Gleeson),who escapes his boring normal lifeandjoins an avant-gardepop band ledbyFrank (Fassbender),amysterious musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying bandmate Clara(MaggieGyllenhaal).

Frank, poses a series of hard questions about mental illness,layeredwithin its exploration ofartistic expression.

LennyAbrahamson’sfilmexaminesour presumptions and prejudices about mentalhealth issues,particularlywithin acreativecontext,to leaveuswith awork that engagesas much as it entertains.

First Fortnight is a charity-based organisation whichaimsto challengemental health prejudice through the creative arts Tickets are on sale from the Maynooth venue from 7.30pm.Admission: €6.Riverbank admission €8.

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FRIDAY 02.01.15 TRADITIONAL Sharon Shannon

The Grainstore, Ballymaloe, Co Cork 8pm €27ballymaloe grainstore.com

So much more than a box player, Shannon is a prolific composer and, in 2013, took on the role of producer (forThe High Kings' album). Itʼs on stage, though, that Shannon truly shines, with a clear emphasis on the percussive and melodic subtleties of her instrument. SL FIRST FORTNIGHT 2015 Founded in 2009, First Fortnight is a charity-based Debarras, Clonakilty, Co Cork organisation with the prime aim 9pm CIO debarra.ie of challenging mental health Heʼs been around for some time, but the Cork singersongwriter prejudice and erasing attached JohnSpillane stigmas. To this end, at the (above) remains attuned to start of each year a programme filtering out the trials, troubles of multidisciplinary arts events is organised, and this year (as and tribulations of the human per usual) the line-up is superb. condition, and replacing such From music (Lost Brothers, Fri; negatives with songs that are Kevin Nolan, Sat) and spoken amusing, assured, poignant word (Sun) to theatre (Thurs) and honest. Performing in a and documentaries (January venue Spillane knows so weLl 10), it's all here. Goodart, great will only add to the pleasure of cause; seep6-7 of today's an evening in the company of 7/ckef for further details. TCL this guy. TCL SINGER-SONGWRITER JohnSpillane

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TECHNO Bastardo Electrico Cyprus Avenue, Cork 10pm €12/€10 facebook.com/ bastardoelectricorecordings Also ThePint, Dublin Sat 10pm €12/€10/€8 The Cork club that marked a dozen years on the go last month gets rewed up for the new year with the Irish debut of Abstract Division (above).

This collaboration between Dutch techno dons Dave Miller (Audiosculpture) and Dynamic Reflection label boss Paul Boex has already found much favour

at events such as Awakenings, Sonarand Dimensions, as well as the main floor at Berghain and Trouw. Jim Carroll

HOUSE Jamie Trench Twisted Pepper, Dublin 10.30pm €10/€8 facebook.com/jamie.trenchl The early weeks of any new year is when tipsters offer their thoughts on who to watch in the coming months and years. Jamie Trench is one of those names who has turned heads with the finely plotted detail of his releases for labelsTsuba, Kaluki, Music Is Love and his own Roots for Bloom. The Milton Keynes native comes to Dublin for a show with new guns Benefit.

JC WORDS/MUSIC First Fortnight: Therapy Sessions Workmans Club, Dublin 8pm €5 firstfortnight.ie There will be music and poetry aplenty at this highlight of the mental health arts festival.

Among those taking the mic and stage are The Lost Brothers, Lethal Dialect, Paddy Hanna and Bairbre Anne along with poets Andy Craven

Griffiths, Sean Lyons and Alvy Carragher. And all for a fiver. Check out firstfortnight.ie for more events. LM

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THE talented <<3 KEVIN NOLAN \ ^ tt (right) is set to . "S, / 1 kick off the new j year in style. \ | . , Nolan will be L \.t ( joined by pals at St Patrick’s Hospital on January 3 as part of the First Fortnight gigs — set up to “challenge mental health prejudice through the creative arts”.

The singer returns to St Patrick’s where he wrote many of his songs while there as a patient — including a duet with Choice Music Award winner JULIE FEENEY, Aubade.

Doors at 8pm and tickets cost €5.

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Cork On Ice Beatthe post-Christmas bulge with some exercise,Mahon Point ShoppingCentre, Cork City Varioustimes until Jan 26 €15/€13 adults, €L4/€12 children peak/off peak 021-4217641 corkonice.com

Winter Funderland and I Skate On Ice at the RDS Choosebetween spine-tingling rides and iceskating. RDS, Simmonscourt, Ballsbridge.

Until Jan 11.€15/€13 adults/ €14/€12 children peak/ offpeak; Funderland €2 with rides priced individually, winterfunderland.ie Dundrum on Ice Now in its fifth year, this ice rink is an energetic alternative to shopping,Dundrum Town Centre, Until Jan 11€14/€12 adults; €13/€11 children peak/off peak015242101 dundrumonice.ie First Fortnight Amongst the many arts, music, debate and discussion in this festival celebrating mental

wellbeing and examining mental illness is The Therapy Sessionswhich brings together some of Ireland's brightest musicians and poets, The Workman's Club,10 Wellington Quay,Fri 8pm €5.

Also HeavenAdores You, Nickolas Rossi's2014 documentary exploring the life of Oscar-nominated singersongerwriter Elliott Smith (above).Sat 4pm Irish Film Institute, EustaceSt,Temple Bar €5 firstfortnight.ie

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Kilkenny On Ice Now in its fifth year, this ice rink is renowned by its huge ice slide and bungeetrampolines.

The Hub at Cillin Hill, Carlow Road,Kilkenny. Until Jan 11. €14 adults/€12 children kilkennyonice.com

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Arts festival: First Fortnight, the arts festival which celebrates mental wellbeing while exploring mental illness, is at venues until January 14th. Events include poet Peter Sirr reading Austin Clarke’s poem Mnemosyne Lay in Dust in St Patrick’s Hospital in Dublin at 7pm on January 7th and Storiesfrom theFront, personal stories about experiences of our mental health services in Liberty Hall at 7pm on January 14th. See firstfortnight.ie

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First fortnightfestival: First fortnight is a festival that celebrates mental wellbeing while exploring mental illness. The line-up of events includes Trailblaze-Resolution in Christ Church Cathedral at 7pm on January 1stto Hootenanny at St Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital at 8pm on January 3rd. See firstfortnight.ie

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Lenny speaks Frankly at First Fortnight The first two weeks of January are always a bit dead, but First Fortnight, Ireland’s mental health arts festival, has been filling the void with gigs, exhibitions, film,theatre and comedy. The idea isto challenge stigma around mental health, but it’s also good for challenging the post-NewYear blues.

OnTuesday,the festivalscreened Frank at the Pavilion in Dun Laoghaire. Director Lenny Abrahamson and composer Stephen Rennicks dropped in for a post-screening discussion. Abrahamson wasjust back from Toronto, where he finished shooting the adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novelRoom.

Musician Conall 6 Breachain, comedian Eleanor “We were away for a long time and it was a long shoot,” Abrahamson told us. “But the cast were really Tieman, Frank from Lenny Abrahamson's acclaimed brilliant, the kid was amazing, so all in all I felt we movie, and actress and musician Tara Lee at the launch of the First Fortnight mental health arts came awayhaving done it justice.” festival, photograph: conor McCabe photography Room is due out in autumn. In the meantime Abrahamson and producer Ed Guineyare starting work on Neverhome,adapted from the novelby Blair Hunt.

“It’s an American civil war novel about a woman strange to be talking about Frank again. “It does feel who disguised herself as a man to join the Union like a long time ago. It was released in May here. I feel army,” Abrahamson said. “It’san incredible story and really affectionate towards it, I do feel it’sgot a life and it willkeep going.” wewere really luckyto get it.”

“And then I’m doing a ghost story called TheLittle And Abrahamson plans to keep going too.

Stranger, based on the Sarah Waters novel. So lots of “I’mstillfascinated by film, and I’mstill confused by things floating around.” it and intrigued by it, and desperately want to keep With all the projects on the go, Abrahamson findsit hacking awayat it to understand it more.”

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Letʼs be ʻFrankʼ about your mental health this month PICTURED in Temple Bar at the launch of the First Fortnight mental health arts festival are musician Conall 6 Breachain

of We Cut Corners; actress and musician Tara Lee of The Fall; comedian Eleanor Tiernan; and the character ʻFrankʼ from the movie of the same name. The First Fortnight festival aims to challenge mental health stigma and will run in Dublin and various venues nationwide throughout January.

Other artists taking part include Bronagh Gallagher, Vivienne Long, Kevin Nolan and The Lost Brothers.

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Pictured at the launch of this year's First Fortnight mental health festival were (from l-r): JP Swaine (First Fortnight): actress and musician Tara Lee (The Fall): David Keegan (First Fortnight): musician Conall 0 Breachain (We Cut Corners): and comedian Eleanor Tiernan, at street art in Temple Bar which was specially commissioned for the festival. Visit www.firstfortnight.ie for more information.

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Dunamaise Arts Centre in conjunction with ‘SeeChange’ and ‘First Fortnight Festival’, will screen Frank, on Wednesday, January 14at 8pm as part of First Fortnight - a charity-based organisation that challenges mental health

prejudice through the creative arts. It aims to make the first fortnight of each year synonymous with mental health awareness.

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comedy Frank will screen around the country this month as part of mental health arts festival First Fortnight, along with new documentary No More Secrets. For full details of the screenings, see firstfortnight.ie.

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Naked romps in the pursuit of art Ifyou spot a naked woman dashing around the park at night, pursued by a photographer, relax. It’snot Rihanna running from the paparazzi but, most likely,PJ Keating working on a late-night photo shoot.

“I’m doing a series all about just letting go,” said the photographer. “A lot of my friends would feel really insecure about themselves, and I see it as something we all have. So I take some friends and we drive out in the middle ofthe night, and they just run around naked and have the craic - and I photograph it. It’s this big release. Then they get these great photos, and they realise how beautiful they actually are.”

He opened a new exhibition of his work on Thursday night at Indigo & Cloth, in Temple Bar in Dublin. The store was holding a customer party - beer downstairs, a showing of works by the videographer Albert Hooi on the top floor, and Keating’s photographs in the centre.

A few doors down, at the Clarence Hotel, First Fortnight, Ireland’s mental-health arts festival, launched its programme forJanuary 2015.Thisyear’shighlights include screenings of Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank; the National Therapy Project, in which Ireland is put on the couch; Masks, a play about mental-health issues written and performed by young people; and Co-Motion, a unique musical promenade event; firstfortnight.ie.

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New mental health mural prompts ‘No More Secrets’

junction with the artists at the Createa-Link with local groups Udthth .Under the theme ‘No More Secrets’, community arts studio just off A NEWLYpainted mural at a prime the Pearse Road and forms part of a the mural is designed to site in Letterkenny will aim to help prompt awareness of mental health nationwide initiative introduced by break down the walls of stigma surrounding and help end the stigma attached to it.

First Fortnight, a charity based organisation mental health.

Work on the painting got underway which challenges mental on Monday on the gable of Ruth’s health prejudice through the creative Thought provoking and beautifully Chemist on the High Road. crafted the mural is the work of arts.

Letterkenny was one of over ten locations“The weather held out well for it Belfast based artist, Marian Noone, and Marian and her partner, Gerry, chosen around the country to better known in the art world as Friz. who also worked on the mural were Its concept was conceived in con¬ produce the murals in association able to get a fair bit of it completed,” said Peadar McDaid,Arts Facilitator at the Create-a-Linkcentre.

But the heavens opened on Tuesday forcing a delay in the project until the final touches were applied to it.

“Weonly needed another hour and a half to complete it but it didn’t look too good in the morning and early afternoon,” indicated Friz, a native of Sligo who has been living and working in Belfast for over six years.

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Friz and Gerry.

The mural, she pointed out, sent out a positive message at a period of the year when some people can experience low times.

“The First Fortnight charity got in touch with Peadar and the Create-aLink studio to see if they would get involved and that’s how it all came about,” the artist revealed.

“Hidingbehind the mask was a concept that quite resonated with me from the visual point of view,” said Friz as she waited for the weather conditions to calm.

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tensive portfolio of work, she and her when we were at ground levelgot a lot fiancee deployedspraypainting to undertake of people making comments.” the highly impressive mural.

Commented Peadar: “We held a Scaffolding was erected to enable workshop to see what ideas our her to finish the project. “Weare very artists could come up with and that grateful to the guys from the council contributed to the overall concept. who put up the scaffolding,”said Friz “It’squite a powerful piece of work who also acknowledged the help of and we were delighted to have been BillVaughan, the local Mental Health involved.

Ireland Development Officer, and “Marian listened to what they had Peadar McDaidand the Create-a-Link to say and was willing to adapt their ideas in the mural.” team.

Added the Arts Facilitator: “We also CHECKING want to thank Ruth’s Chemist for “While we were working on it, we their cooperation. It’s a very prominent got a lot of people checking it out spot and it has already received while they were stuck in traffic and a lot of attention.”

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One-woman show may end our national shame

COMEDIANEleanor Tiernan is continuing her one-woman crusade to end our national sense of shame by taking comedy show The National Therapy Project on the road.

“It’s sort of like a national car test but for your soul,” she explained. “The Irish Government asked me to do it.”

During the course of the show, Tiernan counsels audience members through some of the country’s collective traumas —

from Louis Walsh’s presence onX Factor to the wrong chap eating the salmpn of knowledge.

“I’mjust trying to make the pain go away,”she said. Tiernan’s show is being staged as part of mental health arts festival, First Fortnight, of which director Lenny Abrahamson is a big fan.

In fact, Abrahamson launched the nationwide tour of movie Frank to run in conjunction with the festival at Dun Laoghaire’s Pavilion Theatre this week. “I love the ethos of First Fortnight,” he said at the opening gala.

Abrahamson has just returned from Canada, where he was busy shooting the film adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s The Room starring Brie Larson.

Once he’s got that done he’s set to work on Sarah Waters’s post-war ghost story, The Little Stranger.

“It’scertainly a busy start

to the year,” he said.

— KBK First Fortnight festival director Lenny Abrahamson.

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January canbethecruellest month, atimewheneventhestrongest can findthemselves feeling fragile.

We askedpeople fromdifferent walks oflifetotellusabouthowtheykeep themselves mentally healthy atthe toughest timeofyear

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Thethingthatrestored meeventually toaplaceofhumanity?

AtriptotheGallery ofModem ArtinBrisbane.

People arequicktosneeratthecontemporary art world.

However, thewhimsical natureof someoftheworkbeliesitsenormous value.

EoghanMcDermott, TVpresenterandambassador forPietaHouse,originally toldhisstoryonYouTube andwasmovedby MauraHickey theresponse

AsIwandered around thevasthalls, thecanvases andinstallations begantoaffect myunderstanding ofrealityandwhat Ichoose tobelieve isimportant.

Thehigh ceilings andlarge-scale worksdistorted my senseofspace.

Theyreminded meofthe millions ofassumptions I canmakeevery moment.

Mybrain’s inadequacy became gently humiliating tome.Why,Ifound myself wondering, didIinsistonfocusing onminutiae whenIwasjustaspeckofhumanity?

Welcome back,senseofhumour!

Theworkondisplay included asection dedicated toartconcerned withtheanger ofindigenous artistsatthecontinued systemic exploitation oftheirpeople.

Aplain blackcanvas withthewords“1AMNOT SORRY” lightly raisedwithinitbyRichard Bellcomments onthepolitical classes’ silence ontheissue.Apowerful response thatisprecise anddelicate initsskewering oftheoppressor.

InmyheadIhearDavid Drumm’s voiceandIamfilledsuddenly withartistic purpose.

That’s nottheonlytimemodem arthas cometomyrescue.

WhileinNewYork once,thefriendwhoIwasvisiting suffered abipolar manicepisode.

Ihadnounderstanding ofthisfrightening condition at thetime,sokeeping himsafewhilesecretly plotting toarrange medical attention for himproved anarduous task.

Intheheightofhiselation, Imanaged topersuade himnottopublicly setfiretoa USflagforthereason thatitwouldnothelp —butdamage —Obama’s 2008presidential election campaign.

Hourslater,when hewasfinally inthecareofprofessionals, I wandered alonearound Manhattan, letting thereliefsinkin,andfoundmyself inthe Museum ofModem Art.Thesarcastic tone oftheworkthereenabled metoseethe funnysideoftheprevious fewdays.

It’snotlongsincetheIrishsurrealist painter Leonora Carrington’s massive wall-covering tapestry ofaspider’s web andinsects washungintheIrishMuseum ofModem Art.Whatshuckmeaboutit wasitspowerinmaking thelowest species onearththesubject ofamedium thatusually represents theprivileged andwealthy.

Itwillhavemoreinsightful andeducated meanings formanybut,forme,knowing thatsomeone spentsomanymonths making something sobeautifully useless and unfunctional isdelightful.

Acourageous two-fingered saluteagainst thetyranny of time.

traction.

Meetnewpeople.

That’s probably the pieceofadvice Icouldgive impact beinghonest aboutasupposedly taboomostimportant anyone.

Cultivating, developing andmaintaining subject couldbe. newfriendships arethebestway Thatisthebriefbackground astowhyI reinvigorate and,ifneedsbe, wasaskedtowritea pieceonhowImaintaintosurprise, yourself.

Asithappened, itwasa mymental healththesedays.Obviously,reinvent whowasexperiencing something everyexperience isdifferent.

Mybrush stranger tomethatkick-started mypersonal withdiscord wasanincident thatintruded similar rehabilitation.

Thisperson isnowoneof foraconcentrated periodoftimeand myclosest friends. thenevaporated, whereas forothersitisa Chocolate isgoodtoo. constant plague theyhavenotyetmanaged Andchocolate. toshake.

TheonethingIdoknowisthat, EoghanMcDermott isapresenterwith having experienced whatI did,mysenseof forFirstFortnight, whatisbothhelpful andhurtful tomymentalRTEandan ambassador Ireland’smentalhealthartsfestival stability hasbeengreatly heightened. challenging stigma, w hich runsuntilJanuary Beingactiveiskey.Exercise issucha 30.Formoreinformation onevents, dirtywordforsomanypeople thesedays— ie likeapunishment thathastobeendured. seefrstfortnight.

Thescience doesn’t lie,though.

Exercise EleanorTiernan’s NationalTherapyProject produces endorphins; endorphins makeyou willbestagedat Mermaid ArtsCentre, feelgood.

Bray, o nJanuary17,andRiver bankArts Ifyoudon’tenjoyexercising, then Centre, N ewbridge, onJanuary30,aspart change whatyou’re doing.

Hatethegym? oftheFirstFortnightfestival Fuckthegym!Joinalocalsportsteam,rekindle nJuly2013,1 flewtoAustralia to thelovethatyouhadforwhatever visit m ybrother.

Arriving during t he Eleanor Tiernan sportyouplayed inschool, evenifyou’re winter, itwas2-3degrees Celsius and tenpacesslower andtenstoneheavier!

If getting darkat4pm.Allthehotwater you’re notingreatshape, thenI understand bottles, mugs o fhotchocolate and theexplicit non-appeal ofstanding around withawellofgrief,followed general newcitystimulation couldn’t nowcombined abunchofscantily-clad showponies lifting me.1didmybesttoseethesights stopmefromfeeling depleted.

During remember beingsurprised bythe andputting downheavythings. they were good enough toshowme,but those d ays I read online o ftheunfolding senseofemancipation thatcamewith Whenwasthelasttimeyouwentfora whenI storyoftheAnglotapes.DavidDrumm and therewereonlyafewmoments thestartofmycareerinpsychiatry. swim?

Aswimandasteamroomcanbe waittoreturntobed. obnoxious banterdepressed couldn’t Theopportunity toworkinmental euphoric!

Exercising alsonaturally makes JohnBowe’s People’s generosity became apressure me.OnFacebook, Ireadthatmypalsin healthhasbeenlife-changing forme youwanttoeatbetterfoods,sotheytiein withinitself.Andthere’s anexpectation Ireland wereunable tosleepwithanunexpected atleast:atoncedeeply satisfying and nicely. whenonholidays tobeenjoying theholidays.completely heatwave, whileIhadn’t brought a practical, likeahandthatfits Readbooks.

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When Wewenttostaywithsomerelatives tightly coatwarmenough forthewindyStKilda intoagloveorashoethatsitsfirmly Iwasdown, I focused onthenegative, ofourswhorevelinround-the-world travel. around pierwalks. theheel. thenIimagined moreterrible scenarios There, Ifeltashamed ofmyfragility. acallfromhomethat Theideathatworking inmental healthcare catalysed bythenegative andthenIspiralled Thenwereceived Mymindbegantoplaytricksonme.When hadpassed away. canberewarding seemscontrary and intoanegative, narrow-focus agenda. ourgrandmother Ientered t hefamily r oom oftheir h ouse, We travelled north t orural Q ueensland even incomprehensible tosome.

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ofuswhorevealouroccupation that“your workmustbesodepressing”.

Sceptics evensuggest thattofindsuchsatisfaction inpsychiatry mustbeaformofmasochism ormartyrdom.

Itisneither ofthese.Itis aprivilege tobepartoftherecovery ofa mentally healthy life.

Heralding recovery ofmental healthrequires anauthentic formofwitness.

On theonehand,acknowledging thereality of illness isimportant, butontheotherhand, theexperience ofrecovery alsoneedstobe recognised andevencelebrated.

Amentally healthy lifecanberestored andsustained.

Recovery brings withitasource ofnew understanding.

Mental healthisthesuccessful integration ofrichlyhuman functions; theability tolive,toworkandto love.Learning torecover meanslearning, atvarious levels, toliveamentally health life.

Westillneedtoremind ourselves ofthe mental health“factsoflife”.Thecauses of mental healthdistress aresocial, biological andpsychological.

Mental distress arises fromtrauma andinflammation andpeople’s ownnature.

Oneinfourofuswillhavea mental disorder inourlifetime.

Itremains thelargest unmet health needinoursociety.

Atthismoment, atleastoneperson in everyfamily inourlandisinmental distress.

Everyotheraspect ofourphysical healthistrumped byourmental healthstatus.

Alltheevidence supports this.

Forthosestillunable torecognise the priority ofmental health, without firstseeing physical evidence, consider thevast amount ofcompelling datashowing the critical influence ofmental healthonour recovery fromphysical illnesses, suchas heartdisease orcancers.

Lastly, ifourownhealth werenotpriority JimLuceysaysthereisalwayshopeforthosewhoaredepressed:‘Amentallyhealthylifecanberestoredand enough, thinkofhowsuicide hasbecomeProfessor Feargal Ward sustained’ themostcommon growing causeof deathinouryoung people.

Weknowthat thislastactofdespair istypically adevastatingThereisevidence Itcanbegrowninadvance ofdistress or ofprogress.

Inthe mindful ofothers’ mental wellness?

Who correlate ofmental distress ordisorder.narrow inresponse toit.Whatmatters isthatour meaning oftheterm“mindfulness”minds yourmentalhealth?

Whatwouldit healthisrecognised, valued, enjoyed muchhasbeenachieved, especially takeforyoutobegintomindyourmental mental Sowhatcanwedoaboutthis?Whatcan forthose andrestored. whohavedeveloped thecapacity healthandthementalhealthofthoseyou wedotoleadamentally healthy life? tomake s pace f or their m ind; butinthe love?

Wecouldstartbygiving mental health broader JimLucey, StPatrick’s sensemuchhasstilltobedoneso Living a mentally healthy lifecouldbecome DrProfessor thepriority itdeserves.

Ifeachofus,as Mental Health Services, Dublin.

Lucey is welearntobe“mindful” ofourselves yourpriority, whether ornotyou individuals, tookonthisgoal,oursociety that theauthor ofInMy Room: The Recovery and ofeach other. have amental disorder.

Mental health e xpands couldbecome afellowship thatplacesa Journey AsEncountered ByAPsychiatrist, So,then,askyourself thesemental health thewholeofhumancapacity and truepremium onmental wellbeing.

Ourenvironment published byGill&Macmillan Areyouwell-minded?

Areyou sustains allofhealth. couldbecome mentally healthy. questions.

Obviously, thepracticalities ofleading a mentally healthy lifeinvolve alltheusual dosanddon’ts: dogetmoresleep,dotake moreexercise, dostaysober, dorecognise andfullytreatanxiety disorder, addiction, depression andothermental illnesses.

But bookisherfirm,no-nonsense manner. lsoofferingnicely-penned anecdotes TheExamined Life:HowWe whileaabout theroadtomental healthisnotdidactic.

It Soyourhusbandleftyou?Soyou’ve someofthedifficult situations isaboutmuchmorethangoingbacktothe LoseandFindOurselves Soyou’re thathavehappenedto herfriends gainedweightandwrinkles? gymortakingupmeditation, however worthy ByStephenGrosz worried you’ve broughtupyourchildren andfamily. theseactivities canbe.

Discovering thatotherpeoplehave badly?

A sshewinds h erway through Whenmental wellbeing trulyexpands, suffered throughexactly yourproblem a narrative (targetedtowardswomen ofLife canbeanenormous help,andinThe Levels ourhuman abilities begintogrowagain, intheir40sandbeyond) thatincludes Life,psychoanalyst Stephen ByJulianBarnes physically, psychologically andspiritually, Examined thoughtsoneverything frommento It’sdifficult to finda bookthathelps towards therestorative andrewarding goal Groszdetailsthepatientswhohave to menopause, Knight makes inmourning, butLevels make-up ofbeinginaproper relationship witheach comethroughhisdoors(while retainingwhenyou’re largeandsmall,seem ofLifeisjustthatbook.Skipthefirst allproblems, other.

Whenseeninthisway,mental health theiranonymity) andtheissuesthey surmountable, andurges you, p olitely accountofballooning, becomes morethanamechanical formula. havefaced.Chapterheadingsinclude part,anoddhistorical butfirmly, togetbackinthesaddle.A andmovestraighttothe pages surprisingly Being wellbecomes morethanhaving an ‘Onwanting theimpossible’, ‘How cheeringread. extended “to-do” list,morethananagenda praisecancausea lossofconfidence’ inwhichJulianBarneschronicles deathfromcancer.“Iwas fullof“should-do”s and“must-do”s. and‘Onnotbeingina couple’.

Grosz hiswife’s 32whenwemet,"hewrites,“62when Reasons to StayAlive Amentally healthy lifeisenergised by unpackshardpsychological truthsin acceptance andcompassion, andsustained everychapterandoffersa measured, shedied.Theheartofmylife;thelife ByMattHaig bookwon’t ofmyheart."Afterherdeath,Barnes ThisCanongate-published byresilience andkindness.

Realstrengths sympathetic ear.Abrilliant read. of hasmixedexperiences withhisfriends, makeitto shopsuntilthebeginning emerge fromrediscovering theability to March, butpre-order itnow: it’sa cracker. unsureofhowto help,butonewrote liveandworkandlove.Paramount among MindWhispering Init,Matt H aig describes i nsimple, hima valuable l etter. “ The t hing is,” thesestrengths istheability tocareforourselves ByTaraBennett-Goleman language how,at 24,he shesaid,“natureis soexact,ithurts mesmerising andtocareforoneanother.

Withthis Soyou'vefallenintobadpatternsof Thestorywhich muchas it isworth,soina wayone wantedto killhimself. insight, afirstcentury thatrecognised our thinking?

Knee-jerk reactions towards as follows ishisaccount ofhow hecame relishes t hepain.Ifitdidn't m atter, it independence couldleadontoasecond negativity?

Aconviction thatthetiny throughthelowestmomentsofhislife wouldn't matter.” thatrecognises ourinter-dependence. voice inyour h eadisright: you're simply andfound a way togoonliving.

Read Theengine ofourmental healthisthe enough?InMindWhispering, anextractfromthebookat matthaig. mind,anditsfueliskindness.

Mental wellness notgood InYour Prime Tara Bennett-Goleman offers a com. couldbecome abeneficent ambition valuable setofstrategiesforpropellingByIndiaKnight NadineO'Regan thatrestores ourselves, ourfamilies andour yourself outofself-destructive mode, ThegreatthingaboutIndiaKnight’s country.

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Performance therapy First Fortnight 2015tackles mental health prejudicesthrough art

Visualartist Ciara McKeonprepares for a performance of her work / have to say, I have to say, a story about migrant suicide. Held at CityAssembly House in Dublin,the installation is part of First Fortnight 2015, an organisation that confronts mental health prejudices through the creative arts, photograph,davemeehan

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from the Burren pub in Boston, which lays a claim to be the best place to play in the US, at least according to Sharon Shannon. Local station WGBH has recorded and broadcast a series from there in recent years, and Tommy and Louise McCarthy from the venue wiLl bejoined here on home soil by Dervish (above), Sharon Shannon, Lunasa, Andy Irvine, Sean Keane, Seamus Begley, Dermot Byrne and more. The event will launch a Burren series CD,and raise funds for the Walk In My Shoes mental

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heaLthcampaign.

This week is also the final days of the First Fortnight festival, which raises awareness of mental health through the arts.

Tonightthere is a Therapy Session in the Workmans Club (see our detailed listing on the left). My Name Is Saoirse is running at Smock Alley Theatre. And Saturday night sees a cracking line-up in the Button Factory featuring

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SetinCorkcityinthe 70s,Welkum tellsthe taleofadelegation fromtheeastcoming toCorktolearnabout “how theIrishlive”.

The Ogham Players present thelightcomic drama inBallynoe from8pm, along withanartand photography exhibition.

Saturday Dublin indierockact TheStoles aretohit thestageatTheCrane LaneTheatre from 9pm.Withenergetic guitar, vocal diversity andupbeat tempos, thegroupconveys a powerful message about social injustice and moral decay.

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There isnorestfortheCorkOpera House castofSleeping Beauty, which continues untilSaturday, January 17th.Thisafternoon’s matinee show, withdoors at1pm, continues tocasta magical spell overthecity.Starring Katie Honan asBeauty andfeaturing many seasoned pantostalwarts including pantodameFrankMackey as Nanny Nellie andMichael Joseph asBundles.

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It’sallaboutanatomy withatwistinWhat LiesBeneath, the firstsoloexhibition byDrMaeve Doyle ofhermedical illustrations and drawings.

The drawings, onshow untilThursday, January 29thatUCC’s Jennings Gallery, shows ‘what lies beneath’ inanatomical terms,bothinhealth andinsickness.

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Regarded asoneofIreland's premier comedy troupes.

Snatch Comedy Improv atTheRoundy sees theaudience dictate thestorylines,theridiculous scenarios andthetomfoolery.

Doors areat9pm.

Thursday

TheliveCorkdebutofSea RoadSessions kicksoff atCoughlans Liveat 9pm,withthegroup Wednesday featuring astunning Irish, Inthecomedy-drama filmFrank, Scottish andSwedish starring Michael Fassbender, amusician collaboration.

Sixcritically findshimself outofhisdepthwhen acclaimed traditional hejoinsagroupledbyamysterious andfolkmusicians pool musical genius whohideshimself inside theirformidable talents alargefakehead.Thisspecial screening anddiverse repertoires at6pmispresented aspartoftheFirst forthismouth-watering Fortnight Mental Health ArtsFestival. ensemble.

Tickets are€15 Tickets €8.80fromtriskelartscentre.ie. fromentertainment.ie.

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Riverbank hosts film screening for mental health arts festival

IRISHdirector Lenny Abrahamson's acclaimed film Frank starring Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson - will be screened in Newbridge's Riverbank Arts Centre tomorrow night Wednesday 14 January at 8pm as part of First Fortnight Ireland’s only mental health arts festival.

The film will be preceded by No More Secrets, a new documentary on mental health-related street art in Ireland.

First Fortnight, Ireland’s only mental health arts festival, aims to challenge mental health prejudice and discrimination. The screenings are being held in association with See Change, the national mental health stigma reduction partnership, and Access Cinema.

Of the programming of Frank in the First fortnight festival, Lenny Abrahamson said: “Many of the musicians who inspired Frank were people who battled with mental health issues and somehow managed to transform those battles into wonderful art.

“While Frank doesn't draw any easy conclusions about the link between mental illness and

Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson in a scene from Frank creativity it is underpinned by a view of people that values all their aspects, however difficult or extreme. The film feels like a great fit for First Fortnight. I'm a big fan of the festival and I’m really happy to be involved for the second year running.”

Frank will be preceded by No More Secrets, which was produced by First Fortnight and Mental Health Ireland. The film was directed by Aidan Kellyand

Wissame Cherfi and follows the making of six street art pieces in Limerick, Letterkenny, Dublin and Portlaoise.

The full festival line-up can be viewed at www.FirstFortnight.ie The 2015 First Fortnight festival is partnered by Mental Health Reform; St Patrick's Mental Health Services; Mental Health Ireland and See Change, the National Mental Health Stigma Reduction Partnership.

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THE HALL HOUSE onArchitects

Asayoung architect, onthewaytoand fromwork inRathinines every morning andevening, 1walked pastabrick and stonehouse.

ThemoreIsawofthishouse, themoreIbecame seduced byitsbeguiling simplicity.

Upon firstreading, the house appears asanabstract assemblage ofvolumes.

Yet,further examinalion dispels thisidea,ascompositionally, the elements ofthehouse knitsophisticatedly

brick volume addresses thescale ofthe adjoining three-storey building, while a lower volume steps down totheneighbouring buildings onthelane.Themaking oftheentrance isasheer delight, thestone volume stepsbackfrom thestreettocreate aquiet, butwelcoming entry.

Thematerial palate ofthehouse isfirmly rooted inits context: thebrick skinacknowledges the redbrick oftheadjacent Edwardian pub, while thegranite cladding alludes tothe walls which make uptheurban boundaries ofthearea.Even thedarkblueofthewindows Squid besaidtoreference thecolours oftheDublin flag!

Notuntilanumber ofyears laterdidI gettlqiopportunity tostudy theplans of thehouse indepth.

Itwasthenthesheer brilliance ofthehouse trulybecame apparent.

Organisationally, thebedrooms and studio arelocated ontheground floor, themaster bedroom andsunroom onthe upper floor andtheliving areaonthefirst floor taking advantage ofallnatural light.

Aseries ofterraces onthefirstandsecond floors create generous outdoor areasto beenjoyed bytheoccupants.

Internally, concrete columns wrap andfoldtomake Which Spatial inturncreate subtle beams, dividers.

Thepositioning ofthefireplace as apiece offurniture intheliving room, with thestaircase asitsback-drop, isfurther testament tothisorganisational concept.

Such thoughtful design enables thespaces SmallLivesBook First F ortnight Festival within thehouse toachieve incredible Small Lives isanewbook fromanappropriately smallDublin publishing Expands Now happily afixture atthestartofeach depth. house called Poddle Publications, which wasreleased attheendof Since completing theHallHouse in year,theMental Health ArtsFestival First November.

Thebook isascreen-printed (with Damn FinePrint) and Grafton Architects havedesigned Fortnight founded byJPSwaine andDavid 1999, handassembled anthology thatcollects poetry, proseandillustration large-scale buildings ofsublime returns in2015 forthewhole month numerous fromarange ofIrishcontributors.

There arewords fromwriters likeJean Keegan quality inMilan, Toulouse, andmore ofJanuary, withitsmostambitious lineup Tuomey andSueRainsford andillustrations fromartists likeMice Hell, recently Lima, Paris andLondon.

Yet, it yet,featuring livemusic, spoken word Dave Comiskey andFuchsia MacAree, whose work hasoftengraced the poetry, theatre, film,danceandvisualVisfairtosaythattheideasthatcharacterise Dublin.

Copies ofSmall Lives areavailable fromtheirwebsiteevents, pages ofTotally theseprojects -organisational rigour, artsevents withthecontent allsquarely atpoddlepublications.com, where youcanalsofindadetailed logof quality andvolumetric beauty-can aimed atchallenging thestigma surroundingspatial howthebookhasbeencreated.

IL betraced backtosuchearlier exquisite mental health.

Highlights include domestic designs.

TheHallHouse isa theIrishpremiere ofHeaven Adores You, Nickolas Rossi’s documentary aboutsongwriter Elliott Smith, andperformances of MyName IsSaoirse andNational Therapy Project, bothofwhich starred atTiger Dublin Fringe thisyear.Ireland’s suicide SednAntoin OMuiri isa design principal rates,particularly amongst young men,are at Fuinneamh Workshop, an continually alarming, andthisexcellent architecture anddesign studiobasedin Architecture 150+ cause wants toraiseawareness inthedark Cork.Hisbook,Dublin Buildings since1990, waspublished this daysofJanuary.

IL Forfulldetails ofevents, checkoutfirstfortnight.ie monthbyGandon Editions.

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Bree Harris Band Consummatevocalist covers the likes of Joni Mitchell, BonnieRaitt,Aretha Franklin, kd Lang,Lyle Lovett, Leonard Cohenand Jeff Buckley.J J Smyths 9pm €10 Jjsmyths.com The Therapy Sessions SeeSevenDays.As part of First Fortnight 2015.The Workman's Club 8pm €5 firstfortnight.ie

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The Heavyweights Blues professionals deliver renditions of (andpaytribute to) songsbythe likes of Willie Dixon,MuddyWaters, Leadbelly and all the Kings Freddie,Albert and BB. JJ Smyths 9pm €10 jjsmyths.com Kevin Nolan SeeSevenDays.

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FILM TIPS: Birdman won始t appeal to everybody, but it has the critics fawning and will probably garner a few of the big awards this year,while today's release of Foxcatcher with Will Ferrill adds another attractive cinema option. At Triskel in Cork this weekend, the roster includes Mike Leigh始s Mr Turnerand British film Electricity. On Wednesday, the same venue is showing Frank and Whitnail& I as part of the First Fortnight event that raises mental health issues through the arts.

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Life&Arts Seasonal Editor: Laurence Mackin arts@irishtimes.com Phone:01-6758000

walks, swims and street festivals There’s more toChristmas activities than the 1 2 P ubs’ crawl.

Here are s ome things todofrom Christmas Day toearly January

from Gtouillamene Cove inTramore Bay Carlow Road, Kilkenny.

Until January 11th from 12 lpm oatnC hristmas Day. There is -€14 adults/ €12 children, www.kilkennyonice.com. also asea swim nabout oon onC hristmas Day at K ilmurrin Cove 10km west of Waterford Tramore, Co Waterford.

And, sea swimmers Waterford Winterval onIce welcome between noon and lpm oare non Calso lonea beach, Dungarvan, Co Waterford Part ofawider celebration ofallthings C hristmas Day. Christmas, this ice r5th ink promises lots of In Wicklow, there are s ea s wims for thrills.

Until January -€14/€ adults; 12 charities on the S outh Beach in Greystones € 12/€ children 10 peak/offpeak, www.winon Christmas Day at n oon and in terval.ie.

Bray onNew Year’s Day atnoon.

See hraylionsclub.com.

Winterwalking Newyear festivities Getting outdoors over the C hristmas holidays can lower tensions aswell asCoastal getting in Dublin Wren Boys that essential physical exercise.

The Wren Boys tradition, where people walks and forest and mountain trails nearby dress upinrags and wear masks or straw Dublin City Council and Failte Ireland are the best choice for shorter walks. pre-dates Christianity and sM trongly have joined forces todraw people into the linked to asimilar tradition ofis the ummers Check coillteoutdoors.ie for maps ofhats, capital from December 30th toJanuary 1st in Northern Ireland. walks orhout ikes throughout the country.

Remember, at a ll hours of t he d ay or n ight.

Check out if i t’s more than acasual stroll the full programme on www.nyfdublin.com.

In pre-Christian times, birds were seen and abit of f resh air, you’ll need to wear Meanwhile, here’s asnapshot. to be i ntermediaries between this world warm layers ofcIt’s lothing and well-worn waterproof and the next but wren’s reputation for Luminosity to itthe bof eing and nailed boots. essential tobring awaterproof toapole atled the head thunted he Wren Boys procession. jacket and trousers, hat andtreachery The colourful digital displays ontshe front gloves, water and hot drinks. facade ofTSquare rinity College, the ides of Wolfe Tone and buildings in Dublin Nowadays, the p rocessions are u sually Wicklow more good-humoured, if s ometimes boisterous Castle certainly draw attention to these events and the t radition continues historic buildings.

Luminosity works with A Christmas four-hour walk on D ecember in afew strongholds around the country. audio-visual artists, AVTEK, toand light up 27th starts attand he B rockagh Centre in Laragh These include Dingle, Co erry; Sandymount these and other buildings statues at 9.30am follows ofthe Wicklow inDublin; and DKunleer in Co from 5pm thistoric o1st. midnight from December Way inthe valley of Gpart lendalough.

The 30th to January Louth. route passes the L ower Lake, rising towards InDunleer, the Wren Boys performances Pollanass Waterfall into Lugduff Dublin Castle Food Village D ecember 26th are part of aearly wider effort Forest and then another trail that to keep the tradition alive.

In December, The upper yard of Dstalls ublin Castle will be leads on tothe Sjoins pine and from there on to on there was acompetition for boys filled with artisan food from noon to Lugduff Mountain.

Cost € 20. to perform and dress up at t he F eile an 7pm f rom December 30th to January 1st.

If y ou’re an e arly bird and want to listen Dreoilfn as p art of S coraiocht Lannleire.

There will also be contemporary music to tha s ilence of t he d awn on J anuary 1st, These boys will perform in their neighbourhoods and spoken-word performances. join asunrise walk, starting at t he B rockagh on Dperform ecember 26th, while of Resource inLaragh at6goes .45am New Year's Eve People's Procession of adults also and sing inagroup houses in on New YCentre ear’s Day. The route Light the village.

See dunleer.ie. through Ballard forest onto Trooperstown Now anannual feature, this free family-friendly In Dingle, the W ren Boys draw huge Hill for t he s unrise, back down event encourages people to carry crowds on t o the streets to watch and partake through Trooperstown Woods and along inthe lanterns through theDublin streets street procession ofm usicians the A vonmore River with bus transport from S t S tephens toDublin Castle and performers on December 26th.

See back to the W icklow Heather Restaurant anddinglepeninsula.ie.

6.30pm/7pm onNewYear’s Eve. at for breakfast at9.30am/10am.

Cost of €30dingle-region.com includes breakfast.

Booking for both walks The 3Countdown Concert Inon Sandymount, the W ren Boys tradition on040445152; 087-2698659; The Bank ofIreland on College Green will SStephen’s tbegin Day isinits 30th year. info@walkinghikingireland.com. be twonderful ransformed into astunning stage for with poetry readings and For those who prefer towalk later in theFestivities traditional music at 1 1am in Gus Ryan’s this concert countdown tothe day, there are two full-moon walks on J anuary much anticipated headlining new year.

The pub and continue on a n outdoor stage at 3rd s tarting at 6 pm.

One starts from acts are K odaline, James Vincent McMorrow, Sandymount Green from noon to 2pm. the C lock Tower in Enniskerry, Co W icklow, Dublin Legends, Walking On Funds raised will go tobthe mKaternity and the other walk, Muckross Lake Cars and The Whereabouts.

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Both €25.40, ticketmaster.ie (over-18s only). are oK rganised byHatilltop Treks.

Cost €or 25.hospital ofMalta.

Booking on0877849599 Meeting House Square New Year's Eve info@hilltoptreks.ie.

Concert On ice Connemara New this year isLe aconcert inTemple Bar We may not have the bcountries elow-freezing temperatures headlined by Galaxie, whose DJ of s ome but that Setting out on N ew Year’s Day, at 1 0am, sound-system concept Laserdisco nights hasn’t stopped ice skating from becoming there isamoderately difficult four-to wowed audiences at E lectric Picnic earlier one of t he most popular seasonal things to six-hour coastal hike in an a rea of C onnemara this year.

Also features aDJ set from Kelly do w ith family and friends.

And, many of known locally as L etter Hill.

Over the Anne Byrne.

From 9pm -€22.90 ticketmaster.ie the ice rinks remain open into January. following three days and each following (over-18s only).

Sunday insuitable January, there are more strenuous Clockwise from top: Christmas Day swim attheForty Foot, Sandycove, Dublin; thePeople's Procession ofLight inDublin on Cork hikes for experienced hikers.

Day Big Brunch inMeeting New Year's Eve; theWren Boys festival inSandymount, Dublin; awinter walk near Poolbeg, Dublin; members ofFossett’s CircusNewYear’s Cork onIce These guided walks can b e c ancelled at photographs: Frank Miller.

Liam M cBurney/PA Wire, Eric L uke, Cyril Byrne House Square, Temple Bar iceskating attheRDS, Dublin, This popular ice rink isbfor ack in the Mahon short notice toweather oriinnadequate This event brings song Point Shopping Centre an extended numbers sodue it’s best tocheck onwalkconnemara.com. and dcommunity ance to the hNew eart ofTmusic, emple Bar. run.

Various times until January 26th Time to hang those Year’s resolutions € 15/€ adults; 13 € 14/€ children 12 peak/off on t he resolution tree and join people ofall peak, 021-4217641; www.corkonice.com. ages in an o ptimistic start to 2015.

There Sea swimming Dublin will beplenty of food stalls and children’s If yplenty ou’re ayear-round sea swimmer, Dundrum onIce entertainment -llam-5.30pm on January are ofodips) pportunities to join inthere open 1st.

Now in itsfifth year, the ice rink inthe Dundrum sea swims (or over the holidays.

Most Town Centre is a n e nergetic alternative regular sea swimmers know where to go NewYear’s Eve Gala Concert at to shopping -€ 14/€ adults; 12 € 13/€ 11 but ifyobvious ou’re holidaying in an a rea, it i sn’t always Christchurch Cathedral children peak/off peak until January 11th, where the lreezing ocal swimmers The Dublin Gospel Choir will lead the singing, 01-5242101; www.dundrumonice.ie. take their dip inthe fegular waters which isfollowed by apost-performance around our coastline.

Ifrthe swimmers I-Skate On Ice atthe RDS champagne reception before the aren’t in the w ater on d ay, don’t go countdown to midnight -Christchurch Cathedral, Part of w hat’s billed as I reland’s biggest there.

Dec 31st from 8.30pm.

Cost € 50 Christmas experience atthe Winter In Cork, there are plenty ofswims atscenic entertainment.ie.

Funderland, this rink draws big crowds to spots along the coast.

There is a midday partake and watch, RDS, Simmonscourt, swim on Christmas Day on Garryvoe Spoken Word Festival Ballsbridge, until January 11th -€ 15/€ 13 Beach (just off the road from Ladysbridge Threading through various cafes and outdoor adults; €beside 14/€ children 12 peak/offpeak. toShanagarry). spaces onDfeast. ecember 30th and 31st is And, right the ice skating are allthe Other midday inCork on Christmas this lively literary Featuring emerging funfair rides which are open from noon to Day are oswims nBallycroneen Beach (a 10pm talents in poetry and the s poken word during school holidays.

Admission is small rocky beach near the v illage of alongside our best loved poets, debaters €2with rides priced individually, www.winterfunderland.ie.

Cloyne) Robert’s Cove (near Minane and provocateurs.

Itincludes ‘Soundings Bridge, Carrigaline) and Myrtleville, near Holy Trinity’ Dylan Haskins and Lisa Crosshaven, (where swimming begins at Swords onIce Hannigan atwith CTom ity Assembly House; “food 10am). poetry” with M cCarthy atD ublin Opposite the Wrights Cafe, behind the Pavilion Sea swimmers will also swim in Kinsale Woollen Mills; Leviathan with David Shopping Centre, this ice r ink is from the m arina to the s lipway at 1 .15pm McWilliams at the BSweeny’s utton Factory; Lingo: back this year -€ 14/€ adults; 12€13/€ 11 on Cand hristmas Day inaid oK fat1insale Lions Poets vs R apper in on Dame children peak/off peak until January 4th, Club, at B altimore Pier n 2 oon in Lane; and the NYF Dublin Poetry Slam.

01-5242322; www.swordsonice.ie. aid oPool. ftheBaltimore Community Swimming First Fortnight Festival Galway InDublin, the Clontarf Yacht and Boat The aim i s “ challenging mental health prejudice Galway City On Ice on D ock Road runs until Club is hosting aChristmas Day swim at through creative arts” and pin rogramme January 4th -€14/€ adults; 12€13/€11 12.30pm inaid o(cybc.ie). tfhe Royal National Lifeboat from January lst-14th isbthe road children peak/offpeak, 091-394504; Institution itsreach.

Starting with‘Trailblaze: Resolution’, www.galwaycityonice.ie.

In Galway, Voices for Down Syndrome a90-minute conversation with people Galway speech and language therapy project who have faced challenge and adversity has organised sea swim onLouth in their lives, takes place Christchurch Dundalk on Ice isback again in Market Christmas at1acharity 1am atBlackrock, Sal thill.

Cathedral, Dublin, at7in pm onNew Square but with abigger ice rink.

Until January SeevDay oicesforgalway.org orcall Year’s Day. Itcontinues through to 4th € 12 a dults/ € 10 c hildren, 087-6448277.

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Bridal; leading wedding venues Ashford Castle, Lough Eske Castle and The K Club and experts in the finishing touches such as Posh Fizz Hens, Amazing Cakes and Peppermint Wedding Photography.

Someone will also win a €25,000wedding at the show, which runs from 11am today until 6pm, or from noon tomorrow until 6pm.

One of the men who set the sound for modern soul music is playing in Dublin’s Sugar Club tomorrow night.

Booker T Jones, whose hits include Green Onions, Hang ‘Em High, Time Is Tight, and Melting Pot is also a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a Musicians Hall of Fame inductee and GRAMMYLifetime Achievement Award recipient. Sound the Cinema buffs Alarm, the new album from Booker T, finds the Hammond B3 organ master creating distinctive bedrock grooves amid a succession The Triskel Cinema in Cork is giving you a chance to of sparkling collaborations with some of contemporary catch up with two classics'this Wednesday. At 6pm it is R&B’smost gifted young voices. The gig starts at 7.30pm and showing Frank, a musical genius who hides himself inside a tickets cots €33. large fake head, starring Micheal Fassbender. It’s part of its First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival. Later that night at Wedding Fever 8.30pm it will be showing Withnail & I starring Richard E Variety, glamour and the wedding wow factor will all Grant and tells the tale of two struggling, unemployed actors be unveiled at The Wedding Journal Show this weekend who decide some respite is in order and head for a week to the at the Citywest complex in Dublin.

Lake District - one that will involve rain, booze, minimal The Wedding Journal Show brings more than 300exhibitors supplies, a randy bull and an even randier Uncle Monty. together under one roof, making planning your wedding easy Pjt Project At pp, y y4 Art and stress-free. Reception venues, wedding cake suppliers, wedding flowers, stationery, wedding cars, wedding dresses, This Wednesday the Cork Arts Theatre Youth Project accessories, grooms wear, wedding entertainment and much presents Columbinus, a play drawn from the interviews more will all be there at the country’s largest wedding showcase. with the survivors of the Columbine High School tragedy where two young men armed with almost 50homemade Attracting all the biggest names and leading wedding suppliers,bombs, four guns and seven knives set out to massacre their exhibitors at the spring show included chic bridal boutiques friends and teachers.

Robelle Bridal, Smart Brides, Edel Tuite and Ciara Rose The Irish premiere of the play which attempts to probe the

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psychological warfare of alienation, hostility and social pressure in high schools across America and asks the question, how many of those who died at Columbine were victims?

Tickets from €10 and the play is suitabel for over-13s. Show starts at 8pm. info@corkartstheatre.com

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Botanical gardens

Next Saturday the National Botanical Gardens of Ireland will host a children’s workshop on budding artists for four to seven-year-olds. It is a creative workshop for children under the watchful eye of artist Niamh Synnott, where they are encouraged to take a closer look at the natural world around them. It runs from 11to 12.30pmat the Education and Visitor Centre and it costs €10. Booking is essential on 01 8570909or botanticgardens@opw.ie

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Nothing says new year like a new skill and craft shop Vibes and Scribes is helping people make a resolution they will want to keep using again and again.

The fabric, wool and craft supply shop on Bridge Street in Cork is offering free beginner sewing demonstrations that will not only help you sew on that errant button but may perhaps see your more creative side unleashed.

Classes start next Saturday, and again on the 24th and 31st from 10am. You can register online @shop.vibesandscribes.ie or enquire in store.

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New Year’s Eve has become t three-day festival fandango in Dublin this year, so here are my pick of the daily highlights. On December 30, visit the Food Village beside City Hall. And then, at 6pm, check out Soundings: Holy Trinity in City Assembly House. Hosted by Lisa Hannigan and Dylan Haskins, this event will feature lots of special guests, including Fr Peter McVerry, Aine Lawlor, Panti and live music from Bell Xl’s Paul Noonan.

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New Year’s Eve itself is obviously the big highlight. So start with Leviathan in the Button Factory at 7pm, with host David McWilliams joined by the likes of Robert Fisk and Constantin Gurdgiev. And then the biggie is the Three Countdown Concert at College Green, with headliners Kodaline and James Vincent McMorrow. Be warned, though, this is a ticketed event and tickets are €25.40 + booking fee. The bells at Christchurch are free.

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of us like to remain in a zone of silence on New Year’s Day,but January 1 is being rebranded Resolution Day. Start the year as you hope to carry on with a fun run at noon. The other big highlight is Trailblazers event as part of First Fortnight at 7pm in Christchurch Cathedral, participants including Dylan Tighe, Eleanor Tiernan and psychiatrist Ivor Browne. Information for all events at nyfdublin.com.

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west meets Japanese Butoh The very important First in one of the most anarchistic Fortnight Festival continues showsyou’llsee in some time. this week, doing its very best TheDevil’sSpine Band (left) is to challenge mental-health stigmas inspired by OscarWilde’slecture and open conversations. Tonight is tour to the mining town of Leadville its annual Button Factory jamboree.

Coloradoin 1881and they combine The most impressive line-up includes Butoh dance with musicby Trevor WeCut Corners, Booka Brass Band, Knight and Ed Deane and backdrops I HaveA Tribe and State Lights. firstfortnight.ie

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And there is another interesting musical collaboration this month, with A Woman’sHeart star Maura O’Connelljoining forces with folk-singingstar Karan Casey for a nationwide tour. The ladies will be joined by accordionist Martin Tourish and guitarist Ed Boydand they will be on the road from January 14to 25.musicnetwork.ie

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Tomorrow, Milk and Cookies makes its return to the First Fortnight festival.

The free event will take place in the Irish Writers W Centre on Parnell Square. This is the second year that the event has run and the theme of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event is With a Little Help From My Friends.

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Supporting good mental health in 2015 PICTURED in Temple Bar at the launch of the First Fortnight mental health arts festival are musician Conall 6 Breachain of We Cut Corners; actress and musician Tara Lee of The Fall; comedian Eleanor Tiernan; and the character ʻFrankʼ from the movie of the same name. The First Fortnight festival aims to challenge mental health stigma and will run in Dublin and various venues nationwide throughout January. Other artists taking part include Bronagh Gallagher, Vivienne Long, Kevin Nolan and The Lost Brothers. See www.firstfortnight.ie PHOTO: Conor McCabe Photography

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Supporting good mental health in 2015 PICTURED in Temple Bar at the launch of the First Fortnight mental health arts festival are musician Conall 6 Breachain of We Cut Corners; actress and musician Tara Lee of The Fall; comedian Eleanor Tiernan; and the character ʻFrankʼ from the movie of the same name. The First Fortnight festival aims to challenge mental health stigma and will run in Dublin and various venues nationwide throughout January. Other artists taking part include Bronagh Gallagher, Vivienne Long, Kevin Nolan and The Lost Brothers. See www.firstfortnight.ie PHOTO: Conor McCabe Photography

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The future’s here andthere isn’t ahoverboard insight SO,

what was I saying again (before the new year rudely interrupted us)? Something about cheese? Or the future, maybe, and how I liked it (the future I mean... and cheese too?)

It’salready lost in the rapidly dimming haze of the very recent past. 2014. Which was, of course, the present then. Back when 2015 the present present - was the future. I need a lie down.

But, yes, the future! 2015!It’s here! And it’s been, thus far, a bitter bloody disappointment.

One that looks, sounds and smells exactly like the present. We were promised so much more.

Hoverboads and self-tying shoelaces.

Robotic dog-walkers and flying cars (and, less impressively,fax machines in every room).

And who promised us this (you’reprobably not asking)? Why none other than that master of deceit Michael J Fox...kind of.

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Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox in Back To

For,you see, we’vefinally arrived in the “future’ to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown zipped forward (via flying DeLorean) in Back to the The Future Future Part II. Leaving behind 1985 (their present) to meddle in the affairs ofa kooky2015 (our present). Except, of course, the film was actually made in 1989...which simultaneously makes (made?) 1985 their present and their Ft. I past, or something. My head hurts.

Why am I mentioning all this? Can’tremember.

No,wait. There’sa reason, or two. Sunday’s Dave Fanning Show and Friday’sMoncrieff, to didn’t really answer (understandably).

Being (to possibly, coin a word) an ‘infrequenter’ be precise, both of which devoted time (appropriately Anyway, it isn’t now. It’s still, believe it or of trendy bars and/or clubs, I’ve no enough) to the accuracy, or otherwise, not, in the future (which is really the first place easy way of knowing if this is true or not. of the film’sfuture predictions.

Meanwhile, on Moncrieff (well actually two you should look). Plus, come October 21of this Brian Lloyd - Fanning’sguest - credited the film with anticipating the return to fashion days previously, stay with me) Henry McKean year - the day when Marty and the Docarrived prominence of “high-top runners” (or “boot was vox-poppingDublin’spopulaceon the (Back in the future/present - we might well be neck to the) future that never was. Contributions ran deep in hoverboards and flying cars. tackies” as we called 'em). As futurist prognostication To the point where we’re tormenting Joe goes, this was/is a little on the the gamut from "Wasn’tthe past gas?”to, well, “Wasn’tthe past gas?”

Duffy about how they’ve become ubiquitous underwhelming side.

Video recorders! Walkmans (Walkmen?)! public nuisances. The future is gas. Amorphous.

Lloyd also credited the film (specifically its ‘Cafe 80s’ scene) with foreseeing the rise of Public phone booths! The Golden Pages! You never can tell.

The litany of past ‘gas’ things dribbled on Speaking of which, the most authentically “retro culture”.

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Nolan’s Classic Drive). If you’dtuned in even fractionally late to this report on (comedian) Eleanor Tieman’s “National Therapy Project to help Ireland through its current trauma” (as host Luke Clancy put it), you may well have ended up semi-convinced (or more than that) that the whole thing was bona fide.

Clancy’sintro, however,rather gavethe game away when he described Tiernan as someone who “specialises in comedy with a pan so dead you might feel inclined to administer CPR.” And how!

POTATO “Why does Ireland need therapy? Aren’t we grand? Takea moment to consider the potato,” drolled Tiernan, in a tone so deliciously far beyond deadpan it was practically mummified.

By the time she was telling us about being contacted by the “National Identity Management Agency” who asked her to set up this “citizen improvement scheme” (designed to cure participants of the “twisted problems that we have in the Irish psyche”), I was almost beginning to doubt the joke.

But a joke’ it was, or a joke’ taster for Tiernan’s upcoming shows at the First Fortnight mental health arts festival.And, more than that, it was a brilliant/hilarious skewering of (among other things): the self-help industry; “weknow what’s good for you” governance; and dreary, boil-in-the-bag

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Radio moment of the year so far. What the future holds, we’ll see.

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There, running against NewYear athletes of far weightier reputations, he finished a resolutions are respectable eighth - clocking broken after 24 a particularly quick 56 hours. The first of seconds for his last lap. mine was broken on the day “Ah,you’re the boywith the itself. Because with cosmic fast finish,” AdolfHitler said irony the film Unbroken to him, via a German translator, makes for such shatteringly after seeking out Zamperini. thirsty viewingthere was no This scene doesn’t actually chance ofspending the month appear in the film,although on the dry. Few people will Zamperini recounted it, in his walk awaywithout the original biography, DevilAt immediate need for a drink.

MyHeels,published in 1956.

Clockingin at a carefully He also told it to Laura paced two hours and 17 Hillebrand, who spent eight minutes, Unbrokenmay qualifyas a cinematic marathon years working on the book Unbroken,which then spent but it’smore of a sprint, another 180weeks on the New racing, as it were, through the YorkTimesbest seller list, early life of Louis Zamperini, after it was published in 2010. who by now should need little introduction. Born in New Deft collaboration York,to Italian parents, he grew up in Torrance, California, The onlysurprising thing about the film- released here where he fast became an and in the US over Christmas American running prodigy.

- is that it took so long: Atjust 19,having already Universal Pictures acquired run a world high school mile the rights in 1956,and actors record of 4:21.2,Zamperini qualified for the 1936Olympics from Tony Curtis to Nicholas Cagewere at times associated in Berlin, in the 5,000m. with the Zamperini role.

Thii Instead, some 57 years later, it took Angelina Jolie to bring it to the big screen, and thanks to some deft collaboration with the Coen brothers, amongst others, she’s done a respectable job.

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respectable job.

That’s because the Zamperini story soon turns from one of an Olympicrunner into something beyond imaginable.

Fiveyears after competing in Berlin, he’s fighting in the second World War. In May1943,stationed at Kualoa in Hawaii, he’s sent on a search-and-rescue mission, onlyhis own already beaten B-42also crashes, somewhere deep in the Pacific,about 850 miles south of Oahu.

Without spoiling the rest of the story, Zamperini (played

by British actor Jack O’Connell) then survives 47 days drifting in his liferaft, along with pilot Russell ‘Phil’ Phillips (played by our own Domhnall Gleeson).

One other survivor is broken by the thirst and starvation, yet Zamperini and Phillips somehow manage to stay alivelong enough to be pickedupbytheJapanese, after drifting into the Marshall Islands.

That’s onlythe beginning of his ordeal: singled out for being an Olympicathlete - his “number one prisoner” - by the perverse Japanese officer Mutsuhiro ‘the Bird’Watanbe, Zamperini endures a range of cruel and unusual punishments at the POW camp, such as being punched repeatedly in the face by each one ofhis fellowinmates until night falls, or raising a railway sleeper over his head with the threat ofimmediate death should he let it drop.

“IfI can take it I can make it,” Zamperini saysto himself, at various points throughout the film, as a runner first and then a prisoner; or else

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something like “a moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory”.What Unbroken makes no effort to disguise is the notion that his ultimate survivalis at least partly attributable to the same mental and physical endurance that made him an Olympicathlete - or the notion all proper athletes have this extra shield of strength and self-belief, wouldn’t dare wilt in public, no matter how great the pressure.

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Exacting revenge

Zamperini certainly survived, livingto the brilliantly ripe old age of 97, before his death last July. Although he wasn’t entirely unbroken: foryears after his release he was tormented by thoughts of exacting revenge on his captors, briefly spiralling into alcoholism, before re-emerging as a Christian inspirational speaker, inspired by Billy Graham.

This part of his lifeis only flirted with in the closing credits of Unbroken,and yet the struggle and insecurity he felt after his survivalmay well be as rich a tale.

Indeed Zamperini always played down any influence his success as an athlete may have had on his survival, especiallyin his later years.

Part of that came from the realisation that plenty of other Olympicathletes were simply cut down in their prime, including Gunner Hockart from Finland, who won the gold medal in that 5,000m in Berlin and four years later was killed in action on the Karelian Isthmus, on the old Russia-Finland border.

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Zamperini endures cruel punishment at the POW camp, such as being punched repeatedly in the face by each one of his fellow inmates until night falls, or raising a railway sleeper over his head with the threat of immediate death should he let it drop Stillthe perception remains that all proper athletes are unbreakable, both mentally and physically, particularly those in modern professional sport. Only recently is that perception being challenged, because otherwise the consequences can be tragic, and it’spossibly one of the most important themes of First Fortnight, the annual festival aimed at challenging mental health prejudice through the creative arts.

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Pressure to perform

Last year, in,the round table talk ‘OverThe Bar’,David Gillickspoke about how close he came to being broken by the pressure to perform on the international stage, as did Richard Sadlier, his former schoolmate at St Benildus in Ballinteer, who spoke about the challenges he faced when his soccer career was cut short by injury.

It’s a message that needs reiterating, and ‘OverThe Bar’returns next Tuesday, with a panel that includes Conor Cusack (former Cork hurler), Nora Stapleton (Irish women’s rugby player), and DavidCorkery (former Ireland rugby international).

The focuswon’tjust be on rugby, although clearly that’s one sport where the physical and mental pressure is near breaking point.

‘OverThe Bar’takes place at the Twisted Pepper on Dublin's MiddleAbbey Street next Tuesday at 8pm. See www.firstfortnight.ie

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Queen tribute act Flash Harry will perform at the Moat

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20 years, and have played the largest venues in Britain and Ireland, including three sell-out nights at Smash & Grab &The Seven the Odyssey Arena, Belfast. Agood Dwarves at the Moat Theatre The annual Brian Brady Youth Theatre night out is guaranteed for Freddy Mercury fans. Tickets are €20 and pantomime, which this year tells the tale of Snow White and the I the show starts at 8pm.

Seven Dwarves as only the unique ‘Smash & Grab' duo can, continues at the Moat Theatre in Naas all this week. The remaining shows are: Thursday, 7pm; Friday, 7pm Saturday7pmRiverbank Cinema presents Frank and Sunday 3pm.Tickets I Michael Fassbender’s starring turn are €10 or €35 for a family of four. encased inside a large fake head is the stand-out highlight of this Bookings can be made at the Moat I offbeat film, which was released to Theatre Box Office at www.moattheatre.com or 045 883030. critical acclaim last May.Domhnall Gleeson and Maggie Gyllenhall also star inthis movie, which focuses on ! an avant-garde pop band making . analbuminthewildsofthelrish | countryside. The screening is taking Family Cinema showing of place as part of First Fortnight Cinderella at the Riverbank Arts ! 2015, which aims to challenge Centre, Newbridge | mental health prejudice through There is a family cinema event at I creative arts. The screening starts the Riverbank on Saturday next, January 10,when the Disney classic | at 8pm and tickets are €8.

Cinderella willbe screened, starting at 2pm. Tickets are €3 and can be purchased at www.riverbank. ie or from the Box Office at 045 | A Shadow That Leans at the River!

448327. bank Arts Centre Also taking place as part of First Fortnight is AShadowThat Leans, which consists of five short dance Flash Harry-The Music of Queen works performed by dancers atthe Moat Theatre, Naas Karen Gleeson and Aisling Queen tribute band Flash Harry will O’Coineen. The performances are bring rock classics including Bohemian co-curated by Nick Bryson and Jeff Rhapsody, I Want ToBreak Wallace, who is a US-based dancer Free, A Kindof Magic and Radio and psychotherapist. The performances GaGa to the Moat Theatre in Naas will be followed by a discussion on Saturday week. The tribute act atthe end of the evening on the hasentertained audiences across mental health issues raised by the Ireland, Britain and America for works. Tickets are €12.

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THIS MONTH, WE RE EXCITED ABOUT Una Mullally’sbook, In the Name of Love (published by The H istory Press), an oral history of the movement for marriage equality in Ireland ... 74 is the New 24, the first album in over 30 years from electro music pioneer Giorgio Moroder, featuring turns from the likes of Sia, Britney and Kylie... Sky TV’s Icelandic thriller, Fortitude, starring Belfast’s very own Richard Dormer... The ever-essential First Fortnight, which challenges mental health prejudice via the creative arts - check out the programme atfirstfortnight.ie ... New Irish music from the likesof Calamity Gin, Jape, Twin Headed Wolf and Littlejohn Nee and his Caledonia Highly Strung Orchestra ...2015 in general, which is, amongst other things, the Year of Irish Design - checkout irishdesign2015.ie.

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HIGHLIGHTS

MOVIES — Eddie Redmayne gives a stellar performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, our now, see our FelicityJones interview on pl2.

— Starring Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, and Naomi Watts, Oscartipped black comedy Birdman also opened in Irish cinemas yesterday.

MUSIC — Van Morrison brings his Lit Up Inside show to the Lyric, Belfast for an intimate performance on Monday. A few tickets at £105 are still available.

— The 29th annual Phil Lynott tribute Vibe for Philo takes place in Vicar St., Dublin on Sunday.

Tickets (€30) from Ticketmaster.ie — Ireland’s mental health arts fesdval First Fortnight runs until January 17 and features performances from I Have a Tribe, We Cut Corners and more. See firstfortnightie ARTS — Brendan, Domhnall and Brian Gleeson star in Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce, which kicks off a three-week run in the Olympia next Saturday. Tickets €20 and €55 from Ticketmaster.ie FAMILY FUN — The Point Village on Ice (hockey players are pictured having fun on the rink) is still on in Dublin (at the end of red Luas line) until January 11. Sefi www.pointvillageonice.ie for j

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CLUB Sketchy

Limelight, Belfast 11pm £5/£4 limelightbelfast.com

When it comes to big nights out, this weekly carnival has been doing the business week in and week out for some years.

Helmed by BBC Radio Ulster's alternative/indie music maestro Rigsy (right) and stocked with a galaxy of guests, Sketchy is your one-stop shop when it comes to beats with bass, fun and the extra-large ooomph factor. Add in a blast of confetti cannons, giant balloon drops and Neon KoolAid and you're elected. JC INDIE Strange Brew

Roisin Dubh, Galway 11pm Adm free roisindubh.net

Since 2002, Gugaiʼs Strange Brew night out has worked off a simple notion: put on a host of Irish and international acts in one of the best live rooms in the land and then Lashout a bunch of past, present and future indie anthems until it's time to go home. The night works week in and week out so well that there's rarely need for a reboot, rebrand or gimmicks. JC

DISCO Toast

Lost Society, Dublin 11pm €7/€5

Two rooms of party flavours to get a head-start on the weekend. In the Party Shack, you've disco, funk and house music from DJs such as Mark Dillon, James Hannan and Manners, while it's deeper tech and house in the basement from a selector list that includes Conor Hanson, Ryan Healy and Emaleigh Kelly. What you put on your toast is up to you. JC NEW BAND FESTIVAL Whelanʼs Ones to Watch Whelan's & Opium Rooms Dublin 8pm €10/€5 whelanslive.com

Beginning today and ending on January 11th is the fifth year of Whelan's Ones to Watch Festival, a gathering of some 60 emerging bands that aim not only to impress, but do their best to stick around for this

ART Renew

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THURSDAY 08.01.15

Green on Red Gallery, Park Lane, Spencer Dock, Dublin Until Jan 31 greenonredgallery.com

North of the Spencer Dock Luas stop, Green on Red has reopened its doors with a busy group show, including colourful new works on metamorphoses

by Alice Maher; Gerard Byrneʼs photographs Kodak Wratten Filter Systems-,new paintings

by Mark Joyce; and "a delicately playful" sculpture by Niamh McCann. Plus Mary Fitzgerald, Caroline McCarthy, Ronan McCrea and Bridget Riley. AD

THEATRE My Name Is Saoirse

Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin Jan 8-10 8pm €12 firstfortnight.ie

You have to admire the light touch and vivid detail of Eva OʼConnor's latest solo performance (below) - others might have caved under the pressure of the story. Saoirse O'Brien grows up withouta mother in a protected Limerick childhood, where sex is learned from a friend and consequences, while serious, need not be destructive. O'Connor gives two excellent performances - as the gauche narratorand her complex pal Siobhan - but the deftness of herwriting is the real star. An involving and moving start to the First Fortnight Festival. PC

year and beyond. Expect acts to cover a wide range of styles, from folk to hip-hop, from indie to experimental. TCL

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WE CUT CORNERSSPEARHEAD FIRST FORTNIGHT INITIATIVE We Cut Corners' glorious version of Jona Lewie's 'StopThe Cavalry' gets an iTunes release on Decembers in aid of January's First Fortnight mental health arts festival.

A tribute to the World War One fallen, the tune has lost none of its poignance since originally hitting the chart in 1980. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It's our favourite Christmas song and since we frst played it live in Dick Mack's pub in Dingle duri ng Other Voicesa couple of years back, we've wanted to record it for Christmas," sayJohn and Conall. "When we were asked to be part of First Fortnight 2015,it seemed like the perfect time to go in and record the song."

The chaps also headline FF'sJanuary 10 gig in The Button Factory, with Booka Brass Band, I Have A Tribe and State Lights supporting.

Taking place across Dublin from January 1-17, other musical treats include Therapy Session gigs in the Workman's Club (20-9) featuring The Lost Brothers, Ollie Cole, Paddy Hanna and I Have ATribe; Hot Pressfave Kevin Nolan who's on Hootenany duties in St. Patrick's Hospital (3) and the Irish premiere of the Elliott Smith HeavenAdoresYoudocumentary in the IFI (10).

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CORK UCC Civil Engineering Building, room 110 (near College Rd entrance): Astronomy Lecture, Wecan but should we? Ethical limits to space exploration, by Peter

Household of CorkAstronomy Club (Mon,7.50m,free). Call 085-7082228.

DUBLIN Community Centre, Mount Merrion: Historical Society talk, Forgotten Monkstown, residents of international renown and the environment in which they lived, byTom

Conlon (today, 8pm, €4). Call 087-2627111.

Poolbeg Yacht & Boat Club, Ringsend: Extreme Wavesin Ireland-a special focus on the west coast of Ireland, winter of 2013/2014, public lecture by

Frederic Dias,Professor of Mathematics, UCD(today, 8pm, €5 inaid of RNLI).Call 087-2129614.

Griffith College, South Circular Rd: Whobecamean officer? Irish recruitment to the British armed forces, 1922-49, MilitaryHistory

Society lecture by DrSteven O'Connor (Fri,8pm, free). Call 0906-472420.

Sugar Club, Leeson St: The LoafingHeroes bring their Threshold tour, showcasing their new album, to the Sugar Clubwhere they'll be supported

by Fado-Trad fusion band Serandarand DJ Cat Noir(Fri, 8pm. €12.50 to €15). Call 087-9787357.

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(Wed,8 pm,€5). Call 01-2856414.

Iona Centre, Knocklyon: Women of the Irish Revolution,

illustrated talk by LizGillis, author ofthe book ofthe same name, with KnocklyonHistory Society (Weds,7.45pm, €4).

CalL087-6692507.

GALWAY

Harbour Hotel, Dock Rd: The Augustinian Priory of St Catherine in Aughrim, talk

with Galway Archaeological and Historical Society (Mon, 8pm, free). Call 086-3574294.

KILDARE

Riverbank Arts Centre, Main St, Newbridge: Michael

Maggie Gyllenehall, Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson star in Lenny Abrahamson's film Frank, which Fassbender, MaggieGyllenehalland tours various venues as part of First Fortnight mental Domhnal Gleeson star health awareness arts festival.

See Kildare inoffbeat comedy film, Frank,

about a wannabe musician (Wed,8pm, €8). Call 045-448327.

TIPPERARY

The Source Arts Centre Cathedral St Thurles: Gold,

unconventional filmabout love and the hilarity of everyday life (Wed,8pm, €9/€7). Call 0504-90204.

WICKLOW

Powerscourt Arms Hotel, Enniskerry Village: Loughlinstown Workhouse in the Famine Years, lecture by LiamClare,

with the Enniskerry History Society (today, 8.30pm. €4).

Call 01-2867853.

Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs: Wicklow Birds-part of our natural heritage, talk by

Youth Club Hall, 4a Belmont Ave, Donnybrook: Donnybrook EricDempsey (Tues, 8.30pm,

CeilfClub monthly Ceilf. €3). Call086-1226010.

Allwelcome (Sat, 8.30pm11.30pm, LISTINGsubmissions should €5). Call be entered online two weeks in 087-2855905.

Milltown Institute, Sandford advance of the event advertised Road, Ranelagh: Marriage (strictly one entry per Equality for Gays and Lesbians, week). Please follow the above talk followed bydiscussion style for entries and use this (Mon,7.30pm, donations). link:irishtimes.com/lifeand-style/what-s-on.

Photographs Call 086-6063636.

Kill O'The Grange Parish connected to the listed Centre, Kill Lane: The Lovely event can be sent as jpegs to Insects, Atalk by Peter Hillis whatson@irishtimes

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WHAT’S ONAROUND COUNTY KILDARE

Fortnight,ispleasedtohost three eventsas part ofFirst OnFridayJanuary16,My FortnightFestival2015.

BrotherJoe, the storyofJoe Whilehugeinroadshave Dolan(starringJoe’sbrother been achieved in breaking downbarriers and stigmas Ben),one ofIreland’sgreatest associatedwithmental entertainers, returns to health, it is still not part of TheMoat.

ThisisthestoryofJoeDolanthe mainstream conversation inwordsandmusicfrom around health and wellbeing. With the large his first hit in 1964,TheAnswer toEverything,through number of suicidesacross the 70swith hits such as I the country, this is something which needs to be Need Youand Sweet little Rock‘nRoller,the 80swith central.First Fortnightis a Moreand More,It’sYou,It’s charity-basedorganisation You,ItsYouandGoodbyeVenicewiththe expressaimofchallenging mentalhealth prejudice Goodbye, the90swithThe through the creative Universaland into the new century with 0 HolyNight. arts.

On Wednesday January Hitafterhit,rightthroughan 14,Riverbank Cinema amazingcareer,Joe’sbrother Bensharedthe stagewith willscreen Frank, a hilarious, his youngerbrother for 47 offbeatcomedyabout fun-filledyears. Whobetter a wannabe musician, Jon than Bento tell the stories(DomhnalGleeson),whoescapes hisboringnormallife behindJoe’ssongs,and highlight Joe’ssuccessful andjoinsanavant-gardepop singing career? The show bandledbyFrank(Michael also features Ben’sdaughter,Fassbender),a mysterious Sandra, sons Rayand musical genius who hides Adrianwith Karenand The himself inside a largefake Dolansand the originalJoe head. Criticallyacclaimed DolanBackingBand.Tickets upon its release last May, forthe showare€20andthe Frankposesa seriesofhard performancestarts at8pm. questionsaboutmentalillness.

MYBROTHERJOEATTHE MOATTHEATRE

OnThursday15thJanuary Riverbank presents A OnSaturdayJanuary 17, Shadowthat Leans,an exciting expansion of First foronenightonly,FlashHarry Fortnight Festivalinto the returns to the MoatTheatre, Naas,to recreate The art form ofdance, consisting of five short works in magicofQueen. the theatre. Therewillbe a Flash Harry has entertained discussionatthe endofthe audiencesacrossIreland, BritainandAmericafor eveningonthe issuesraised twentyyears includingsell bythe works.

Toround it off Eleanor outconcertsinTheOdyssey Tiernan brings National Arena,Belfast.

Whenit comesto a night TherapyProjectto the stage on Friday30th January.In ofrock definingentertainment, there is no better her words: “Poorlittle Ireland.

Troublehas beset our Queen tribute than Flash Harry.Partytoclassictracks misfortunate country in manyguisesovertheyears.... includingBohemianRhapsody, I WanttoBreakFree,A Vikings,famine, colonisation, religiousoppression,a KindofMagic,andRadioGa Ga-aguaranteedgreatnight litanyofsportingdefeatsand out.Ticketsare €20andthe nowa relentless stream of manufacturedbands“showcasing” showstarts at8pm.

Howwouldit be to FIRSTFORTNIGHT, heal these scars in a gentle CHALLENGING PERCEPTIONS healingceremonywithyour ATTHE RIVERBANK ARTS fellowcitizen?

CENTRE, NEWBRIDGE Tobookanyoftheevents RiverbankArts Centre, contact the box office on in conjunction with First 045448327.

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What’s on Something for the weekend First Fortnight Aidlideal tit An tonic to the new year blues, the First Fortnight creative arts festival returns for its third annual instalment across Dublin citythis January.

With the aim ofchallenging mental health prejudice at its core,the festivalbrings together an eclectic group of performers from a range of disciplines at exhibitions, plays, screenings, gigs and workshops throughout the capital.

Drawing symbolism from the surrounding venue, singer KevinNolan returns to St Patrick’s Hospital, where he spent some time as a patient, for a musical ‘Hootenanny’ on Saturday evening.

A journey of musical intrigue awaits those who attend tomorrow’s Co-Motion event in St Stephen’s Green. Patrons are encouraged prmiMidl to “bring an inquisitive mind” as they don a pair of earphones - complete with splitters - before teaming up with a stranger and sharing some songs that mean the most to them. Later in the day, ‘Slam Sunday’ will see 12 intrepid bards face off in a quick-firepoetry contest in Accents Cafeon Stephen St. firstfortnight.ie/whats-on

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“Certain people haveapredisposition FirstFortnight Festival andhereis tomentalillness —itcould thecrucial detail—hewrotemuchof begenetic, social, stress-related, many thisdebutalbumonthepianoinSt things.

Andonceyouhaveanykind Patrick’s whenhewasapatient there. ofbigbreakdown, youaresuddenly FirstFortnight (firstfortnight.ie) susceptible to it happening again, runsatthebeginning ofJanuary everysoyouhavetoworkonmaintaining year,atimewhenpeople’s spiritscan yourhealth. dropdramatically andeverything “Before thishappened, Iwould have appears bleaker thanitreally is.Itis experienced things,butit wouldn’t afestival packed withmusic, spokenhavebeenatbreaking pointanditwas word,dance, discussion, anditaims neverdiagnosed.

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Itishard through thecreative arts,totalkaboutevenformeto understand entirely itinanopen,unscripted manner. eventhough Ihavebeenthrough it.” someone elseisinthereplaying, you senseofselfandnowthatI havea this,” hesays.

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Where arts meet mental health

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ANTIDOTE to the January blues is First Fortnight, Ireland’s only arts festival that discusses mental health and its stigma. This year’s festival takes place in Dublin, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Wicklow, Kildare and Laois.

There will be screenings of Lenny Abrahamson’s film, Frank (about a talented musician who hides himself inside a large, fake head), in various venues, including Cork’s Triskel Christchurch

on January

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The festival was established in 2010

by David Keegan, whose background is in arts management, and by psychotherapist JP Swaine.

“We’re a good news story in January, challenging the social consciousness around mental health,” says Keegan.

“The festival uses the arts to raise mental-health issues. They can be difficult to talk about. It’s not a comfortable Eleanor Tiernan's 'National Therapy place to be, discussing how Project' is one of the pieces in the First you feel. But people are getting better at having that conversation.”

Fortnight programme.

The festival is partnered by Mental Health Reform, St Patrick’s Mental Health Services and See Change, the national mental-health stigma reduction partnership. The HSE is a new partner this year.

It is funding a piece of work called Patrick’s is not traditionally used for ‘Stories from the Front’, which will arts-based events. We’rereimagining be performed at Liberty Hall on the space, presenting events that deal January 14.It tells the stories of with mental illness and challenging people who have experienced mental stereotypes.” ill-health, as well as the testimonies One of the shows at St Patrick’s is of carers and mental-health Masks, which will be performed on professionals.

January 12.

Through recorded narrative and It’s a play by the Youth Empowerment dramatic enactments, the play is a Service and it advocates for reminder that kindness and understanding young people who are in hospital are powerful qualities in with mental-health issues. Masks, by challenging times. This interactive young people and for young people, piece encourages participation from deals with schizophrenia, OCDand the audience. eating disorders. The performers use At St Patrick’s Hospital, in Dublin, masks to emphasise that people don’t three events will be staged. “St

really know what goes on “behind the disguises we wear every day”. A panel discussion will follow the performance.

‘The National Therapy Project’, devised by Eleanor Tiernan, is a humorous piece that says it aims to correct defects in the Irish psyche.

“Weinvited it to be remounted, after it was on at the Dublin Fringe Festival, where it was sold out,” says Keegan.

“It’s about being a good citizen. It’s an interactive,

comically driven

piece, where the audience will lie down on yoga mats and look at projected images above them and will talk about how to be better people.”

My Name is Saoirse, the winner of the First Fortnight award at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2014,will be performed at Smock Alley Theatre.

Gamering rave reviews, it won the Emerging Artists of the Year Award, in 2012,at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Fringe Review described it as being “without flaw”.

It’s about a young girl who has to deal with the distress of going through a termination and the impact it has on her mental health, says Keegan.

He says that while the programme addresses mental-health issues, it is drawn up based on the quality of the work. “Ultimately, that’s why people go to see the festival.”

User Not Found is a play by Stefanie Preissner that looks at young people’s dependence on social media.

It will be performed at the Axis, in Ballymum, on January 13.

Keegan says that facing into the new year can be daunting for a lot of people. “Weprogramme for the start of the year, so that people can take away a positive message and carry that through.”

Colette Sheridan www.firstfortnight.com

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DAVE REID Contact: Tel. +35386 3117800.

E-mail: dave@choicemusicprize.com Twitter: @TheDaveReid Dave, a former member of the Hot Pressadvertising team, established the National Student Music

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Awards project in 2001.This event was won variously by Delorentos and Saviours of Space (now O Emperor). Dave also co-ordinated the release of the Irish Unsigned compilation featuring 16new acts, including The Answer.That same year he was appointed Ireland scout for Atlantic Records US, bringing Laura Iziborto the label in 2006. Reid co-founded the Choice Music Prize with Jim Carroll, an annual award that provides valuable promotional exposure for winning Irish artists, most recently Delorentos. He helped secure a record deal for the inaugural Choice winnerjulie Feeney with Sony Music. In 2006 he began working with Religion Music in A&-R,helping to secure a major deal for Lesley Roy.He remains involved with the label as a director of its sister publishing company Intellectual Property Rights Management (IPRM).He is also the music booker of the First Fortnight Music &-Arts Festival, a mental health awareness project that happens in the first two weeks of every year. Reid has a Masters in Marketing from The UCDMichael Smurfit School and is a consultant with Digital Weed. He works closely with Sat Bisla from A&R Worldwide and co-ordinated the‘Passport Approved’ Irish feature, aired on KCSN(LosAngeles) and on 17 other radio stations in six countries. In November, Choice Prize winners Villagers, Delorentos and Jape played special shows to celebrate the 10th

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CLAIRE AIKEN

Contact:AikenPR Tel.+442890663000 E-mail:claire(S)aikenpr.com ClaireAiken- sisterof PeterAikenanddaughter of the lateJimAiken-set up herown PRcompany in 1993.It hasgoneonto becomeoneof the main playersin the NorthernIrelandpublicity game;in 2008,ClaireearnedaSilverAwardin the OutstandingPRConsultancycategoryof the UK-basedCIPRPrideAwards.Alongwith a broad rangeof blue-chipcompanies,shelooksafter Aiken Promotionsand HMVin the North,the Arts Councilof NorthernIreland,the Northern Ireland Tourist BoardandcelebrityBelfastchefPaulRankin.

Claireranthe NewYorkmarathonin aid of the BelfastCity HospitalRenalFund,andwasinvolved in the stagingof LandOf Giants,the outdoorarts eventstagedontheTitanic slipwaysaspart ofthe Olympic-celebratingLondon2012Festival.Shealso handledthe Peace OneDay:GlobalTruce2012gig in Derry.Workingalongsideherat AikenPRareLynn Sheridan,LouiseCarson,ShaneFinnegan,Patrick Finlay,CarolineMurphy,KatrinaFrazer,Simon Tiernanand FinolaGuinnane.

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Contact:UniversalMusic Tel.+353014022600.

E-mail:laura.allenjS umusic.com Allen,neeCoffey,is Headof Artist &Media Relationsat UniversalMusic Irelandandlooks after a rosterof actsthat includes LanaDelRey.Take That,BenHoward, TaylorSwift andThe RiptideMovement whoseGettingThrough albumshehelpedguide to N0.1in 2014.With an Irish contingentthatalso includes HudsonTaylor,RainyBoySleep,The Coronas,ImeldaMay,DelorentosandcurrentThe VoiceOf Irelandwinner BrendanMcCahey, the label hasinvestedheavilyin the domesticmusicscene.

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WarnerMusicIrelandwherePaoloNutini and MichaelBublewereamongherbig namecharges.

Aftera spellin Australia,shereturnedto Dublinand landedherpresentgig with Universalwhereher responsibilitiesincludePolydorUK,Interscopeand UMGNashvilleartist campaigns.Lauratook a rare fortnight off in 2013to wedHotPress-er KenAllen who managesJape,NeonWolfandJamesVincent McMorrow.

KATIE BRADY

Contact:Dara/DolphinMusicGroup Tel.+35314781891 E-mail:shopiSdolphin-dara.ie Bradyenteredthe world of musicPRin the '80swith MaryBlackasherfirst major project.

Black,who publishedherDownTheCrooked Road autobiographyin 2014,wasbackin the charts with the accompanyingGreatestHits album,The Soundtrack.

Katiehasalsoworkedwith Frances Black,MicheleAnnKelly,TommyFleming,Robert Mizzell,the impressiveDaraRecordscatalogue, which includessixtitles bythe late EvaCassidy,and AWoman's Heart.Alongwith sevensell-outsin the OlympiaTheatrefeaturing EleanorMcEvoy,Dolores Keane,HermioneHennessy, SharonShannon,Mary Coughlan,GemmaHayes,WallisBird and MauraO'Connell,the last on the list got a September 2012re-releasewith the McEvoy-penned 'The SecretOf Living' docking up serious airplayasthe lead single.

causeda major stir in 2009whenthey merged with Direction@JWT to form a newsuper-agency, BespokeWith Direction.Theybecomeevenmore superin 2014when theyjoined forceswith The CorporateReputations,makingthem part of the DDFH&BGroup.Sarahhandlesthe BacardiIreland accountandoverthecourseof20i4directed the PR agendafor Bacardi'smusicfestivalsponsorshipsof Indiependence,CasaBacardiat ElectricPicnicand Longtitude.

LORAINNEBOSHELL

Contact:MissionPR Tel. +35316750694 E-mail:lorraineffflmissionpr.ie Thenew addition to the Mission team, Boshell previouslydid work experiencein Warner Music Irelandwhile completing an Arts DegreeatTrinity College.Well and truly bitten by the industry bug,shethen studied Music Managementat BallyfermotCollegeof Further Education.Joining Mission PR'sbusyoffice in 2013,she'sassistedon campaignsfor acts suchas Hozier,Walking On Cars,RyanSheridanandVANNMusic,and for such high-profile eventsas SeaSessions,YouBloom@ Dublin and ClonmelJunction Festival.She'salso worked in a production capacity overthe yearsat Oxegen,First Fortnight, NYEDublin,Arthur's Day and many more.

ELAINE BYRNE

Contact:PODConcerts Tel.+353l 4735576 E-mail:elaine(g)pod.ie

ThePODOrganisationremainsat the heartof the livemusicbusinessin Ireland,with their showpiece eventForbiddenFruitatthe RoyalHospital Contact:The KilmainhamwhereTheFlamingLips,BellXi and Reputation 2ManyDJs wereamongthe2d4 headliners.That'll Agency Tel.+3531661 bejoined in 2015bya seriesof big showson the LissadellHouseEstateoverlookingSligoBay. 8915/+35386823 Inaddition to this, they'vealsorecentlybrought 8229 E-mail:sarah(8) the likesof SunKill Moon,BigDishGo,Mr.Scruff, thereputationsagency. BunnyWailerandFlyingLotusto TheButton Factory.

Helpingto mastermindpresscoveragefor all this activity is Byrne,aTrinity CollegeEuropeanStudies Agraduateof the Dublin Business graduatewho joinedTeamPODin 2006and is Schoolanda memberofthe PRII,Brewerwas renownedfor keepingcalmunderfestivalfire! previouslyMarketing& PRManagerfor GM Publicity,whereshedrummedupcolumninches REBECCA BURRELL SEE OPPOSITE PAGE for the singingpriest,LiamLawton,who scored two top 10hits here.Spellsat MCD,HQ,the St. SANORABYRNE Patrick'sFestivaland BanksLoveall addedto Contact:RTEPressOffice Sarah'sexperience.Shemovedto Bespokewho Tel.+35312082506

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WHO'S WHO E-mail:sandra.byrne@rte.ie Byrnehailsfrom Dublinwhere shestudied German& Sociologyat UCD,and then went on to do a postgrad in PublicRelationswith the Fitzwilliam Institute. Shejoined the RT£RadioPressOffice in 2003,where shelooksafter publicityfor Radio1and 2fm whosescheduleunderwent a major overhaulin 2014at the handsof newstation chief DanHealy.

Oneof the big successstorieswas the lunchtime pairing of former Westlifeman Nicky Byrneand JennyGreene,whose plastering over every publication imaginable istestamentto Sandra's skills.2015will seeher busypublicising RayDarcy's return to the RT£radio fold.

KERRYANN CONWAY

SuzanneVegaand Royksopp.Their Irish roster includesEleanorMcEvoy,ConorHamilton,John Spillane,KatieO'Connorand Aslanamongtheir current priorities. Businesshasbecomeso brisk that she'saddedtwo new members,AdamHiggins and DwayneWoods,to the team and openeda secondoffice in Londonto liaisewith clients there.

Alongwith PRand marketing duties, sherunsthe Irish division of PureSync,a music synchronisation publishing companywho'veworked with everyone from Endemoland ESPNto M&CSaatchiand Lexus.

Shetook two months off at the end of 2014to work on a book.

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DEIRDRE CROOKES

Contact:LHP Tel.+35314970313/ +353872210550 E-mail:deirdre@lhpublicity.ie

Contact:ConwayCommunications Tel:017071704/ +35386 8215246 E-mail:kerryann@conwaycommunications.ie Joining the LHPteam in 2000, Deirdredoesthe lion's EstablishingConwayCommunicationsin 2006, Kerryann'sportfolio of clients indudes Body& Soul, Culture Night and Big HouseFestival.Shealso looksafter ABSOLUT Vodkawho'vea proud record of sponsoringarts events.Nigel Goggin,Caoimhe Butler,HeleneDuffyand GrainneNi Chuinncomplete the line-up in what isalwaysa busyoffice.

DINO CAFOLLA

Contact:Limelight Tel. +44(0)7885801683 E-mail:dino@limelightbelfast.com Formerlyan eventmanagerat CDCLeisure,Cafolla handlespublicity for BelfastʼsLimelight seriesof venues,which in addition to the Limelight i and 2 include KatyDaly'sand its RockGardenterrace.Dino alsolooksafter someof the gigsat the Odysseyand Ulster Hall,with PrimalScream,Bastille.TomOdell, Chic,QueensOfTheStoneAgeand Noel Fielding among his big sellouts.Hedevoteswhatevertime he hasleft to participating in extremesports events!

OLIVIA CHAU

Contact:CobblestoneJoe's Tel:+353863501232 E-mail:livcha68@gmail.com

shareof the publicity for RTE'sTheVoiceOf Ireland, which was won in 2014byCavan'sBrendanMcCahey.

You'llalsofind her getting wellie-d upwith her colleaguesfor outdoor eventslike ElectricPicnic, which totally sold-out again in 2014.LHPwere also in the thick of the PRaction as U2launchedtheir SongsOflnnocencealbum, with Crookesand her colleaguesin for a verybusy2015asthe bandembark on another marathon roadtrip, which will includea Dublin stop-off towards the endof the year.

BERNIE OIVILLY

Contact:DominoRecords Tel.+4420 88751390 E-mail:enquiries@dominorecordco.com HavingspentthreeyearsasHeadof Pressfor [PIAS] Ireland,Berniedecampedto Londonin20i2to handlemarketingand PRfor the Dominoroster of acts,which includesArctic Monkeys,Franz Ferdinand,Austra,DanDeacon,TheBohicasandDun Laoghaire'sveryownViHagerswho scoredtheir UK top 20 breakthroughin 2014with the ChoiceMusic Prize-winning{Awaylandj.

An NUIGArtsgraduate, Divilly movedfrom hernative Galwayto Dublinto undertakea Mastersin PublicRelationsat DIT.She was subsequentlytaken on by HotPress to work on the Yearbook,and started in PRwith Entertainment Architects,working closelywith the likesof Duke Specialand Fight LikeApes.

A well-known and highly-respectedfaceon the Limerickmusicscene,Chauteamed up in 2010 with Ali Dalyto launch Flip ItTV,a vibeyYouTube JAMES ELMS Contact:SkyIreland channelthat was an earlychampion of those local ladsnow doneverygood,the Rubberbandits.Since Tel.+35386 4528406 then she'sdeejayedon local internet station XlrRadio.runE-mail:james.elms@bskyb.com herown club nights, set upthe excellent Elmswent to university in both Newcastleand his dontkillthebeat-xlr.tumblr.com and pennedarticles native Birmingham beforelanding a promotions for Fusionmagazine.Havingpromoted her own gig with Sky,which brought him to their Dublin club nights, Olivia was an obviouschoicewhen office in 2013.Oneof hisfirst taskswas breakingthe CobblestoneJoe'swent looking fora new bookerand very good newsthat Dublin'sRoughMagicTheatre PRperson.Extensivelyrefurbishedin 2014,the Ellen Companyhad beenawardeda €230,000SkyArts Streetvenuehasbecomea real must-playfor both Ignition grant. A busy2014includedthe launch localacts,and suchout of town visitors as Gangs, campaignfor Sky'sGAAcoverage,their sponsorship who headlineda GuinnessAmplify bashthere. of the CatsLaughsComedyFestivalin Kilkennyand showsrangingfrom PennyDreadfulandMooneBoy LINDA COOGAN-BYRNE to new Nordic Noir Fortitudeand BazandNancy Contact:GoodSeedPR Ashmawy'sbrilliant soWaysToKillYourMammy.

Tel.+35316813496/ +353851659065

E-mail:linda@goodseedpr.com

Coogan-Byrneoriginally trained asa luthier, specialisingin renaissanceinstruments and the designand construction of harps.Decidingshe wanted to go into publicity, shestudiedArts & Marketing at DCUand on graduating launched GoodSeed,whose roster includessuchinternational heavy-hittersasMarilyn Manson,AdamCohen,

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CLAIRE FLYNN

Contact:MCD Tel.+35312146734/+353879019816 E-mail:claireflynn@mcd.ie Flynnstudied Psychologyand Sociology-both useful tools for working in the music industry! - at UCD beforejoining Spin103.8asa weekendpresenter.

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It was a giventhat Burrellwould go into the publicity game- initially working alongside her mother Patricia,who was one of the leading lights of Irish fashion PR.Sheformed BurrellMarketing and Publicity,andunder that umbrellahasbuilt upan impressive portfolio of major clients, including boohoo. com, Pepe,Olay,Clairol,HugoBoss,Hackett, Power'sWhiskeyand,of course,Jameson, whose involvementin film and music Burrell hashandledwith great elan.TheJameson Dublin International FilmFestival celebrateditsioth birthday in 2012,with Al Pacino,GlennClose and MarkWahlbergamong the Hollywood A-Listerswho jetted in for the celebrations.

In August2013,Rebeccaand the team got to work on DylanFest,the Jameson-sponsored celebrationof His Bobnessthat brought among othersTheStrokesʼNickValensiand Albert HammondJr.to the DublinAcademy.Therewas morewhisky businessto betaken careof on St. Patrick'sDay2014whenWhite Liesperformed an acousticgig in the OldJamesonDistillery.

On a personallevel,Rebeccagot to makea charity parachutejump with Mr.World,Kamal Ibrahim-a tough job but, hey,she'sa pro!

Currentlyassisting her in getting maximum exposurefor Burrellclients areSarahSnell, LouiseMcDermott and RebeccaLawless.

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Nowa full-time publicistwith MCD,she'slooked aftera diverserangeof showsincludingCalexico, TheScript,BenHoward,SpandauBalletandThe Chippendales.Noprizesfor guessingwhich of those sheenjoyedthe most!

ANNE-LOUISE FOLEY

Contact:RTEPressOffice.

Tel.+35312083298/ +353851288911 E-mail:annelouise.foley@rte.ie Graduatingin 2001from DublinCityUniversitywith aJournalismdegree,Foleyspenttwo yearsworking asanonlinewriter for RTEiebeforegoingoff to Australiawhereshewrotefor the IrishEcho.Returning home,shefreelancedfor the IrishIndependent and presenteda showfono3.2 DublinCityFMbefore rejoiningthe RTEpressoffice,whereshe'slookedafter the publicityfor OtherVoices, HardyBucks, Triviaand For OneNightOnly,which hasincludedTheSawDoctors, SineadO'Connor,SharonShannonand FinbarFurey amongits musicalsubjects.

AILEEN GALVIN

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TheseincludeTowerRecords,The Workman'sClub, TheClarenceHotel,BisonBar6-BBQ,Vintage CocktailClub,EverleighGardens,MadisonNightclub, Muji, CleaverEast,TheLiquorRooms,TheDean, EverleighGarden,PerukeoPerwig andthe Captain America'sandwagamamarestaurantchains.Her weddingto husbandMick took the form ofa one-day festivalat which the likesofTheAftermath and Fight LikeApesperformed!

LIZA GEODES

Contact:Friction PR Tel.+35316707400 E-mail:liza@frictionpr.com 2014wasanotherexcitingyearfor Friction clients with Villagerswinning the ChoiceMusic Prizewith {Awayland};DavidGraymakinga triumphant return with Mutineers; andOtherVoices going to Derry andthe ElectricPicnicaswell asDinglewherethe December2014starturns includedWild Beasts,King Creosote,DelorentosandDamienRice.Helpingto makeall that happenwas LizaGeddeswho before beingmadean offershecouldn'trefuseby Friction headhonchoDanOgglyvariouslylookedafter Pat Egan'sbillboardinterests,workedwith HotPress

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and handledMTV'sIrish PR.Sheʼsalsomaximised interest in the aforementionedChoicePrizeand Hardworking ClassHeroes.

STEPHEN GREALY

Contact:UniversalMusic Tel. +35314022600 E-mail:stephen.grealy@umusic.com A DCUMultimedia graduate,Grealydid work experienceat RTEbeforejoining Universalin 2013.

AstemporaryPromotions& MarketingAssistant, he'sworked on successfulcampaignsfor the likesof RobinThicke,NaughtyBoy,Alice InChainsandThe Who.Stephenis alsoinvolvedin the digital media and marketing sideof things, and in 2014helpednew boybandsensations5SecondsOf Summerscorea N0.1hereafteropening forOne Direction in Crake Park.

COLM HANLEY

Contact:MCD.Tel.+35312841747 / +35386 0403256 E-mail:colm@mcd.ie / colmhanley@gmail.com Graduatingfrom BallyfermotCollegeOf Further Educationwith a Diplomain Media,Colmlanded the breakfastshowgig on103.2DublinCity FMwhile alsoproducingthestation'sSoundSchoolseriesand researchingLivedrive-a dailytraffic information service.Hecurrentlypresentsthe station'sexcellent Stadium Saturday sportsshow.JoiningMCDin 2007, he'snowtheir chiefpublicistandtogetherwith bookerZachDesmondhasestablishedLongitude asoneof the country'sleadingboutiquefestival events.Other notable2014successes includedKylie in 3Arena,the selling-outofTheScript's2015Crake Parkhomecomingshow in underan hour,andKings Of LeonandArcadeFire'srespectivestormingsof MarlayPark.

SONIA HARRIS

Contact:Harris PublicRelations Tel.+353877979703 E-mail:sonia@harrispublicrelations.eu

AndreaKeogh'sflairforfinding uniquespaces to stagelive musicwas evidencedin 2013's hugelysuccessfulCountryEstatestourfeaturing Maria DoyleKennedyand Heathers.Onthe bookingfront, she'shadanotherbusyyearat the SetTheatre,whereDamienDempsey, James Vincent McMorrowandThe RiptideMovement wereamongthe sell-outs.Operatingout of a new studio in DublinʼsregeneratedSmithfield neighbourhood,shealsohelpedgatheracts for the Coughlan'sLiveMusicFestival;worked

with up-and-comerslikeAlibi Traxand InTheir Thousands;andcoordinatedthe OdessaClub's 10thbirthday celebrationswith Little Matador andTheMinutes both playingintimate shows therewith Q+Asbeforehandwith HotPress' StuartClark.

Contact:KeoghPublicity,Bookings& EventManagement Tel:0863440545 E-mail:info@keoghpublicity.com

In2009,Harrisset up HarrisPublicRelations,who now includeDominoʼsPizza,Mothercare,Oolong, BrinkmanBeverages and celebrityhangout,Buck's Townhouse,amongtheir clients.Enteringthe businessati7, Soniabeganworking at EllenGunning PR,displayinga penchantfor consumer,fashion and lifestylebrands,aswell aseventmanagement.

Ajournalist of considerabletalent, shespenta yearwith the Sunday Independent beforemovingto ThinkhousePRand then BurrellMarketing and Publicity.Shewas involvedin 2013RTE'sTheHit, which was sponsoredby Domino's,for whom she hasalsobeenworking in Northern Ireland.During 2014,sheorganisedthe launchof LeFevrePure FrenchCidreandJohnston,Mooneyand O'Brien SandwichThins,and workedwith USbrand,Mane 'n Tail Haircare.Soniaalsoactsasagent for Jennifer Maguire,DavidGillickand BlathnaidTreacy,among others.

EMMA HARNEY

Contact:Orchestrate Tel.+35315164122/ +35312839809 E-mail:emma@orchestrate.ie HavingstartedOrchestratethe previousyear, therewasa satisfyingmomentfor Harneyin 2014 when shesimultaneouslyhadthe N0.1Irishsingle (Milky Chance's'StolenDance')andalbum(Sinead O'Connor'slʻmNotBossy, I'mTheBoss).NoelGallagher

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andPrimalScream'spublicistofchoicesinceway E-mail:priscilla.kotey@warnermusic.com back,shealsolooksafterJulieFeeney,DukeSpecial, JoinMeInThePinesand FoyVance,andhelpedcoordinateAfteremergingfromthe UniversityofUlsterwitha BillyBragg'svisitto MountjoyPrison,where MediaStudiesdegree,Koteydida Post-GradinPR hepresentedinmateswithlatePoguesand Radiators andjoinedCarmodySmith,whereshewas involved manPhilipChevron's collectionofguitars,an event inpluggingindependentbands,as wellas major that madenationalheadlines.The Dublinertookher concertsforAikenPromotions.Fromthere Priscilla firstmusicalstepsas EntsOfficerat Limerick School wentto MCDandthen,in2008,toWarnerswhere ofArtandDesignwiththethen unsignedManic she looksafterthe likesofGreenDay.Janelle Monae, StreetPreachersandTheLevellers amonghernotable PaoloNutini,Rudimental,Two DoorCinemaClub, RedHotChiliPeppersand PlanB.forwhoseIIIManors bookings.Following hersubsequentstudiesat Ballyfermot RockSchool,EmmabecamethefirstIrish filmsheorganisedthe Irishpresspremiere.Hertop 2014prioritythoughwasthe welcomingintothe bookerforVincePower’s MeanFiddlerorganisation andaddedMCD, HotPress andGrapevine (RMGChart), worldofbabyEvan,whowe'retolddefinitelyhasa Universal and EntertainmentArchitectsto herCV. singer'spairoflungs!

KATIE HOGAN Contact:NumuPromotions Tel.+35386069 7004 E-mail:katie@numupromotions.com

BRIAN LYNCH Contact:MercantileGroup Tel.+35386 1073571 E-mail:brianlynch@mercantilegroup.ie

Returningto Dublinin2011 witha BAinJournalism fromLondonMetropolitanUniversity, Hogan landeda gigwith MCD,beforemovingto Justin Green'sWideAwakeCommunications, a marketing consultancyfora numberofVlPdientsincuding Dublin'sGaietyTheatre.Katiealsorunsherown NumuPromotionsset-up,whosecurrentroster indudesTravisOaksand hotly-tippedDroghedagirl groupFeaturingX.

AnativeofOffaly,Lynch occupiedthe drum-stool forthe likesof Bressie,Dave’s Radioand Land Loversbeforeattendingthe Ballyfermot School ofMusicProduction.Post-graduationheworked fora whileinthe realworld- butafterfalling16 metresand breakingbothlegs(ouch!)decidedto get a diplomain PR&Eventsand bagthat music industryjobhe'dalwayswanted. Following a seven yearspellhandlingonlinemarketing,sponsorship and promotionforthe POD,Brianin2014tookup a similarpositionwiththe MercantileGroupwho, alongwiththe Mercitself,alsoincludesWhelan's, EastsideTavern, LostSocietyandthe dance-minded

CHANTAL HOURIHAN SEE THIS PAGE LEWIS JACKSON Contact:Heavyweight PR 353 86 2349456 Tel:+3531 4432188/+ E-mail:lewis@heavyweightpress.com Aswellas handlingguitardutieswith Dublin post-punkersEnemies-2015 shouldbringa follow upto the excellentEmbark, Embrace-Jackson set Heavyweight upin2010mainlyto lookafterthe RichterCollective familyofbands.WithRichter shuttingupshopat the endof2012,the rabidMan Ufan'sattentionsarenowlavishedon PolyGlove, SAILS, MAU, PlanetParade,AndSoIWatchYouFrom Afar,Twins andthe SargentHouselabel- curators ofa stageat the 2013Indiependence festivalin Mitchelstown.

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KATHRYN MASON Contact:KathrynMasonPR& Marketing Tel.+353 (o)872627977 E-mail:km@kathrynmason.ie Formerlyinchargeofpressand promotionsat BMGbeforetheymergedwith Sony- LouisWalsh creditsherwith beinga majorplayerinthe Westlife successstory- Masonreturnedto the music industrythree-yearsagoaftera spelloverseasas a skiinstructor.Nowflyingsolo,shewaspartofthe launchteam in2013forthe GrooveFestival,which the followingyearbroughtthe likesofPalomaFaith and DavidGrayto Wicklow's Killruddery Estate.

HerotherclientsincludeMichaelFranti,TheWebb Brothers,PaulByrne,FleadhTV, HarlemGospelChoir, TG4'sBoscaCeoi,the PPIRadioAwardsand Spain's Benicassim festival.

NIAMH McCARRICK Contact:SkyIreland Tel.+353863809191 E-mail:miamh.mccarrick(a)bskyb.com Thechannel'sIrishCommunications Manager, McCarrick wasdelightedto announcedetailsofthe SkyAcademy ArtsScholarship 2015,whichwillsee anemergingartist herereceivinga €38l< grantand as muchpublicityas sheand hercolleagueJames Elmscangenerate.There's alsoa€4millionSkydrive forproductioncompaniesandarts organisations on bothsidesofthe IrishSeato collaborateon

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AOIFE KELLY Contact:ElevatePR Tel.+35316625652 E-mail:aoifek@elevate.ie TheJanuary2015transferwindowsawKelly switchfromSonyMusicIrelandto Elevate,an independentPRandsocialmediaagencyalso nativedidan English basedin Dublin.TheTipperary

andFrenchdegreeat UCC whereshealsopresented thebreakfastshowonthecampusradiostation,and thena Post-Grad inPRandMarketing.

ShejoinedKate BowePR,butjumpedat the opportunityofjoining MCD. Moving to Sonyin2007,Aoifecontributedto thehugeIrishsuccessofactslikeBruceSpringsteen, MGMT, KingsOfLeon,AliciaKeyes, AC/DC, Kodaline andTheScript,whosheproudlywatchedfromsideof-stage whentheysold-outtheAviva.

WithSpin103.8 andHennessy, who'vea richmusicheritage,among Elevate's clientsexpectAoifeto remaininthethickof theaction.

ANDREA KEOGH SEE OPPOSITE PAGE PRISCILLA KOTEY Contact:WarnerMusicIreland Tel.+35318814500

(l-r)ChantedHourihan,IsobelHourihanand GraceAnnConnolly

Hourihan'smusicindustrycareerstarted over ten yearsagoas a repforthe visualscompany, TheLightSurgeons.Armedwitha Marketing and PRDiplomafromthe DublinBusiness School,shethen tookupa postwith MCD workingon publicityfirstwith DaraghPurcell and thenJustinGreen.In2006Chantalleftto becomea ProductManagerwith Universal MusicIreland,whereshe'splayeda keyrole indevelopingsuchactsas Elbow,Rizzle Kicks,The Killers,Madonna,the company's

associationwith TheVoiceOf Irelandandthe lateAmyWinehouse.Havingspent muchof 2013on maternityleave,she'snowbackat the UniversalPress&Promotionshelmandlooking forward,amongother releases,to the New Yearunleashingofthe nextU2album,Songsof Experience.

Contact:UniversalMusicIreland Tel.+35314022600/ +353866090970 E-mail:chantal.hourihan@umusic.com

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innovativeTVprojects.BeforejoiningSkyin2011, the formerRathminesSeniorCollegeandUCDstudent workedforSuperquinn,02 Ireland,andWeber ShandwickFCC.

JANE McDAID Contact:Thinkhouse Tel.+3531420OOO 70 E-mail:jane@thinkhouse.ie Atheatrestudiesgraduate,McDaidstartedout workingout infilmandtheatreas a stagedirector.

Findingthat sheenjoyedpublicisingherown productions,shereturnedto collegeanddida post-graduatediplomain PR.Spottinga gapin the marketfora companyspecialisinginyouth communications, Janeset upThinkhousein2001, whichhasplayeda pivotalroleindeveloping

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pressandmarketingteamatSpirit-a roleRory Heineken’s associationwith music,boththrough theirHeinekenLiveProjectseriesofinvite-only continuedwhenthe Dublinsuperclubmorphedinto gigsandtheir involvement inthe likesofOxegen TheAcademy.

NowbasedinMCD's DunLaoghaire headquarters,heworksona diversearrayofevents and ElectricPicnic,whichwasthe venuein2014 forthe HeinekenSoundAtlasBrooklyn BlockParty. that's recentlyincludedSnoopDogginTheAcademy, the pre-salesforOneDirectioninCrakePark,the Foo ExpectlotsmoreSoundAtlasactivityin2015!She alsohandlespublicityhereforLiveNationandtheir Fightersat SlaneandTheOriginalRudeboys' Irish flagshipIrishvenue,whichunderwenta name schoolstour. changeinSeptember2014fromthe O2to 3Arena.

2014alsosawJaneand herteamcontinuingto JOSEPHINE NESTOR lookaftersuchothermajorclientsasThree,CocaCola, Contact:Tel.+3531 2845367 +353 DietCoke,Tiger, Beng-Jerry’s,Lynx, eBAY and / 868176015 Goodfella’s.

E-mail:josephinenestor@hotmail.com

amymcgovern seethis page SHARON McHUGH Contact:TV3 +353 1419 3430/+353879224143 Tel. E-mail:shar0n.mchugh@tv3.ie AgraduateofBallyfermot CollegeofFurther Education,SharonMcHugh joinedPaddyPower in2002andworkedherwaythroughthe ranks includinga stint asan oddssetter!- to becomethe companyspokesperson.

Fromthereshemovedto ThreeIrelandas Communications Manager,where shewasresponsibleforactivatingsponsorship withthe nationalfootballteamas wellas multiple productlaunches.ShejoinedTV3as HeadofPress andPublicityinthe summerof2013andisthe heart oftheactionas the stationgoesintooverdriveinits responseto the arrivalofUTV.

Nestorbeganhercareerinthe'80s withVirgin UK,latermovingto theirDublinofficewhereshe wasresponsibleforguidingTheVerve, Smashing Pumpkins,DaftPunk,Placebo,SpiceGirls,Massive Attackand LennyKravitztothetopofthe Irish charts.Shewasamongthefirstto realisethat David Graywasa superstar-in-waiting, andwentthe extra yardforthe label’shomegrownacts,whichincluded Micheal0 Suillebhaain.That PetrolEmotion,Altan, SomethingHappensandTheeAmazingColossal Men.WhenVirginmergedwith EMI,shewent freelance,workingoneventslikeSlane,the Bulmer’s InternationalComedyFestivalandthe MeteorMusic Awards.AlongwithassistingMCDona projectbasis, Johandledartist liaisonfor2fmat the 2014Oxegen and Longitudefestivalsandplugsherownroster ofactsincludingNicoleMaguire,CathrynGreen,O Emperorand BenGlover.

SUZANNE ODEA MARY-KATE MURPHY Contact:Thinkhouse Tel.+35314200070 Contact:WarnerMusic Tel. +3531 8814533/ +353863575653 E-mail:suzie@thinkhouse.ie E-mail:mary-kate.murphy@warnermusic.com

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Havingmovedtherethe previousyearfrom EntertainmentArchitects,itwasa bigblowto MurphywheninJuly2013PIASIrelandclosedits Dublinoffice.Highlyregardedwithinthe industry shequicklylandeda newgigwithSabrinaSheehan's MissionPRset-up.AnativeofWestmeath,shejoined WarnerMusicIreland'sbusypressand promotion departmentin2014supplyingmaternitycover-but don'tbesurprisedifthe arrangementbecomesa permanentone.

PETER MURPHY

Afternearlyeightyearswith EdelmanPR,working oncampaignsforSmirnoffExperience, CokeMusic, BudRising andOi'ssecuringofthe namingrights to theoldPointTheatre,O’Deatookupa Croup Marketing&•SponsorshippositionwithAviva.Her latestmove,inApril2012,wastojoinThinkhouse asYouthCommunications Director,whereher portfolioincludesmajormusicsponsorsHeineken, Desperadosand LiveNationand its3Arenavenue.

Shepreviously workedalongsidePaulMcCuinness andtheteamat PrincipleManagement,whereshe was involvedinthecompany'svariousmanagement, labelandpublishingactivities.

20i3'sbigmusicindustrystorywasthe Contact:PeterMurphyPublicity completitionofUniversal’s globalmergerwith Tel.+35312841747/+35387243 5048 SORCHA O'FLANAGAN EMI, whichhadto waitforvariousmonopoly E-mail:petemurphypublicity@gmail.com Contact:SorchaO’Flanagan PR commission‘greenlights’.

Ona locallevel,it Tel.+353860217556 meantAmyMcGovern andthe Universal Press Murphy's 14-yeartenurewith EMIMusicIreland E-mail:sorcha@sorchaoflanaganpr.com &Promotionsdepartmentshemanagesadding endedinJuly2014followingthe company'smerger prizeEMIassetsColdplay, BlurandBatFor with UniversalMusic.Heimmediatelysetup his Havingpreviously workedat HotPress, Warner Lashesto a rosterofactsthat alreadyincluded ownPRoperation,whichhasSeasickSteve,Simple Music,AikenPromotions,RTEasaTVbookerand KatyPerry,KanyeWest,Metallica, Placebo Minds,CazCoombesandthe ChoiceMusicPrizewinning EntertainmentArchitects,O'Flanaganwentsoloat and EllieGoulding.

In2014sheworkedonthe Japeamongitsclients.Whilstat EMI,Peter thestart of2013withTommyTiernan, JohnBishop publicitycampaignsthat deliverednumberone lookedaftersuchheavy-hitters as Coldplay, Blur,Van andJasonByrneamongherbigcomedicclients.

IrishalbumsforbothMickFlanneryandImelda Morrison,Bastilleand EmeliSande;compiledtwo Sorchaalsoworksona freelancebasisforAikenon Maywhosestandingat homewasfurther volumesofthe Definitive IrishRock Album andwentthe theirVicarSt.andIveaghGardengigs,whichinclude bolsteredbyherhostingherownJoolsHollandstyle extrayardforIrishactslikePugwash,MickFlannery, theVodafoneComedyFestival.

RTETV musicshow.Beforeembarkingon TheThrillsandTheJapanesePopstars. herrecordcompanycareer,McGovern gaineda NEIL O’GORMAN RORY MURPHY Psychology degreefromUCDandthenwenton Contact:O'GormanCommunications to doa DiplomainEventManagementOrPR. Contact:MCD Tel.+35387207 7192 Tel.+35312841713/+35387900 0791 E-mail:neilogormanOl@gmail.com

Contact:UniversalMusic Tel.+35314022600 E-mail:amy.mcgovern@umusic.com (Above)CarolineTorriewithAmyMcgovern

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HavinghandledPRand marketingdutiesinthe late'gosfortheTempleBarMusicCentre,Murphy embarkedona varietyofindependentlivemusic andclubprojects,oftenmanningthe deckshimself and makingthe transitionintoradio.Hejoinedthe

Afteran18monthspellas Communications Manager at SkyIreland,O'Gormanin2015landedaTVand Digitalgigat RT£whilststillmaintaininghisown company,whichhasfingersinallmannerofmedia pies.AformerDirectorof Edelman,heset upa PR divisionforBanksLovein2004.InJune2007,he

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TATUM ROONEY

Contact:TheWright Venue.

Tel:+35318900099E-mail: info@thewrightvenue.ie ThegroupmarketingmanagerofTheWright Group, Rooneyhasbeeninstrumentalin ensuringthe massivelysuccessful WrightVenuein Swordshasa big presencebothat homeandabroad.Rooneyhas vastexperiencein the mediaandentertainment field,havingpreviouslyworkedwith Spimo38, Harmoniaandthe GazetteGroup.Undoubtedly, however,Rooney'sbiggestgigyet iswith The WrightVenue,a four-storeynightclubwhich also containsrestaurantsanda coffeeshop.Thevenueis intheAirside RetailParkandopeneveryFridayand Saturday- but with a hotelclosebyand plansto add furtherattractions.theaim is to offerthe ultimate night out in Ireland.TheWright Venuecelebrated its fifth birthdayin 2014with the launchof Volume

Originallyfrom England,Lindastarted out in the 1990sasa researcherand broadcastassistant with BBCRadiosNottinghamand Lincolnshire.

Movingto Ireland,shegainedan HonoursDegree in Musicfrom UniversityCollegeCorkin 2008, andset herselfupasanartist managerandgig booker.Herlatest roleisasone-half(alongside MichaelCarr)ofthe BlueMonkeyPRoperation,

launchedBespoke-whichlater becameBespoke with Direction,wherehisclientsincludedthe BIMM musicschool,Vodafone,Eircom,PlayStation,RT£ andthat most rockingandrolling of whiskeys,Jack Danielʼs.A bigfan of music,Neilʼspastassociations includeMurphyʼsLive!,BudRising,Heineken GreenEnergy,the SmirnoffDanceAwardsandthe HeinekenHotPress RockAwards.

LINDA PLOVER SEE OPPOSITE PAGE NIK QUAIFE

Contact:Zoetrope.

Tel.+35316750839/ +0012127573318 E-mail:nikquaife@gmail.com / nik@irishartscenter.org A graduateof McGillandTrinity College,Quaife specialisesin arts PR,with the Fringe,Wexford Opera,GalwayArts Festivaland DublinWriters Festivalamongthe eventshechampions.The openingin 2012of a NewYorkofficehasallowed Niktoalso lookafterthe IrishArts Centre,which hasbroughtMaryCoughlan,EleanorMcEvoy.John Spillaneandartist in residenceCamilleO'Sullivanto the heartof Manhattan.Afluent Spanish,Frenchand Italian speaker,heʼsalsoa publishedtravelwriter andanMC.

DARREN REINHARDT

Contact:SonyMusicIreland Tel.+35316473422 E-mail:darren.reinhardt@sonymusic.com Priorto embarkingona careerin pressand promotions,Reinhardtwasgainfullyemployedat the now defunctCarltonProductionsrecordpressing plantand,subsequently, theVirgin Megastore, wherehewent from baggingcassettesin the attic to managingthe shop.JoiningSonyafterseven-years in theWarnerPRdepartment,hisbusy2014included

which looksafterthe likesof the Indiependence Festival,CorkLiveAt TheMarquee,Bulmers LiveAt Leopardstown.The Frank&Walters.The Vincent(s)andTheWouldBe's.

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lookingafter campaignsfor everybodyfrom Bob Dylanand DameShirleyBassey to KasabianandOne Direction-yes ladies,Darrenʼsthe manto know in that department!

JEFF ROBINSON

Contact:Jeff Robinson Tel.44(0)7874862334 E-mail:jeff@jeffrobinsonpr.com

Winnerof the2012BestFreelancePRideAward, Robinson'sBelfastoperationincludesBelsonic, FleadhLive,BelfastMusicWeek,The1975and SmalltownAmericaamongits list of clients.He's alsopromotedliveeventsfeaturingthe likesof Chic,NoahG-The Whale,Blondie,DavidCuetta.and Florence+TheMachine.Jeffadditionallyspecialises in the promotionof children'sbooks,with multimillion sellingauthorof TheGruffalo, JuliaDonaldson, amongthosehe'sworkedwith.

JAMES ROLLINS

Tel.+44(o) 07967584573 E-mail:james@jamesrollins.co.uk

PUBLICITY A hugelyexperienced operator,SabrinaSheehan spent12yearsasaseniorpublicistat MCD, whereshegot to work on suchmassiveevents asSlane,Oxegen,the MeteorIrelandMusic Awardsandthe CrokeParkseriesof concerts.

Startingupherown operationat thebeginning of2012, Sabrina's impressiveclientlist now includesRyanSheridan, YouBloom, SeaSessions andDunLaoghaire's PavilionTheatre.Sheʼs also Headof EuropeanMarketinge-PRfor the recordbreaking HumanBodyExhibition;tookcare ofOnceTheMusical's Europeanpremierein the Gaiety;drummedupcolumninchesfor two more theatricalsmashes, Ballyturk andTheWalworth Farce, andworkedHozierʼsfirst two singlesat radio.With anadditionaltwo staffonboard, MissionPRhasbeenoneofthesuccess storiesof thepastthreeyears.

AsMCD'smanin the North,Jameswasin the thick of things this AugustwhenTheKillersand DavidCuettaplayedsell-outTennent's Vital shows in Belfast'sBoucherRoadPlayingFields.Heʼsno strangerto the big occasion,havingalsoworked onOxegen.andSnowPatrolʼshomecominggigsin Bangor'sWardPark.Rumourhasit the Patrolboys maybebackin town again in 2015!Aftera spell behindthecounterat GoldenDiscsin Donegall Place,Rollinsspent18yearsworking for EMIRecords in both Dublinand Belfast,eventuallyleavingin 2007 Contact:MissionPR:Tel. +35316750694 to setup hisown PRoutfit specialisingin singersongwriters / +353862503751 andacousticartists.Alongwith MCD, E-mail:sabrinasheehan@missionpr.ie hisclientsincludeKieranGoss,The4Of Us,Cara Dillon,BenGlover,BrianHouston,TheCoronasand loadsmore.

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with a successionofteenagebands,studiedMusic Managementat Ballyfermot SeniorCollegeand workedinretailwithGoldenDiscs.

ROWENASHANLEY Contact:Pressup Tel.+353872726437 E-mail:rowena@pressup.ie Analumnusof LoretoCollegeinRathfarnham, Rowenadida diplomainPublicRelationsin RathminesCollege.Sheinternedin ElevatePRand Edelman,beforejoiningBespokewith Directionas a SeniorAccountExecutive.

She'snowMarketing andCommunicationsExecutive withthe Pressup EntertainmentCroup,workingonallthe brandsthat makeuptheirextensiveportfolio.Oneof2014'smost excitingadditionswasTheDean,a boutiquehotel on D2's HarcourtStreet,whichisattractinga very rock'n'rollclientele.

SABRINA SHEEHAN SEE PAGE 135 CLARESNEDDEN Contact:MaterialUK Tel. +44 (0) 7789511854 E-mail:claires@materialmc.co.uk Havinggraduatedfromthe UniversityofGlasgow with a degreein EnglishLit,SneddenhandledPR fora numberof livemusicvenuesandthe Celtic Connectionsfestival.Landingher presentMaterial UKgig in2011, shelooksafterTennent'sinvolvement inmusic,whichincludesAugust'sseriesof 40,000-capacityVitalgigsin Belfast'sBoucherRoad PlayingFields.

Torriestarted out bydoinga Communicationsdegreein DCUwhereshe wasalsoa memberofthe committeethat rantheiraward-winningMusicSociety.

Followinga shortinternshipwith EMI, shejoinedUniversalas a Marketing&Promotions Assistantand numbersMaverick Sabre,ProfessorGreen,TheCoronasand, mostsignificantythis year,Hozieramong hercharges.Carolineisalsoheavilyinvolved inthe label’sdigitaloperations,which includedthe similtaneousreleasethis yearof singlesbythe fourVoiceOfIrelandfinalists.

GUYSINNOTT Contact:MCD Tel.+3531 2841747/ +353867852222 E-mail:guy@mcd.ie

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HailingfromBray,SinnottjoinedMCDin2011 and handlesPRfortheir 02,AcademyandOlympia shows.Theseincluderecentsell-outsinvolvingRoyal Blood,The Wantedand Kasabian.Guywasalsopart ofthe onsiteteamthat madethe2014Longitude and ElectricPicnicfestivals,and the RoyalHospital Kilmainham seriesofgigssucha bigsuccess.He makesnosecretofhisSmithsobsession!

CAROLINE TORRIE SEE THIS PAGE ANNE MARIE WALSH SEE THIS PAGE CLAIRE WHELAN Contact:BordGaisTheatre Tel.+35316742420/ +35386 63114744 E-mail:claire.whelan@bgetheatre.ie AnUCDgraduatewhowas part ofthe MCDteam beforemovingto GrandCanalSquare,ClaireWhelan handlespublicityforallthe BordGaisEnergy Theatre'sbigmusicaland theatricalevents,which in2014includedWarHorse,TheBodyguard, Panti'sBig GaySingandthe livereturnof DamienRice-whose showthere hasalreadyenteredlocalrock‘n‘roll folkore.AlsoonClaire'sCVarea yearworkingon marketingstrategyforthe RT£ConcertOrchestra and a spellstudyingat the GaietySchoolofActing.

MICHELLE WHITEHEAD Contact:MCD Tel.+353l 2841747/ +35385 197 6819 E-mail:michelle@mcd.ie AnI.T.T. Dublingraduate,WhiteheadjoinedMCDin April2013with the showstheypromoteinWhelan's, TheAcademyandthe PepperCanisterChurchall partof herpublicitybrief.Beforepitchingup in Dun Laoghaire,sheran Lockdown, an alternativeclub nightthat attracteda loyalDublinfollowingand coordinatedeventsforclientslikeGoogle,Dublin CityBids,DineInDublinand Boots.

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2',whichsawthe introductionofa newshowcalled Risqueanda lightingand productionshowwhich rivalsanyIbizaclub.

CIARAN SAVAGE Contact:WarnerMusicIreland Tel.+35318814535 E-mail:ciaran.savage@warnermusic.com Afterioyearsofworkingina varietyofrolesforEMI, Savagemadethe shorttripfromAylesbury Roadto ExchangeStreetUpperin2008to joinWarnerMusic Ireland.Actshe'scurrentlylookingafterinclude DavidBowie,PinkFloyd,Blur,JohnnyMarr,Charli XCX and KateBushwhoseliveLondoncomeback was oneof2014'sbiggestmusicnewsstories.Prior to goingthe recordcompanyroute,Ciarandrummed

PUBLICITY Havingstarted outasa DJon RadioKilkenny, AnnMarieWalshmovedintoPRwith Sean Millar,CarolineMoreau,Tumbling Bones, SouthernTenantFolkUnion,KAN, AneBrun, RebekkaKarijordand DylanTighe among the diverserangeofacts shelooksafter.

SheattendedWOMEX2014inSantiagode Compostelaas part ofthe sameIrishdelegation that includedLiamOMaonlai,PadraigRynne, Kila,WeBanjo3and membersofCultureIreland

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andthe ArtsCouncil.

Well-versed inallareasofthe industry,Ann Mariehasalsolecturedin Pulse,Ballyfermotand ColaisteDhulaighcolleges,recordedas one-half of Novatoneandresumedherwirlesscareer with 8Radio.com.

Contact:NovatoneMusicMedia Tel.+35312018946/ +353872460957 E-mail:musicireland@hotmail.com

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