Tripe + Drisheen

04/04/2025

04/04/2025

It’s a quiet enough weekend, but if you’re looking for something to do, Tripe has you covered!

04/04/2025

Street furniture and pretty trees comin at ya on Tuckey Street. 🥰🥰🥰🌳🌳🌳🌸🌸🌸

03/04/2025

is an online community radio station which aims to bring people together from all walks of life, both here in Cork and beyond, through the ever popular medium of digital radio. The station was launched in Plugd Records on Cornmarket Street in December of last year and is entirely volunteer-led.

But what began with twenty five people in a room discussing how to start broadcasting, has now swelled to over 250 members and is growing all the time.

With that many people on board, getting anything off the ground, or on air is an achievement in itself and this week T+D spoke with three Éist members, Úna Hennessy, Alannah Matthews and Japhet Santana to discuss how this project came about, how it’s all been going so far and where they see this initiative developing in the future.

Full story on T+D. Have a read (or listen;)

02/04/2025

Here’s your gig guide to the month as we get into the swing of things

01/04/2025

Coming to Netflix: a new 10-part series on the Sod that shook the world.

Coming in 2029. Or, 2036. Or no, 2056

01/04/2025

In a STUNNING new development the government, cork city council, and stakeholders have announced that they will now build an Event Centre Memorial on the Event Centre site in the Event Centre Quarter.

This was the recommendation from a new high level board which will now start a pre-tendering tendering process.

It is hoped that the design will incorporate much of organic life form that has been thriving on the original sod, turned in 2016.

“It’ll be a much needed boost to the city,” the City Council said, “showing the potential of what an Event Centre could have been.”

28/03/2025

A bike project that works vs one that ???????

The TFI bikes got off to a rocky start, but they are def part of the transport infrastructure and network in

Two cargo bike boxes were installed in the city in 2023 and according to the Council “they have been rented out to cargo bike users.”

Are you a cargo bike user? Have you used either of them? We’d love to know more. Drop us a line.

The City Council said a review of their usage will be undertaken by this year.

28/03/2025

As we reach the end of the month, here’s Tripe’s pick of what to check out around the city and county this weekend.

More picks and views in this week’s Friday View!

25/03/2025

24/03/2025

Tell me now do the County Board still meet here and why isn’t it a SuperValu already???🙈🙈

21/03/2025

Was a good Paddy’s Day had by all? We’re entering a quieter weekend now, but there’s still things to go see. More in the Friday View!

20/03/2025

There be bridges. The new bridge spans to cross the Lee. Surely, surely, surely if the 6,000 seater Event Centre gets built there’s will be used for access by the trucks etc for set up and take down or are we missing something? (Like an Event Centre!!;)

14/03/2025

Paddy’s Weekend is here, and while there’s tons on around town, here are our recommendations for the weekend.

More in this week’s Friday View, give it a read!

13/03/2025

It’s the age-old question: why run, especially first thing on a Saturday morning, unless you’re being chased by a pride of lions?

And yet, every Saturday morning, on a small patch of grass straddling the as it dips and dives through the Glen River Park on the city’s Northside, a flock of runners gathers from 9 o’clock onwards. Some have been coming for years, others are in Cork for the weekend, and others still are just starting their running career. At 9:30 am sharp, they all set off in unison to complete five kilometres of the weekly parkrun.

I should add that some of them walk, and that’s totally fine!

The parkrun coming up this weekend is a wee bit special: it’s the 250th Glen River parkrun, and the organisers are asking runners and walkers to wear a bit of green, given the weekend that’s in it.

Clichéd as it is, none of it would happen without the team of volunteers, sometimes as many as a dozen or more, who turn up religiously to make sure the event runs like a well-oiled machine. And it always does.

Parkrun is a phenomenon, and its popularity and success likely owe as much to the age-old impulse to run in packs as to our ability to organise local and global events online.

As Marty Walsh, the event director for the Glen River parkrun, explained to me over a call this week ahead of the 250th parkrun in the Glen, the global recognition of the brand, and how it’s been so successfully devolved at a local level, has helped make it one of the most successful weekly sporting and truly community-driven events around the globe.

Equally important is how parkruns are not the preserve of the running or athletic community. If anything, they’re truly for the people, of the people, and by the people. They’re also chill while being health-focused.

In fact, as Marty pointed out, you don’t have to run at all. Walkers are more than welcome, as are joggers, first-timers, the very old, and the very young

12/03/2025

A new biodiversity hub, situated in a historic building in Ballincollig Regional Park, will be pivotal in protecting the various species that call the 140-acre suburban park home.

The community-led initiative is the brainchild of local resident Dr Mabel Hernandez, who, along with Maria Young of and Eithne Lynch, has been instrumental in bringing this project to fruition in the old Powdermills Visitor Centre.

Although the hub has already begun to hold meetings, with ornithologist Jim Wilson giving a talk last month, the official inauguration of the building took place on Tuesday, March 11. It was attended by the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Dan Boyle, who said the launch was “auspicious” for a number of reasons

“Firstly, it’s a recognition of the biodiversity in Cork and it recognises the effort that has gone into the building itself and what an addition it is to Ballincollig, its history and the fact the building is being repurposed and reused is a statement in itself as well.”

“It creates a locale where people can meet and talk and better understand biodiversity because we talk a lot about climate change, but just as serious is the need for biodiversity and how without it, our very existence is under threat.”

Cllr Boyle added that, despite the development of the local area, the natural habitat needs to be better cared for in order to safeguard the region’s biodiversity.

Full story on T+D.

07/03/2025

Another week, another Friday View, another Out + About. Loads to check out, especially out in the county. Plus news, views and more gigs to choose in this week’s Friday View.

06/03/2025

Massive congrats to and all the crew on their 10-year anniversary on Evergreen St. Here’s to the 10 hundred more years!! おめでとうございました🥳！