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Fecquin Hilarious

  By Lisa McInerney | December 16, 2011 - 4:00 pm | Comedy, Music, Random Whimsy, The Culch, The Internet
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If you’ve logged onto the internet at all in the last couple of months, you’ll probably have heard me bleating on, and on, and on about my recent move back home to rural South County Galway, a place with rocks where fields should be and reality where Killinaskully should be. Since I got settled back in Connacht, I’ve struggled with how best to explain this reclaimed lifestyle to my urbane urbanites back in my adopted city of Cork. Should I send them photos of cows in flagrante delicto? Elderly priests falling off their bicycles? Perhaps videos of boy racers speeding their Massey Fergusons up and down the community school car park? For a while, it was as perplexing a quandary as our disappearing lakes. And then Garry Carroll sorted it for me, just as he had sorted Fade Street and Coldplay. I should never have doubted him. Garry Carroll, also … There’s more →

Competition CLOSED: Ragús and a night at The Burlington

  By Sinead Keogh | May 18, 2011 - 9:44 am | Competitions, Events, Food, Music, The Arts, The Culch, Tourism
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***COMPETITION CLOSED. Congrats to Amy. Winner selected via Twitter*** It’s competition time again! Ragús, The Burlington Hotel’s summer show, kicked off at the start of this month and is running until the beginning of October. Having completed runs at Vicar Street and the Olympia Theatre, the Irish music and dance offering has now moved location which allows for the happy addition of dinner, breakfast and a night at the hotel…and the lovely people at Ragús are offering just that to you! Ragús has been described as ‘an exhibition of energetic, fast moving, traditional Irish music, song and dance.’ The Irish Examiner called it ‘an exhilarating tour de force’ and RTÉ Radio one said the music ‘simply gives you shivers up your spine’. To celebrate the new run, we’d like you to go along and check it out for yourself. Ragús and Culch.ie are offering one winner a one-night special package … There’s more →