Actor, comedian and writer Richard Clare on his one man show The Private Life of the Jellyfish. 

Richard Clare

The 600 km journey I did with my kids on the Caminho Portugues - a lesser-known pilgrimage route from Lisbon to Santiago, and on to Fisterra on the Galician coast...

Bom Caminho

Vera Ryan, art historian and guest curator of "Angels in Danger", the exhibition from the Watson archive acquired by the Crawford Art Gallery, talks about the archive; a treasure trove of stained glass designs and cartoons, but in need of preservation and restoration.

Angels in Danger

Jinx Lennon on being his own hero, his "gritty, dusty" show and being a dowser for energy at his gigs...

Jinx Lennon

This summer, take a ghost tour of Cork with theatre director and actor Damien Punch, who has designed a tour that revels in all things ghoulish and ghastly from Cork's hidden past. Here, we meet in Cork's historic Shandon Quarter, where the streets used to run with blood from slaughtered cattle.  

Damian Punch of Cork Ghost tours

Web entrepreneur, social media expert and the brains behind the award-winning www.lovelybeards.com, David O'Gorman talks all things bearded and mansome.

Lovely Beards

Jacky Colliss Harvey, the author of Red: A History of the natural redhead, gave a talk to a room of enthralled redheads at the 6th annual Redhead convention in Crosshaven.  I caught up with her to discover some astonishing facts about the flame-haired.

Jacky Colliss Harvey

The Atlantic, the new documentary from Risteard O'Domhnaill, the director of The Pipe, Is touring fishing communities in a mobile cinema this summer to bring the film to the people feeling the effects of the squeeze on our Atlantic resources the most.  Pic via www.johneaglephoto.com 

The Atlantic on tour

Palestinian poet and spoken word performer Rafeef Ziadah grew up a refugee in the Lebanon and took to performing after a racist attacker told her she deserved to be raped before she gave birth to more terrorists.  For Ziadah, then, there is no separation between art and politics; they are interwoven in her work.  Here, she is post-show in the Spailpin Fanach following her visit to Áras an Uachtarán on her Irish tour. 

Rafeef Ziadah

"This is what it feels like to wear the average American garbage." Rob Greenfield on Day 17 of his Trash Me project explains how he came to be wearing 51lbs of waste on his body.

Rob Greenfield

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Ellie O'Byrne

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