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The Cork Vintage Map; various vintage proprietors pictured at Elizabeth Fort, in the city

In the run-up to the holiday season, the various Leeside purveyors of vintage fashion, vinyl records and various other antiquities are banding together to create the Cork Vintage Map, creating a trail throughout the city of retro gifts and goodies.

Writes Eilís Dillon of Records and Relics:

Over the past few years Cork City has become a hot spot in Ireland for all things antique and vintage, and those in the know like to keep it quietly under their hat! However that’s all about to change with the launch of The Cork Vintage Map, a free pocket map which is available in many of Cork City’s cafes, markets, shops and tourist spots.

The Cork Vintage Map showcases the best of Corks Vintage Shopping. On the map you can discover the best of vintage and vintage inspired clothing and accessories, flea markets, vinyl shops, antiquarian books, homeware, gifts and to complete the look, vintage stylists!

Cork Vintage Map is a collaboration between 13 vintage-inspired businesses, the collaboration includes an online map and physical brochure that connect the shops and lists information and tips to finding the best vintage in Cork City centre.

Full details: The Vintage Map

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.

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Bliss Mobile Expedition vehicles – custom steel frame units from 3.5 to 6m in length added to a range of 4×4, 6×6 and 8×8 workhorse utility workhorses with bedroom, toilet, workstations, cooking areas and whatever you’re having yourself added to order.

The units are detachable and can be shipped as container boxes to the wilderness destination of your choice.

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Pets.

They’re like children this time of year.

Share their joy and excitement with ‘sheet readers by submitting your pet in festive mood  to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘My Pet At Xmas‘.

Rodents welcome.

Above is last year’s entries in a dazzling CGI-laden video compiled by Sam Fitzpatrick.

Top pic: ‘Sterling’

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TUSKS – Doom-metal from Belfast

What you may need to know…

01. Emerging from a rich scene for various amounts of musical heft, TUSKS fall somewhere between Sabbathesque riff worship and spiky punk noisemaking.

02. The band’s debut album Embers, released in August of last year, on Larne-based metal label Freak Flag Recordings.

03. Streaming above in its entirety, it’s available for download, and on limited 12″ green/”beer” vinyl.

04. Next seen live at the Eglantine in Belfast next Thursday, with support from Elder Druid and Black Market Thieves.

VERDICT: TUSKS have a lash off doom-metal’s tropes and rituals without directly aping same, adding a bit of piss and vinegar to proceedings.

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Chef JP McMahon (left) and Dermot O’Connor

And are you in Galway?

Read on.

Maisie Lynch writes:

Chef and restaurateur JP McMahon and Galway nightclub stalwart Dermot “Doc” O’Connor are teaming up to host a charity food and music-themed table quiz on Wednesday , November 30 in Massimo in Galway’s West End.

The event is being held to fundraise for COPE Galway and raise awareness of the city’s homelessness crisis in conjunction with the charity’s Business Sleep-Out event.

The Sleep-Out fundraiser will see thirty local business and community leaders sleeping out overnight on Shop Street on December 2  from 6pm until 6am.

The quiz starts at 8pm and tickets are €40 for a table of four, available at link below or by phoning Massimo on 091 582 239.

Roisin Dubh

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