Five for your radar: Dylan Moran in Cork, a family-friendly festival and a Poor Things reunion
Inspiration for your weekend entertainment
Hailing from the Sheriff St community in Dublin’s North Inner City, Dunleavy’s garage-heavy music resonates with stories of resilience and solidarity. Her track ‘Up De Flats’ came out in summer 2020 and four years on, it’s safe to call it one of the best Irish songs ever. Her shows are full-on energy and hopefully we’ll get a taster of new tunes too.
A family-friendly, though over-20s event, Night and Day festival returns to Roscommon this weekend with a great lineup heavy on stellar Irish acts, such as Damien Dempsey, Ash, and Bell X1. As well as the usual festival activities like a wellness area, you can make use of activities in the forest park, like orienteering, BMXing, and ziplining.
He’s traversed the county in the past week, playing De Barra’s out west and Sea Church in Ballycotton, but today, the acclaimed comic is back at the esteemed comedy club in Cork City as part of his work-in-progress wander. On a side note: Can you believe it’s been over 20 years since the third and final season of Black Books!?
Element Pictures and director Yorgos Lanthimos, and actors Emma Stone and Willem Defoe all return, having worked together on the Oscar-winning , for this similarly oddball affair. Joined by everyone’s favourite character actor Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness is an intricate triptych fable that is sure to be a cult hit.
A sci-fi/fantasy epic set on the streets of south London, a group of seemingly ordinary people unexpectedly develop superpowers but don't appear to have a connection between them aside from being black. Violence is promised, but there’s much more than that as director/auteur Rapman assembles a stellar cast and asks what it means to be black in 2024.
