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The Imperial Hotel in Cork, decked out in all its Christmas finery, is the perfect setting for my meeting with Vanessa Feltz. The radio host, broadcaster, journalist and author is sparkly, effervescent, and colourful — literally and figuratively. Feltz has just written her autobiography, Vanessa Bares All, and is on a whistle-stop tour promoting it. […]
There is something admirably edgy about Galway’s TULCA Festival of Visual Arts running at this time of year, so close to the usual round of Christmas exhibitions. TULCA 2024 is curated by Michele Horrigan under the title The Salvage Agency, and features contemporary art of all kinds at various venues all over the city, including […]
As a visual artist, Anthony Ruby is probably best known for his Pana Shuffle mural in Mutton Lane in Cork, which remains one of the most enduring legacies of the city’s tenure as European Capital of Culture. Ruby also works as an educator, teaching art at the North Mon, and he exhibits regularly in Dublin […]
Bill Bailey says his scariest animal moment was when a jaguar pounced on him in the Amazonas region of Brazil. Her name was Lulu and she was an army base mascot, but she was still a jaguar — not small and slinky like a cheetah, but tiger-sized. “It was the speed with which this jaguar […]