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Fun at the Hunt Museum Limerick. A budding city planner, perhaps? Facebook/The Hunt Museum

6 events coming up this month for kids who love arts and crafts

Here’s what’s on around Ireland for the mini Monet in your house.

LIMERICK

ArKIDtechture workshop at the Hunt Museum: As a part of Open House Limerick, the Hunt Museum is hosting an architecture workshop for children this Saturday, where kids will design a brand new city, with Sean Logan from The School of Architecture at the University of Limerick.

Suits: 5+. When: 11am-1pm. Costs: Free, but booking is essential. Find out more here.

DUBLIN

Story Time At The National Gallery: Take a seat in one of Ireland’s oldest galleries  as storyteller Ruth Concannon gets ready to tell tall tales of Halloween this Saturday at the National Gallery gift shop. Fancy dress is encouraged, as is a wander around the gallery’s current exhibits afterward.

Suits: 3-10 years – but an adult must be in attendance. When: Sat October 20, 11.30am – 12.30pm. Costs: Free. Find out more here.

Animation Art Show: This family friendly exhibition includes an auction of artwork like a print from Song Of The Sea and production artwork from Care Bears, Thumbelina and All Dogs Go To Heaven. All proceeds go to Irish children’s charities. Artwork will be on display from Sat October 27, with the auction taking place the following Saturday November 4.

Suits: The whole family. When: Sat October 27th – Sat November 4. Costs: Free. Find out more here.

Have a free day out at IMMA: The Irish Museum of Modern Art is a playground for art lovers of all ages. To entice small fans through their doors, the museum offers a free family pack, which includes games, puzzles and tasks designed to encourage children to explore the galleries – and respond to their experience through writing, drawing and colouring.

Suits: The whole family. When: All year round. Costs: Free. Find out more here.

GALWAY

Live art in Galway: As a part of Baboro, the International Arts Festival for Children, illustrators Niamh Sharkey, Tarsila Krüse and PJ Lynch will be making wall-sized pictures this Friday October 19 at The Wonder Works on Market Street, and they want families to come along to help them out.

Suits: The whole family. When: Fri October 19, 3.30pm and 5.30pm. Costs: Free, but places are limited and allocated on a first come, first served basis. Find out more here.

CORK

Sunday Funday at Crawford Art Gallery: Every Sunday is Family Day at Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery, with free gallery tours at 2pm, free art workshops and a monthly calendar of concerts and storytelling.

Suits: all ages. When: 11am-4pm each Sunday. Costs: Free. Find out more here.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 2:43 PM

    “Reflect”? Just shows the arrogance of an organisation that thinks it still wields far more power and influence than it does. Lands amounting to the value of the debt still outstanding from the various child rape and assault scandals should be confiscated with the same vigor that revenue would come after you or I if we owed anything.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 2:48 PM

    @The Risen: True, but why ignore the other travesty, developers again getting a get out of jail card by their buddies in office????

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:02 PM

    @Tony Harris: Who said to ignore developers getting a get out of jail free card?

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    Sep 8th 2021, 4:14 PM

    @That’s FineGaelness: I was referring to the comment above which ignored that bit!

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    Sep 8th 2021, 8:15 PM

    @Tony Harris: Because yer man in the photo isn’t wearing a hi-vis. :)

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    Sep 8th 2021, 8:49 PM

    @The Risen: i agree completely. But After you or me. You cannot come after “İ”.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 10:45 PM

    @The Risen: the state recommended that the church pay 50% of all the redress which the church did not agree to as they knew it was impossible. On the one hand you are saying the church is in decline but on the other they are supposed to have a financial standing equivalent to the state.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 2:50 PM

    The Bishop should take a good long look in the mirror while he’s “reflecting”
    How those supposed men of god can live with themselves I don’t know

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:24 PM

    @Dave Harris: Indeed. He needs to reflect on the ban on birth control and the possible link with homeless families going hungry. No doubt they’d prefer to set up orphanages to export the children on commission.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:25 PM

    With the amount outstanding that these people owe their victims should they not just send in CAB to confiscate their assets in lieu of overdue debts?

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:06 PM

    The church should hold no land, they should hold no wealth, if they were real Christian’s they would gladly give land to build social housing… but no, they’ll reflect on it and hope the publicity will go away, no wonder mass attendance numbers are dwindling. Shame on the church again.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 4:30 PM

    @Pádraigín O’Sirideáin:
    So much for vows of poverty!

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:12 PM

    How much does the church still owe the state to pay for the agreed portion of financial compensation already paid out by the government to those who were victims of abuse by the members of the clergy?

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    Sep 8th 2021, 2:42 PM

    The money was just resting in my account

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    Sep 8th 2021, 7:41 PM

    @Robert Stevens: It was resting for a long time, Ted! Good long rest!

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:45 PM

    I hope they do give the land…on the stipulation that it will be turned into social housing.
    Because, you know O’Brien and every other minister will develop the builds and then hand them over to parasite landlord class.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 4:16 PM

    @Amadán: Excellent point, well made.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 7:41 PM

    @Amadán: This is exactly it

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    Sep 8th 2021, 7:42 PM

    Why you’re not an Amadán at all!

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:24 PM

    Do a Henry VIII reboot: Dissolution. Widespread state seizure of church lands for Social housing. Much of this land was gifted to the church in any case by Builders when they built an estate and land for church use was made available for a nominal fee. The house owners themselves paid for it whether they liked it or not.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:46 PM

    Wonder could the church show us the deeds of.all the land they have control of

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    Sep 8th 2021, 7:43 PM

    @Joseph Duggan: I’d be interested

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:49 PM

    Biggest private landlord in the world vatican

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    Sep 8th 2021, 4:19 PM

    The minister should just take the land off the church for all the pain and misery they caused.
    After all they didn’t even pay up.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 3:43 PM

    Or, it could be more likely that they have to talk to the individual Diocese about what can be done. Those in said diocese, ordained and laity will have to be consulted.
    That’s before you get into the different orders and some that will have to go to the Vatican.
    It’s not the hegemony orginistion people think it is. It’ll take time. Probably looking at about a year.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 2:48 PM

    Hes the bulb off piers Morgan.

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    Sep 8th 2021, 4:39 PM

    Centre right and centre left governments in Ireland have operated from a base assumption that the housing demand can be left to ‘the market’. In the early 1930s FF earmarked large sums of money to local authorities for the construction of houses for people on low incomes. But that was a temporary aberration; since then the Hidden Hand of the Market has held economical sway. Catholic Bishops and lay Catholic theologians can examine papal encyclicals etc and see if the Hidden Hand concept can be morally challenged. I hope that will be a significant aspect of the Bishops’ declared ‘reflection’.

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