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02/05/2024

I'm a big fan of laziness.

People sometimes suggest that the world is improved by go-getters who go out there and make a positive choice to make the world a better place.

But almost everything in your house was invented by someone who just wanted a lazier way of doing stuff.

So here's the full 2024 lineup (culled from the booklet PDF) for anyone who, like me, is too lazy to go on an Indiana Jones expedition to see if there's also a printed guide and can't find last year's.

It's this weekend, btw.

Sure, there's a webpage at www.limerick.ie/riverfest

But you already have the important pages of the booklet now, which you can save to your phone.

See: laziness is good. Have a nice weekend.

05/04/2024

Hey folks. Been a long time since I've slid a list of recommendations for the week your way... and I'll get back to that at some point... but right now I have a single show in Limerick to recommend to you.

No One Is Coming is a storytelling show / one person play by Sinéad O'Brien at Limerick's Belltable this Saturday night (April 6).

It picked up an insane amount of five-star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, which on its own should be enough to pique your interest.

It's a show about the complications of having a mother, mixed in with Irish folk tales, darkness, some humour, and, obviously (I know Sinéad a long time) enough heart to make you wish the history could be a little nicer, even as you're laughing or crying.

The reason I like theatre is that good theatre exposes the reality of the human condition in both all of its glory and incorrigible tenebrosity. That's what it's for. And, shur, there's nothing like a decent story to entertain you on the way as well.

You should go. You'll be glad you did.

8pm Belltable, tickets are €20/€18

Here's the booking link:
https://limetreebelltable.ie/events/no-one-is-coming/

06/10/2023

The Bualadh Bos Children's Festival is belting along in Limerick this week. It's one of Limerick's crown jewels of culture every year - an entire festival for children - so here are some highlights of shows that you can still get tickets for this weekend (and some of next week's shows so you can plan in advance):

Saturday (7 Oct):

Branar Téatar do Pháistí are in the Belltable on Saturday afternoon with their new show Rothar. As you'll gather from the title, it involves bikes: it's even set in a bike shop, featuring two boys travelling the world using their imaginations and bits&bobs they pull from a drawer. But that isn't important. There's a simple rule you should adopt when it comes to shows from Galway's Branar: just go. It doesn't matter what the show is, it's going to be great. Limerick audiences will remember Branar from their production of How To Catch A Star, a show that reproduced all the magic of the book it was based on, and then some. It's a (mostly) non-verbal show, aimed at children aged 4+, and it'll last about 45 minutes. You will not be disappointed. 1pm and 3pm, tickets are a tenner.

Sunday (8 Oct):

I like the occasional cheeky pun, so I do. Especially when it's a nod to a cultural icon. A Masterclass With Boss Rob (yes, that's Boss Rob, not Bob Ross - Bob Ross is very dead) is in the Belltable on Sunday at 1pm. It's billed as "an interactive drama and visual art workshop". The schtick is simple: Boss Rob is an egotistical monster who will judge you and your art to within an inch of its life. The "I AM GREAT AND YOU ARE NOT" routine always goes down a treat with kids watching a show, particularly if it's pantoed up to the nines. This show genuinely sounds like a barrel of fun for any children aged over 8. Just the one show: Belltable at 1pm, tickets a tenner.

The Bualadh Bop went down a treat with young audiences at last year's festival, and it's back with a bang this year. Music & dancing, storytelling, and crafts combine to make it pretty much three events for the price of one. It kicks off at 3pm, it's aimed at children over 8, and a ticket will cost you a tenner. If you pick out just one event this weekend, I suggest this one.

In 1985, Richard Donner, a man who'd directed two Superman movies and The Omen, was hired by Steven Spielberg to direct a kids' movie about a group of feisty kids searching for treasure using a map that may have been drawn by a 17th century pirate called One-Eyed W***y. "You know, Steven, I directed a movie about the anti-Christ?", he probably asked. The Goonies is an 80s classic, released right at the point where parents of Gen-X kids were wondering exactly what their children were up to. Chasing pirate treasure, obviously. Duh. The movie's very suitable for anyone over the age of about 8. Belltable, 6pm, tickets are €8.

The Best Of The Rest (or The Rest Of The Best)...

Tuesday (Oct 10): Gazing forward to next week at Bualadh Bos, Moxie Brawl's Punk Alley is a loud, banging, singing, dancing, participatory show at the Lime Tree Theatre on Tuesday evening. It's a punk show (clue's in the name, folks) and you'll be invited to write the songs, play the music, make placards and banners... y'know, everything that Malcolm McLaren did for the S*x Pistols. The write-up warns everyone that "anything could happen", which is about as punk as punk can get without writing a disdainful song about the British monarchy. It's 2023: we need more punks. Tuesday 6:30pm , tickets are a tenner.

Saturday (Oct 14): Dutch dance company de Stilte are at Dance Limerick on Saturday with Wait A Minute, a movement and dance show aimed at children from 6 months to 5 years of age. It's a show with lots of prop use - anything from pallets to towels - so your toddling child won't walk (or be carried, probably carried) out of the show just having experienced a calming imaginative show specifically designed for them: they'll probably have a new-found interest in how they can turn your bath sheets into a whole new world for them. You have to love any dance show that teaches children that a boring old box can be a piano if they just imagine it so. It'll be a very relaxed performance, with children allowed to waddle (or toddle) around if they feel like it. Shows at 11am and 1pm (note: venue is Dance Limerick), tickets are a tenner.

Saturday (Oct 14): Slingsby Theatre Company, based out of Adelaide, is one of the world's leading theatre-makers for children. I don't fling around compliments like that very often, but it's true. They're on an Irish tour with their The Boy Who Talked To Dogs show, and you can see it at the Lime Tree on Saturday Oct 14. There's a Limerick angle here, which makes it extra-special. it's a true story about Garryowen's Martin McKenna, who coped with an abusive household as a child by a strong connection to two German Shepherds, running away and later escaping to Australia, still with that solid connection to dogs. Now, you might think that sounds a bit dark for a children's show, but, like most of the best children's stories, it's all about overcoming adversity and growing into the person you were meant to be. Oh, and there are shadow puppets. You know it's a classy show when there are shadow puppets. Saturday 2:30pm and 6:30pm, tickets €12.

There you go now. Plenty to pick from. Everything from a children's movie made by the director of The Omen to impressing your children with the value of punk to a tonne of shows where imagination and fun simply run wild.

All shows can be booked at www.limetreetheatre.ie

As usual, . Hopefully more punk shows with placards. They're my favourite.

22/09/2023

Tonight (Sept 22) is Culture Night across the country. More free stuff than you can possibly fit into one evening (and I've tried more than once: trust me).

Here's the full rundown of Limerick (city and county) events tonight, courtesy of the good folks of Limerick Arts Office.

As usual, there are loads of things on in both The Hunt Museum and Dance Limerick: while you've a pile of events you could pick from around the city and county, if walking's not your thing, you could easily spend the entire evening at just the Hunt or Dance Limerick.

Your call. Choose wisely! But not too wisely: you might as well try a thing or two that you wouldn't normally do.

23/09/2022

Today (Friday, Sep 23) is Culture Night, the annual evening when we all get to come out of our caves and peer awkwardly at all the cultural events we could be attending any damn night of the year but mostly choose to not bother. No judgment - we're all lazy. The important thing is that you're here now, we're all calm, we're all eager for culture. The theme for this year's event is "One Night For All", which could also be the tagline for a future remake of Gone In 60 Seconds. Hope springs eternal.

TONNES of free events taking place in Limerick this Friday night. Here are six hastily-typed highlights:

Every year, The Hunt Museum has so many great events for Culture Night that if nobody else was running anything, it'd still be a great Limerick Culture Night. The kings and queens of cultural Limerick every September. They're running stuff from 3pm till 10pm. A lot of stuff. From 3pm till 7pm you can try out their Ride A Flying Fish VR exhibit. It's a virtual reality tour of Hieronymus Bosch's gloriously wacky-as-sin Garden of Earthly Delights painting. For those who are terrified of the robot uprising and optimistically think that Teslas will be able to tell the difference between a phone box and a child any time soon, there's a Robots And AI drop-in session between 3pm and 7pm. Limerick New Music Ensemble will be performing two concerts, at 8pm and 9pm (you'll need to book ahead for those). Elemental Tales is a promenade performance from the Polish Arts Festival - PAF - Festiwal Sztuki i Kultury Polskiej w Limerick, combining Slavic folk tales with Irish fairy tales. You can take that in at 7:30pm or 9pm. I highly recommend the Ride A Flying Fish VR experience. I really wanted to steal the painting from the Prado but I am not good at thievery so had to settle - for now - with instead buying a fridge magnet. Try the VR.

Sionna Music and Arts Festival is hosting a night of live electronic artists (the artists are human, the music is electronic) at Limerick Castle (aka King John's Castle) from 7pm till 11pm. They'll have performances from R.Kitt, Paddy Mulcahy, Fehdah, and Rumi. Like everything else on this list, it's free but the free tickets are sold out. So, slightly cheekily, this is the "best of luck if you've already got tickets" item on the list. Gotta say, though: the lighting on Nicholas Street is a bit unreliable at times... so if you're going to mug someone for a Culture Night ticket, this isn't a bad time to give it a go. I won't tell.

Fancy a walk? With free entertainment? The Limerick Pedestrian Network's Three Bridges Walk starts from Merchants Quay (outside the council offices) at 7pm and will take you on a trip around the city along the river, stopping a few times for performances and talks by Dan Mooney Author, Dr John Logan, Anne Cronin, and Emma Langford. Emma has a gig in Dolan's next Friday (tickets now available, etc) but this is your chance to get a free sample. It's basically five events in one - or potentially six if you turn up wearing a funny hat. It'll take an hour and is very family-friendly. Full disclosure: I am helping out with this event. Is that why it's on the list? F**k no, I have standards, which involve zero favouritism and zero eating of broccoli. It's on the list because it'll be fun. And if you turn up early, you'll get your own glow stick.

Dance Limerick's serving up a platter of dance performances (which, to be fair, you'd expect - clue's in the name), film interludes, and two musical acts, followed by an hour-long dance party. They'll be kicking off at 5pm and running till 8:30, so if walking around isn't your thing, you're in for a treat if you just turn up and don't move at all. Except during the dance party, where dancing is almost compulsory. From 5:30pm, you can take in a dance showcase from two crus (there are lots of crus lately, aren't there? Everyone under 30 seems to be in a cru) - Limerockers Cru and Indapocket Cru, as well as Limerick Youth Dance Company and Rachel Sheil. From 6:30pm till 7:30pm, you'll be entertained by the musical stylings of Darius & Kot and Joyce Zacks. "Musical stylings", by the way, is the sort of weasel phrase someone uses when they've zero idea of what kind of music it is. But I trust the Dance Limerick people to have the same sort of no-broccoli standards that I do. Rounding out the early evening at 7:40pm, it's Dance Party time. First and only rule of Dance Party: if it's your first night at Dance Party, you have to dance.

Limerick Printmakers perfectly embody what Culture Night is all about. Even if you're the most predaceous of culture vultures, it's probably not something you do very often, if ever, so now's your chance. They're running silkscreen, printmaking, and short cyanotype workshops for children and adults between 5pm and 9pm, with no need to book ahead. Outside their studio on John's Square, they'll offer all-ages silkscreen printmaking for the full four hours. If it's raining, they'll have a gazebo. Inside, they'll have kids' and families' printmaking between 6pm and 7pm and adults-only sessions from 7pm till 9pm. Yes, 25 minute workshops just for adults, free of the pitter patter of tiny feet. This is a special gift for those of us who are still resentful that children get all the best things, like puppet shows and cool socks, though in fairness, they'll also get climate change so maybe they deserve those socks. They're also offering two chill time sessions for kids who could do with a calmer environment - one at 5pm, the second at 5:30pm. This is the only LP event that needs to be booked ahead - just drop them a message if you're sure your child can go.

If I had to pick one downside of Culture Night in Limerick, it's that everything ends so damned early. Sure, I can see why - it's very reliant on generous volunteers and most people just want a few bites of culture before heading off home. But this year we're getting one properly late event, in the Belltable foyer at 10:15pm. Limerick jazz singer Ja¥ne will be performing right after the Limerick Jazz Festival's Night of Music & Song is over. The latter is a regular pay for ticket event but the JaYne performance is free. Don't be thinking that it's cheeky to turn up to the afterparty if you've not been to the earlier event. They want you to come. It's scheduled to run till "late", which is probably midnight.

If you're just planning to wander around town with no plan other than hanging around the street and maybe sticking your head through the odd door, Music Generation Limerick City are taking over Bedford Row from 6:30pm till 9:30pm, there's face painting and crafting - and a petting zoo - at LimerickMilkMarket from 4pm to 8pm, and the galleries and museums are open late.

Annnnd that's your lot. Other events are available of course but those are the ones I, an idiot, am recommending. Is that code for "those are the good ones"? Yeah, pretty much.

As usual,

16/07/2021

It's rather undeniably a quiet weekend for events in Limerick over the next few days (July 16-18). But you can still watch some soccer, take part in a printmaking course, or watch people swimming. You should cheer for all of that. Especially the printmaking. Artists don't get cheered enough while they're in the process of making stuff. Here's your lineup for the next few days, with a small preview of upcoming theatre and gigs.

Treaty United FC host UCD on Friday night at the Markets Field. The team is currently sitting in third place in League of Ireland Division 1, which, stating the bleeding obvious, is better than fourth place but not as good as second place. As it happens, UCD are in fourth place, one point behind the Limerick side, so this is doubtless one of those match to the death for the glory of love things. Gates open at 6:45pm for a 7:45pm kickoff. Tickets are a tenner for adults and a fiver for children. The game is also available via League of Ireland TV, which will cost you €49 for a First Division season pass.

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The sound folks of Limerick Printmakers are running one-day courses in silkscreen printing this weekend at their studio on John's Square. For €165 (or €150 if you qualify for their reduced rate or €125 if you're a studio member), artist and printmaker Derek O'Sullivan will take you through the basics and the not-so-basics. You can choose between a full day on Saturday or Sunday, starting at 10am both days.

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The annual Thomond Swim, run by Limerick Masters Swim Club, is this Sunday afternoon in the city. Competitors will swim 1800m from St. Michael's Rowing Club (SMRC) to Thomond Bridge and back again. That's impressive enough in its own right but very impressive to those of us who can't swim at all and could drown in a baptismal font. The event itself is sold out but most of the joy comes from watching other people swim almost two kilometres, so you can pick any riverside spot between Shannon Bridge and Thomond Bridge after the 12:45pm start to cheer on participants. Sarsfield Bridge is probably the best vantage point.

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Looking slightly ahead to next week, Honest Arts and The Lime Tree Theatre present Waiting For Poirot in the People's Park from Monday night until August 1. I can't remember the last time anything theatrical had a multi-week run in Limerick, so this is exciting. Mind you, with covid, I can't quite remember the last time anything theatrical happened in Limerick, so this is doubly-exciting. I've been mentally assigning names and backstories for the past year to people I've seen shouting at pigeons on the street, so this is coming at the perfect time for sanity. Waiting For Poirot is a zany murder mystery romp where I expect to see lots of dramatic screaming, incompetence from the constabulary, and every theatrical cliché known to humanity. Should be a lot of fun. There are two shows most nights until August 1, at 8pm and 9:30pm. You will need to check into the Belltable half an hour before the performance starts to get your wristband. That's half an hour, not ten minutes, latecomers. Tickets are €25 or €16 concession. And you can get a family ticket for €75. Booking at limetreetheatre.ie

Looking even farther ahead, tickets are moving quickly for the five Dolans Presents Limrock Live gigs at LimerickMilkMarket every Friday night from August 6 to September 3. Headliners for the five nights are TOUCAN, Anna's Anchor, The Alvin Purple Experience, Emma Langford and The O'Malleys. There are only 200 tickets for each event and tickets are being sold in pods of four. You'll want to book now or miss out entirely. Tickets at dolans.ie

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Ongoing:
EVA International - Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art runs at three Limerick sites until August 22, all open Thursday to Sunday from 11am to 4pm. Limerick City Gallery Of Art has three exhibitions running till September 12: The Loneliness of Being German, Maighread Tobin's Common Thread, and a 30-year celebration of the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing. All of those are free. The Hunt Museum's "A Wild Atlantic Way – Irish Life and Landscapes" exhibition runs until October 3 and is a tenner for adults and free for children.

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That's your lot for the weekend. As usual,

09/07/2021

Limerick: here's your weekly rundown on the best local events you can enjoy this weekend (July 9-11). Wild Geese, Pride, three options for theatrical performances.

The flagship event this weekend is the annual Limerick Bastille Day Wild Geese Festival, which really needs a shorter and catchier name. Running from Friday till Sunday, the public highlights include an afternoon of history, entertainment and fun in The Hunt Museum garden from 12:45pm on Saturday. You can register your team of three to take part in a boules tournament, enjoy some interaction with re-enactors of Napoleon's Irish Legion (don't tell them the invasion's never going to happen as that will make them sad) and peel off for a historical tour of Limerick at 2:45pm. At 4:15pm on Saturday in The People's Museum of Limerick (No 2 Pery Square), you can take in a talk about the role of the French in Ireland from 1690 to 1691.

Sunday's Wild Geese events kick off with the Sarsfield's Ride Cycling Tour at 9am from the Treaty Stone. Sarsfield's Ride, which as we probably all know, was a daring and successful raid by Patrick Sarsfield (first Earl of Lucan, mostly famous for supporting the occupation of Ireland by one foreign king instead of another foreign king) to destroy Williamite (the foreign king who hadn't made auld Patrick an Earl) artillery. Exciting stuff. Big kaboom. I'm just glad that Patrick got the ride. He was 35 at the time, it gets more difficult after you pass 35. It's a long cycle, so it's limited to experienced cyclists. From 1:30pm to 4pm there's a ceremony at the castle. Let's agree to call it Limerick Castle in the future. There will be a parade of veteran associations, probably not including anyone who departed Limerick in 1691, a bit of music and an afternoon tea party. The last item - and possibly the most fun for the little ones - is a gandelow mini-regatta on the Abbey river at 5:30pm on Sunday.

All Wild Geese events are free, though you'll need to book free tickets for most of the events above. The festival is still at the plucky upstart stage of development but give it time. Full details for all events (and booking) here: www.limerick.ie/discover/whats-on/festivals/limerick-bastille-day-wild-geese-festival-2021

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Limerick LGBTQ Pride reaches its... yeah, they've already done the climax joke themselves, so I can't use that... Limerick Pride Week closes out this weekend with more events than you can shake a rainbow glitter-encrusted stick at. Hmmm, the climax thing would have been better wouldn't it. Anyway, Friday night's big event is Then And Now at 6:45pm, an evening of stories, music, and performances featuring Limerick's q***r artists. It's very ably hosted by Ann and Jenny Blake, and I'm fairly sure it'll be an evening of wonderful celebration and maybe some tears, and isn't that what Pride is all about? It'll be followed at 8pm by the annual Mickey Martins Twas The Night Before Pridemas DJ set. Saturday offers a virtual Pride parade at 2pm and the Pride-traditional tea dance with Myles Breen at 3pm. Saturday night is time for the Climax Party, which, like most events this year will be a virtual shindig. That's at 8:30pm and tickets are a tenner on eventbrite. But wait, there's more! On Sunday there's a Pride Is Political panel at 3pm. Everything's political. Except for politics, which is entertainment. The week ends with the Reeling In The Qu**rs DJ set with Olivia Chau at 9pm. Pretty much all the events are on the Limerick Pride facebook stream; all events are free except for the Climax Party, which is a tenner.

Full details at www.limerickpride.ie/

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Three events this weekend via The Lime Tree Theatre:

Live theatre (yes, live and in person) returns to Limerick with Mary Lavin's In The Middle Of The Fields being performed in an open-sided tent in Kilmallock every night at 8pm until Sunday. As you might expect, the prospect of live theatre has managed to get enough people excited that the shows are now entirely sold out but there is a waiting list and there's always the chance that someone who's booked tickets will get a covid diagnosis before Sunday. Tickets are €18/€16 concession.

Claudia Carroll's The Secrets Of Primrose Square was one of the most-downloaded books during the early days of covid, partly because almost everyone loves a story of neighbourhood secrets and intrigue, especially if it ends with an uplifting message. And now it's a play, which you can watch on your couch or toilet, beamed directly to you from Draiocht Blanchardstown. As a guide to whether you'll like it or not, it's a lot like a semi-suburban version of Coronation Street, but you don't have to spend any time working out who's been arguing with who since the 1960s. 8pm until Saturday night, tickets are €15 per device.

Like every other live performance collective, the Irish National Opera has been stuck at home for the past year. But this Monday you can see an outdoor screening of their 70-minute operatic film The Lighthouse at the Lime Tree Theatre. You'll be given a seat. You'll be given a set of headphones. You'll be watching the movie on a screen. It'll cost you just a fiver. The screening begins at 10:45pm but if you're there a shade after 10pm you'll also be given a free cup of tea or cup of coffee or GLASS OF WINE. I realise that it's a school night but if you love opera you shouldn't miss this, if you don't know about opera it'll cost you a fiver to experience it, and let's not forget that free glass of wine. Lots of outdoor screenings take place at ridiculously high light levels so by doing this at 10:45pm they're doing it properly. Oh, and it's sung in English.

Tickets for all three events via www.limetreetheatre.ie

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Ongoing:
EVA International - Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art runs at three Limerick sites until August 22, all open Thursday to Sunday from 11am to 4pm. Limerick City Gallery Of Art has three new exhibitions running till September 12: The Loneliness of Being German, Maighread Tobin's Common Thread, and a 30-year celebration of the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing. All of those are free. The Hunt Museum's "A Wild Atlantic Way – Irish Life and Landscapes" exhibition runs until October 3 and is a tenner for adults and free for children.

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That's your lot for the weekend. As usual,

02/07/2021

This weekend in Limerick (July 2-4), you can soak in the glow of the second phase of Limerick's biennial of contemporary art, soak in the Shannon to open Limerick Pride and, hopefully, not get soaked if you fancy an urban or rural cycle. Four things to suggest to you this weekend, all good:

Limerick LGBTQ Pride is this week, starting on Sunday with a Rainbow River Swim Parade in the Shannon. If you're the sort of person who likes getting your feet wet, you'll need to register in advance and turn up to St Michael's Rowing Club at 1:30pm. If you're not, but feel like waving a flag or just standing and marvelling at the miracle of people not drowning, you can just hang around the river for 2pm. As well as 80 swimmers not dying, they'll also have paddle boats, kayaks, and other floaty things. Some day we'll have Florentijn Hofman's giant rubber duck in Limerick but, while I'm sure we're all dreaming of that day, we can have a colourful Pride-infused day swim.

After Sunday's opening, the Pride week includes a documentary on the life of Marsha P Johnson, webinars, workshops, a youth pride quiz, and camp & non-camp music nights. Oh, and there's an entire webinar on the Pride flag, which is pretty much a must if you're a person who gets very excited by flags (but not in the way that Northern Irish people get excited about flags, which is just weird. Stop being weird, Nordies.).

You can see the full Limerick Pride lineup here at www.limerickpride.ie

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Against all the covid-related odds, phase 2 of EVA International - Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art starts in Limerick this weekend. The thrust of phase 2 is titled "Little did they know", which pretty much sums up the opening paragraph of every future historical record of 2020. Art imitating life and expanding on it, innit. The main exhibitions, curated by Merve Elveren, will run in two venues in Limerick (the Sailors' Home on O'Curry Street and Park Point on the Dublin Road) and will also have an online platform at the EVA site. As well as that, you can see work on Mungret Street at Spacecraft Studios (which is the coolest name ever for any artists' studio, at least until someone names one "Nuclear Powered Starships Are Our Escape Plan", which doesn't roll off the tongue as easily). All venues are open from midday to 7pm this weekend and for the same hours during the closing weekend of August 20-22. Aside from those two big weekends, opening hours for all venues are Thursday to Sunday from 11am to 4pm. The EVA people have done amazingly well in being able to organise anything during the year we've had and will probably be overjoyed to see people turning up at any open time during the second phase of what they intended to happen last year. As I always say about EVA, it's odd, it's weird, and that's how it's supposed to be. There's a free activity pack for children at every venue and, as usual, EVA is free.

Full details of EVA 39 Phase 2 here, including the Little Did They Know online platform: www.eva.ie/biennial/39th-eva-international-phase-2/

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The Limerick Greenway is officially open this week, offering 40km of uninterrupted cycling and walking pleasure from Rathkeale through Newcastle West to Abbeyfeale. The tagline for the greenway is "Embrace the unexpected", so if you're accosted along the route by a witch who owns a candy house, by three narky bears, or even by a gold-spinning bearded geezer who insists that you guess his name, you have no option but to abandon all covid-limiting protocols and give them a decent hug. I don't write the rules - it's "embrace the unexpected", not "carefully observe the unexpected from a safe distance".

You can check out all the Limerick Greenway details, including a handy map, here: www.limerick.ie/greenway

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If you're in the city centre and don't feel like driving 30km to Rathkeale to have a go on a bike but still want a go on a bike, never fear. The Limerick Urban Cycling Group run a group urban cycle in Limerick (you have to appreciate any group whose name succinctly sums up everything they do) every weekend, and this week's event starts at the Strand Hotel on Sunday at midday. They'll be cycling out to Dooradoyle, via the Baggot Estate, and they especially welcome new cyclists. Obviously it would be immensely helpful if you bring a bike.

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That's your lot for the weekend. As usual,

(pic: Barnagh train station on the Greenway route; pic by Sean Curtin, True Media)

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