Best for a bargain – Sue Ryder Foundation, Strand Road, Five Lamps. This shop is tucked away beside Spar on Strand Road. To find a gem you might have to rummage a bit, but they always have a bargain … Continue reading A Dublin Guide to Charity Shops
Supermarkets are depressing. The big ones I mean; repetitive isles of uninteresting products, hopelessly packaged in arctic jackets of polythene; lurid packets of cheap sweets; vegetables bland and uniform, too perfectly coloured; pre-prepared packets of dinner death; special offers that … Continue reading Grocery shopping alternatives There are ways to make the mundane things less so…Try Moldova Rathmines
Dublin five-piece band Meltybrains? headlined the Bowery in Rathmines this Friday as part of the pub’s Oktoberfest series of gigs. The combination of a very trendy young crowd, the pirate ship décor and the dirndl-dressed staff made for quite an … Continue reading Meltybrains? Live at The Bowery
I had never been to The Bowery before last night. Rathmines hasn’t been a regular haunt for me since my first year Halls days when Toast occupied its place near the Swan Centre. Apparently, the bar has been in … Continue reading Oktoberfest at the Bowery If the opening night is anything to go by, expect an eclectic week of live music at the Rathmines pub.
Two Fifty Square have converted trendy execs, army recruits from the nearby barracks, students and yummie mummies alike from the copious coffee chains nearby in pursuit of the perfect cup of joe. Continue reading Coffee x Cake: Two Fifty Square