Lovin Dublin

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

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.

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.