What’s hot and what’s not this week

HOT

Spring It has definitely sprung. Duffel coats be gone

Lynched Breathing new life into boisterous traditional folk music

Dublin Inquirer The excellent website (dublininquirer.com) has launched a monthly print edition

Revolutionary prints Jim FitzPatrick has produced some quality 1916 illustrations. You can get them at jimfitzpatrick.com

Monkey 47 Number one right now on our (highly competitive) gin chart

Anonymous Going to war with Donald Trump on April 1st, apparently

Drop Everything The Inis Oírr cultural biennial is back in May

The Punisher Casting Walking Dead alumnus Jon Bernthal in new series of Daredevil is pretty perfect

NOT

Yurt-less Luxury boutique camping at Body & Soul has sold out. The first yurt is the deepest

BT2 Closing next January to make way for Victoria's Secret

Easter egg panic It's always the expensive ones left over when we just want supermarket standards

Porndog The much maligned and poorly monikered eatery is morphing into an Italian restaurant

Lidl jeans The real cost of cheap clothes is cheap labour

Dusts Mainstreamed by Moon Juice and as ridiculous as the ingredient names suggest

Russian vodka Exports are down over 40 per cent