The Bleeding Pig Cultural Festival started its life as a two day event in 2013 and has grown to be an award-winning festival which showcases local and national performers and artists over ten days in September on the stunning Donabate/Portrane Peninsula. The festival was awarded Fingal Community Group of the Year 2015 for Arts & Culture and were shortlisted for the LAMA awards in the Arts & Culture category 2018. Starting this year, the festival will now take place in May instead of later in the year. This shift allows it to embrace a fresh season, bringing new opportunities for ent

7 venues - 6 headline shows - almost 30 free gigs and sessions in Howth - The Seafood Capital of Fingal. Altan, Sharon Shannon, Lemocello, Eoghan Ó’Ceannabháin, Saltaire, The Brian Ború Céilí Band, Lynn Thizzy, Sweet Jayne, The Deadlians and more! The Festival takes place across 7 venues around the picturesque fishing village of Howth, the Seafood Capital of Fingal, only 25 minutes from the centre of Dublin by DART. The music ranges from pure trad and folk to modern takes on Irish music. With almost 30 free gigs and sessions across 5 unique venues around the village of Howth and t

In the myth of Oedipus, the act of seeing is both literal and symbolic, only in blindness does he come to understand the truth. Lee Welch’s exhibition Oedipus spans painting, printmaking, and installation, offering an arresting meditation on how we see, remember, and relate to the world. His visual language is spare but loaded—figures, gestures, and fragments reduced to essentials that carry emotional weight. Paintings in the exhibition feature references pulled from art history, popular culture, and the mundane rituals of daily life.