I have a confession to make, virtually every weekend I go into Town early on Saturday morning and my first port of call is always the National Library.

It's got to be THE live concert of the year .... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds live in the open air in Dublin Castle's Upper Castle Yard. Nick and the Seeds are performing Saturday 3rd May 2008 headlining the Heneken Green Energy festival. 

Seven is a bright, modern and intimate restaurant situated in Stoneybatter (Bóthar na gCloch, Bóthar is road and Cloch is stone which became Stoney Bóthar and eventually became in English Stoneybatter), in Dublin 7.  I like Stoneybatter as it still retains it's village atmosphere even though it is only a few minutes from the city centre.

Finnstown Country House Hotel, built in the 18th Century, is one of the finest Country Houses in Ireland. The Hotel still retains that old world relaxed atmosphere while providing all the modern luxuries we've come to expect from a first class hotel.

Alexander House Hotel is a haven of peace and tranquility just outside the English countryside village of Turner's Hill, less than 10 miles from Gatwick Airport.  The house in 1692 was the seat of Roger Bysshe whose daughter Helen, married John, son of Timothy Shelley of Field Place, Horsham, in 1692. Thus the names of Shelley and Bysshe were joined: Helen Bysshe is the grandmother of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Skyfest at Cashel Saturday 15th March 2008: In association with The National Lottery and St. Patricks Festival will be a truly spectacular event on the site of the iconic Rock of Cashel, Co. Tipperary.

Beidh SULT speisialta ar siúl Déardaoin, 13 Márta 2008 in Vicar St. mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge

You'd nearly miss Town wondering about Dublin as it is tucked away down a flight of stars and situated in the old cellars of Mitchell's Wine shop on Kildare Street.

This Saturday night I’ve been tempted outside the city to hear John Spillane live at the Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre in The Naul. The trip is not a surprise to my friends as his last album “The Gaelic Hit Factory” is one of my favourite albums and my copy of the cd is worn out from constant play.

Saturday night is Stand Up night @ The Bankers, ably hosted by MC Danny Kehoe who certainly knows how to warm up an audience.

Recently, during one of my frequent visits to Spain, I visited the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid to see the Picasso - Tradición y Vanguardia (Tradition and Avant-garde) retrospective.

Don and the band took the audience from hushed with "Been alone too Long", "Never Let you Down" and "Louise Baby" to rocking with "Mama" and "Running from Freedom" and many more.