Last week I talked about how to celebrate 1916. This will be both facetious and serious and limited due to space. There’s what I’d like to happen and there’s what would be acceptable to the rest of the country. Then again, I think the country needs a 10-year time out, from Europe, from deals, from […]

9 years ago

When I was growing up in Dublin I never realised we’d be living through the ‘decade of commemorations’. The first one I remember was the Millennium in 1988, notable for the ‘Hoor in the Sewer’, a sculpture of Anna Livia that sadly became a depository for burger-joint detritus, thanks to it’s accessibility and convenience to […]

9 years ago

So the Web Summit has been and gone. I hope you heard about it – how positive it is for Dublin, for Ireland, for entrepreneurs and local business. How the Taoiseach was there and rang the NASDAQ bell, how Eva Longoria ate her own body-weight in Tayto, how the Internet of things is the coming […]

9 years ago

These are strange times. Disparate. Odd. Business is being done (or not done) in the most un-businesslike manner. The most anti-religious hipster won’t open their restaurant doors on a Sunday because ‘it’s Sunday’. Powerful people with supposedly intelligent advisors in their employ come out with the most ridiculous statements ever. For the most connected time […]

9 years ago

Today is my 105th day without Alcohol. I’ll write about that some other time. The benefits are great, particularly great sleeps and no hangovers. But I have an addictive personality, and a far worse demon – sugar – has replaced the beer and wine with a vengeance. So much so that I am now going […]

9 years ago

I love watching ‘Connected’ on Network 2 at the moment. (I know, I know, its ‘RTE’ 2 but you ask me to accept a name-change once then that’s how it’s going to stay). The story of 6 women who have filmed themselves over 10 months is reality with actual bite. The honesty, the humour, the lack of […]

9 years ago

I love finding new things in Dublin. No matter how much I think I know about this city, there’s always something to discover. And I was blown away last week when I found out St Patrick’s Mental Health Services in Kilmainham was once called Swift’s Hospital and had been built in 1745 at the bequest […]

9 years ago

This week I’m excited to be presenting my own Dublin Radio Show called ‘Turning the Corner with Paddy Cullivan’, for a pop-up Radio Station called ‘Upbeat on Air’, broadcast on 99.5FM from St. Patrick’s Hospital Kilmainham at 1pm every day. It’s dedicated to promoting positive mental health for Mental Health Week and the fact they enlisted an angry […]

9 years ago

So I was at the Ploughing. I’ve gone every Thursday of the Ploughing for years because of a gig I do there and it has always been, in my urbane, world-weary eyes, a mixture of the creepy town in Deliverance, Galway Race Week, the Electric Picnic with chainsaws and the Winning Streak audience at play […]

9 years ago

Now that Scotland has shaken up the old certainties, I believe it’s time we consider the Urban/Rural divide in Ireland, and declare the Independent Republic of Dublinia. For too long Dublin has been accused, like London in the UK, of swallowing up all the taxes, people and industry in Ireland. Things have to change, mostly […]

9 years ago