As Arnotts reopen their doors this week, they felt it a fitting tribute to showcase the city they have loved for over 177 years. Brought to life in beautiful prose, they celebrate the history, the charm and the poetry, narrated by Dublin icon Joe Duffy.
 Award-winning chef Mark Moriarty has a brand new "Cook In" series on RTÉ One, on Wednesday evenings at 8.30pm.
Mark aims to give home chefs some practical advice for creating, nutritious and uplifting meals helping us to maintain a balanced diet. Mark will be using the contents of our fridges and cupboards and also Irish ingredients where possible, supporting our local economy, so get cookin'.  Laya Healthcare brought together some of Ireland's leading health and wellbeing experts recently in the form of a virtual festival.
The line-up included celebrity fitness expert, Karl Henry, Clinical Psychologist David Coleman, Motivational Speaker and Sports expert Anna Geary and Mental Wellness Speaker Keith Walsh. As well as talks delivered by these high profile speakers, there was an interactive element, focusing on nutrition, exercise, mindfulness and some exercise for the children who are at home as well.
Instead of sitting at home and feeling useless, Mark Moriarty, along with the head chef from the Greenhouse restaurant and some colleagues, have been running a production kitchen in Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Their aim is to send out approx 200 meals a day to the front-line workers who are too tired to cook a substantial and nutritious meal when they arrive home. The chef's hope to bring a bit of happiness to them through amazing food. The ingredients for the food are being donated by local companies and farmers and the group have also launched a GoFundMe page to finance the not-for-profit project, which raised €3,000 of its €50,000 target within 24 hours. This will allow the chef's to keep going for as long as the food is needed and any surplus funds when the project is finished will be used to finance a chef training scholarship. Conor Moore is a raising-star comedian and golf fanatic. He is hosting a new weekly show on the GOLFPASS channel, called "The Conor Moore Show".
Conor brings his own unique style of comedy to the show which is a hilarious take on pro golf, combined with sketches, celebrity interviews and much more.  After 11 fun filled weeks and months of hard work, Lottie Ryan and Pasquale la Rocca wowed the judges and viewers alike and became the champions of series 4 of "Dancing with the Stars".
Lottie was speechless when she won, and has credited the competition as "life changing" and cannot have enough praise for the public who honoured her hard work, and amazing dance technics, by voting for her. Irish stars turned out in force last Friday to support Noel's Chernobyl Children's Lunch at the Intercontinental Hotel in Ballsbridge. The event raises vital funds for the Chernobyl Charity, who's voluntary CEO is the inspiring Adi Roche.
Those who were keen to show their support for the charity on the day included Ryan Tubridy, Dermot Bannon, Diarmuid Gavin, Ali Hewson, Claire Byrne and Mary Kennedy, Jenny Buckley, Caitriona Perry to name but a few. There was a host of fantastic prizes up for auction, including a consultation with Dermot Bannon and Diarmuid Gavin, with all of the proceeds going to support Adi and the incredible team at CCI.  In week 9 of the fabulous show "Dancing with the Stars", Lottie Ryan with her dancing partner Pasquale La Rocca have been voted through to the quarter finals.
In a bit to impress the judges the stars were tasked with their usual solo dances and they also had to hear to Team Dance, it was certainly a night of entertaining performances.  Baz and the fabulous Moya May, have teamed up with TK Maxx and Enable Ireland to launch this year's "Give up Clothes for Good" campaign.
TK Maxx are asking people to support Enable Ireland by simply donating a bag of quality pre-loved clothes to any TK Maxx store. Each bag can raise up to €20 as they are then sold at Enable Ireland shops. The money raised goes towards supporting projects benefiting children and young people with disabilities around Ireland, including purpose built children’s service centres, transport services and specialist equipment and assistive technology for children and young people with disabilities.  Dermot Bannon was in Laura Lynn recently to officially open their newly refurbished family accommodation.
Laura Lynn now has four family bedrooms alongside a living space and kitchen area allowing entire families to book in for short stays at the hospice. These short stays allow the child using the service, their parents and any siblings they may have to enjoy quality time together making memories as a family. Parents can enjoy just being mums and dads with the medical needs of their child fully taken care of. Dermot felt honoured to be asked to open this newly refurbished area and believes that the days of respite that the families get are a lifeline and precious to them. |
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