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  • 30 Dec 25

Victoria Mary Clarke curates New Year's Day Ceilidh in Dublin's Cobblestone Bar

Victoria Mary Clarke curates New Year's Day Ceilidh in Dublin's Cobblestone Bar
Cobblestone Pub. Copyright Miguel Ruiz.
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The craic will be mighty as money is raised for the Tiglin Lighthouse Homeless Charity

Victoria Mary Clarke is organising a New Year's Day knees-up in The Cobblestone, the Smithfield drinking pub with a music problem.

Some of the best trad and folk players in town will be assembling in the legendary venue to raise money for – and awareness of – the Tiglin Lighthouse Cafe, which resides at 28 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 and offers a welcoming seven-days-a-week space for the homeless, along with street outreach and advocacy.

All are welcome from 6pm to 9pm with the quality trad tunes being accompanied by set dancing. What better way to usher in 2026?

If you can't make it in person, fear not, because you can donate to this most worthwhile of causes at https://tiglin.enthuse.com/webdonate#!

• Main pic: Tomás Mulligan and his father Tom Mulligan of The Cobblestone.

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Pictured are Victoria Mary Clarke, Shane MacGowan, Johnny Depp and President Michael D. Higgins celebrating a poet of modern music and one of the great international songwriters Shane MacGowan at the National Concert Hall on the occasion of his 60th birthday and presentation of a special Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the power and poetry of his work and his singular contribution to Irish music. PHOTO: Mark Stedman

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