I remember posting about Irish film twice before on this blog. Once when talking about my interest and passion in film, the other when promoting Cartoon Saloon’s beautiful work. Luke Morgan from Oughterard Co Galway's film is an example of a young passionate Irish filmmaker. His short film "Pockets", a five minute monologue about "empty nest" syndrome has been selected for the prestigious...

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Something you may have noticed: I absolutely love anything to do with film. I also make a point to promote any Irish production when I can, through social media. Why? Because our film industry doesn't get enough recognition. I haven't seen the film, yet (which was released on April 17th) but from reading countless reviews from Ireland and abroad (most importantly), this film...

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It seems only fitting that I discuss a musician for my fourth post. So far, this blog has been personal, review and personal in terms of blog posts. For my second blog post I talked about "The Water Diviner". So now I want to talk about one of my favourite musicians, Ben Howard. I found out about Ben Howard by accident, four years ago...

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I've been noticing this for a while, but only today I got the idea to blog about it. On this blog I wrote a blog post about youth, how their minds are different to children's and adults. How I feel young people (my age) have this magical quality to way they love, have adventures and express themselves. Recently I've been noticing how vocal...

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Some of you reading this were probably at DIE last night in Dolan’s Warehouse. This DIE celebrated the launch of the Life Festival. I knew that this DIE, in particular, was going to be a good one, because tickets in the UL Students’ Union sold out within a day. The event itself was unreal, especially the live act “Silent Noise Parade” Ciarán had...

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Yesterday I went to see Russell Crowe’s directorial debut “The Water Diviner” in the Odeon, Castletroy here in Limerick. I am very fussy when it comes to picking films to see in the cinema, or buy on DVD. Usually I know by watching a clip or trailer of a film whether I'll like it or not. I take note of a lot of things...

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