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IF YOU WANT to introduce the little ones in your house to the magical world of reading, International Literature Festival Dublin is a good place to start.
The festival kicked off on May 17, but there’s still time to catch some of its most impressive events before it ends this Sunday May 26.
Below, we’ve rounded up the events for under 5s and their adults to enjoy as the festival comes to an end…
Party in the Park: A two-day event, Party in the Park takes place in St Patrick’s Park and features a great selection of family-friendly activities, including storytelling, workshops, arts and crafts and street theatre. There’s a jam-packed timetable on both days from 11am-5pm, so you might even want to make more than one trip.
When: Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26. Suitable for: all ages. Where: St Patrick’s Park, Patrick Street, Dublin 8. Costs: Free. Find more information here.
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Storytelling with Kate DiCamillo: Award-winning author Kate DiCamillo comes to Liberty Hall, with an event that’s sure to entertain attendees of all ages. You might recognise Kate as the moniker behind Because of Winn-Dixie, Flora & Ulysses and The Tale of Despereaux.
When: Saturday, May 25. Suitable for: 4 and up. Where: Liberty Hall, Eden Quay, Dublin 1. Costs: €8-€10 for adults, €6 for children. Find more information here.
The Magical World of Chris Haughton: Award-winning picture book maker Chris Haughton will bring his stories to the big screen at The Ark for this event – with hints being dropped about him sharing his new book with attendees months before its release.
When: Sunday, May 26. Suitable for: 4 and up. Where: The Ark, 11A Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Costs: €7.50. Find out more information here.
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@Martin Flood: It will not be too long before the Troika are back. The Paddies never learn, they still listen to the establishment political classes that it will be different this time, while pandering to the greedy Developer cow boy’s, the Estate agents and the rest of the vested interests in the property rip off business. Interest rates have only one way to go and that is up, How can house prices rise at 10% pa and wages, and salaries rise at max 4%before tax and levies? This is exactly what happened in the run up to the crash in 2008. It will all end in tears once again this time no one will be prepared to foot the bill for the incompetent political class, Regulators, and the rest of get rich quick again merchant’s.
Boom and bust all over again. 5 years time , austerity at a high to pay for elite losses Again… Either FF will blame FG government or they’ll be switched around. Nothing learned :(
Why buy a house in Dublin for €400,000 when a better house can be found 2hrs away in Leitrim for a quarter of the price ? In fact when you take the interest payments into account the savings will run into close to one million Euro.
@Sean Ryan: I can sell my house in Dublin tomorrow and buy a house in Letrim and be mortgage free after paying off the mortgage. I have a 25 minute commute at present so I’d rather stay put. When House prices crashed Dublin recovered first and quickest. It also exceeds the rates going up in other places.
@Sean Ryan: Lovely Leitrim is a great place for a holiday or to retire in peaceful surroundings close to the River Shannon. Carrick-on-Shannon has a railway station on the Dublin – Sligo route.
@Chris Kirk: awful place to retire to in fairness, you need to have access to hopitals an dwalking distance to things. Fine for a holiday (outside carrick)
@iMoan Brutal: Carrick is a 35 minute drive (without speeding) from Sligo University Hospital. Allowing for traffic, how long would it take most people to get to the ED of whatever hospital is on call for emergencies in Dublin? Probably at least that length of time. And in Carrick you’re within walking distance to everything… shops, medical centre, pubs, restaurants, gym, pool, cinema. So maybe not such a terrible place to retire to after all?!
@Paul Gallagher: sure they’re all holding out for their house in the are they grew up in . . Can you imagine them having to get a bus anywhere. . Shock horror !
@Suzie Sunshine: if you could get a job paying 30k in Leitrim you’d probably end up with more disposable income than busting your hole to repay a 500k mortgage in Dublin earning 100k and paying half your income in tax.
Why pay €400,000 for a house in Dublin. A better house can be found in Leitrim, only 2 hours away for €1000,000. There’s almost one million Euro in savings to be made over the life of the mortgage too
@Sean Ryan: “only” 2hr drive?
Say your job starts at 0800, that means you have to leave home at least at 0600, which means you have to get up at 0500 to shower, dress and drop something in the stomach before leaving.
Your work finishes at 1700, add two hours drive and you will be at home at 1900 in the best case scenario.
Then you have approximately 2 hours to grab your dinner, spend some time with your family and be in bed by 2100. Why at 2100? Because you need at least 8h sleep.
There’s 24h in a day, so you spend 8 hours sleeping, 2 hours with your family and a whoping 14 hours working and getting to/from work.
And you call this living? Slavery is the word that comes to my mind when you look at these conditions.
Not suprising prices go up when lack of supply or similarly rents increase if lack of supply do to private people selling houses thus laden pockets of exsisting landlords tds who dont want do anything
Roscommon and Letrim are excellent value right now, places that come to mind, along the river Shannon, Rooskey and Carrick on Shannon in particular. Lots of awesome deals you could get right now!
Im a Real Estate Professional here in Boston, it’s a sellers market here now, average cost per Square Foot wait for it!…., $1500
Dear fiscal advisory council, it’s land prices that are increasing not the cost of construction. They are two different things. It wasn’t Sisk that went bust. It was property companies, namely land speculators that ruined this country. The construction industry needs long term investment. So tradesmen, civil engineers just don’t decide to leave and go where they can make a good living.
Why pay €400,000 for a house in Dublin. A better house can be found in Leitrim, only 2 hours away for €1000,000. There’s almost one million Euro in savings to be made over the life of the mortgage too
cop on – it is not just house prices as it costs (or should cost) roughly the same to build the same house in any county, it is the cost of building land that makes a difference too when a 5,000 euro field becomes worth 500,000 because it gets zoned residential.
One major issue is the lack of and consequently the cost of building land around the areas of major employment. This is a false market created by the zoning and planning process. If it could be assumed that 50% of the farm land within 50 miles of Dublin were rezoned as potentially residential the bottom would fall out of the artificially inflated building property market and now your house site would cost 5,000 and not 250,000 so the property prices would be more equitable across the country.
When one values/insures a property now one can get the “rebuild” value which is a truer refection of the cost of a house and and difference between that and the market value represent a premium for the site and location. A 400,000 house in Dublin could have a rebuild value of 200,000 for example the extra 200,000 being a premium for the location.
I could go on but there are land owners and property developers with too much to loose to expect to see a change in the system
plenty of houses in cork kerry limerick for about 60k trains go to dublin from these destinations every day of the week plenty of fresh air and no neighbours to interfer with you u can get all the entertainment on the telly and the internet parking free in most towns and villages and plenty of rulal roads to go for your walk in dowm the country boys sure tis like heavan
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