I'm delighted to have been invited to respond to artist Pauline O'Connell's project 'From Hide to Heel', one of the Public Arts Projects commissioned by Kilkenny County Council and funded by the Arts Council and the Dept of Housing, Local Gov & Heritage. Book here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/form-funct...
This month's building for my 100 Building series for RTÉ Culture is the 1930s gem - the Kildare Fever Hospital. Read here:
@kildarelibrary.bsky.social @kildarenow.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
When presented like that Shatter should just do the decent thing and let it go, but when Gannon has colleagues in his party suing over deleted tweets expressing a similar personal opinion by private citizens not in a public role than they don't have a leg to stand on to be fair.
Look, I'm not the one who would usually say this, but I actually think it should stop raining
It literally takes one minute to sign this petition to stop mass harvesting of seaweed from the west coast of Ireland without proper public consultation. I signed and it’s at 12,222 out of 15,000 rn — please sign:
My first 100 Buildings piece for 2026 as part of my series for @rte.ie Culture is on an often-overlooked structures - the humble lampstandard. Read about a pair of rare 1940s concrete Art Deco ones in Co.Meath. Huge thanks to @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social for her photos
www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
Children's drawing: when I grow up I want to be carried away by owls
Don't we all
A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk
The first two hours this morning
The only excuse I cam think of for our poor performance is that we not used to playing in the snow
Sorry but we literally debunked this like last month when he did this dog whistle. Fintan O'Toole literally did the maths, in the Times no less, that showed that this isn't true.
Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?
Thank you Noreen. Very kind. Hope you are having a peaceful Christmas 🎄
Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
A fantastic report from Limerick with an unequivocal conclusion: the majority of Limerick’s protected cycle lane schemes “maintained or enhanced” access for emergency vehicles.
Will our planners listen though? That is the question.
Just for the year. I've a fair bit more to go with publishing on the RTÉ Culture website (my poor editor) but exciting news for the 100 Buildings project for 2026 so watch this space....
My last 100 Buildings piece for 2025 on @rte.ie Culture is in County Wexford. Read about the purpose, strategic locations and design of these WW2 pill boxes guarding our waters. Link to article here: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
#Duncannon #Wexford #RTECulture #100Buildings
My "I Will Trust In The Darkness" print against a starry photograph background - the print shows a painting of small wooden sail boat with a red Celtic cross on a white sail travelling into the horizon on a starry night. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #BlueskyArt #Art #Ireland #TraditionalArt #HandDrawn
An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space.
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
A bit of brutalism that doesn't include how tight Cavan men are jokes 🤣
My latest piece for my 100 Buildings series for @rte.ie Culture is Cavan Hospital designed by Andy Devane and team for RKD Architects and built by Sisk. You can read about a piece of Brutalism in Cavan here:
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
My latest piece as part of my #100Building series for @rte.ie Culture is Andy Devane's first school in his hometown of Limerick displaying influences from his apprenticeship under Frank Lloyd Wright #Limerick @rkdarchitects.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
So sorry to learn that Machán Magan has died. You certainly showed us the relevance of the past for the present; cf. your bestseller 'Thirty-Two Words for Field. Lost Words of the Irish Landscape'. 'Ireland in Iceland' another intriguing title. #Machán your enterprising & free spirit will be missed!
Could Dublin councillors be cut out of major plans for the city centre – as councillors have been in Limerick? Dublin councillors were looking at Limerick as a regen model. But there’s disquiet there now, with concerns on transparency, oversight, and control over development.
'But a row broke out last summer when Mayor John Moran said in line with “best corporate practice”, council members would have to apply to sit on the board, and he would decide the positions.'
12 months on no councillors have yet been appointed onto LTT board
www.limerickleader.ie/news/busines...
floor plan studio apartment
Ireland 2025
Welcome to your new hotel-room-size permanent home
This but now with 5m2 less space (equivalent to 2 double beds) & added bonus of unlimited number of neighbours in close proximity on a long corridor, with all the noise of their music/tv/chat & all the smells of their food & pets 😬
🤣🤣🤣
The amount of times I want to caption a photo of a building with 'I swear this building is impressive on a fine day'
