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...want to do Dublin by night the way the locals do, then get out of those characterful but grimy pubs and into one of the slick, new venues that have mushroomed in the Irish capital of late. Realizing that there's more to the Craic than staring into a pint of Guinness while maudlin folk songs play on an endless loop, Dublin's restaurateurs have turned the city into a reasonable simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn...
...want to do Dublin by night the way the locals do, then get out of those characterful but grimy pubs and into one of the slick new venues that have mushroomed in the Irish capital of late. Realizing that there's more to the Craic than staring into a pint of Guinness while maudlin folk songs play on an endless loop, Dublin's restaurateurs have turned the city into a reasonable simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn...
Known for his plentiful female conquests, COLIN FARRELL is now playing the role of a fabled land grabber. The mischiefmaking Dublin-born star is Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's untitled tale of the Macedonian warrior-King currently filming in Morocco with Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins. Historians debate Alexander's true appearance, but Farrell's normally dark locks are now blond to accommodate the "sun-bleached golden-boy" theory, he says. "Do blonds have more fun?" ponders Farrell from the Marrakech set. "Nah, the Irish...
...investigative reporter who in 1994 joined the Sunday Independent, Ireland's top newspaper, Guerin made headlines with stories about Dublin's underworld. Within months of her first scoops, assailants fired gunshots into the cottage she shared with her husband and their son. In 1995 she confronted drug lord John Gilligan, who smashed her face in. The next day he told her, "If you write a word about me, I will find your boy and kidnap him and rape him. I am going to kill you if you write a word about me." (Of course, she published the threat.) Guerin...
Director Joel Schumacher’s latest movie, Veronica Guerin, is based upon on the life of the Sunday Independent reporter of the same name, a journalist whose investigations proved vital in the war against drugs in Dublin...