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WE’RE HEADING INTO another weekend in Ireland with numerous restrictions on movement in place.
All non-essential retail outlets remain closed, while restaurants and cafes have been ordered to stay closed unless they can offer a take-away option, until Sunday 12 April.
Non-essential outlets include pubs, theatres, clubs, gyms/leisure centres, hairdressers, betting shops, marts, markets, casinos, bingo halls, libraries and similar businesses.
So, with the nation being asked to stay at home for another weekend, we’ve compiled a list of some online events taking place this weekend that people can take part in.
The ISPCC/Childline in association with RTÉ 2FM and some Irish artists including Hudson Taylor, Orla Gartland and Niall Horan are presenting a two-week-long digital live music event in support of children in Ireland.
As of last week, people can tune into live 30-minute performances each evening at 7pm through each artist’s Instagram account.
The line-up for the next few days is as follows:
Today – Walking on Cars (@walkingoncars)
Tomorrow – Hudson Taylor (@hudtaymusic)
Monday – Orla Gartland (@orlagartland)
Tuesday – Sean and Conor Price (@sean_and_conor_price_music)
Wednesday – Lyra (@thisislyra)
Thursday – Niall Horan (@niallhoran)
Fancy some creative activities this weekend?
Well, Irish artist Alan Keane is hosting a family art class live on Facebook at 10am this morning.
Some of Keane’s work is held in private collections in the UK, US, Australia, Columbia, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland, including in government and museum collections.
Nialler9 is hosting a music quiz on his YouTube page at 7.30pm tomorrow.
The quiz will involve six rounds of music questions about lyrics, one-hit wonders and general music knowledge.
Fancy adding some culture to your weekend?
Well, you can explore the various wonders of the National Gallery of Ireland’s collection and take a stroll around its galleries from the comfort of your couch in the first in a series of virtual tours.
These tours can be done at any time of the day.
Tours of various rooms in the museum can be found here.
There are countless health coaches and fitness instructors hosting online exercise classes at the moment, which people can follow along to in the comfort of their homes.
If you’re looking for something a bit different this weekend, this might be for you – President Michael D Higgins’ personal yoga teacher Michael Ryan is teaching the first in a series of yoga classes by outdoor event company Happenings at 11am today.
The class runs for 60 minutes and costs €5, which will go directly to Childline.
People can sign up for the class here.
As many events around the world have been cancelled in recent weeks and will be cancelled over the coming months, some of the biggest names in drag are coming together to host a new digital concert festival called ‘Digital Drag Fest’.
The festival will feature drag artists such as Alaska, Divina DeCampo, Baga Chipz, Miz Cracker, amongst many others.
Each show runs for 30 minutes and access to the stream costs $10 (about €9.27) per household.
Information on acts performing this week can be found here.
For those who are looking to sit back and watch to television with their friends (from a distance) this weekend, Netflix Party is the place to go.
Netflix Party is a way to watch the streaming service with friends online.
It synchronizes video playback from different Netflix accounts and allows those watching together to use a group chat to, well, have the chats.
Running for charity
If you’re planning on putting in a few miles (within that 2k distance) over the next while, you might want to do it while raising money for charity. Breakthrough Cancer Research is hosting a 2k a day lockdown challenge to raise money for pioneering cancer research. It’s encouraging people to run, jog, or walk 2k a day for 20 days before the end of April (that’s the equivalent of a marathon).
Breakthrough hopes to raise €40,000 by encouraging 2000 people to sign up for just €20. You can sign up and track your progress on theracethatnearlywasnt.ie website and app.
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The Wolfe Tones should Headline it ,, that’s if
Roderic O’Gorman’s tent tenants have moved on
@Trent: thanks for highlighting the importance of teaching accurate history so that new generations know the truth about Provo criminal thugs.
@Oisin CK: I said “Ooh, ahh, up the R@”
@Trent: I’ve been going to the picnic since it started and have always enjoyed the atmosphere as it takes you away from life for a few days. The thought of hearing thousands of naive teenagers singing IRA chants at the main stage would fill me with dread. Keep politics out of the picnic and let those of us who just want to enjoy music, enjoy music. The Wolfe Tones are playing the 3 arena so you can go and shout your IRA chants there. It’s cringeworthy for so many of us who actually lived through the troubles and witnessed what the IRA did to so many innocent people.
@Oisin CK: I’m starting to think you’re actually Ryan,
Just a funny feeling I have…
Cant tell why.
@Declan Doherty: lived through the troubles that’s laughable ,, so other than yourself and your imaginary friends no one else lived through the troubles i was born in 68 so saw a lot of what went on growing up ,, And if the Wolfe Tones play next year which they definitely will maybe you should stay home and listen to Daniel O Donnell
@Trent: If you were born in 68 you were too young to comprehend the horror and terror of 69-73.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: As Johnny Logan the legend once sang “What’s another Year ” get over yourself jaysus
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: I’d trust Trent on what he remembers or doesn’t more than you, with all due repsect.
@Dave Murray: Thanks Dave ,, l think ;}
@Trent: Amen to that. Fantastic band
@Declan Doherty: Well said, Declan
285 Euro per ticket and sold out… Don’t come here complaining about the cost of anything in Ireland…
@Anonymous User: thats if they get the license approved…… stradbally is no different than croker and if the residents can stop good old gart brooks they stradbally residents can stop electric picnic…… for 19 years its been aloud run on the September date because it was end of summer and didn’t disturb the working community of laois too much……but this was rammed in without consultation….so lets see if the licence is approved
@Anonymous User: In fairness, we don’t have a demographic breakdown of those buying these tickets. In my experience, Electric Picnic attendees tend to be from pretty well-off backgrounds, and there’s an abundance of South Dublin twenty-somethings paying with mummy & daddy’s money. Also, people paying on credit, loans, etc.
@and the hit’s just keep coming:
No chance a small community like stradbally are going to do anything to risk the annual windfall that is EP.
@Anonymous User: That’s over €20m!
@Anonymous User: Cost of living crisis =/= no one can afford to do anything fun ever.
If everyone in the country was going you might have a point. Things have gotten more expensive but people can still put money aside for things, some people are doing just fine, there’s been an instalment plan for years which is very easily done. As someone else said people getting loans etc. Personal opinion on people using credit is irrelevant, the fact remains it’s a moot point. It’s like saying the cost of living increase isn’t real because people still go on holidays or buy clothes.
Only government-approved song lyrics at next year’s festival, please.
Most bought so they can resale next year for profit
@Gavin Kelly: Yes. Niall Collins’ wife & co. got first dibs.
Coldplay are definitely the marmite of bands. Personally, they make me want to drink whiskey and cry.
@Louis Jacob: Try mixing your your Whiskey with Marmite you’ll be crying out of every Orpheus
@Trent: what’s the sandman got to do with whiskey?
Your money in Ticketmaster’s bank for a year, Wow
@RIP: And without even knowing the line up yet. There should be a way to postdate a future payment when it’s all been confirmed.
Cost of Living Crisis?
Don’t think so.
@Michael Power: In fairness, we don’t have a demographic breakdown of those buying these tickets. In my experience, Electric Picnic attendees tend to be from pretty well-off backgrounds, and there’s an abundance of South Dublin twenty-somethings paying with mummy & daddy’s money. Also, people paying on credit, loans, etc.
@Michael Power: the vast majority of people are doing well thanks to the parties we have in Govt
@Michael Power: Cost of living crisis =/= no one can afford to do anything fun ever.
If everyone in the country was going you might have a point. Things have gotten more expensive but people can still put money aside for things, some people are doing just fine, there’s been an instalment plan for years which is very easily done. As someone else said people getting loans etc. Personal opinion on people using credit is irrelevant, the fact remains it’s a moot point. It’s like saying the cost of living increase isn’t real because people still go on holidays or buy clothes.
Well well … Ireland is very wealthy place indeed
I’ll sneak in again so
“Next year’s” is correct. It’s the festival taking place next year i.e. it belongs to next year. “Next years” implies all future years ahead, which is not the case here.
@Sean Ryan: True enough, although I’d argue for a more meaningful sentence than the “lot’s farm machinery” in the middle of the article.
@F Fitzgerald: lol. Who hires these people. They can’t even rip off a source properly.
Are they gonna invite The Napper Tandys back again ?
@Frank MacNamara: napper tandys pub on the main street in stradbally is available
Proof reader needed, get rid of that butcher’s apostrophe out of the headline.
I always called it a grocer’s apostrophe.
@: Now, now – it’s insensitive to point out a veteran journalist’s poor spelling and sloppy punctuation.
@: It’s correct. Possessive: the festival of next year.
@Megan Ward: They made a correction – the original headline was, “All Ticket’s For Next Year’s Festival…”
@Antóin Ó Cumamothóin: Ah, fair enough! I only saw people arguing that the ‘Year’s’ was incorrect but they’re gone now
Ever since Oxegen ended our beloved Electric Picnic has been taken over by feral, naive teenagers, and soon I dread it will be just another Longitude where you’re old if you’re over 18. As for the Wolfe Tones, personally I can’t stand them, but young people have a very short attention span, so I’m sure they’ll have moved on to something else by next August should EP be stupid enough to give them a slot on the main stage.
Ffs. Years not year’s.
The standard of literacy nowadays is appalling.
@lWOk0fWf: Year’s is correct.
@lWOk0fWf: In the meaning of this headline, ‘year’s’ is correct.
@lWOk0fWf: It literally means next year. (The headline is using the possessive case.)
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