Drogheda Independent, Living in Drogheda supplement: Schoolchildren's league goes from strength to strength

Schoolboy soccer in Drogheda has changed drastically since its inception over two decades ago.

Fingal Independent: Clarke calls for Fingal title push

Sporting Fingal goalkeeper Brendan Clarke is pleased with the Ravens' position going into the mid-season break and sees no reason why the club cannot push on to win the Airtricity League title.

Fingal Independent: Fingal step up title chase

SPORTING FINAL   2     GALWAY UNITED   0

Goals from Ronan Finn and substitute Eamon Zayed at Morton Stadium moved Sporting Fingal to within three points of the Airtricity League summit with a game in hand last Saturday.

Fingal Independent: Mals seeking redemption

Malahide United will be hoping to put a dismal league season firmly behind them on Friday night when they face Galway United in the third round of the FAI Cup. 

Fingal Independent: Oldies strike gold

Portmarnock over-35s ended an incredible début season by completing a league and cup double last week.

The seasiders clinched the title with three games to spare and defeated Partrician Celtic on penalties to claim the Clifford Cup. John Courage puts his side's stunning first season down to the spirit of his players and the other people involved in the club.

Review: Bribry 'Swings' Skyhigh - new solo project by Brian O'Reilly

Bribry is Sky High is the new solo pseudonym taken on by former Star Crossed Enemies front man Brian O’Reilly. O’Reilly has just finished recording debut EP Swings with former Guillotines and Star Crossed Enemies band mate Gary White. While White took part in the recording of Swings he will not form part of the live line-up of Bribry is Sky High full-time, with Redreck vocalist and guitarist Ian Campbell set to partner O’Reilly onstage.

Review: Apollos Thebe seize the music, and so should you

Prendo: definition - after an extensive look through the ‘Wiktionary’ (a wiki can answer anything these days), I finally discovered ‘prendo’ to mean something along the lines of ‘to seize’, ‘to take’, ‘to hold’, ‘to charm’, and ‘to keep’ in Galician, Spanish and/or French. If I’m wrong, correct me now and I shall forever hold my silence.

Review: Star Crossed Enemies - no longer Star Crossed, but it's with a Happy Ending

It is with enormous sadness that I write about the break up of Star Crossed Enemies. After the highs of being loved by the unlikely folk of Limerick; reaching second place in the download.ie charts; recording an EP; and making many a person smile with their onstage chemistry, Brian O’Reilly and Gary White decided to part ways with their final show together taking place in the Spirit Store in Dundalk supporting Michelle Anne Kelly.

Review: Apollos Thebe - The Voice of God that hopefully won't Stawp

“You can take the time to find out what has really kept you here.”

I’ll come back to this.

For the College View, album review: Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky

Imagine a slightly less polished Editors. Imagine Snow Patrol’s first two albums, before Final Straw, the one’s nobody cared about. And, as HMV so aptly described it, imagine a Coldplay influenced by R.E.M., Neil Young and lumberjack shirts instead of Radiohead. Imagine these things and you can imagine Wintersleep.

Review: Star Crossed Enemies - a new direction

Since the split of Guillotines, Brian O’Reilly and Gary White have created a new sound for themselves with Star Crossed Enemies. However, this new sound is one that may not be deemed ‘exciting’ enough for gig promoters in Dublin to consider as headline material. The example being used here is the band Green Lights’ final gig on the 27th of February, 2009. The bill for this gig was, in playing order (first to last): Star Crossed Enemies/The Funeral Suits/ and Green Lights.

Review: Swimming in a Red Sea

Following the split of Guillotines back in June of 2008, guitarist and vocalist Gavin White spent a lot of time recording solo pieces on his MacBook under two different aliases: Herodotus’ Dream and Insomnia.

Review: Joy Division, Heart and soul boxset

“With a few exceptions, everything Joy Division recorded and released is contained here. Joy Division: 1977 to 1980.” 

These are the final two lines of the summary written on the back of the Joy Division Heart and soul boxset. For those of you who do not know me personally, I am a massive Joy Division fan. I got into them after the movie Control came out on DVD back in March 2008.

Myriads in the Dublin Scene - a college assignment from 2008

Now this takes me back...

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points" - Alan Kay

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points." - Alan Kay 

It’s an unusual quote, I won't lie. When I first heard it, I didn't really understand it. Today, it became relevant to me in the cruelest way possible.