Niall Sweeney
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Meet the artist who is ‘just itching to make more silk scarves’
- Culture
- November 2, 2019, 05:30
“What would you call them?” artist Niall Sweeney says early in our conversation. The question is rhetorical, but borne of an inability to describe the(...)

From Dublin to Fifth Avenue: A marriage made in design heaven
- Interiors
- August 17, 2019, 06:00
When an Irish, London-based interior design outfit was tasked with reinventing part of the five-star Berkeley Hotel, the bar, as it were, was high. Th(...)

St Patrick’s Day: 21 events across Ireland for the bank holiday weekend
- People
- March 14, 2019, 06:00
The forecast may not be great for this year’s St Patrick’s Day, but there are lots of events and other attractions, many indoors, to keep you entertai(...)

When it comes to photography, Ireland in no danger of overexposure
- Culture
- December 17, 2016, 05:00
Last summer in Arles, France, visitors were paying €12 to see the work of a Dublin-born artist at the oldest photography festival in the world. Lands(...)

The GAA player who ran away to join Panti’s circus
- Stage
- September 23, 2016, 08:00
Ronan Brady is a fine figure of a man. It’s a description you won’t hear too many former intercounty footballers use to describe a one-time opponent,(...)

Una Mullally’s 2015: Beauty in the eye of the placard-holder
- Culture
- December 19, 2015, 05:00
What did I learn from the arts this year? That art in the name of protest and advocacy is not just powerful but beautiful, too. Artists expressed the(...)

Team Panti: the making of a queen
- Film
- October 17, 2015
Rory O’Neill and Panti are both separate and inextricably linked. O’Neill’s part of their Venn diagram contains characteristics that are alien to P(...)

For your diary
- Economy
- April 13, 2015, 01:00
TODAY Meetings: Holcim agm (Zurich) TOMORROW Results: Google; Intel; Kuehne + Nagel. Meetings: Business Expo 2015 (Westcourt Hotel, Dro(...)

The Pigeon House rules: a boom in Dublin art
- Visual Art
- July 15, 2014
‘It was too late and we were too tired to carry out our project of visiting the Pigeon House. We had to be home before four o’clock lest our advent(...)

Rory O'Neill/Panti: The drag doyenne who’s the queen of the scene
- Stage
- July 12, 2013, 12:43
Rehearsal spaces aren’t very fabulous. Upstairs in a building on Marlborough Place in Dublin, next door to Barney’s Amusements and a glance away from (...)