CULTURE Westival, Westport’s annual music and arts festival, starts October 21 and runs for six days
Westival moves to virtual world
Living
Weaving a way of life
CULTURE Áine Ryan chats to Clare Island handweaver Beth Moran about the impact of her remote surroundings on her practice
Make your own Halloween costumes
GREEN LIVING McKinley Neal on taking an environmentally friendly approach to the scary season
Locks to Mincéirí identity
CULTURE Exhibitions exploring hair, culture and identity have opened in two Mayo venues
Keeping them fed
MUSINGS In this week’s Dad Diary, Edwin notes the intricacies and diplomacies involved in peaceful family eating
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
PETS’ CORNER Vet Conal Finnerty on the different ways in which we can help animals wild and domestic through the winter
Creative fires to blaze brightly
CULTURE Westival 2020 is an exciting programme of exhibitions, workshops, theatre, music concerts, cinema and outdoor entertainment
Let old clothes live on
GREEN LIVING McKinley Neal on environmentally responsible ways of dealing with clothing we no longer need
Hangings, hooch and penal punishment
BOOKS Dr Michael O’Connor’s ‘Anatomy of a County Gaol’, an in-depth study of a penal system that subjugated human rights
Making the invisible visible
CULTURE Six artists, a curator and a composer collaboratively respond to womanhood, ageing and the arts
Taking some of the waste out of tech
GREEN LIVING McKinley Neal shares some tips on how to reduce the energy consumption of everyday technology