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Get an in-depth long read, on anything from environmental issues to profiles with Cork personalities, fresh to your in-box each Thursday.
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Shine bright, The Constellation
For more than 100 years, the Blackpool institution has served generations of brewery workers, artists, punters, gamblers, and a man in a cape. But for…
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Kilian McCann
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Sean O'Mahony
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Bowling for Cork
Tripe+Drisheen meets the men, women and children from Ardcahan, Ballygurteen, Toe Cross, Drimoleague, Bandon, and Clonakilty who are keeping one of…
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Noel Sweeney
Chippy Loves Ya Cork
But does Cork love the tireless tagger back? Tripe + Drisheen goes on a walkabout with Chippy, one of Cork's busiest graffiti artists.
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Kilian McCann
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JJ O'Donoghue
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A tale of two cities and three young theatremakers
As part of the Cork Midsummer Festival, which kicked off this week, three emerging talents in Cork's theatre scene were provided with support to stage…
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Kilian McCann
The Leaving Cert revisited
Tripe+Drisheen asked some readers to share their memories and anxieties about the formative exam.
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JJ O'Donoghue
"What's the sound of the Northside?"
In a repurposed Portakabin in Hollyhill, a small but dedicated crew led by music producer Garry McCarthy has built a creative powerhouse for and by the…
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Kilian McCann
The Tripe + Drisheen Interview with Martin Leahy
"It makes me so angry...to have people's lives needlessly destroyed due to this problem is disgraceful." Martin Leahy on what drives his year-long…
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JJ O'Donoghue
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