A delicious festival, a must-have dress and 12 other things you need to know about this week

Events, trends, fashion, TV, podcasts ... A Friday fix of things to spice up your life


1. Happy Days

A beer and food festival at Rascals brewery in Inchicore, Dublin 8, April 30th and May 1st

2. What Did You Eat This Week?

Joyously distracting food podcast from James Kavanagh

3. Silver dresses

Go full Studio 54, as in Victoria Beckham at her son’s wedding

4. Conversations With Friends

Coming to RTÉ and the BBC in mid-May

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5. Dún Laoghaire skatepark 

Great plans are afoot for a new skatepark by the Dublin harbour

6. Billie Eilish x Nike

The singer is collaborating on Air Force 1 trainers called ‘Mushroom’

7. Rumbullion

A rum festival at Wigwam in Dublin next weekend with DJs, drag, salsa dancing and cocktail-making competitions

8. Pangaia 

The popular loungewear brand has a great capsule suit collection

9. COYGIG

The Republic of Ireland's women's soccer team are on the up

10. Generation 2022

An exhibition of new Irish painting at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny

11. The Plant Alchemist

Coffee, plants, and workshops at this Belfast gem

12. Our Little World

An immersive theatre experience for children at Mud Island Community Garden in Dublin in May

13. Women by Women

Photography exhibition by ActionAid celebrating female community leaders and climate change trail- blazers, currently touring Dublin

14. WellFest

Europe’s largest health, fitness and wellness festival returns to Kilmainham on May 7th and 8th