Karen Power
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Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera
- Music
- December 12, 2020, 05:00
“If I wanted to do this I wouldn’t have started from here.” It’s such an obvious point that nobody has actually yet bothered to make it to me about an(...)

Karen Power: Human nature review – A kind of magic carpet
- Music
- September 18, 2020, 05:00
Composer Karen Power certainly gets about. The 18 pieces on her new album feature field recordings made in Australia, Cambodia, Crete, Laos, Namibia, (...)

Covid-19: Sports clubs and restaurant in Skerries close temporarily
- Irish News
- September 1, 2020, 13:43
Several sports clubs and a restaurant in a town in North Co Dublin have ceased activity due to a rising number of confirmed Covid-19 cases among the l(...)

‘I caught my 18-month-old with a bottle of limescale remover in her mouth’
- Parenting
- November 28, 2019, 06:01
Sitting on the bathroom floor rocking through a panic attack while reading the back of a limescale remover bottle was not my idea of a pleasant aftern(...)

Event of the Week: Cork Midsummer Festival
- Culture
- June 8, 2019, 05:00
The modest citizens of Cork may wish to avert their eyes from the Crawford Art Gallery during this year’s Midsummer Festival when The Fig Reveal strip(...)

Women composers find a voice: The week’s best classical music
- Music
- March 10, 2018, 05:00
Finding a Voice Various venues, Clonmel, Co Tipperary Saturday March 10th 1pm. 3pm & 8pm southtippartscentre.ie It’s the last day of Findin(...)

Director’s first full festival hoves into view
- Music
- January 24, 2018, 05:15
There’s a great, thought-provoking line by GK Chesterton in which he claims that “if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly”. I first came ac(...)

Dyspraxia: When the brain takes the ‘scenic route’
- Parenting
- October 31, 2016, 06:00
A teacher sweeps into the classroom, tells the pupils to take out a certain textbook, turn to page 25 and start writing out answers to question three (...)

Shostakovich’s Tenth: a celebration of surviving Stalin
- Music
- October 19, 2016, 06:00
A man is joyfully jumping up and down. On a grave. He is cheering, savagely, fists raised. “In your face,” he shouts. “You are gone. I’m still here.” (...)

Shopping spraoi: Waterford city
- Life & Style
- February 20, 2016, 03:01
First up on Alanna Gallagher’s whistlestop tour is the Déise capital Waterford in the south-east was founded by the Vikings in 914AD and claims to (...)