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Food and Drink Journalist at District Magazine

Writer at CHAR Magazine

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Articles

“Potato I Have”: Why Are We So Obsessed with Potatoes

4 weeks ago | lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún

His name was Mr. Tayto. He wore a red suit, a cap, and a smile. He released an autobiography, ran satirical ads, and went on “campaign” across the country. Voters spoiled their ballots writing his name. It was a joke, of course, but also a deeply Irish one. Only in Ireland could a man-shaped potato who acts as a crisp mascot become a national hero. It’s a stereotype that the Irish are obsessed with potatoes, but unlike many others this one is true.
Spider Season Has Come Early

1 month ago | lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún

Dublin residents are reporting an early start to spider season this year, with sightings of house spiders increasing in homes and gardens across the city. Spider season (when male spiders venture indoors seeking mates) used to begin in September, then it crept back to August. Now however, recent weather patterns may have accelerated this timeline... again. The sunshine followed by the wet weather we’re getting now could in theory trigger a premature mating season. It has in the past.
9 Collabs We’d Love to See Happen in Dublin

1 month ago | lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún

Dublin has always been better in chorus. We see it in music, where fiddles, bodhráns, and the human voice weave into the communal. We’re seeing that harmony bleed over into the whole creative world. We are in the era of the collab. Between Guinness dropping collabs with local artists, like Pellador and Fatti Burke, or with food heros like Lír Chocolates and Kish Fish there’s always a new collab. Not just Guinness but smaller brands like Ditsy Bits and Roots have teamed up too.
Workman’s Club heyday: Where we rubbed shoulders with Paul Mescal, Fontaines DC and Morrissey

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Shamim de Brún

For a generation of Dubliners, The Workman’s Club on Wellington Quay, which has gone into examinership, was a habitat at some stage. Of course nobody who made it their community hub would have dared say they were doing it purposefully. They weren’t “creating culture”. That would have been too earnest, too self-important. The regulars preferred to feign apathy ironically.
Dublin teens accidentally discover literal saint’s blood in school

1 month ago | lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún

Students at St Vincent’s Secondary School in Glasnevin got the shock of their lives when moving a dusty old altar revealed a genuine saint’s relic hidden inside. According to reports the students uncovered a vial of ancient blood belonging to Saint Hilarii, who likely lived way back in the 2nd or 3rd century.
Should camogie players be allowed to wear shorts?

1 month ago | lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún

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 Dublin senior teams had shown up for a Leinster semi-final in what is standard kit in almost every field sport: a jersey and a pair of shorts.
That Time Dublin Turned the Spire Into a Giant Lightsaber and Forgot to Charge Disney a Cent

1 month ago | lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún

It has been 10 years since Dublin City Council handed the world’s richest mouse a free pass to the Spire Into a Giant Lightsaber and didn’t even ask for lunch money. It was December 2015. The Force Awakens was about to drop, and Disney, a company worth hundreds of billions, wanted to light up the Spire on O’Connell Street like a massive lightsaber to promote the film. A kind of galactic branding Christmas lights bonanza. They got the green light. And they didn’t pay a thing.
We Need to Talk About the DART

1 month ago | lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún

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 could be poor planning or bad luck. Maybe its partly both, but it’s also textbook example of how neglect, opaque decision-making, and uneven investment unravel public systems that cities depend on.
internet culture Archives

2 months ago | lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún

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9 Recession Indicators That’ll Scare You Into Atarting a Pension

2 months ago | lovindublin.com | Shamim de Brún

Remember 2007? Every Irish Leaving Cert oral exam was essentially a panic attack punctuated by shaky mentions of “cúlú eacnamaíochta.” Now, the discourse is back but 2025-ified. Instead of being pumped into us via well meaning language teachers, this time it is fuelled by TikTok sleuths dissecting every minor inconvenience as proof we’re already in another economic apocalypse.