Under the guise of Team Prestige, five NUI Maynooth Business students researched Diageo brand, Smirnoff; and possible tribes that could be linked with the brand. This short blog post chronicles Team Prestige’s endeavours to link …

The Gaiety is a Dublin institution that means something to everybody in this city. Blood red and yellow gold, its dizzying balconies and velvet drapes are pure vaudeville. The Gaiety, Dublin’s longest established theatre, has retained a dusty nostalgia and sitting under the giant chandelier I’m transported back to my youth. No, not Victorian times! But to my college days and late nights, all danced out on Gaiety Saturdays, hiding out in the upper circle with herbal cigarettes clouding the air… Last night I was back in South King Street for Gardenia by Les Ballet C de la B.

I don’t know what had me more excited, Abba musical Mamma Mia or a visit to the Grand Canal Theatre. Anyone who saw my favourite Docklands neighbour Harry Crosbie on the Saturday Night Show last week will know that the theatre was born of blood, sweat and tears. And well worth it too! Home to many top productions since its opening, the Grand Canal Theatre is modern, comfortable and relaxed. But the view of the impressive canal basin is the best bit – and you can see Harry’s gaff from here!

Connector.TV were invited to the opening of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival last night in The Gaiety Theatre with a visual feast in the form of “Donka, A Letter to Chekhov“.
The spectacle is inspired …

No rest for the wicked last weekend, as I packed in as much socials as possible. Paris Hilton once said “You should live everyday like it’s your birthday” – wise words lady! Kick starting with Arthur’s Day on Thursday 22nd I found myself propping up the bar at Oil Can Harry’s on Lower Mount Street. It’s been years since I’ve been to this particular watering hole and it hasn’t changed much from the gig venue I used to haunt in my college days. Still a top “old man” pub, with plenty of nooks, there was a contemporary choir and a great singer with acoustic guitar entertaining.

On a typical rainy day you step into the shiny white entrance to Dublin Contemporary and know you are somewhere worth being.
The exhibition uses spaces across Dublin but the epicentre is Earlsfort Terrace. You are …