A weekly car boot sale, one of less than a handful that is still reliably taking place, has up to 200 cars/sellers. The stadium is just a few minutes walk from the Red LUAS line stop and numerous bus stops. For traders the Car Boot Sale opens at 06:30 for buyers from 08:00. If you are interested in selling, check the details and register on their website.

The Dublin Track Cycling International 2017 will take place on Saturday and Sunday on the Sundrive Velodrome in the Eamonn Ceannt Park in Crumlin. The Velodrome is an outdoor veldorome, one of only three in Ireland.

Admission is free.

The weekly Honest2goodness food market in Glasnevin has fresh meat, vegetables, fish, baked goods, and wines. It is open from 09:30-16:00. It is behind Lidl in the Industrial Estate just after the Glasnevin Cemetary coming from the City Centre.

Parkrun Ireland is organising free weekly runs in parks. It is a timed run over 5km and participation is completely free, but registration before your first parkrun is required.

A whole range of Parkruns take place every week (and if you know some more, please tell me):
+ Malahide Park, Dublin Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin
+ Cabinteely Park, Old Bray Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18
+ Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dublin
+ Marlay Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Co. Dublin
+ St. Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5
+ Father Collins Park, Donaghmeade/Clongriffin, Dublin 13
+ Tymon Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24
+ Bushy Park, Terenure, Dublin 6

The SuperNatural Food Market is taking place every Saturday from 09:30-15:30 in St. Andrews Resource Centre in Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

The Green Door Market is a new indoor food/Farmer’s Market that takes place just a few doors down from the Dublin Food Co-op at Newmarket in Dublin 8. Admission is free.

Opening hours are Thu-Fri 12:00-19:00 and Sat 09:30-16:00.

The Belgard Weekend Market is an indoor market with stalls with handcraft (incl. designer jewellery, aran jumpers and wool, christening robes and shawls, cards and cross stitch), household items, bric and brac, furniture, flowers, make-up, clothes, shoes, showers, upholstery, toys, kitchens, cafe, army memorabilia, collectors items, sweets, handbags books, blinds, party shop, tools and more. 

It is open every Saturday and Sunday and is located in the Glen Abbey complex (opposite Jacobs) on Belgard Road.

A Farmer’s / Food & Craft Market is taking place this Saturday and Sunday at Farmleigh House. The Family Comedy Weekend for kids is also happening at the same time.

Admission is free.

Jamestown Flea Market + Car Boot Sale takes place every Sat+Sun from 10:00-17:00. You can reach it from Tyrconnell Road and from Kylemore Road and it is within 3 min from Black Horse stop on the red Luas line. There is free parking.

The County Council Market (CoCo) in Marlay Park is taking place every Saturday and Sunday. You will find a wide range of products. There will be food to eat there and food to cook at home but also crafts and arts and books and lots more.

The Temple Bar Markets (Food Market on Meeting House Square, Book Market on Temple Bar Square and the Designer Mart near Cow’s Lane) are taking place every Saturday from 10:00-16:30.

Dublin City Hall has a museum/exhibition in the basement, called “The Story of the Capital”, it is an exhibition that you should definitely check out at some stage.

To celebrate the Easter Rising Anniversary, admission to that exhibititon was free in 2016, but lucky for us, Dublin City decided to also waive the admission charge for 2017.

Opening hours are Monday-Saturday 10:00-17:15.

At the Blackrock Market in the centre of Blackrock, you’ll find 50 stalls selling collectibles, antiques, handmade goods, books, food & there’s free popcorn, ballons & facepainting for the kids.
Open on Saturdays and Bank Holidays: 11:00-17:30, and Sundays: 12:00-17:30.

The Terenure Bushy Park Market is taking place every weekk. The market has more than 30 stalls, offering a whole variety of foods and crafts.

Admission is free.

The Derby Tournament will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 at the All Ireland Polo Club Grounds in the Phoenix Park,

I wasn’t able to find out if there is an admission charge or not, but would expect that there is a charge. However, you can watch some of the action even from a little distance away and even if you stay at the side of Chesterfield Road, you will be able to see what is happening on the Polo Grounds.

Punch Lions and the OPW (Office of Public Works) are inviting to a Family Comedy Weekend at Farmleigh House on Saturday and Sunday.

There will be family-friendly stand-up comedy shows with the Punch Lion Kids’ Comedy, comedy workshops, story-telling, comedy for parents and babies and silly ‘walkabout’ performers.

Some of the stand-up comedy performers are Joe Rooney (Father Ted), Paul Tylak (The Secret of Kells), Reuben (RTEjr), Sharon Mannion (Dublin Comedy Improv), Andrew Stanley (Comedy Cellar) and Paul Currie (Edinburgh Fringe). Peter O’Byrne (Craic Pack/Killinaskully) will run the comedy workshops for children (Age 5 – 7 and 8 – 12).

Admission is free and the stand-up comedy shows are suitable for children 6+ (children must attend with an adult). Comedy workshops are limited to 15 participants and are on first come first served basis.)

A Farmers’ & Food Market will also take place on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00-17:00.

The full programme for the day is on the website below.

The National Gallery has an extensive programme of free talks, public tours and Art Documentary screenings focusing on highlights of the European and Irish Collection every day of the week. Check their website for details.

On the first Saturday every month, the “A Fabulous Market” will take place in the George Bar in South Great George’s Street.

You will find all sorts of art and crafts at this market and there will be live music.

Admission is free.

The weekly Ha’penny Flea Market is an indoor market in the Grand Social Pub, which offers vintage Men and Women’s clothing, contemporary crafts, books, DVDs, vinyl records, vintage and handmade jewellery, vintage hair styles, art, photography and much more. Grand Social’s Bar and Gourmet Coffee options are available.

On the last day of RADFest (Rathfarnham and District Festival) a family fun day takes place with music, art & entertainment for the kids.

Unfortunately details are not available, which makes it close to impossible to assess if an event has the potential to be great or not. Let’s hope that the organisation and PR of the RADFest will be better next year!

Admission is free.

The exhibition “SOUND CHECK” (09 June – 24 September) in the Science Gallery is looking the influence sound has on our life. THe exhibition looks at lots of interesting ways to create sound.

It is  highly interactive exhibition with lots of oppoertunities to create sound/make noise. Some of the main exhibits are a big sound pinball table, a synthesiser on a bike, musical swings, a room full of Moog Synthesiser equipment, a Uranium controlled Xylophone and there are fice “Sonic Bikes” that you cyn pre-book and loan out for a 1 hour guided tour in Dublin.

The exhibition is suitable for ALL ages, even younger children will be able to take part and nobody will be bored.

Use the help of the amazing mediators, who can explain everything you see, especially if you don’t want to read all the explanations that are next to every exhibit.

The Science Gallery has very visitor friendly opening hours of Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 and Sat+Sun 12:00-18:00.

Admission is free.

As part of the current “Sound Check” exhibition in the Science Gallery you can rent out a bike to experience Dublin in a completely different way:

Ya slip ta bang is an interactive composition mapped over the streets of Dublin that will unfold for you as you ride ‘sonic bikes’ along specific routes of the city. Accompanied by electronic music, the composition tells the story of recovering he roin addict Lucy Dolan as she returns to the city, revisiting important places in her life.

The sonic bike is a bicycle with frame-mounted speakers that plays different sounds and music dependent on where the cyclist goes and how fast they ride, via a mounted location-sensitive system.

The bikes can be rented for free for up to 1 hour on Fridays, Saturday and Sunday between 12:30 and 16:00. The rules and conditions are on the website below and that is also where you book the bikes.

Archive at Lunchtime screenings take place Saturdays (Double Bill), Mondays and Wednesdays. The programme is changing weekly now (instead of monthly as in the past). To find out what film(s) will be screened go to www.ifi.ie/whatson/now-showing-coming-soon/ and look for “Archive at Lunchtime” on the right. Admission is free.

The Bernard Shaw Flea Market is a weekly market (every Saturday) with approx 16 stalls, music, pizzas from the Big Blue Bus and the Bernard Shaw Garden Bar. Expect vintage clothes, shoes, jewellery, art, records, bric-a-brac and more and DJs will provide the entertainment.

Admission is free.

In the coming week, the following Pop-up talks will take place in the National Gallery. They are short talks in front ot the relevant painting. Admission is always free.

01 July – 13:15-13:45: A pop-up talk on Mainie Jellett’s ‘Decoration’, with Fala Buggy.
01 July – 15:15-15:45: A pop-up talk on Jan Steen’s painting “The Village School” with Sarah Montague.
02 July – 11:15-11:45: A pop-up talk in front of Canova’s ‘Amorino’.
02 July – 13:15-13:45: A pop-up talk in front of Léon-Augustin Lhermitte’s “Harvester at Rest” painting.
04 July – 13:15-13:45: A pop-up talk in front of Van Gogh’s painting “Rooftops in Paris”.
07 July – 13:15-13:45: A pop-up talk in front of Rembrandt’s ‘Rest on the flight into Egypt’.

Please note that there will also a number of other activities and guided tours in the National Gallery. All events are listed on the website below.

“These Are a Few of My Favourite Things” is the title of a Walking Tour that Emily Gallagher runs every Saturday. It is an alternative Arts and Culture Trail and she will bring you to “Dublin’s Best Cafes, Bars, Markets, Unusual Stores, Galleries, Theatres, Arts Spaces, and more! And hear some tales you’ve never heard before!”

The tours are free but donations are welcome and booking is required via myfavouritesdublincitywalktour@gmail.com or 085-2725095

Every Saturday a free guided tour will take place in the Chester Betty Library. The tour starts at 14:00.

In addition there is another free tour every Wednesday at 13:00 and one on Sundays at 15:00

Every Saturday a kid’s book will be read in 27 Eason’s stores all over Ireland. In O’Connell Street the reading takes place at 14:00. In the other Eason Stores, the times vary between 11:00 and 15:00 (see website below). Suitable for age 0-6 with their parents.

Admission is free.

This is a Gagaku performance and workshop with Naoyuki Manabe featuring the Sho instrument.

Gagaku is a type of Japanese classical music, dance and song. It is the oldest music in Japan and was played at the Imperial Court and at ancient religious temples. Nowadays Gagaku is based on the music played at the Imperial Household Agency which is recognised as the world’s oldest orchestra – playing for over 1,300 years. Gagaku includes the use of wind, string and percussion instruments.
Sho is a traditional Japanese reed instrument, made up of slender bamboo pipes gathered together in a bundle. The instrument’s tone is similar to an organ and it produces sound whether the player’s breath is inhaled or exhaled, allowing extended periods of uninterrupted play.

This event is part of the commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Japan and Ireland.

Admission is free.

A weekly tour of the National War Memorial Gardens will take every Saturday from March until the end of October.

Admission is free. “Meet inside the gates” it says here.

Palmerstown Festival was taking place from 27 June and will run until 02 July. It is one of the many community/neighbourhood festivals that are either intentionally or unintentionally badly promoted. We know that there are lots of free events happening in Dublin, but sometimes it is frustrating that LOTS of other people put great events together but we never find out about them.

This Family Fun Day will take place in Waterstown Park. There will be music, a dog show, bouncy castles, dance demonstrations, face painting etc.

Admission is free.

A tour in the National Gallery specifically tailored for teens will be provided. The tour will be led by one of the teens from the National Gallery’s Transition Year placement programme.

Admission is free.

The Glee Club launch thier new album HIVE in The Leeson Lounge Dublin 4 on Saturday. It will be the bands first gig since their brief comeback two years ago which was their first Irish gig since Feile 20 years ago! Support will be provided from Clarence Winters from the band The Winters who will do a solo slot.

Admission is free.

Gypsy Folk Band “Grand” and Folk/Soul band “Moon Looks On” are performing in Sin E.

Admission is free.

The popular U2 Tribute Band “Joshua Tree” will play a gig in Palmerstown House.

Admission is free.

The Stillorgan Orchard has live music every Friday and Saturday. Many of the performers are established and very good bands. The upcoming gigs are detailed on the website below. Admission is always free.

Gorilla Gigs will bring the bands Rabble Rabble, Munky, *Rogue to the Harbour Bar.

Admission is free.

The 2 Stroke String Sessions should be featuring oldtime fiddle and banjo tunes and Appalachian mountain tunes, but last month this monthly event was canceled on the day when it was meant to happen. Same could happen again, so check the FAcebook Page before you go out on Saturday evening.

Admission is free.

Electronic Rock / Synth Rock band “Chasing Felix” from Dublin and alternative rock band “Atlas Zero” from Cork, will play gigs in Whelan’s on Saturday night.

Admission is free before 22:30 or via the guest list

The Papa Zitas is a 10-piece Soul/Motown Big Band and they will play a gig in the Bowery. Sounds like some impressive outfit!

Admission is free.