Aidan Kelly
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Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock
- Stage
- July 16, 2019, 15:15
Karl Shiels had a way of making things happen. Even in the theatre, where making things happen, however steep the odds, is the soul of the endeavour,(...)

Body and Soul 2019: festival stage times revealed
- Music
- June 14, 2019
Body & Soul Music and Arts Festival has announced the full stage times for its 10th Aniversary celebration of the summer solstice which kicks off (...)

The Country Girls review: Subversion reimagined as sentimentality
- Stage
- March 1, 2019, 14:14
THE COUNTRY GIRLS Abbey Theatre, Dublin ★★☆☆☆ “Oh, my God, where did you get it?” a shocked young nun asks when her poetic and curious charge, Kate, (...)

The Misfits review: An intimate character study in a stripped-back Wild West
- Stage
- October 1, 2018, 11:51
THE MISFITS Smock Alley ★ ★ ★ ★ Strip away the huge Nevada skies from John Huston’s film of Arthur Miller’s The Misfits and it becomes an intimate st(...)

The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage reboot
- Stage
- September 22, 2018, 05:00
We are a long way from Reno. On an Autumn afternoon in Ranelagh the sun is coming through the high windows at an angle to dazzle the eye. Annie Ryan, (...)

Cleantech firm Airsynergy scoops major technology award
- Technology
- December 14, 2017, 08:52
Co Longford-founded cleantech firm Airsynergy has won out against strong competition from heavyweights such as Kingspan and Mitsubishi to scoop a majo(...)

'It’s on, it’s gone. And that’s the glory of it, actually'
- Books
- October 10, 2017, 05:00
Francis O’Connor reaches into a black model box, about the size of a domestic oven, and carefully begins to reposition the tiny furniture. The baniste(...)

Sports ramp takes top prize at Invent Awards
- Technology
- September 30, 2016, 08:26
An extreme sports ramp invented by a former all-Ireland mountain bike champion has taken first prize ahead of 99 other brilliant ideas in a competiti(...)

Inside the GPO review: At the centre stage of the action
- Stage
- April 1, 2016, 17:22
**** General Post Office, Dublin “What are you here for?” an admonishing priest asks the rebels, while tending to the wounded and dying in the GPO(...)

Angling notes: Mixed fortunes as season draws to a close on Lough Corrib
- Other Sports
- October 5, 2015, 00:00
As the game angling season finally draws to a close, reports from the last week of the season on Lough Corrib was one of mixed fortunes with some havi(...)