This year’s Hanami Festival will take place on Sunday 27th April 2025, from 12–4pm. The Experience Japan Hanami Festival is a free, family-friendly day out where you can enjoy and celebrate Japanese–Irish culture! Join us in the beautiful grounds of Farmleigh House to witness performances, demonstrations, and traditions both old and in the making!

Niall Quinn has been added to the starting side for April’s ‘Three Wise Men Talking Proper Football’ event at Dublin’s Vicar Street. The Dubliner - who scored 21 goals for Ireland in 92 senior appearances between 1986 and 2002 - partners fellow ex-international legends John Giles and Liam Brady in a star-studded line up on Monday, April 28. Niall replaces Eamon Dunphy who will no longer be participating in the event. The show is in aid of the Irish Professional Footballers Benevolent Association (IPFBA), the organisation established last year by ex-players and that offers assista

In Forgotten Peoples, Chamber Choir Ireland and Guest Director Gabriel Crouch explore issues of homelessness, migration, and belonging. In his work Forgotten Peoples, Veljo Tormis attempted to preserve the musical heritage of the minority groups that live along the shores of the Gulf of Finland, whose languages and ways of life are in danger of disappearing. Michael Gordon's Anonymous Man follows the composer's changing New York changing, from industrial warehouse district to residential area, and the impact on his unhoused neighbours. The programme will also feature world premieres o