If you're looking for something to watch this evening, this eye-opening documentary which aired last night is well worth watching. In Ireland in the last year, almost 500 young adults left foster or residential state care for a new life on their own. After Care tells the story of young adults in Ireland who have just come out of state care as they are forced to live independently from the age of 18.
The documentary looks at the ups and the downs of this challenging process, and showcases the serious integrity of these inspirational 18 year olds. There's plenty of food for thought in this, so make sure you catch it before it disappears from RTÉ Player.
Robin Gill: The Irish chef behind acclaimed London restaurants returns to Dublin for a burger pop-up collab with Dash Burger This Saturday at Hen’s Teeth from 17:00 Robin Gill’s voice carries the easy lilt of someone who grew up within earshot of Dublin Bay, though his culinary career has largely unfolded across the Irish Sea. […]
A Skort by Any Other Name On a humid afternoon this weekend at St Peregrine’s GAA Club Blanchardstown, west of Dublin, thirty camogie players took the field not in the sport’s traditional skorts, but in shorts. They weren’t in war paint or waving placards but they may as as well have been. The Kilkenny and […]
The once-reliable rail line is now making people late, miserable, and poor. For months now, regular passengers have faced delays, confusion, crowding, and rising fares. At the core of the problem is a pattern all too familiar in public transport systems: big-picture ambition undercut by everyday mismanagement.What happened in Dublin over the past six months […]