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2013: LOVE/HATE CAST PROVING A 'HIT' ATTRACTION FOR CITY SHOPPERS". The Herald. 22nd October, 2013. Watch your back, Nidge, Fran, Tommy and Darren have been spotted hanging around in the Westbury Mall. In fact the brooding life-size characters have become a major attraction in the city centre mall. When artist Niall O'Loughlin decided the only way to capture the TV hoodlums was in six foot studies, he could only find one art gallery in Dublin willing to put them on display. However Nidge & Co have now found their way into the street outside the Balla Bán Art Gallery to...

2014: 'THE DONALD' GEST ANGO GOLF BALL GIFT'. The Herald. 13th May, 2014 A DUBLIN artist has chosen a novel way of welcoming American billionaire Donald Trump to Irish soil - by sending The Donald’ Anglo Irish Bank-branded golf balls. Mr Trump pledged to invest €45m in the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Ireland, in Co Clare, after touching down yesterday to inspect his new resort. For artist Frank O’Dea (inset), it was an opportunity to remind one of America’s wealthiest men about the economic crash that brought the country to its knees. He mailed the tycoon a selection...

2011: BRUSH WITH SUCCESS. Irish Daily Mirror. 4th January, 2011. Artist Ray Sherlock has created a watercolour tribute to Phil. Ray said: "He was the grandfather of Irish rock. I've called it Phil and The Little People with Bono, Sinead O'Connor, Luke Kelly and Ronnie Drew singing his praises."

2013: JAMES JOYCE SEPIA WATERCOLOUR BY PERVANEH MATTHEWS.  James Joyce Literary Supplement. University of Miami. Fall, 2013 "James Joyce" sepia watercolour by Pervaneh Matthews, courtesy of the Balla Bán Art Gallery, Dublin. Giclee prints available for eur75, visit www.irishcharacterpaintings.com or https://ballaban.net/collections/pervaneh for more information.  

2011: WHAT A HURL? The Sun. April, 2011 What a hurl?... someone chucked an egg at the Dublin art gallery where Niall O'Loughlin's painting of Lizzie in Croke Park was on display.