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Irish Independent
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Five great events to enjoy in Cork this weekend as temperatures expected to soar
Here are five events that you can enjoy in the warm, sunny weather: Stand-Up Comedy Club: Cork's Main Show at 8pm on Saturday, June 21 If you are in the mood to belly laugh uncontrollably while sipping on a Beamish or Murphy's, the Roundy is the place to be on Saturday. Coco Club's primetime comedy show takes place every Saturday night in the pub located on Castle Street in Cork city. Hosted by the dynamic duo of Cornelius Patrick O'Sullivan and Daniel Lukas, this show promises an engaging and entertaining evening that transcends all boundaries. Cork comedian Darragh Murphy will close the show on Saturday with a performance that will delve into his personal experiences, delivered in a self-deprecating style. Tickets for the show cost €22 each plus fees. Carrigaline Summer Festival Concert featuring The Frank & Walters at 8pm on Saturday, June 21 The summer festival in Carrigaline promises to be a night of music and fun. The Carrigaline Court Hotel will welcome the legendary Frank and Walters for a special performance while Danny & the Aos Dána and Crosshaven Community Choir will also play on the night. ADVERTISEMENT Tickets cost €35 each and can be purchased at the reception of the Carrigaline Court Hotel or Eventbrite. Les Girafes: An Animal Operetta, at 2pm and 9pm on Sunday, June 22 The Cork Midsummer Festival ends this weekend after 10 days of cracking events. The closing event will see seven towering red giraffes eloquently walk down St Patrick's Street, led by a captivating operatic Diva. The event, titled 'Les Girafes: An Animal Operetta', will be free to attend. Created by French street theatre company Compagnie, Les Girafes has delighted cities across Europe, and the people of Cork are urged to attend. Macroom Family Fun Day at 2pm-6pm on Sunday June 22 This family fun day will take place at the GAA grounds in Macroom. The third annual fun day is organised by the Macroom and District Lions Club, and funds raised from the event will go towards modernising the defibrillators in the town. The day will feature entertaining activities for every age group, from the under sixes to adults. Some of the attractions at the event will include bouncy castles, fairground rides, food stalls, face painting, hook-a-duck and hang tough competitions. A teddy bear picnic will also be held. Tickets for the family fun day cost €15 per person. Cork Speed Dating at 3pm-5pm on Sunday June 22 Are you a man aged between 45-55 and looking for love? The Old Town Whiskey Bar at Bodega on Cornmarket Street will host a speed dating event for like-minded singletons on Sunday evening. Organised by Speed Dating Events, the event promises to be the perfect way to meet up to eight dates in one night. Participants are encouraged to come with a smile and an open mind. Very few male tickets are available, so those interested should secure their entry as soon as possible. Tickets cost €21.60 each plus fees on Eventbrite.
Irish Examiner
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Five For Your Radar: 28 Years Later, Neil Young, Live at the Marquee
Cinema: 28 Years Later General release, Friday, June 20 Over 20 years on since the release of 28 Days Later, which made a star of Cillian Murphy and, ahem, revived the zombie genre for the new century, Danny Boyle returns with a sequel, 28 Years Later, and a terrifying new "auteur horror" story. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jodie Comer star. Street theatre: Les Girafes: An Animal Operetta St Patrick's Street, Cork, 2pm, 9pm, Sunday, June 22 Les Girafes parade through Cork on Sunday. Seven towering red giraffes gracefully parade through Cork's city centre, led by an operatic diva, as Cork Midsummer comes to a close after 10 days of memorable events. French street theatre company Compagnie OFF will be accompanied by a troupe of bumbling keepers, musicians, and performers savannah for this free event. Concert: Neil Young and Van Morrison Malahide Castle, Dublin, Thursday, June 26 Both men are 79, and while they may outlast us all, there is a sense that we don't know how long more they'll be touring. The Canadian-American rocker returns to Ireland with a band that includes Willie Nelson's son Micah, and fans will be happy to hear that recent setlists have included such classics as Sugar Mountain and Heart of Gold. Van the man has been a mixed bag in the live arena in recent years, but can still conjure up moments of magic. Streaming: The Bear Disney+, Wednesday, June 25 After a divisive — some would say tedious, others would say slow — third season, The Bear returns for its fourth season. Jeremy Allen White, most recently seen as The Boss in the trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, reprises his role as anger-managing chef Carmy, while Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach also return to the kitchen/melting pot. As usual, all 10 episodes of the season drop at once on Wednesday. Concert: Picture This Live at the Marquee, Wednesday-Thursday, June 25-26 Fans at a previous gig at Live at The Marquee in Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins Picture This kick off a month of shows Live at the Marquee in Cork. Ten years on from the release of Take My Hand and having released fourth studio album Parked Car in 2024, Picture This return for two sold-out shows to kick off the Marquee shows.
Irish Examiner
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Street spectacle, theatre, music... 10 highlights of Cork Midsummer Festival
1. Les Girafes: An Animal Operetta Outside Dunnes Stores, Patrick's Street, June 22 at 2pm and 9pm French street theatre company Compagnie OFF will show off their towering red giraffes during a parade through Cork city, accompanied by performers and musicians. The parade will blend circus arts, opera, and street theatre into a display of colour and sound. 2. The Second Woman Cork Opera House, June 14 to June 15 Eileen Walsh stars in The Second Woman, a film that features 100 different men opposite Walsh over 24 hours, as she repeatedly performs a scene about a relationship that has lost its creativity and romance. 3. Helios by Luke Jerram St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, June 9 to June 21 from 9am to 5pm Light and sound combine to create an immersive opportunity as Helios invites people to explore the sun up close through a new artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram. Each centimetre of the six-metre sculpture represents 2,300km of the real Sun's surface. 4. Caught In The Furze Cork Centre for Architectural Education, June 14 and 15 and June 17 to June 21 from 12pm to 5pm Caught in the Furze is a seven-day performance within an immersive installation of furze (gorse) bushes. The performance sees Coogan navigate the spaces between history and memory, myth and modernity by drawing on ancient folk traditions. 5. Cork Girl!, Camille O'Sullivan The Everyman, June 21 at 8.30pm On the evening of the summer solstice, Camille O'Sullivan presents a brand-new show which celebrates her hometown and its music through a mix of favourite songs and new gems. 6. Escaped Alone The Everyman, June 12 to June 14 at 8pm Directed by Annabelle Comyn, this new work from Hatch Theatre Company and The Everyman, in association with Once Off Productions, satirises contemporary capitalist culture and celebrates the voices of aging women. 7. Stitch J. Nolan Stationary, Shandon Street, June 13 to June 15 and June 18 to June 22 at 5pm and 9pm (9pm and midnight on June 14) Set on Shandon Street in 1989, Stitch digs deep into a world where the past lingers and the walls whisper. Described as sinister and unsettling, audiences are warned that this play is not for the faint of heart. 8. Burnout Paradise, by Pony Cam Dance Firkin Crane, June 19 at 8pm, June 20 at 9pm and June 21 at 4pm Known for their bold, high-energy performances, Pony Cam is set to bring an exhilarating and chaotic performance that exposes a system that demands more than we can give through pushes bodies, minds, and spirits to their limits. 9. Theatre for One: Made In Cork Emmet Place, June 14, 15, 17 and 22 The Theatre for One booth returns to Emmet Place as part of Cork Midsummer Festival, with a special instalment of five-minute plays performed by one actor for one audience member at a time. Pieces by Cónal Creedan, Katie Holly, John McCarthy, Michael John McCarthy, Gina Moxley and Louise O'Neill. 10. Songs and Souls by Deirdre Kinahan and Steve Wickham The Pav, June 14 at 2.30pm A celebration of music and storytelling, Songs and Souls features voices from the plays of Deirdre Kinahan and live music from fiddler Steve Wickham, bringing Kinahan's funny and fragile characters to life.
Irish Examiner
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Giraffes, a spectacular sun, and a 24-hour play: Cork Midsummer Fest launches programme
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's a herd of giraffes walking down Patrick's Street. Fota Wildlife Park can rest easy though, as these particular specimens will strut their stuff as part of the eye-catching line-up for this year's Cork Midsummer Festival. In Les Girafes: An Animal Operetta, from French street theatre outfit, Compagnie OFF, seven towering red giraffes will parade down the city's main thoroughfare, accompanied by a troupe of musicians and performers. According to festival director Lorraine Maye, the scale of this spectacle hasn't been seen in Cork for decades. 'It is enormously exciting to see the festival using the streets for this very big moment,' says Maye in advance of the event's official programme launch on Thursday evening. Also in the realm of the truly spectacular is Helios, a giant dazzling sun from artist Luke Jerram which will be suspended in the iconic location of St Fin Barre's Cathedral; each centimetre of the huge sculpture represents 2,300km of the real Sun's surface. The church will open from sunrise to sunset (4.30am–10.30pm) on the summer solstice, June 21, giving audiences a unique opportunity to bask in the intensity of the sun at one of the most sacred and symbolic points in the calendar. 'Luke's work is magical and the sun feels like a very fitting installation to have for a midsummer festival,' says Maye. While such large-scale events make this year's festival programme the most ambitious yet, there is a diverse menu of musical, dance, visual art and literary performances from local, national and international artists, as well as the community participation for which the festival is renowned. This includes a new Midsummer Youth Assembly, which will programme, curate and lead an event in Fitzgerald's Park. The booth that hosts the Theatre for One. 'The festival showcases so many different ways to encounter live art. The city really embraces it, so many people put so much into it and it is something that Cork can be really proud of,' said Maye. The festival is leaning into its midsummer theme more than ever, making the most of the long bright nights with performances around the clock, including a solstice céili in the atmospheric surroundings of Elizabeth Fort, and The Second Woman, in which Cork actor Eileen Walsh will perform with an unrehearsed cast of 100 over 24 hours at Cork Opera House. Maye, who saw the show in Amsterdam, says it was 'unforgettable'. Eileen Walsh will perform a 24-hour play with 100 different actors. 'I've never had an experience like it. There are so many ways to encounter it, and whether you do half an hour or 24 hours, it is worth it. The people that you meet and the conversations you have, there is that sense of belonging to a cohort of people who are having this once-in-a-lifetime experience.' The festival will also draw down the curtain, for now at least, on one of its most popular events of recent years, Theatre for One, in which an actor performs a five-minute piece for a single person in a confessional-style booth. This year's theme is 'Made in Cork' and it will feature work from writers including Cónal Creedon, Louise O'Neill and Gina Moxley. 'The focus on Cork voices and stories feels like such a lovely way to round out a third year and pause on this moment,' says Maye. Returning after a hiatus is the literature strand, Western Frequencies, which will be curated by Danny Denton. It marks a new partnership between the festival and UCC, and the events will take part at various venues on campus. Maye lists many highlights across the programme, and is particularly looking forward to seeing in the sunrise at St Fin Barre's with all the other early birds. 'I will be there. There are these moments that will never happen again. When will you get to be in St Fin Barre's at dawn looking at an enormous sun?' Cork Midsummer Festival takes place June 13-22; for further information and tickets, see
