Archive - Lives Less Ordinary of Tripe + Drisheen

The mindful craft maker

From his corner of Benchspace furniture maker, Paul Murphy is giving fallen trees a second life in the form of milking stools, benches and coffee…

Mar 13 •

Pádraig O' Connor

February 2024

Meb's big energy food truck vibes

When life gives you lemons, pivot. Chef Meadhbh Halton set about launching her own food truck business when the pandemic hit. Manoeuvring the truck is…

Feb 21 •

Pádraig O' Connor

March 2023

Memories of Flowers

In Ballydehob, the enormous photographic archive of a London photographer who holidayed in West Cork raises questions about memories and loss; about…

Mar 11, 2023 •

Fighting for A-class

Fearless 16-year-old Ballyphehane Muay Thai fighter Aideen Mullins is taking on an opponent in her thirties in her first senior kickboxing showdown, and…

Mar 4, 2023 •

February 2023

Car-free in Cork: week four

Ellie rides off into the sunset by bike, bus and train...but is she going to stay car-free?

Feb 7, 2023 •

January 2023

Car-free in Cork: week three

A week of two halves, from cooped up working from home to the wilds of the Burren....but how can rural Ireland go car free with transport links that are…

Jan 30, 2023 •

Car-free in Cork: week two

Crisp, chilly weather makes cycling a pleasure this week, and there's zero spend on transport.

Jan 23, 2023 •

Car-free in Cork: the first week

It's the first week of a car-free month for Ellie and the weather gods are not smiling, but cackling maniacally....

Jan 16, 2023 •

November 2022

Lessons from the road

Clonakilty woman Anja Bakker and her trusty harp Seán are almost halfway to Jerusalem on their 7,000km pilgrimage of a lifetime. She tells Tripe …

Nov 29, 2022 •

The life of a Cork activist

Orla Egan started her lifelong involvement in numerous campaigns for social change in her early teens; her highly personal new book, Diary of an…

Nov 14, 2022 •

October 2022

Blinded by the light

Anonymous artist GUBU Man has been unable to tolerate LED light for the past decade: exiled from the online world as a result, he has a dystopian…

Oct 24, 2022 •

Seiko Hayase: the art of exploring emotions

This Sunday, artist Seiko Hayase brings her "Creepy Parade" to the Kino. For the Cork-based Japanese artist, art is a vehicle for exploring emotions…

Oct 20, 2022 •

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