David Rooney
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‘I enjoyed the pub ... but we are trying to be careful because of the virus’
- Consumer
- December 13, 2020, 16:40
Sitting at a socially distanced table behind Plexiglass in Frank Ryan’s bar on Smithfield, Dublin, 23-year-old Orla Keaveney says that nowadays she fe(...)

Central Bank commemorates ‘Dracula’ with €15 collector coin
- Financial Services
- October 26, 2018, 11:21
Just in time for Halloween, the Central Bank has launched a commemorative €15 Bram Stoker Dracula collector coin. The silver proof coin commemorates (...)

Irish film starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman in running for Cannes award
- Film
- May 22, 2017, 17:52
Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, an Irish production from Element Pictures, has premiered to great acclaim at the 70th Cannes Film Fes(...)

Ten weird and wonderful lots that sold at auction in 2016
- Fine Art & Antiques
- December 30, 2016, 12:00
1 On St Patrick’s Day at Christie’s in London £435,000 (€554,000) was paid for a pair of paintings by the late Irish artist Tony O’Malley which – when(...)

The 1916 Rising as you have never seen it before
- Heritage
- April 23, 2016
By his own account David Rooney was an unlikely person to be asked to illustrate a book about the men and women of 1916. “For me growing up, everythin(...)

Hammer falls on Seán FitzPatrick
- Financial Services
- March 2, 2016, 18:32
The original artwork for an Irish Times cartoon of Anglo Irish Bank’s Seán FitzPatrick as a Formula One racing driver sold for €3,000 at Sheppard’s Ir(...)

1916 Diary, February 26th
- Irish News
- February 26, 2016, 01:00
February 26th, 1916 A disgruntled “observer” of Dublin student life has penned a caustic letter to The Irish Times noting the contrast between the n(...)

Seán FitzPatrick cartoon to be sold at auction
- Media & Marketing
- February 19, 2016, 01:00
The original artwork for an Irish Times cartoon of Anglo Irish Bank’s Seán FitzPatrick has turned up in a fine art auction and will be sold next mont(...)

Man is sentenced to eight years for stabbing his friend
- Crime & Law
- October 16, 2013, 22:00
A Dublin man has been sentenced to eight years for stabbing his friend in the stomach and chest, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.Jason Curr(...)