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Culture Counter Culture Counter: docklands sculpture, Oscar Wilde’s hair and rugby bluesA new outdoor light sculpture goes on display in Dublin’s docklands, while vandals deface a neolithic passage tomb in Sligo
Culture Counter Culture Counter: your guide to what’s in and what’s out US screenwriters agree to end their five-months-old strike while ghost buses are still haunting commuters in the capital
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outSimone Rocha puts her best foot forward with a Crocs collaboration, while bedlam breaks out in Leinster house following a day of protests
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outA record four Irish authors make this year’s Booker longlist – and a Dublin newsagent uses photos of owls to scare off crisp-nabbing pigeons
Culture Counter Culture Counter – your guide to what’s in and what’s outDublin City Council knocks it out of the park – with pretty parks – while the Environmental Protection Agency caved to pressure by deleting a tweet which advised people to reduce red meat consumption to be healthier
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outChelsea shells out a record €134 million for midfielder Moisés Caicedo, while injury takes French star fly-half Romain Ntamack out of the Rugby World Cup
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outAmericans stream Sinéad O’Connor’s songs as the incomparable singer is laid to rest; actor Cillian Murphy’s royal spat video outed as fake
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outIrish Game of Thrones actor Jack Gleeson is returning to our screens in BBC’s upcoming Famous Five series, while Met Éireann revealed that July was the wettest on record
Culture Counter Culture counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outMeals on wheels with a difference, and Hollywood hampered by underperforming films
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outHMV record shops make an unexpected return to Ireland – and, as you probably already suspected, Ireland is officially the most expensive country in the EU
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outFour children survived on their own for 40 days in the Amazon jungle – and it seems sports washing is all the rage across several disciplines
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outTipperary actor Daryl McCormack’s star is on the ascent in the sequel to disaster movie Twister, while mankind generally may be heading for a nasty remake of The Terminator if warnings from AI experts prove correct
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outLee Cronin has set a new record for an Irish-born director with the success of Evil Dead Rise; and the NTA has said a contactless payment system on Dublin Bus is still ‘years away’
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outormer journalist Charlie Bird took part in Pieta House’s Darkness into Light on Friday despite suffering a bad fall; and Ed Sheeran has threatened to quit music if he loses a plagiarism case
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outColin Farrell learns to have better work boundaries; and Blindboy Boatclub is not happy with the New York Times
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outFassbender fans have a lot to look forward to on the big screen, while a roast dinner burrito may be a food fusion too far
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outGraham Norton gives us something to smile about in a new comedy series, but no bookworms are laughing over news that bargain online store Book Depository is shutting up shop
Culture Counter Culture Counter: Your guide to what’s in and what’s outA new Irish film with a stellar cast sounds promising, and tired Irish stereotypes from people who should know better are disappointing