EARLIER this year Mayo singer-songwriter Maria Kelly released her AA side EP ‘Dark Places/ ‘Small Talk’ in which she explores topics of mental health, depression and social anxiety. The raw qualiti...
The No Normal is a new Cork-based web chat show, and host Richie O Connell interviews people about their mental health and how it affects their career, creativity and life in general. Richie is him...
Electro-pop duo Le Boom must be one of the most talked about acts in Ireland right now. If you’ve experienced the infectious energy of one of their live sets, in a sweaty club or from a festival st...
Rosie Carney has that rare gift of communicating both the bleakest pain and wondrous joy in simple human terms. The lyrics above, which form part of her recent track ‘Thousand’ recorded with Lisa H...
OUR own Sean Cooney tells how how keeping fit has helped him appreciate and improve his own mental health.
Fears is the solo project of the 25 year-old musician from Dublin, Constance Keane. Earlier this year she released “h_always”, written during her time spent in St Patrick’s Mental Health Services w...
Lisa Loughrey is a Kildare singer songwriter, formerly a member of six-piece alt-folk outfit The Mariannes, whose solo project has taken flight with an EP, Plans and Schemes, launching in the Vinta...
It’s 5.30pm on a Wednesday evening and pretty clear that most people have banished all thoughts of tomorrow in favour of today’s summery pint. Quinton Campbell is squinting through the late May ray...
The gentle rhyme of Sarah Conway’s staggering poem ‘Never Give Up‘ allows the words to flow like a fairy tale. Within the piece though, lies a life story which reveals itself in uncompromising enti...
The power of social enterprise shines through! First Fortnight are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a place on the Social Enterprise Development Fund Accelerator Programme. This prog...
Hannah Mamalis is a prolific comic, writer and performer who is very active on the comedy and theatre scene, as well as a regular at the Edinburgh Festival. Some of you will have caught her acclaim...
CAMILLE LUCY ROSS – actor, writer and artistic director of Brazen Tales Productions is a previous First Fortnight Fringe Award winner (our annual award for an outstanding festival production with m...