Hard Working Class Heroes festival, the grassroots music event taking place across Dublin this weekend, continues to excite locals and tourists alike. With a free daytime element, allowing passersby access to live acts at venues right across the city, there…
More than 300 people have been killed in Haiti by Hurricane Matthew, the Haitian government has said. The country has been left reeling from the devastation caused by the category 4 storm which saw 230km/h winds tear across the Caribbean…
Turning up to watch one of the first live acts of Hard Working Class Heroes, the pan-Dublin music festival taking place from today until Saturday, was an experience about as far from could be expected of a rock band playing…
It doesn’t take a long walk through Dublin’s city centre to find somebody without a roof over their head and a bed to sleep in. There are 6,525 people “officially homeless” in Ireland, a figure referring solely to those people…
Hard Working Class Heroes Festival comes to Dublin this weekend. Music lovers across the city and beyond are gearing up for one of the most anticipated events in Dublin’s calendar. Hard Working Class Heroes is a city-wide music festival which…
The evidence of technology’s bold and relentless march into the future is all around us, so far ingrained into our everyday lives that in these enlightened times it would almost be unimaginable to live without an electrical device nestled in…
The FTSE has closed at a near record high of 7,074.34 today, alleviating doubts about the state of the British economy in the wake of the Brexit result, but leaving many Irish investors short changed. The FTSE soared 1.3%, nearing the…
Three British-born scientists have been named as this year’s joint Nobel Prize winners in the field of Physics. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz will share the prestigious award for their discoveries relating to the behaviour of strange forms…
In a city that is so geared towards cyclists, the number of bike thefts in Dublin seems to be on an ever increasing upward trend. Since 2008, the number of reported cases of stolen bicycles has stepped up dramatically, with…
Haiti is again bracing itself for natural disaster this morning as a devastating hurricane approaches the Caribbean nation. Hurricane Matthew, a category 4 storm, is fast approaching the western tip of the country, and is expected to hit land in…