Follow the piper to the Castle

The Leinster Pipe Band Championships will be held in Swords Castle on May 5 at the bank holiday weekend.

Forget-Me-Nots choir welcome festive season

Fergal Maddock Christmas arrived early to the County Hall when the wonderful Forget-Me-Nots choir deliver a wonderful performance. Taking their place in the Atrium, the choir members got everyone into the festive mood with their wonderful carol singing.

20th annual Gibneys charity wine fair is a success once again

Fergal Maddock An important fundraiser in the Malahide area which raises thousands of euro for local schools has once again been a resounding success.

Harry Clarke exbo set to open

The first phase of a heritage trail on the Donabate and Portrane peninsula will be unveiled this week.

Artist Roddy Moynihan of Jordan Fine Arts at the Christmas exhibition

Jordan Arts Christmas Show not to be missed

Jordan Arts is running a Christmas Show from now until December 23 featuring work from some of the finest local artists.

Members of the cast appearing in Aladdin

Aladdin ready to unleash a genie in Rush

A certain infamous genie will be rising from a lamp on the stage of the Millbank Theatre in Rush when the Christmas Panto comes to town.

Skerries Community College parents association put on the play The Ladykillers by Skerries Theatre Group in the Little Theatre Skerries. Pictured is Ethna McQuillan & Richard Norman Wright

Ladykillers slays the audience in Skerries

Skerries Theatre Group has slayed local audiences with its brilliant recent production of the Graham Linehan penned adaptation of Ladykillers.

Brian Howard is Rick O Shea and Yvonne Healy is Pearl Barley

Balbriggan Dramatic Society serve up some murder at Ardgillan

Balbriggan Historical Society took on the challenge of a lifetime recently when it took a very different piece of theatre to the beautiful surroundings of Ardgillan Castle.

Students show star quality!

Transition year students at Portmarnock Community School have once again done themselves proud after staging a wonderful stage production.

Jacob Tremblay as Auggie Pullman and Nosh Jupe as Jack Will in Wonder

Beauty comes from within in adaptation of award-winning novel

Christmas comes early with the aptly titled Wonder. Lovingly adapted from the award-winning 2012 novel by RJ Palacio, this exquisitely calibrated drama eschews mawkish sentimentality but still has us weeping uncontrollably by the end credits.

Fingal Children’s Choir celebrate victory in Kilcoole

Fingal Children's Choir celebrate double win

Fingal Children's Choir is in fine voice lately and celebrating the winning of two prizes at the Kilcoole Music Festival, recently.

Famine film short begins shooting in Fingal

Filming for The Hunger Times, a short drama about the Irish Famine, aimed at 10-13 year olds, began in Fingal last week and Tile Media are filming on location in Ardgillan Castle, Malahide Castle and Commons Lane in Skerries.

Some of the work on display at the celebrity art exhibition in Skerries

Celebrity art exbo lined up for interiors store in Skerries

Goat in the Boat Interiors at Skerries Harbour is hosting a celebrity art exhibition in aid of Focus Ireland.

Christmas fair in Donabate

Preparations are well under way in Donabate for the Christmas Lights Festival and Craft Fair & Market on Saturday December 2, from 1pm, with the Christmas lights going on at 4.30pm.

Billy Joel with ‘Uptown Girl’ Christie Brinkley

Top tens: this week in 1983

'Uptown Girl' is Billy Joel's only number one in the UK, and in Ireland. It knocked Culture Club's 'Karma Chameleon' off the top of the charts in 1983 and remained at No. 1 for five weeks, making it the second biggest seller of the year (behind 'Karma Chameleon').

Battlefront 2 is a particularly sad experience, because it adheres flawlessly to the Star Wars aesthetic but is oozing with unspent potential

Battlefront 2 another disappointing instalment

Chris Hayes From the very beginning, it seemed that Battlefront 2 was destined to be dead-on-arrival.

Showtime for William

Fergal Maddock An acclaimed Fingal-born actor and director is the main a new comedy mockumentary that is already piquing interest in the industry across Europe.