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traders were not being listened WR HQRXJK E\ FRXQFLO RྜFLDOV )LDQQD )DLO 'XEOLQ WUDQVSRUW spokesperson John Lahart said that increasing parking costs would have a negative impact on those who cannot use alternative means of transport. ³6RPH RI P\ FRQVWLWXHQWV undergo medical treatment every day for weeks at a time and have to fork up very H[SHQVLYH SDUNLQJ FKDUJHV ZKHWKHU LWœV SULYDWH RU SXEOLF ´ he said. The new charges came into H྾FW RQ -XO\
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newsinbrief Your bin collection may be changing
A single waste collection service for Dublin could be on the cards after city councillors voted last week to kick-start a process aimed at taking waste collection back into public ownership. The council stopped collecting waste in Dublin city in 2012. Since then, a number of private operators have collected household waste. A working group will be set up later this year to examine how feasible the proposal is.
One is hospitalised after apartment fire
GardaĂ are appealing for information or witnesses, relating to a number of assaults on females at Connolly Station on Wednesday July 10th. A non-Irish man in his 50s was arrested later at and appeared in court. GardaĂ believe he may have been involved in other incidents around Connolly. Anyone who may have witnessed an assault or potential victims should contact Store St station.
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Julian Benson, Kerri Nicole Blanc , Jennifer Zamparelli and James Patrice Butler at the opening night Annie the Musical at the Bord GĂĄis Energy Theatre. Pic: Brian McEvoy
Ha’penny Bridge plaza to get anti-terror bollards CITY planners are to install anti-terror bollards to deter attacks at a new civic plaza on the northside of the Ha’penny Bridge. A planned water feature incorporating a line of water jets, or mini fountains, has been scrapped, however. Dublin City Council plans WR SHGHVWULDQLVH /RZHU /L྾H\ Street following the rejection last year by An Bord Pleanåla of the College Green
pedestrian and cycle plaza. The council said it will not VXEPLW SODQV IRU WKH /LŕľľH\ Street plaza to the planning board. Developer Noel Smyth, chairman of Dublin City Centre Traders Alliance, said the council will face legal action if it tries to bypass the board. Plans drawn up by DHB Architects for the council earlier this year proposed the
SHGHVWULDQLVDWLRQ RI /LŕľľH\ Street between Strand Street and the quays, with the water feature outside the Woollen Mills cafe. 7KH UHPDLQGHU RI /LŕľľH\ 6WUHHW /RZHU DQG DOO RI /LŕľľH\ Street Upper, which runs from Abbey Street to Henry Street, will be upgraded to create a more “pedestrianfriendlyâ€? environment, with benches, bicycle stands and trees.
Pollution fears grow for our beaches DUBLIN Port FOLLOWING warnings about water pollution in coastal towns around Dublin, a dark liquid seeping into waters around Ringsend is causing more concern. Near the end of June, three popular swimming spots in the south of Dublin were temporarily closed amid fears of low quality water. Now new photos taken by Dublincityshots shows a dark liquid seeping into the water which surrounds the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant near Poolbeg Beach and Sandymount Beach. One photo taken by Dublincityshots shows a drain WKDW DSSHDUV WR EH ÂżOWHULQJ OLTuid out from the plant into the water. Irish Water has addressed concerns and said no incidents have occurred at the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Plant. A spokesperson explained to Extra.ie that the wastewater beLQJ ÂżOWHUHG IURP WKH SODQW LV QRW harmful and is being treated to the best possible standards currently achievable at the plant.
Fans pay tributes to comic Brendan FANS of comedian Brendan Grace have been paying respects to the legendary entertainer who died aged 68 after a short battle with cancer. Many remembered the funnyman, who was born in The Liberties, for his classic and clean form of comedy, which entertained people across the world. Francis Ross works in the nearby Brooks Hotel, where the Grace family often stays. Frank said he grew up a fan of Brendan, and became a friend in his later years. He said: “He knew me as Frank. Like everybody, I grew up with him in the 70s and he was our idol, visiting our school with the green cross code, and then going to see him in the Gaiety when I was older. “I got to know him as a friend in the last 15 years. It’s a very sad day for us all in the hotel. $V LW KDSSHQV ,ÂśOO EH Rŕľľ ZRUN RQ the day and I’ll be at his funeral (last Monday the 15th). Either way, I would have found a way to be there. “Unlike other comedians, he didn’t lean on the same character all the time. I liked them all, but the Bottler is the one that introduced us all to him.â€? Taxi driver Tom Smyth told the Irish Mirror that he picked Brendan and his wife Eileen up from the Red Cow in Clondalkin and took them to a christening in the Old Mill pub in Tallaght
about three years ago. The beloved personality had a few drinks before he got into WKH FDE DQG ZDV LQ ÂżQH IRUP chatting away with Tom and Eileen as they headed toward Tallaght. He said: “I picked them up and Brendan was in great form. , GURSSHG WKHP Rŕľľ and he joked ‘so do I have to pay for this now?’. He was great like that, classic comedy. “His wife Eileen took a picture of the two of us that I still have on the phone today. Hopefully all of Dublin turns out for him on Monday.â€? Sarah Scully visited the Mansion House to pay respects not only for Brendan, but for his family. “He was a lovely man. He brought a lot of joy to people, especially when there’s so much sadness in the world today. I hope his memory is there for a long time. Agnes Moore said: “I’m here because he was very good, very cheerful and he was a natural. When you saw him, you couldn’t help but laugh, he was just tremendous and he is gone too soon,â€? she said. Eileen Power (89) from Wexford who told how the comedy legend made her a star of his show – because she looked like his mother. Eileen, who saw the funnyman in Dun Laoghaire three years ago, said: “He kept saying during the show ‘You’re the image of my mother’.
200 new jobs with Energia ₏3bn invest THE Energia Group is to create 200 new jobs in Dublin. The new roles will come on VWUHDP LQ WKH QH[W ¿YH \HDUV DQG will see Energia Group expand it’s Irish workforce to 1,000. Those employed by the company will work out of its new of¿FHV LQ %ODQFKDUGVWRZQ ZKLFK were opened today.
The expansion comes as part of a new ₏3 billion investment in Irish renewable energy generation and other related systems. Up to 5,000 construction jobs will be created during the programme. CEO Ian Thom said the investment was a clear signal of the company’s commitment to Ireland.
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Plans for 1,400 new homes are lodged PLANS have been lodged for more than 1,400 homes in Dublin. They include 347 buy-to-rent apartments on the Malahide Road, and 609 apartments and houses on Saggart Road, Co Dublin. There are also plans for 210 apartments in Killiney, and 257 homes in Kilternan. South Dublin councillor Denis O’Callaghan says several applications are being lodged in the area. “These major developments, they’re a throwback to the Celtic Tiger times when a lot of the big houses sold up,” said Mr O’Callaghan. “In the case of the Killiney planning application, it’s three large swellings which are being knocked to make way for 210 apartments close to the Graduate pub.”
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€750,000 for boy who fell from balcony Lucy Kennedy, Emily Jade Elliott and Missy Keating launch the Virgin Media Drive-In Movie Series. Cinema-goers will be able to watch Mamma Mia or Bohemian Rhapsody at Leopardstown Racecourse on August 24. Tickets can be booked online at virginmedia.ie/movies. Pic: Brian McEvoy
Capital faces water shortages due to population and climate WATER shortages could become more common in Dublin due to climate change and population growth. Leading climatologist Dr Conor Murphy has warned that further restrictions, similar to ones seen last summer, could become more regular due to failure to ensure the supply was climate-resilient.
He told the Irish Times this was due to huge leakages and the fact the supply system has not been upgraded much since the 19th century. Dr Murphy said shortages were most likely along the east coast of the country where the population is at its highest and an extreme weather event such as a
drought was not required to cause a water crisis. He accepted that Irish Water were working to reduce leakage but it is extremely costly to get leakage in the system below 20%. He added “we are quite SURÀLJDWH DW KRXVHKROG OHYHO´ DQG FDOOHG IRU ZDWHU H൶FLHQF\ and recycling to be improved.
A BOY who, when he was three \HDUV ROG VX൵HUHG LQMXULHV ZKHQ KH IHOO IURP D WKLUG ÀRRU EDOFRny in a Dublin inner-city complex, has settled his High Court action for €750,000. The boy was playing when it is claimed he climbed the cutout feature on the balcony to look at children playing in the playground below and fell on to WKH FRQFUHWH ÀDJVWRQHV +H VX൵HUHG D EUDLQ LQMXU\ along with paralysis of his left arm and has also been left with a weak leg. The settlement, the court heard, was on the basis that it was acknowledged that liability was at issue in the case. Counsel for the boy, Ronnie Robins SC, told the court it was an extremely tragic case. The boy had been living with his mother at the time. The boy through his father had sued Dublin City Council over the accident on April 29, 2010. It was claimed it was a term of the tenancy that the premises, and in particular the
balcony, were safe, in particular for children, and that the balcoQ\ ZDV FRQVWUXFWHG RU PRGL¿HG so that children could not easily climb it. The claims were denied and the Council contended the circumstances around the alleged accident were not foreseeable and the premises was suitable in the circumstances for the housing of the boy and his family. It was further claimed there was an alleged failure on part of those charged with the supervision of the boy to ensure he did not climb onto the edge of the EDOFRQ\ DQG IDOO R൵ Counsel told the court the boy, now aged 12, is “a happy fellow who likes to talk about football”. As part of the settlement is an agreement that the boy and his father can remain in their Council accommodation. Mr Justice Kevin Cross said what happened was sad and tragic and he wished them well for the future.
Travellers face eviction from council lands THE Travelling Community are facing eviction from private lands as Dublin’s councils seek to hire a full-time security company to evict families from such. A joint tender document from the four local authorities was published by Dublin City Council saying they were seekLQJ D VHFXULW\ ¿UP WR KHOS HYLFW Travellers from sites around the county, seven days a week. The contract’s estimated total value excluding VAT is more than €750,000. John Connors, actor and Travellers’ rights activist, said politicians who supported formal recognition for Travellers as a distinct ethnic group in 2017 were hypocrites for their silence on the issue, which could see thousands of Travellers evicted during the worst homelessness crisis in the history of the State.
“Dublin has a lot of Travellers, we’re talking dozens and dozens of families. In Coolock alone we have around 300 altogether and that’s not even going into Fingal or other council areas,” Mr Connors said. “We could have thousands of Travellers evicted and where are they going to go?” he said. “There is an absolute panic, a lot of Travellers are messaging me asking, ‘What’s going to happen to us? What are we going to do? What can you do?’ “Travellers have a young population, we have so many young kids. “My family might not be evicted, we’ve been here 20 years, but what’s going to happen to other families? Where are they going to go? “They don’t want us travelling, but they don’t want us near them. They’re just evicting
7UDYHOOHUV WR D GL൵HUHQW FRXQFLO area, it’s always someone else’s problem.” Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced formal recognition for Travellers as a distinct ethnic group in 2017, labelling the move “a historic day for our Travellers and a proud day for Ireland”. Mr Connors said the status recognition was a hollow JHVWXUH DV ¿JXUHV UHOHDVHG LQ February showed that 10 local authorities in Ireland had failed to draw down any funding for Traveller accommodation last year. Meanwhile 14 councils failed to use all of the allocated funding, he said. A recent report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found that some Travellers were living in “deplorable conditions” in Ireland.
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Silicon Valley gong for key to better access
A DUBLIN locksmith has come up with a smart lock which allows the elderly and people with disabilities to open doors by touch. An electronic tag carried in a pocket or purse allows those with limited dexterity to enter their home without having to struggle with keys. The patented technology transforms radio frequency signals to touch, allowing the wearer or carrier of the tag to easily open a lock. Dave O’Toole, who has a shop on Dublin’s Amiens St, came up with the idea of a touch lock when his mother struggled to open doors following a stroke. Last month, his surprise win in a Silicon Valley pitching competition gave validation to his product. His 60-second pitch for his Touch2Access prototype wooed judges from crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, telecom-
munications giant AT&T, and Fortune 500 company Arrow Electronics. Mr O’Toole was considering launching a crowd- funding campaign and had travelled to San Francisco to take part in a hardware start -up bootcamp. Since his win over 120 fellow participants from the US and $VLD KH KDV UHFHLYHG FHUWLÂżFDtion from Arrow and the multinational has expressed interest in a global licensing deal. Touch2Access, he explains, is convenient and secure and eliminates the need to present a card or enter a digital code. Unlike other systems on the market, the technology does not operate through proximity or ÂżQJHUSULQW “The key tag stays in the pocket or the purse, and when you touch the door, it then sends a signal from the key tag over the body to the motorised lock,
which opens automatically. So once you touch the door, the lock opens; you just have to push it,� he says. While researching his concept for an electronic touch lock, Mr O’Toole realised that everyone he spoke with knew at least one SHUVRQ ZKR KDG GLྜFXOW\ ZLWK keys, whether they were elderly; had arthritis, Parkinson’s or DQRWKHU GLVHDVH RU KDG VX྾HUHG from a stroke. Having worked on his idea, he approached the Nimbus Institute based at Cork Institute of Technology. Subsequent funding through Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Partnership assisted in the development of the technology. While the hardware, comprising of an electronic lock and tag, a complementary smartphone app gives the system dual function for younger people and those who prefer a tech option.
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Eryn Cushnahan (12) from Malahide prepares for the 14th annual Bray Air Display which will take place on July 27 and 28. Pic: Joe Keogh
New pub is finally opened PUB operator JD Wetherspoon’s newest pub in Dublin city has opened on the site of a former bank and chapel on Lower Abbey Street and the company has spent ₏4million developing it. The new watering hole, called The Silver Penny, was due to open on June 21 but due to a setback, the opening date was pushed back to July 9. It will be managed by Filip Mordak who was previously at The Forty Foot, a Wetherspoon pub in Dún Laoghaire. The opening hours
will be 8am until 11:30pm Monday to Thursday, 8am until 12:30am on Friday and Saturday and 8am until 11pm on Sunday. The pub will serve food daily from opening until 11pm and will specialise in real ales as well as craft and world beers. It will also cater for families with children welcome until 9pm during the week when accompanied by an adult. The new-look pub features two bars, with the main bar at JURXQG ÀRRU OHYHO VHUYLQJ DQ impressive two storey space
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High Court action over city squatters
THE Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Eoghan Murphy TD, has called for councils to lift “overly restrictive maximum heights� and has issued new guidelines to encourage authorities to “actively pursue� taller buildings, particularly in the “main centres of a city� so as to indicate the most activity within a city. He says: “Our cities and our towns must grow upwards, not just outwards, if we are to meet the many challenges ahead. Constant expansion of lowdensity suburban development around our cities and towns cannot continue.� The guidelines note that continued sprawl would lead to increasing costs of both infrastructure, and “the energyintensive transport systems needed to feed it�. There are serious and unsustainable carbon emission implications due to increased commuting distances to the city and town centres when instead we could be living there, he said.
THE OWNERS of a building at 42 and 43 Blessington Street in Dublin 7 have brought a High Court application seeking to remove unknown trespassers from the property. &RQVWUXFWLRQ ÂżUPV 'HFN Building Services DAC KDM Construction Ltd and Clonmel Enterprises Ltd are the owners of a three storey-over-basement Georgian Building. The building had been used as a commercial premises at 42 & 42 Blessington Street. The owners, represented in court by Padraig D Lyons Bl, want to convert the property, which had been vacant for some time into an aparthotel. (DUOLHU WKLV PRQWK WKH SODLQWLŕľľV claimed the premises, was unlawfully occupied by a number of unknown persons. The locks on the doors have been changed. 2QH RI WKH RFFXSDQWV LGHQWLÂżHG themselves as Oliver Rabbite DQG DQRWKHU LGHQWLÂżHG KLPVHOI DV Mouse. The occupants were asked to leave, but have claimed they
VXUURXQGHG E\ D ÂżUVW Ă€RRU gallery, with a large roof light. Manager Filip Mordak said: “Myself and my team are looking forward to welcoming FXVWRPHUV FRQÂżGHQW ZH ZLOO be a great addition to Dublin.â€? The company runs six pubs in Ireland and four in Dublin: The Three Tun Tavern in Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock; The Forty Foot in The Pavilion Centre, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire; The Great Wood at Westend Shopping Park, Blanchardstown and The Old Borough in Swords.
have permission to reside in the property. They have also claimed that they have no alternative accommodation and would not be leaving. The owners say the building is not currently safe for occupation and in its current poor state does not comply with building regulations. Works had been planned to make the property compliant ZLWK ¿UH VDIHW\ UHJXODWLRQV As a result of the failure WR YDFDWH WKH SODLQWL྾V VHHN various orders including ones directing the persons occupying the property to vacate, deliver up possession of, and cease trespassing at the premises. The matter came before Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds on Tuesday ofz last week The Judge, on an ex parte basis, JUDQWHG WKH SODLQWL྾V SHUPLVVLRQ to serve short notice of the proceedings on the person’s occupying the premises. The matter was adjourne3d but it is expected to return again before the court before the end of this month..
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Joanne Melia and Emma Melia at the special preview screening of Annabelle Comes Home at Cineworld. Pic Brian McEvoy
Sam Faiers,J o Archbold, Bianca Gascoigne and Danielle Lloyd at the opening of Irish Celebrity Hairdresser Ceira Lambert’s new city centre salon in McCauley’s Health & Beauty Pharmacy, Charlemont Street. Pic Brian McEvoy
Caden Reid-Walsh (6), left, Eoin Reilly (8) and Joe Manning (8), and right, Kerri Nicole Blanc at a family screening of Disney’s The Lion King at the Odeon Point Village. Pic: Andres Poveda
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SELF -CATERING HOLIDAYS AT ROCKHILL HOLIDAY PARK & ADVENTURE CENTRE - a great idea for all the family At Rockhill we offer a range of on-site facilities, friendly and helpful staff, children’s camps during bank holidays and the summer months and quality accommodation - that is our promise to you. Rockhill Holiday Park is located along the shores of Mulroy Bay within walking distance of Kerrykeel village, 20 minutes from Letterkenny and a short drive to blue flag beaches. We offer Failte Ireland approved three and four bed cabins or two and three bed mobile homes for short breaks or longer stays. All accommodation is self catering with full cooking utensils, TV/DVD player and outdoor decking as standard. Beds are made up on arrival. We appreciate that children have an incredible amount of energy. We also know that keeping kids entertained while on holiday can sometimes be hard work for parents. You won’t have that problem at Rockhill as we offer a whole host of activities that are guaranteed to leave your kids exhausted and happy every night.
COME AND ENJOY A REALLY FUN DAY OUT AT ROCKHILL ACTIVITY PARK Have a great time in our newly renovated games park, you can enjoy hours of fun on a whole host of rides including water walkers, zorb balls, bungee trampolines, climbing wall, rodeo bull, bouncy castles, bouncy games and our golf putting course.
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Brilliant Bramble
Bramble flowers (Photo Justin Ivory) TO celebrate mid-summer and the schools getting their holidays, mother nature has adorned our hedgerows with a gorgeous display of mainly white and some pink flowers. This wildflower show comes courtesy of the least, likely of suspects – the Bramble (Rubus fructicosus). The normally hard and butch looking Bramble gets to show us its softer side at this time of year. The Bramble is a tenacious, scrambling plant with arching stems armed with vicious thorns, that root to form new plants wherever they touch the ground. Much maligned in some quarters, the Bramble is one of the best plants we have for wildlife and biodiversity and deserves our respect and praise. With its dense, thick nature and prickly defenses, Bramble bushes provide shelter and homes for a variety of mammals (foxes, mice, rats and hedgehogs to name a few), nesting birds and a myriad of invertebrates.
Bumblebee feeding on Bramble flowers (Photo Justin Ivory) The wonderful bramble flowers blooming now are a fantastic source of food to a whole host of pollinators (bees, butterflies, hoverflies). The bushes are veritably humming with activity at the moment. Later on, due to the services of these pollinators, the flowers will become that most wellknown of fruits – blackberries. These fruits provide an important source of energy and food to our wildlife late in the season. Maybe this autumn, rather than stripping the brambles bushes clean of all their lovely blackberries for our own consumption we might consider leaving them in situ for our ever-beleaguered wildlife to avail of. All-in-all the Bramble is a brilliant plant and we could do with much more of it around the place.
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SPÉIS SA SPÁS RTE 1 Thursday 18th July 7pm
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Released 2nd July 2019
Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award. One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother, is in charge of lopping any small limbs off the logs with a hatchet. Wade, the father, does the stacking. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, sing snatches of songs as they while away the time. But then something unimaginably shocking happens, an act so extreme it will scatter the family in every different direction. Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize .
In the week celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, this documentary finds out what the next generation of Irish space researchers and scientists are up to. They include 18-year-old Fionn Ferreira from Co Cork, who has won several international science awards and even has a dwarf planet named after him, Kim Heary, who has undertaken a traineeship with the European Space Agency, and Lána Salmon, one of 20 PhD students designing a cube satellite at University College Dublin.
Peter Parker returns in Spider-Man™: Far From Home, the next chapter of the SpiderMan™: Homecoming series! Our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter’s plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent! Spider-Man: Far From Home contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
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REDEMPTION FALLS 23rd July - 9th October Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1. T : (01) 878 7222
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VINTAGE CULTURE 21st July Vicar Street, Dublin
Moonfish Theatre follow their acclaimed adaptation of Joseph O’Connor’s novel Star of the Sea with a unique re-imagining of his sequel, Redemption Falls. 1865 – the end of the US Civil War. Eliza Duane Mooney walks across America in search of her brother Jeddo, a child soldier in the Confederate army. As Eliza and Jeddo’s stories unfold, they shine a light on the stark realities of war, its invisible rise, and what is left in its wake. Everyone of us got our own tune inside. If you stay real quiet you can hear it. Listen. Weaves traditional folk song and music, visceral imagery and evocative storytelling in a breathtaking and intense theatrical experience.
Dublin Maker takes the form of a “show and tell” experience where inventors/makers sourced through an open call, will have an opportunity to showcase their creations at individual booths in a carnival atmosphere. It is a family friendly showcase of invention. It’s a place where people show what they are making and share what they are learning. Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters, tinkerers, engineers, artists, science clubs, students, authors and commercial exhibitors. They are of all ages and backgrounds, coming from all over Ireland and beyond.
Sequence Events & Function Entertainment are delighted to announce Brazilian DJ Vintage Culture will play Vicar Street . The Brazilian fan favourite is currently touring the world with multiple major festival and club dates ahead. His last show in 2018 saw him sell out The Wright Venue and truly was a night to remember for his fans. Demand is once again expected to be extremely high for this Vicar Street performance and those planning to attend are highly advised to snap up tickets as soon as they go on sale.
CONCERT of the week
MUSICAL of the week
COMEDY of the week
VIRGOAs you gain strength, you gain options. Reject a farfetched scheme in favor of a practical solution. Your past deeds speak well for you. LIBRALay low to avoid fuss or crowds. Enjoy private contemplation, walks in nature and secret rituals. Make plans and visions. SCORPIOEnjoy fun with friends, allies and teams. Share information, tools and resources. Encourage and motivate high performance. SAGITTARIUS-
Take care of business before going out to play. Practice makes perfect; keep in action. Your status is on the rise. CAPRICORNCreate your agenda and itinerary. If you can get away, then go. Get advice, and make your own decisions. Learn through direct experience. Explore.
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Monday 22nd July . National Concert Hall
Since 1956 MYSOhas inspired generations of students and has grown from one orchestra and 30 students to become the largest and one of the most respected youth orchestra programs in the nation. Today they offer more than 40 ensemble and enrichment options, ranging from symphony, string orchestras, jazz and steel pan bands, to music theory, composition, and international tours, providing quality musical experiences guaranteeing an excellent night out.
CLUB TROPICANA Bord Gais Energy Theatre 30th July - 3rd August
THE SNAPPER Until 24th August. The Gate, Rotunda, Dublin T : (01) 874 4045
Welcome to the vibrant Club Tropicana Hotelthe 1980s answer to Love Island. Set to a soundtrack of some of the most iconic, charttopping acts from the 80s. Take a trip back to the electric 80s and embark on a summer of love and smash-hit classics. Hair was big! Shoulders were padded! Mobiles weighed a tonne! When our budding bride and groom get cold feet, they each decide to jet off to sunnier climes and feel the heat– but little do they know they’ve checked into the same hotel!!
An unexpected pregnancy. An unknown father. The relationships that matter, and the secrets that don’t. In 2018 the Gate Theatre commissioned Roddy Doyle to write a stage version of his much loved Dublin novel The Snapper. This new adaptation played to packed houses in 2018, bringing in new audiences who had never visited the Gate before, and now the production will return to the Gate stage this summer. The play offers a warm, frank and wickedly funny account of family life in Northside Dublin in the 1980s.
AQUARIUSJoin forces for the funding with a shared project. Changes necessitate budget revisions. Keep your objective in mind. Strategize carefully. Tap into a secret source. PISCESEnjoy your partner’s company. Romance is a distinct possibility. Discover something new about someone familiar. Follow through on shared goals.
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Come on ye girls in green
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T has been a very good year for women’s sport, culminating in some thrilling contests at Wimbledon. For me, it started last summer with the World Cup exploits of the Irish hockey team. I was in Spain at the time and watched several of their games in a bar where people of all nationalities seemed to be cheering our girls in green. I’d guess most of these fans had never seen a hockey match and, like me, were pretty hazy about the rules. 7KHUH ZHUH VKRXWV IRU µR൵VLGH¶ and ‘handball’ and a guy at a table beside me wondered why they couldn’t catch the ball and strike it in mid-air. “I VXSSRVH WKDW¶V WKH GL൵HUHQFH between camogie and hurling,” he suggested to his exasperated wife, who pointed out that he wasn’t watching camogie and tried to explain some of the ¿QHU SRLQWV RI KRFNH\ He wasn’t listening. He was too busy cheering. We all were. It was great seeing an Irish team perform on a world stage
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before a big crowd. I never use that phrase ‘I’m proud to be Irish’, but I was proud that day ZKHQ RXU KRFNH\ WHDP TXDOL¿HG IRU WKH :RUOG &XS ¿QDO For as long as there has been a game called hockey, women have played it. So it was no great surprise that it was our ZRPHQ¶V WHDP ZKR PDGH LW ¿UVW to the big time.
Aiste Petraitute and Niamh Chambers at Three’s #MadeByMusic balcony at Longitude in Marlay Park But Irish women have also been excelling at sports that were once regarded as maleonly. I was sceptical about whether women could play rugby but in 2013 the Irish women proved
me wrong, winning the Six Nations with a Grand Slam. Next year the team - led by Niamh Briggs, the galloping garda from Waterford - beat New Zealand and topped their World Cup pool.
They won the Six Nations again the following year. The team has slipped a bit since then. But they introduced me to the women’s game which I now happily watch, knowing that it can be just as exciting as the men’s version. Or just as boring. Because there is nothing magical about women in sport. At the top level they are elite athletes and they will have good days and bad days just like the men. If I was sceptical about women playing rugby, I was downright hostile to the idea of women boxing. I’m not sure why. In part, I think, it was an old-fashioned view about what was appropriate for ‘ladies’ but also, to be honest, a belief that they wouldn’t be any good at a sport I have always liked. Katie Taylor proved me ZURQJ 6KH LV D ¿QH ER[HU ZLWK the guile, skill and courage that are the mark of true champions. Women’s sport needs role models. And, sure enough, a string of women have followed Katie and restored Irish amateur boxing to the top rank. I would love to see an Irish
soccer team in the women’s World Cup. It was a great tournament. The women showed individual skills as good as any the men can produce. They lacked some tactical awareness, I thought, but they made up for that with other things their game lacked. There was no pouting or pretending to be injured. There were no attempts to get opposition players booked or VHQW R൵ 7KHUH ZHUH ZLWK D IHZ exceptions) no mass arguments with the referee. There was no segregation of the fans and QR R൵HQVLYH VRQJV RU YLFLRXV chants about players on the other side. Will it last, I wonder? Or will matching the success of the men’s game mean adopting its worst aspects? I have been hearing for years how women at the top would improve the conduct of business and politics. Sadly, I see no evidence of it. Female CEOs and prime ministers behave no better than their make equivalents. Maybe sportswomen will set a better example.
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