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design and media? ‘Irish Times’ writers select the class acts of the year ahead

coining year promises to be a big one for many of ’s young movers and shakers. Food Here, Irish Times writers offer their tips for 50 people to watch across 10 categories Dearbhla Reynolds in 2016, plus we have some experts’ predictionsFermentation of what the year ahead may bring. Fermentation is only going to get bigger in TheLastyear’s marriage referendum showed the appetite Ireland this year. Dearbhla Reynolds of the for activism in Ireland, and Una Mullally selects Cultured Club fizzes with enthusiasm activists working in areas as diverse as Direct Provision, about all things fermented and she kicks disability and violence against women; in food, off the year with a trip to Australia to help Catherine Cleary looks at the trends hurtling down build an “earth ship”. the tracks and the chefs and foodies taking note; in The project, two hours south of Sydney, tech, Ciara O’Brien had a wealth of young entrepreneurs involves building a house and filling it with and developers to select from (our youngest is people like Dearbhla, who will help prevent aged just 13); while the age profile remains low in the food waste by fermenting and preserving film and TV category, where Donald Clarke makes food. Closer to home Reynolds sells her his pick of those in front of and behind the camera. sauerkraut and fermented mayonnaise at In music, Jim Carroll offers up five acts who will be the Helen’s Bay organic farm stall, at St making waves this year; in sport, Malachy Clerkin George’s Market in , and runs reckons there’s an Olympic medal among his selection; workshops at Ox Restaurant in Belfast and Deirdrc McQuillan gives the nod to a group making Alchemy in . and wearing some of the best Irish fashion; Gemma The daughter of a pharmacist and a Tipton and Manchan Magan look at the arts and domestic science teacher, she discovered design scene, while in politics, Harry McGee looks fermentation in 2011 with a probiotic ahead to the general election and a young cohort of ketchup and set up the Cultured Club in politicians he sees succeeding at the ballot. 2012. “I just had to share it.” We gathered together many of the group at the Royal She’s on a one-woman campaign to Hospital in Kilmainham just before Christmas for a share the health benefits (a new book this series of portraits by Dara Mac Donaill. Join the conversationyear from Prof John Cryan and colleagues and suggest people you believe are worth in UCC will link gut bacteria to mental watching this year at irishtimes.com/lifeandstyle health). At 39, Reynolds looks a decade Rachel Collins younger. “Fermented foods are great for your skin so I’m getting away with a lot.” After Australia she has her sights set on Sitting, from left: Jordan Casey, Gearoid doing something about food waste in Muldowney (Superfolk), John Leahy (), Jo Belfast and a book full of fermenting tips Anne Butler (Superfolk), Louise Bruton (Legless in with Gill and Macmillan due out in September. Dublin), Emer O’Daly (Love and Robots), Kathi theculturedclub.com Burke (illustrator), Maurice O’Connor (Sample Answer), Neil Lacey (The Green Kitchen), Ellie Aine Carlin Kisyombe (End Direct Provision), Rhona Togher Food blogging (Restored Hearing Ireland), Aine Mulloy, Pamela Aine Carlin started blogging six years ago Newenham and Elva Carri (Girl Crew). when she was living in . An actor, Standing, from left: Jordanne Jones (actress), she started the blog as a place to keep all Lynne Ruane (Student and equality activism), Aoife her recipes. Food blogs were “very, very Mullane (textile designer), Grainne Walley (clothes different” then, she says. “They weren’t so designer), Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (actor), Niamh competitive. Websites weren’t superslick Scanlon (EU Digital Girl of the Year), Charlie Kelly and the photography was pretty ropey.” (actor), Aoibh O'Daly (Love and Robots), Sinead As a touring actor, cooking was a home O’Dwyer (fashion designer), Alan O'Neill (Men’s comfort she could bring along. She left Development Network), Paula Barrett (The Turf Derry at 18 for London, where she studied Project), Stephen Fingelton (director), Eoin O'Broin music. When she started the blog she was a (Sinn F6in), Duncan Walker (The Green Kitchen), “full-blown meat eater”. One of her first Caoimhe Kilfeather (artist), Aine Carlin (food posts was a beef stroganoff so the blog is blogger). Photograph: Dara Mac Dbnaill also an account of her road to vegan Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 3 of 14

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eating: “If I can do it anyone can. ” Carlin sees herself as slightly out of step with the clean-eating brigade, where weight loss and beauty seem to be primary concerns. Her first book, Keep It Vegan, was written at a time when veganism was far less popular. Her second book, The New Vegan, came out on December 31st, and the 34-year-old will spend this year promoting it from Cornwall, where she lives with her husband. The name of her blog? It comes from Peasoup, her husband’s pet name for her. peasoupeats.com FOODAND TECH - above, from left: Neil Lacey & Duncan Walker food blogger Aine Carlin, coder Niamh The Green Kitchen Scanlon, Duncan Walker and Neil Lacey Neil Lacey was a restaurant manager in of The Green Kitchen, app developer New York before returning to Ireland, Jordan Casey and Rhona Togher of where he trained in addiction counselling. Restored Hearing: Top left: fermentation When a derelict pork butcher’s shop and expert Dearbhla Reynolds; Left: chef office in Walkinstown came up for regeneration Muireann McColgan; Right: chef Ruth it turned out to be the perfect home Lappin for both his skills. MAIN PHOTOGRAPH: DARA MAC DONAILL The Green Kitchen, in Walkinstown, opened in September 2014 after a dramatic transformation. It’s opposite Tony Kealey’s, the shop for buggies and car seats. Neil manages the cafe, which trains people in cooking and cafe skills. The Green Kitchen isn’t just a smart, friendly cafe where you can get a great breakfast, it’s a social enterprise, part of the Walkinstown favourite dish is the house-smoked salmon went to work as a chef de partie at Restaurant Green Social Enterprises or Walk, which they smoke with Earl Grey tea. Patrick Guilbaud, having worked run by Duncan Walker. Does she want her own place? “For the there part-time since her second year in In the large space at the back is a men’s moment I’m happy to learn more,” she college. Is it tough in a two-star kitchen? shed, where a “Cowboys Welcome” sign is says. “I’ve only been in kitchens for four “It’s like any kitchen. It’s quite a young hung over photographs of the men who years.” When she takes that busman’s kitchen,” she says, so her colleagues feel come to craft woodwork projects, everything winning the David Gumbledon Award, holiday to another kitchen she hopes to go like family, working 14-hour days together. from bird feeders to planters. which allows her to work at a world-class to Tom Kerridge’s Marlow gastropub The Guilbaud’shead chef Kieran Glennon There’s a polytunnel and garden centre, restaurant, a placement she has yet to take Hand and Flowers, delahunt.ie talked her into entering the Euro-toques where some ingredients for the cafe are up. Like many talented chefs, she hasn’t Young Chef of the Year and helped hone grown. Lots of people working in food had much time on her hands. She joined Ruth Lappin her dishes and, in November, she was want to make the world a better place. The the kitchen at Locks, in Dublin, and then Chef named the winner. She cooked sole glazed Walkinstown Green Kitchen shows how to moved to Delahunt, run by former classmate Originally from Dublin, Ruth Lappin (22) with lobster coral with tarragon pepper give people skills, dignity and purpose Darren Free, to work as sous chef grew up in Laois where her parents were and leeks as a garnish. Her pastry was a through a viable food business, walk.ie with head chef Dermot Staunton. hobby farmers who reared sheep and chocolate souffle tart. Plans for the future The former off-licence on Camden chickens. After she finished school, she will be to stay in Guilbauds - “They’ve been Muireann McColgan Street is where McColgan can cook the trained as a nurse but at the end of her first so good to me” - but also to travel. The first Chef kind of food she loves to eat. One of her year she switched to the culinary arts trip will be to Restaurant Gordon Ramsey At 25, Muireann McColgan returned to placements during college was at the degree in Dublin’s DIT. in London where she’ll work with Clare college to study culinary arts at DIT. She Ledbury, in London, and she was also a fan Nursing skills come in handy in the Smyth, one of the judges who named soon realised she’d found her niche. She of the Harwood Arms. Delahunt diners kitchen “if anyone needs bandaging”, she Lappin young chef of the year in 2015. graduated top of her class two years ago, give good feedback on their food and the jokes. She graduated in November and Catherine Cleary Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 4 of 14

ment with CoderDojo for Girls. Not bad for a girl who had never learned a line of code before she joined CoderDojo at nine. RhonaTogher Restored Hearing When you reach the age where you no longer feel the need to spend your weekends at loud concerts, you may well need the services of Rhona Togher and her business partner Eimear O’Carroll. The duo started out by developing a one-minute web-based therapy for the relief of tinnitus as a project for the 2009 Young Scientist competition. They lost out on the main prize that year, coming second, but they have since turned their project into a business. Alongside the web-based therapy, they now have a second product in the works, Sound Bounce. This is responsive hearing protection that has been developed with patented materials to allow users to communicate while still remaining protected. It responds to the environment, and claims to give up to eight times more protection than standard headsets. The applications for the new product range Jordan Casey TECH - Pamela Newenham, Aine from building and construction to aeronautics Tech App developer Mulloy and Elva Carri, founders of and entertainment. If ever there was a tech entrepreneur to GirlCrew, which has 20,000 members in Elva Carri, Aine Mulloy, make you feel like an underachiever, 43 cities across the world; Top right: EricRisser&Neal O’Gorman Pamela Newenham Jordan Casey would be it. Described as the Neal O’Gorman and Eric Risser of Artomatix GirlCrew youngest app developer in Europe, he has Artomatix. photograph: dara mac dPnaill Computer-generated graphics may no Like most good things, the idea for GirlCrew already founded two companies - Casey longer wow us in the way they once did came from frustration with the Games and Teachware - launching his when the technology was new, but it still status quo. Specifically in this case, it was first game at the age of 12. Casey Games, as name for herself on the tech scene. One of takes a lot of work to make sure that we Elva Cam’s frustration at not being able to the name suggests, was focused on apps the CoderDojo mentors, Scanlon has not don’t notice they’re there. Which is where find someone to go out for a night with in and games, while Teachware developed a only won the coding club’s Coolest Projects Artomatix comes into it. The startup uses early 2014. We've all been there. And so web-based application to help teachers with an app that pulls in data from the technology to help automate art creation the GirlCrew community was bora, manage their students’ information. ESB to determine which electric car for game design, building it faster and founded by Carri along with Aine Mulloy And now, at the age of 16, he’s moved on charging points are being used in real easier than before - and making it far and Pamela Newenham, as a Facebook to KidsCode, a startup that’s hoping to time, she’s also the EU digital girl of the cheaper. Founded by Eric Risser and Neal group. It now has more than 20,000 stimulate a bit of interest in programming. year for 2015. O’Gorman, the technology helps people members in 43 cities across the world, The idea is that children will be offered a She also has an Eir Junior Spider Award create digital art that can not only be including Dublin, London, Melbourne and fun way to learn programming, with an to her name for the same app, and a expanded but also be varied. It’s the San Francisco. online virtual world that mixes programming second app that she is currently working difference between creating a huge crowd It’s everything from an online support and multiplayer gaming. They can on, called Auto-Joumalist. Although she scene where every third person is the group for those looking for a sympathetic create their own characters and world, has developed the app for journalists who same, or where everyone looks different. ear or a hairdresser recommendation to a creating games with friends while also need to interview subjects over email (the Risser is an expert in artificial intelligence way to expand your social circle and meet learning how to collaborate. app allows you to set questions and the and computer graphics; O’Gorman new friends. There’s also the professional It hasn’t officially launched yet, but interviewee can record answers over is a serial entrepreneur for whom Artomatix networking events that GirlCrew runs KidsCode has already won recognition audio or using the smartphone’s video is his third company. The duo are called GirlCrew Pro, aimed at helping from Accenture, which awarded Casey its camera), there are plenty of other uses for already getting noticed, speaking at women in their careers. top innovation award in December, a prize it too, such as keeping in touch with family TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. Carri is the company’s first official that also came with a €5,000 cheque. members abroad or as a customer support It’s not just useful in the video game or employee, and the plan for 2016 is to keep tool for companies. movie industry - Artomatix says its technology growing the network’s worldwide reach. Niamh Scanlon She’s also helping to encourage other could be used in industrial design, Also on the cards is the development of App developer children to get into programming through architecture and 3D printing. GirlCrew Android and iOS apps. At 13, Niamh Scanlon has already made a the Hour of Code initiative and her involve¬ Ciara O’Brien Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 5 of 14

Film/TV FerdiaWalsh-Peelo Actor Ferdia Walsh-Peelo was always likelyto become famous. Born and raised in Co Wicklow, the good-looking, sleek 16-year-old has been performing throughout his short life. “It was music,” he says. “I was busking. I was a boy soprano. Then I was on the Late Late Toy Show in, I think, 2012, singing 0 Holy Night.” Acting wasn’t on his radar, but he was intrigued by an open audition at FilmBase in Temple Bar for an upcoming musical. “Then the queue was enormous. I was tempted to go away. I had to queue for six hours, but it seemed to go well. ” The film was John Carney’s hugely anticipated Sing Street and Walsh-Peelo ended up with the lead role. Carney, director of Once and sometime bass player with The Frames, has confirmed that Sing Street is essentially his own story. “There’s some of that,” Ferdia laughs. “But he gets to do all things John dreamed of doing as a kid.” It was recently announced that Sing Street will play at the hugely influential Sundance Film Festival and will open the Dublin Film Festival. “Yeah! John told me a few days ago we’re all going to Sundance. That’s going to be amazing!” Charlie Kelly Actor In 2016 you will discover Charlie Kelly. A FILM AND TV - from left: actors Jordanne Jones, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo and Charlie Kelly, director Stephen Fingelton; Below: rugged, committed actor, Kelly has director Rebecca Daly, main photograph: dara mac dOnaill smaller roles in Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture and the upcoming 1916 series Rebellion, but he is most excited about his major turn opposite Jamie Doman in the CRYSTALBALLFILM historical drama Jadotville. Richie Smyth’s picture finally tells the Jim Sheridan, director ter. There’s something decent and true story of the Irish UN soldiers who “It’s great to see John Carney and Lenny honest about him.” fought in the Congo during the 1960 [Abrahamson] and John Crowley and Jim is working with Aidan Turner and Katanga disturbances. “The story has Paddy [Breathnach] doing so well. For Tom Vaughan-Lawlor on his adaptation been forgotten about,” he says with great too long it was just me and Neil [Jordan] of Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture. passion. “There were 150 Irish guys Ha ha!” Does Tom have the right stuff for against 3,000 Belgian and French mercenaries. And what about the kids? “Saoirse movies? “If somebody cast him as the They were being led by this guy Ronan is extraordinary. And Sarah Joker in Batman he’d be great. He needs called Pat Quinlan, played by Jamie Bolger will hit big anytime soon. And a dark evil role.” He also rates actresses Doman in the film. He is a smart clever then there’s Jack Reynor; he’s got that Sarah Greene and Charlie Murphy, who man. He’s an unsung hero. They are all George Clooney thing. I don’t mean the are in KYE's Rebellion, plus film-maker unsung heroes.” looks; 1 mean he has this interior charac¬ Mark O’Connor and actor John Connors. Raised in Dublin, Charlie studied drama everyone. I always wanted to be an actor. at UCC. “I did things slightly backwards,” So bad. They promised they’d get me into he says. “I wanted to get out of Dublin. I acting school.” Later this year, this brilliant young actor, event later this month. Rebecca Daly’s thought I’d be more focussed if I lived Jones, who still lives in Tallaght, ended still just 15, will appear in the RTE series Mammal, starring Rachel Griffiths as a independently. There’s a great theatre up taking a different route into the profession. Rebellion. “Well, I’m a prostitute in it,” she bereaved woman who befriends a young scene there.” He learnt still more watching Her mother, the admirable Lynn says with an embarrassed laugh. “It was so boy in contemporary Dublin, is among the Jim Sheridan on The Secret Scripture. “He Ruane (Students Union president at TCD), awkward to watch it with me ma. It’s the most eagerly anticipated premieres. has a fearlessness,” Charlie says. “If my spotted a message on Facebook and put 1916 rising and she lives with a poor family “It’s a great launch for us. And because scene is cut I don’t care. I just want to learn her forward for Frank Berry’s socio-realist who are struggling. It was sad making it, Rachel is so well known it is a very from people like that. That was great.” drama I Used to Live Here. seeing what happens to her.” important thing,” Daly tells us. How did The performance received rave reviews, she get the great Australian actor on JordanneJones Jones was signed up by the Lisa Richards Rebecca Daly board? “She just liked the script. It was Actor theatrical agency and, a few weeks ago, Director important that the character was a fish out “I was just saying this to my mam the other she finished runner-up to Michael Fassbender The 2016 Sundance Film Festival will be of water in Dublin.” Though Daly is still a day,” Jordanne Jones says. “When I was 11 (no less) in this newspaper’s poll to an unusually Irish affair. An unprecedented young director, she counts as a veteran of I was always putting on plays. I’d rehearse find the best movie performance of 2015. six domestic films will play at the Utah major film festivals. Back in 2011, her Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 6 of 14

has produced an atmospheric, melodic sound, blending Doherty’s bewitching electro-acoustic harp and a sweep of ethereal, soulful vocals. You can hear traces of Cocteau Twins, Vashti Bunyan, Karen Dalton and Bat for Lashes the wash, but Saint Sister are levy much following their own stars, saintsisterband.com Schmutz Electronic music likes its makers to come in pairs, and the scene at large is beginning to develop a fondness for Belfast duo Schmutz, aka Conor MacParland and Kristian Woods. The northern city’s house and techno game has always been strong and it’s certainly so at the moment with acts like Bicep and Swoose also making waves. Over the past few years, MacParland and Woods have been racking up notable releases to showcase their winning blend MUSIC - clockwise from top: Pleasure Beach's Katherine Hepworth, Cheylene of techno and house. Releases for such Murphy, Lisa Mageean, Alan Haslam, Richard Crawford; Morgan MacIntyre and labels as Berlin’s Dirt Crew and Belfast’s Gemma Doherty of Saint Sister; Maurice O’Connor of Sample Answer; Extended Play have spread the word about Kristian Woods and Conor MacParland of Schmutz their prowess when it comes to tracks which can rock a dancefloor. debut feature, the spooky The Other Side The Survivalist, which opens here in Away from the studio, the pair have also of Sleep, played at the Directors’ Fortnight February, went on to win The Douglas Music been busy on the D J-ing front, moving in Cannes. Rebecca was born in Sussex to Hickox Award for best debut director at from residencies in Belfast’s notable clubs an Irish family who moved back to Naas The British Independent Film Awards. Saint Sister and their own Schmutz night to adventures when she was nine. That has remained the Shot on a modest budget, the film feels like It seems like only a wet day since Derry’s further afield, such as a brace of home base ever since. Rebecca is already a pocket epic. “Well, Shakespeare depicted Morgan MacIntyre decided she had appearances in Berlin’s Panorama Bar in deep into work on her third feature - “a the biggest battles in history on a tiny enough of the singer-songwriter trip she the past six months. project about faith in Ireland” - and is stage,” Fingleton comments. was on and joined forces with Gemma Facebook.com/SchmutzBelfast confident that the wheels will soon begin “If you can find dramatic moments in a Doherty from Belfast. While the pair knew moving on the production. small space it can really resonate.” each other from the Trinity Orchestra, Sample Answer Born in Derry, raised in Warren Point that didn’t prepare them for the dizzy You won’t forget Maurice O’Connor in a Stephen Fingleton and Enniskillen, Stephen studied English upwards trajectory they’ve enjoyed since hurry. At last month’s Other Voices in Director at University College London, before coming together in November 2014. Dingle, the young Dubliner known as Shortly after the triumphant premiere of moving into short films. In the past 12 months, Saint Sister have Sample Answer wowed many with his Stephen Fingleton’s The Survivalist at the Last year, SLR, a taut thriller, made the supported Arcade Fire’s Will Butler and laidback style, cheerful, sleepy demeanour Tribeca Film Festival, the Northern Irish long list of 10 for the short film Oscar. He is San Fermin, toured with O Emperor and and distinctive songs full of strong hooks director managed to put himself beside now addressing the big time. Wyvem Lingo, and were one of the big hits and melodies. Throw in a killer slo-mo Robert De Niro, that event’s founder. “I am developing a very big budget at both the Hard Working Class Heroes version of Ride On and you’ve a dude born “I got a snap of him essentially for my science fiction film that I hope will be in and Other Voices festivals. In between all to be on a stage. dad. At the end he asked me if I was Scottish,” every cinema in Ireland,” he says. “Unlike that gigging, they got around to releasing There was music in his family before he he laughs. The Survivalist. Which will not be in every their debut EP Madrid. took up an acoustic guitar - both his Starring Martin McCann as a near-lone cinema. Ha ha!” The reason for the fuss is down to a parents played in various bands here and survivor of an apocalypse, the gripping Donald Clarke strong chemistry between the pair which in South Africa - so it was inevitable that Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 7 of 14

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O’Connor would end up trucking down this road. After quitting the education grind he moved to London a few years ago. O’Connor claims he knew no one when he moved over, but it didn’t take long for gigs and opportunities to come his way. His debut EP Good Boy is the best place to start with your O’Connor homework. Proud in particular, a track written about his mother, is a lovely blend of acoustic singer-songwriter smarts, urban pop style and savvy songwriter. Going on the live shows, there’s a lot more where that came from. sampLeanswer.com Pleasure Beach You can always gauge a new band’s buzzability by the company they keep when it comes to support gigs. In the last few weeks of 2015, you could find Pleasure Beach on the same bill as heavyweights like Jape and The Vaccines. The Belfast five-piece only played their first show last June, but the word is well and truly out. The band met while working in various Belfast coffee shops, though members had previous form in bands such as In An Instant and Yes Cadets. Debut single Go was a significant statement of intent, a rub of big music which came with a pinch of Arcade Fire, a splash of Bruce Springsteen and a dab of Beach House. Their show at the Hard Working Class Heroes showcase festival in October attracted a lot of record labels so it will be interesting to see where they end up with their debut album. Going on the reaction to those recent shows, it’s not just A&R men who will be queuing up to join their fanclub. pLeasurebeachband.com Hare Squead Hare Squead’s Jessy Rose, Tony Konstone and E-Knock describe themselves as “three black Irish kids making waves” and that’s a pretty good way of describing what they’re about. However, it doesn’t quite get to the nub of just why these kids from Tallaght and Blanchardstown in Dublin, who met while skateboarding in a local park, are one of the most exciting acts around at the moment. The fuss around the trio has a lot to do stown is probably the best ownership with their development to date and potential Sports around to be attached to. Neither would to come. The band, who emerged in CRYSTALBALLMUSIC trust a 16-year-old with this sort of precious early 2014 with infectious pop tunes and Jack Kennedy cargo unless they saw something energetic live shows, were definitely Angela Dorgan (Hard Working Class Horse racing special in him. Gigginstown will send an something to wow about in terms of their Heroes festival and First Music Still only 16, the young Kerry man has been army of horses to Cheltenham in March so peers and the scene at the time. But with Contact) quicker making a name for himself as a it’s likely Kennedy will get his first ride at time has come a growing awareness that “I think the most exciting new scene in jumps jockey than anyone in recenttimes. the festival this year. On a day-to-day level, here is a band who have the skills to write Ireland right now is the hip-hop and A serial pony-racing champion, it wasn’t as he will fight Danny Mullins all the way for tunes like 23rd Century Love Song which R’n’B scene led by the new Irish. It’s if his rise to prominence hadn’t been the conditional jockeys’ championship. If will sound great on both radios and stages. intelligent, creative and, compared to flagged, but it has still been a surprise to he can avoid any They’re also a shining example that what went before, it’s Irish hip-hop see him this successful this soon. serious injuries, his what passes for Dublin music is now a very which is not cringey at all. Had a day of days in Navan at the end of stock is set to rise broad church. Hare Squead’s masterful “I love things which makes Irish stuff November when winning three graded throughout 2016. blend of soul, hip-hop and pop is a sign of look cool without forcing it and where races on horses trained by Gordon Elliott things to come as more and more kids there’s no agenda. That’s my theme for and owned by Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown Leona Maguire from different backgrounds step up to the 2016 - people doing good stuff for the Stud. Elliott is the only trainer in Golf microphone, haresquead.com good of the scene.” Ireland who can come close to impinging It’s probably asking an awful lot for Leona Jim Carroll on Willie Mullins’s dominance and Giggin- Maguire to improve on 2015, but her Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 8 of 14

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Des Cahill, sports broadcaster “Above all else, I’m looking forward to the Olympics. It has its problems and its detractors but there is still nothing like it. I think people are probably overdoing it a bit with predictions of six to eight medals for Ireland. It’s not a school sports day! “Otherwise, the GAA season will be big for us in The Sunday Game because we’ve lost a few of our stalwarts and we’ll have to keep it fresh. “And when it comes to pure fun, I’d love to go to the Euros in France. There’s no craic like following the Ireland soccer team to a big tournament.”

graph has only ever gone in one direction, so it’s not as if we’re taking a huge gamble UFC ranks for a few years now and the here. The 21-year-old from Ballyconnell in planets look to be aligning for her to Cavan is already the world’s number one possibly get a shot at the big time. In a amateur female golfer and it doesn’t take a sport crying out for marketable stars, huge leap to see her as our best-known there is some talk that Daly could be sportswoman a few years from now. matched up with American fighter Paige There are plenty of potential goals for VanZantin April or May. If it happens, her to achieve in 2016. Work on the first, to Daly’s profile in America will go through stay at the top of the world amateur the roof. If she wins, it will soar. rankings, begins again at the end of the While the chance of Conor McGregor month when the US college season kicks fighting in Croke Park seems a fair way off, back into gear and she leads her team at there is likely to be at least a UFC night Duke University in South Carolina back in the Three Arena in 2016 and Daly through the season. would be a shoo-in to fight on that bill. The June will almost certainly see her 28-year-old Dubliner could well make the represent Great Britain and Ireland in the breakthrough this year. Curtis Cup, assuming she hasn’t turned professional by then. Paul Mannion August should see her play for Ireland in Gaelic football the Olympics, with Portrush golfer Stephanie Not so much one to watch but one to Meadow. And along the way, whether rewatch. In these oh-so-serious times in she moves to the paid ranks or not, she is the GAA, it is rare for an intercounty sure to play in a number of professional SPORTS - clockwise from above: Dublin footballer Paul Mannion; 16-year-old player just to up sticks and leave a successful events - including the British Masters, Kerry jockey Jack Kennedy; golfer Leona Maguire, photographs: inpho/getty team behind, but that’s what Paul which she came so close to winning last Opposite page - clockwise from main: MMA fighter Aisling Daly in action; boxer Mannion did. As soon as Dublin went out year. Michael Conlan; and Hare Squead members Tony Konstone, Jessy Rose, E-Knock. of the 2014 championship to Donegal, PHOTOGRAPHS:INPHO Mannion moved to China as part of the Michael Conlan business course he was doing in UCD. He Boxing European champion and, as of 2015, the sound a note of caution. The departure of followed it up with a summer in Chicago This will almost certainly be Mick Conlan’s only Irish male world champion in our long-time head coach Billy Walsh can’t be and ended up watching last year’s All-lreland last year as an amateur and everything he long and storied amateur boxing history. spun as a positive either. final on Hill 16. has done in his career points to All he has left on his horizon is Olympic That said, Conlan has always shown Although Dublin got on just fine without a determination ^ gold in Rio. himself to be reasonably impervious to him, if Mannion comes back to the panel in to make it his It won’t be easy. outside factors. Nothing was expected of anything like the form that saw him best. He is \ Already expectations him in London, yet he medalled anyway. shortlisted for young footballer of the year already an ^ for our The reigning RTE Sportsperson of the in 2013, he will be a huge addition. A year Olympic boxers in Rio Year could be a decent shout for back-toback out of his comfort zone in Asia will have bronze are probably honours if all goes well. done his head no harm at all - he freely medallist, a too high. admits that by the end of 2014, he badly Along with Aisling Daly needed a break from the intercounty Katie MMA grind. Taylor, With the retirement of Cathal Pendred At his best, Mannion can be unmarkable. Paddy and the recent surprise defeat of Joseph He is tall for a corner-forward and Barnes and Joe Ward, Conlan Duffy, there is a gap in the UFC market for accurate off both feet, with a nice habit of has been tagged as a little more another popular Irish mixed martial artist chipping in with important goals too - as than j ust a workaday medal hope. beyond Yer Man McGregor. Step forward he did against Kerry in that incredible But in a sport as open to judging Ais “The Bash” Daly, who got far and away All-Ireland semi-final in 2013. Back to that whims as amateur boxing the biggest crowd response at the UFC sort of form, he will be a huge asset to especially in a tournament held in event in the Three Arena last October. Dublin. South America - it’s only right to Daly has been climbing through the MalachyClerkin Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 9 of 14

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Politics Maura Hopkins Hopkins is an unlikely candidate in Roscommon-East . The party won two of the three seats in this constituency in the last election, and it seemed its two TDs were not going anywhere. But then Denis Naughten left Fine Gael over the thorny issue of Roscommon Hospital. The other TD, Frank Feighan, who defended party policy on the hospital, had a miserable Dail term and over-reacted on occasion. He announced he was standing down. That has left the door open for the 31-year old Hopkins. Her geographical base is not great Ballaghaderreenin the northwest cornerbut she has more than made up for that with her zest and charm. POLITICS - main pic, from left: John Fine Gael had poor local elections in Leahy (Renua), Eoin 6 Broin (Sinn Fein) 2014, but Hopkins bucked the trend by and Jack Chambers (Fianna F4il); winning a seat. And then, in the byelection Above: (Labour); in the constituency that year to elect a Below: Maura Hopkins (Fine Gael). replacement for Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, PHOTOGRAPHS:DARA MAC DONAILLVCYRILBYRNE she performed strongly when her party’s stock was low, coming in third. An occupational therapist by profession, community projects in his native county Hopkins was initially hesitant in her since his early 20s. public appearances but has improved Leahy was one of the three public faces substantially. FiannaFail’s problems here of Renua at the time of its formation, along have helped her case. She is the favourite with Lucinda Creighton and Eddie Hobbs. to take the third and last seat here after He has played a prominent role in policy Naughten and Michael Fitzmaurice. formation and has also been a frequent spokesman for the party. As for his chances EoinOBroin in the new constituency of Offaly, he is Sinn Fein in the mix for the last seat, even though it He’s not a TD yet, but he has been Sinn will be ultra-competitive, as elsewhere. Fein’s rising star for a long time. From Cabinteely in south Dublin, 6 Broin (43) Lorraine Higgins was educated atBlackrock College and Labour was a “mod” for a while in his youth. He Labour will lose a good few seats in the has been involved with republican politics election, so very few emerging candidates since university and spent his 20s living in are standing for the party. One is Lorraine Belfast, where he was elected a councillor. strong it picked up support everywhere. say he will have to dislodge a big name to Higgins, who is standing in Galway East. Since returning to Dublin, 6 Broin has Chambers, a councillor since 2014, win; his party is confident he will. A barrister by profession, Higgins was a been an influential strategist for the party emerged as the candidate after a keenly candidate for Labour in the last election. and the strongest advocate of staying out fought selection convention last John Leahy She performed well but it was her thenrunning of coalition unless Sinn Fein is the dominant February against Cllr David Renua Ireland mate, Colm Keaveney, who party. Invariably polite in person, his McGuinness from the working-class A new party and a new candidate, Leahy reaped the benefits, winning the party a debating style is highly partisan, and he is area of Corduff. was elected in Offaly as an independent seat for the first time in this constituency. not immune to a dig or two under the belt. McGuinness had stood for councillor in 2009 and was seen as A Taoiseach’s nominee to the Seanad, 6 Broin is a polished debater who is the party in two byelections left-leaning on a wide range of issues. Higgins has had a high profile in the Upper always in command of the facts and is not and acquitted himself well. There was some surprise when he House and ran a credible campaign in the shy in letting you know it. He is a shoo-in in The party, though, joined the right-of-centre Renua European elections, even though Labour’s Dublin Mid West and will quickly be thought its best chances of Ireland. He was one of the party’s chances of winning a seat was non-existent. elevated to the party’s first bench. regaining a seat was with a founding members when it Keaveney has since left the party and candidate from Castleknock. was established in April joined Fianna Fail, and will be standing in Jack Chambers Chambers recently 2015. the election as a rival. The constituency Fianna Fail qualified with a degree in Leahy (36), from has been reduced in size to a three-seater, The candidate from central casting. medicine and already holds Kilcormac, is married and Higgins is regarded as a long shot in Dublin West is possibly Fianna Fail most a degree in law. with two young children. the race for the final seat. aristocratic constituency, now that its Still in his mid-20s, this Besides his work as a She has spoken out during her terms existence in Dublin Rathdown and Dun tall, dark-haired candidate councillor, he volunteers against online bullying and trolling (she Laoghaire has been put into question. is articulate and confident. for the GAA as a coaching has received threats on Twitter and Most of its support here has been drawn Labour leader Joan coordinator and games Facebook). She is also a very good golfer from middle-class Castleknock, where the Burton and Minister for promotion officer in Co and has captained the Leinster House Lenihans (Brian snr and Brian jnr) ruled Health Leo Varadkar Offaly. He has been golfing society. the roost. That said, when the party was are TDs here. Locals deeply involved in Harry McGee Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 10 of 14

lise huge numbers to both campaign and Syria, the plight of the migrant and refugee ADVOCACY AND ACTIVISM - from Advocacy vote in the marriage referendum in 2015 remains the plight of our time. “With left: Louise Bruton (access and has alerted politicians and the wider the end direct provision campaign, the disability), Alan O'Neill (domestic and activism population to the potential of that constituency. main thing we need is to end it, and to fix violence/gender equality), Ellie If Ruane becomes a student voice in the asylum backlog as people are still stuck Kisyombe (End Direct Provision), Lynn LynnRuane the Seanad, she’ll certainly have the in the system,” Kisyombe says. Ruane (student and equality activism). Student and equality activism attention of the student body, and she’ll “I know we’re on the margins, and now PHOTOGRAPH: DARA MAC D6NAILL Ruane rose to prominence when she was have plenty of issues to campaign on too, there’s a lot about Syria and people being elected president of Trinity College with a draft report on third-level funding divided by other people saying ‘these are Students Union in February 2015. She left proposing a loan system for graduates. refugees and these are not’ or ‘these are together for access consultancy for music school when she became pregnant at 15, this kind of refugee’, but we need to clear festivals. but enrolled in Trinity in her late 20s Ellie Kisyombe the backlog in the direct provision system “When someone meets someone with a through its access programme. A strong End Direct Provision and end direct provision.” disability, suddenly everything falls into voice on matters of equality, with a background For Kisyombe, 2015 was a disappointment. Will 2016 be the year where there is real place as to why this is important,” Bruton in drug addiction work, she announced While there was plenty of talk about and tangible action on direct provision? says. “People’s eyes are opened and they her candidacy for the Seanad at direct provision, there was very little “We can’t keep quiet,” Kisyombe says. see the aspects of society that don’t acknowledge the end of last year, running as an independent. action. The Malawian native has been in “We just have to keep pushing.” people with a disability.” With three of the Seanad’s 60 direct provision for over five years, and Bruton has also been meeting managers members elected by Trinity graduates, volunteers with the Irish Refugee Council Louise Bruton of venues in Dublin keen to make access a could Ruane replace David Norris, Ivana on the End Direct Provision campaign. As Access and disability top priority. If the first step is talking about Bacik or ? a direct provision resident, she is barred Bruton’s website, leglessindubUn.com a problem, the second is definitely fixing it, Ruane is a hugely motivated activist, from paid employment. Kisyombe’s reviews clubs, bars, cafes, restaurants, and Bruton is proactive in her approach. smart, articulate, and a critical thinker. message to government last April was, festival, cultural spaces and more from a “I want people to stop saying ‘no’, and Her preference for community over “Stop the suffering. Stop the damage. point of view of wheelchair accessibihty, as start saying that they want to make a commodity struck a chord with students: Hopes have been raised, please do not let well as giving an overall appraisal. difference.” “I hope beyond my year that if I can ignite us down again.” As a wheelchair user who rightly refuses that solidarity in students, that might be As conversations on refugees and to be curtailed, her articles in the The Irish Alan O’Neill something that will carry on in my absence,” migrants were heightened globally last Times and Buzzfeed have exposed readers Domestic violence/gender equality she said last February. year due to the continued humanitarian to a new much-needed voice in the area of The Men’s Development Network works The ability of the student body to mobi¬ crisis unfolding in the Mediterranean via access. She’s currently putting proposals on domestic violence intervention pro- Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 11 of 14

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grammes, campaigns on gender equality, as well as working with the Turn Off The Red Light campaign, and the White Ribbon Campaign to highlight violence against women and how men hold the solution to ending it. In 2016, they’ll be expanding the Men Ending Domestic Abuse (MEND) programme, and are hoping to see the Sexual Offences Bill passed before the next election, as well as continuing to promote the White Ribbon campaign with their ambassadors in the FAI and GAA. “There are two messages to the white ribbon: ending men’s violence against women and promoting gender equality,” O’Neill says. “The priority is creating safety for women, and amending the behaviour of men who use violence. “To bade that up we need the engagement of the vast majority of men who don’t use violence to achieve this goal. Some men wear the white ribbon on the 25th of November but very few men wear it permanently. “Wouldn’t that be a great message to get out from men? If you see men wearing it, it at least creates the sense that guys are becoming aware of this. That’s really important to us, that ordinary men start taking on that call.” The X-ile Project Reproductive rights The X-ile Project is an online gallery of people who have travelled from Ireland to have abortions. The coalition to repeal the eighth amendment is a multifaceted one, but as the momentum for repealing the constitutional ban on abortion grows, women’s experiences will now be central to the conversation, in a way that they haven’t been before. For the broader pro-choice movement, the battle for hearts and minds will be won through the telling of personal experiences.

The X-ile Project founding members, from left, Katie O'Neill, Ruth Morrissy, Julie Morrissy, Laura Lovejoy and Paula Cullen CRYSTALBALLACTIVISM Established by five Irish women, the a bully with a mullet in the last role. It’s Ailbhe Smyth, activist X-ile Project aims to put real faces to the Arts important to show range.” Tall, with green “I think climate and environmental issue of abortion. eyes and gentle charm, O’Connor grew up issues will be bigger in Ireland this One of the founders, Julie Morrissy, Ruairi O’Connor on a stud farm. “Hove horse riding and, coming year. Repealing the 8th Amendment said: “We believe there is an identification Actor yes, I have my rapier and dagger certificates is a movement that has already problem between women who have By the time he graduated from the Lir - these things are important,” he started and can only grow. abortions, and the Irish government and Academy last July, Ruairi O’Connor laughs. Planning to divide his time between “Issues to do with migration and some factions of Irish society. already had an agent, and a role in a film. “I Dublin and London, O’Connor is immigration will be very big. I think it’s “Reproductive rights are a human was a very lucky boy,” he agrees self-deprecatingly.also writing a short film with his friend going to be a movement about opening rights issue, and women who travel for though he also admits that to get Dermot Malone, a Filmbase graduate now up to ‘the other’, about welcoming, and abortion are human just like everybody an agent, and a London one at that, is working as a director. “Looking back,” he about recognising that in this very rich else in Ireland. These women are our amazing. Now represented by Independent says, “the Lir was incredibly tough, but it part of the world, we have to share. mothers, friends, partners, sisters. Showing Talent Group, he finished filming John was the best three years of my life,” he “A good place to start is taking action these women as the people that they Butler’s Handsome Devil in September, pauses and then agrees: “so far.” on the shameful direct provision are rather than a statistic is certainly key and is about to start work on the new BBC system. And I think that there is to our campaign, to which we have received series written by Barry Devlin, My Mother Genieve Figgis going to be an increasing anti-war an overwhelmingly positive response and Other Strangers. Artist movement.” both at home and abroad.” “I’d been going for one part, but ended Just over two years ago, Gorey School of UnaMullally up cast in another. I’m a love interest. I was Art and NCAD graduate Genieve Figgis Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 12 of 14

LianBell Set Designer Up until last November, Lian Bell was best known as a well-respected set designer and aits manager, whose work has included the designs for the theatre adaptations of Eimear McBride’s .A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, and Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea. But when the Abbey Theatre announced its programme for the 1916 centenary season, and Bell noticed it included work by only one woman playwright, she got angry. Taking her outrage to social media, #WakingTheFeminists (WTF) was born. Even though, as she says, “It was never something I planned to orchestrate, and there’s a huge gang of people involved,” since developing the movement, which included a public meeting on the main stage of the Abbey in November, Bell has become a figurehead and focus for dissatisfaction at gender inequality across the performing arts. WTF has gained international endorsements, including the likes of Debra Messing, Gabriel Byrne, Wim Wenders, Phylida Lloyd, Emma Donoghue and Meryl Streep. So what does 2016 look like for Bell? “My big project so far is The Casement Project with Fearghus O Conchuir; plus A Girl is a Half-formed Thing will be touring the UK and going to New York, so I’ll be travelling ARTS with that. I’m also working with Pan Pan at clockwise Mermaid. I tend to work from project to from above: project, and I don’t know if WTF is impacting artist Genieve my career. People say it’s going to Figgis; set change how I work, and I’ll keep on with it designer Lian until we have gender equality, but it’s all Bell; and actor very new.” lianbell.com Ruairf O’Connor. Kate and Emer O’Daly, PHOTOGRAPHS: Love & Robots - Designers DOREEN “Designed with love, made by robots” is KILFEATHER. RClSE GOAN the tagline for the O’Daly sisters’ Love & Robots, the cool company that taps into the power of 3D printing to let you make your own unique jewellery, accessories and other goodies, or else choose from their fun, customisable range. For ID2015 the sisters were invited to collaborate with Abbey Theatre costume designer Niamh Lunny, and created Plumage, the first 3D-printed, free-moving was showing at Elaine Grainger’s Talbot people don’t only see the paintings in a Kilfeather has a quality of strength that cape. “It’s a kind of chain mail,” says Kate, Gallery, notable for its strong emerging traditional white box.” Figgis lives in belies her delicate features, and her work “so we’ve actually created a new kind of artist programme. Then everything Ireland, with a studio on the Wicklow is similarly subtle but persuasive, with a textile. Each piece is a solid, rigid piece of changed: “Richard Prince discovered my coast. “I love it here,” she says simply. And gentle intensity. Sculptures made with nylon, but each ‘feather’ moves independently.” work on Twitter and introduced me to the art world has fallen in love with her unexpected materials have the effect of It will be on show in Kilkenny in Harper Levine at Harper’s Books, and Bill paintings too. genievefiggis.com making you feel differently about the April, when the Liminal exhibition tours to Powers at Half Gallery [both in New York] world around you, and your place in it: the the National Craft Gallery. and that’s when things really took off.” Caoimhe Kilfeather “psychological qualities of architecture”, If 2015 was a busy one for the sisters, Her paintings hint at past eras, and yet Artist as she puts it. who also have a pop-up shop at 5 Dame are disconcertingly distorted. “I love the One of a generation of sculptors from In 2016 a wider audience than ever is set Lane in Dublin (until the end of January), immediacy of acrylic and its contemporary Ireland steadily gathering international to see her work as she takes on a pair of 2016 looks set to be even bigger. “We’re feel,” she says, while still “maintaining the acclaim, Caoimhe Kilfeather had a busy public sculpture commissions on the expanding the range, and launching in the look of an oil painting as my work is mostly 2015 in more ways than one. “It has been corner of Hatch Street and Earlsfort UK,” says Emer. “The reaction to the informed by history ... I had to figure out an incredible year, and the clear highlight Terrace in Dublin, for Clancourt Group [Dublin] shop has been brilliant.. .We how to obtain the right balance”. was the birth of my daughter Eile,” she and Arthur Cox. These will feature curved can custom-make within a couple of Currently working on an animated short says. That might slow down some, but she screens of stained glass; and there will also hours.” As 3D technology develops, it can film, she also has an exhibition opening in also published a book, this attentive place, be a solo show of her work at Dublin’s only get better for Love & Robots. Los Angeles over Oscar weekend. “I enjoy which includes original prints, so that each Douglas Hyde Gallery in May. Watch Lovea nd ro bots.com experimenting with alternative venues so one is a unique edition. those spaces, caoimhekilfeather.com Gemma Tipton Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 13 of 14

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Fashion CRYSTALBALLFASHION Grainne Walley Alex Milton, professor of design at Designer NCAD,programme director ID2015 Walley (21) is a final-year student atNCAD The internationalisation of Irish who is applying hand-crochet methods to fashion design will be big this year. oversize chunky natural yarns - linen and “It is no longer insular, inward-looking. wool - in a very creative way for her Young designers have an international graduate collection inspired by a childhood education - many more are visit to Clare Island. She already has doing MAs abroad. Irish fashion is still a following for her work and a business rooted in making and material. What acumen that began at the age of 11when is fascinating is that combination with she started making dresses for the girls in craft, using it as a jumping-off point in her Dublin school. a fresh way.” She has worked as a sales assistant in He believes there is new thinking Cos and BT2 and served an internship with about investing in fashion. “Because John Rocha and later Simone Rocha in we have met targets and have business London. “When I graduate I would love to support, people realise that fashion is learn new skills and work with a menswear not a gamble, but a sound investment. designer in London or here in Ireland and At Showcase, the Crafts Council will then apply for a master’s degree - that’s mount a special presentation to my dream.” Her collection draws from her highlight the brightest and the best of heritage and her roots, “but I love bringing Irish knitwear made in Ireland.” unpredictability to my work and love it when people touch it.” Sinead O’Dwyer Designer Armed with a BA in fashion design from the ArtEZ school in Arnhem, the Netherlands, FASHION- above: textile designer O’Dwyer returned to work with the Aoife Mullane and designer Grainne US designer Alexander Wang in New York Walley; Left: knitwear designer Fintan having interned with him two years Mulholland; Right: model Aidan Walsh earlier. She grew up in Tullamore, is the on the cover of Italian ‘Vogue’. daughter of acclaimed silversmith Kevin MAIN PHOTOGRAPH: DARA MAC DONAILL O’Dwyer and spent a year on a visual arts programme at the University of North Susan, owns Milan & Co fashion boutique Carolina School of the Arts in 2007. in Bray and Mullane grew up with a huge Working with Wang she has learned about interest in textiles and design. Bray seafront the fast pace of fashion but says the future is a constant source of inspiration; of fashion will be a reaction to such speed, her silver-foil screen prints were prompted and be more about collaboration, “not by the metallic flecks in the rocks there. turning out hundreds of collections a year and involving big factories in China”. Aidan Walsh Her new collection takes uniforms as a Model and dancer Design starting point. “I wore one for 14years, so Walsh (18) from Barefield, Ennis, Co my new work is a mishmash of references Clare, made headlines in October appearing Paula Barrett from those formative years and the uniform on the cover of Italian Vogue’s youth Visual artist is the basis for exploring concepts of edition, photographed by celebrated duo Paula Barrett has taken bold strides identity.” Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Walsh, who towards coaxing Ireland into reappraising knitted textiles and is sourcing production is studying at the Bird College of Dance in its national colour palette. Her Ireland: Fintan MulhoUand for his next collection. London, was spotted by an agent two years Colour Samples consists of 16 postcards Knitwear designer ago, kick-starting a career as a model. and fine art prints featuring Irish landscapes Mulholland (25) from Belfast completed AoifeMullane Since then he has appeared on the cover bordered on one side by a colour his master’s degree in fashion knitwear Textile designer of UK style magazine Man About Town, is chart that highlights the dominant pigmentation design from Nottingham Trent University Mullane, from Bray, Co Wicklow, and a the face of a Pull & Bear fragrance, appeared of the scene. The effect is a revelatory in September having already secured a BA textile graduate of NCAD, won the SDC in Another and Wonderland insight into the unique tints and tones in in textile art design with fashion from the International Design Competition in magazines and is just back from an editorial the Irish landscape. Belfast School of Art. His BA collection London in June worth £1,000 with a shoot for Office magazine in New York. Barrett’s work challenges our lazy sold out. He has already earned five collection judged “subtle, beautiful and Next month he will walk at menswear presumption of a landscape of 40 shades awards for his work and a Paul Smith classic”. Her “Nest” collection of textiles shows in London and Paris and is juggling of green. “I wanted to create a collection of scholarship to Tokyo. His collaboration on for interiors - screen-printed cushions and all this with his final-year dance studies. colour palettes that celebrate the real costumes for an event in Florence was upholstered chairs - was part of Create at He started dancing aged seven and at 16 colours and lighting conditions found in acclaimed in Italian Vogue. Brown Thomas and she is applying for moved to Eastbourne to study ballet and our landscape, helping both tourists and “With knit there is so much involved in grants to develop her business further. contemporary dance. “My ambition is to locals see beyond just the green, to the each step of the process. It’s a single yarn Mullane is part of the Print Block work in commercial musical theatre, grey and everything else in between.” and you are creating something from that Collective in Dublin and has been commissionedmaking music videos or with modern She has been “inspired and supported -Hike the idea of a shape coming from the to create textiles for a Dublin dance companies. In modelling everything by” the new wave of designers, craftspeople structure itself,” he says. beauty salon, but her ambition is to sell her is last minute, but that’s the fun of it.” and independent retailers who are He lectures in the Ulster University in own fabric by the metre. Her mother, Deirdre McQuillan carving out a new aesthetic for Ireland, Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 14 of 14

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MaryNally Arts curator Of Ireland’s tiny number of influential arts pioneers and design mavens, Mary Nally is possibly the most proactive. An independent curator of myriad celebratory events in Galway, New York, Dublin, Reykjavik and , she puts meticulous thought into the design of every element, from concocting cocktails to constructing dance floors and resurrecting old fonts. She was an early instigator of the now ubiquitous pop-ups, “happenings” and curated experiences that have enlivened Irish urban culture. In recent years, Nally has arranged bacchanalian gatherings in Nama buildings under the title ‘No Way Back’ and created bespoke bars for the likes of Body and Soul, Galway International Arts Festival, ’s Sounds from a Safe Harbour, and Magnetism in Sligo. This year she will hold another of her contemporary cultural biennales on Inis Out, titled ‘Drop Everything’. Previous editions in 2012 and 2014 presented a re-appraisal of what Irish culture is and can be, and proved to be a call to arms to anyone fortunate enough to have been there. marynaLly.com Superfolk Designers Jo Anne Butler and GearoidMuldowney make up the design duo Superfolk. After ART, FASHION & DESIGN - sitting, from left: illustrator Fatti Burke, Jo Anne Butler (Superfolk), Emer O'Daly (Love and Robots); studying and working in design in both standing, from left: artist Caoimhe Kilfeather, Gearoid Muldowney (Superfolk), artist Paula Barrett, fashion designer Sinead Ireland and Scandinavia, they turned their O’Dwyer, Aoibh O'Daly (Love and Robots); (below) arts curator Mary Nally and designer Maciek Martyniuk. photograph: dara mac dPnaill backs on urban life to find inspiration in Mayo’s coastal extremities. Their range of based on an exploration of our culture seen serene, tactile homewares are designed through an international prism. and made by the couple at their home, an In 2016 she will extend her range under old dock-workers cottage by a quayside. the titleTurf Projects, turfprojects.ie The idea is to create small batches of intimately considered products made from Fatti Bourke natural materials, which they can design, Illustrator craft and sell themselves directly from You know Fatti Bourke’s work (her real home. A grander secondary aspiration is name is Kathi) even if you don’t realise it. to inspire others to reconnect with the You’ve seen her innocent, 1950s-style, natural world through their products: hand-drawn maps and illustrations in their leather and oak camping stool is “for magazines and on products but have cooking freshly caught mackerel on the probably never stopped to consider the barbecue on a pier in Achill”. creative spark behind them. In 2015, they exhibited at Maison et At their best, designers are stealth Objet in Paris, DesignMarch in Reykjavik, operators, impinging on you in gradual, the NYCxDesign Workshop and the subtle ways. The primary impact should be Bourke and endearing, soul-comforting its list of “designers, illustrators and London Design Festival, and were also the item being presented, rather than its illustrations by herself, fattiburke.com typographers breaking the multidisciplinary featured in The Guardian, Monocle and design. But that said, Bourke’s work has a mould of visual language”. Elle Decoration - much of this with help distinctive jubilance that is hard to miss. Maciek Martyniuk He blends type and image in a genuinely from the Design and Crafts Council. You know those vibrant, hand-illustrated Designer innovative way, infusing text with such superfolk.com maps accompanying travel articles in Maciek Martyniuk, aka Yo Magick, is a character and animation that it demands Manchan Magan Cara Magazine or the quirky graphic titles young IADT graduate based in Dublin who to be read. His ‘Nice Posters’ series explores in RTE’s A Poem For Ireland, or the was selected in 2015 by the journal Creative typography and graphic form in a Photographs taken in the Great Hall at images and text on packs of Boost Bites Review to have his design work appear humorous and buoyant manner using CGI IMMA's RHK venue. A major exhibition snacks? They all have that playful, retro on more than 1,000 JCDecaux digital graphics and typography skills honed Whot We Call Love: From Surrealism to sensibility that marks out her work. screens all over the UK, including Victoria during a year studying in Stuttgart as part Now- with contemporary masterworks Last year she won an Irish Boole Award Station. Audiences in Dingle last month of his IADT course. from Dali, Picasso and Giacometti for Irelandopedia, an illustrated encyclopaedia got to see his vibrant redesign of the Other The social network app Stroll, which he among others is in the main galleries at of Ireland with an eccentric compilation Voices brand and Wallpaper magazine has designed for his graduation, has a zen-like, IMMAuntil Feb 7th. Admission €8/€5. of facts written by her father John just featured this Polish-born designer in tranquillity. It allows users to share and