Neill O’Neill chats to Tommy Hughes and Joe McDermott, who have just made a 67 minute film about the town of Newport.
Styling
MUSINGS A debt to pay
Ciara Galvin on how she probably should plan for plenty of babysitting in the weeks ahead.
It's a dog's life
The chairperson of Connemara dog-rescue charity MADRA talks about the organisation’s work and the challenges it faces
MUSINGS Monopoly Blues
A family game of monopoly prompts Fin Keegan to reflect on how the dice seems loaded in the Age of Austerity
MUSINGS The help button
In this week’s Diary of a Home Bird, Ciara Galvin grapples with technology, and those who grapple with it
CULTURE Rolling Sun sets on big crowds
The fourth annual Rolling Sun Book Festival included Ruby Wax and Professor Diarmaid Ferriter in its lineup at the weekend
ART Does this picture jog your memory?
Artist appeals for information about a photograph of the Castlebar Hat Factory tug of war team taken in the mid 1940s
MUSINGS Calvin’s Propeller
Remember the time when attaching propellers to your head meant you could go flying through the air?
Waxing lyrical
Mental-health campaigner, author and comedian Ruby Wax shares her road to sanity at the Rolling Sun Book Festival
HEALTH One in seven Mayo homes has high levels of cancer-causing radon gas
Ballina home had five times the acceptable level – equivalent to over 1,200 chest X-rays per year
MUSINGS Flights of fancy
In this week’s Diary of a Home Bird, Ciara Galvin discovers that there’s no such thing as a hassle-free holiday