Brexit is throwing some unexpected curve balls our way. How many of the voters on the leave side thought about the ructions that may ensue when borders are reintroduced or when friends and family members are no longer welcome in Britain? This is a real possibility yet I know of many Irish people here in... Read More

The floor collapsed in the toilet of our office here in Agar Tower. I guess it was the weight of the solid gold bog seat like the one that Trump talks out of. The landlord eventually had a look and found dry rot running through to the other end of the office and that obviously... Read More

The last few months have been productive for Aisling featuring a very successful trip to Wicklow (see Cats and Crows). Many of the people we work with have suffered from a bad experience of emigration and as such find it very hard to go back home after so long away. Our whole purpose is to... Read More

During this last month or so Aisling has had to wear a suit as we have had to do a good bit of fine dining and dancing in some of London’s top hotels. This is the kind of thing that Aisling has to do more frequently these days with myself and John Glynn tripping the... Read More

We had a great night out at our annual comedy benefit this year with loads of great laughs from new Kerry comic Bernard Casey, Camden Irish funny girl Roisin Conaty, hyperactive and hilarious stand up Jason Byrne and Ardal O’Hanlon, our patron in top form. We followed up with a party in the bar of... Read More

The sun is shining in London and on our last two trips to Donegal and Waterford the same good weather followed us across the Irish Sea. This is true almost always on Aisling trips that we are generally blessed with the weather when we are in Ireland. Everyone knows that the weather in the south-east... Read More

We arrived on the docks at Dublin's North Wall on a ghost ship and for once we rolled off the Ulysses with no giant trucks making our minibus the filling in an almighty sandwich. Nor did any bus-loads of disgruntled Irish rugby fans disembark with us from Wales, the scene of much Irish sporting embarrassment... Read More

Brexit is throwing some unexpected curve balls our way. How many of the voters on the leave side thought about the ructions that may ensue when borders are reintroduced or when friends and family members are no longer welcome in Britain? This is a real possibility yet I know of many Irish people here in... Read More

The floor collapsed in the toilet of our office here in Agar Tower. I guess it was the weight of the solid gold bog seat like the one that Trump talks out of. The landlord eventually had a look and found dry rot running through to the other end of the office and that obviously... Read More

All the very best to Aisling friends and supporters for Christmas and the new Year. The spectacular featured image comers from a very special place which you can read about on the website in the report on our latest Trip to Swords: "The centre piece is a chandelier in Waterford Crystal made up of hundreds... Read More

Ardal O’Hanlon is very busy at the moment in fact I was watching TV the other evening and there were trailers on for two programmes featuring the man himself. One is a tour of Ireland in his company taking place over three hourly programmes and the other was: the Tree of the Year competition which... Read More

Aisling workers John Glynn and Mary Leyne were at The Claddagh Ring pub in Hendon on Saturday 26th November to celebrate the pub’s 25th anniversary. The occasion was thoroughly marked by a full weekend of fun with 6 bands playing on the Saturday night alone including Bible Code Sundays and Boxty. Niall Quinn football star... Read More

Ardal O’Hanlon is very busy at the moment in fact I was watching TV the other evening and there were trailers on for two programmes featuring the man himself. One is a tour of Ireland in his company taking place over three hourly programmes and the other was: the Tree of the Year competition which... Read More

I had been sceptical about the approaching centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916, the opening salvo in the war of independence and the date that rings loudest in our national psyche. Mostly because I believed that the main political parties in Ireland have seemed to find the whole thing a bit of an embarrassment... Read More

Sometimes I think we go on too much about drink in these pages so in this one it is all about the lack of the stuff. On our June trip all the returners are ex–drinkers, ex–alcoholics and ex-hung-over–feeling–sick-and-sorry-for-themselves-the-next-day kind of people. There’s nothing new about this of course we have been running ‘dry’ trips for... Read More

When Tom left Dublin 25 years ago he came straight to London and went straight on the drink and straight onto the streets. Since then Aisling has seen Tom in various hostels throughout London and he is now in a small, supported shared house in Ealing where his drinking is limited to three cans of... Read More

Some emotional homecomings on Aisling’s first visit to Leitrim, but for how long will its wild beauty remain unspoiled? By Alex McDonnell.Aisling will be 20 next March (2014) and for most of the last two decades we have known Frank well, first when he lived in Arlington House where he spent a lot of his... Read More

It must have felt a far cry from Camden Town and the cottage ahead chimney puffing smoke from it, a world away from Arlington House. But they came slowly up the path, some on crutches, some halting, to drink in the view and others chatting to new acquaintances. All moving towards the warmth of the... Read More

HOORAY! Aisling is proud to present its TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY comedy spectacular on Sunday May 25th. Featuring a truly startling line-up of comic talent, including Aisling patron Ardal O'Hanlon, Dara O'Briain, Ed Bryne and many, many more, the night is sure to be an absolute blast. Full details, including the killer line up, can be found... Read More

London's Evening Standard gave the recent Aisling benefit gig a great review - with especial praise for our patron (saint) Ardal O'Hanlon. The review was published in the paper and on their website (scan of the newspaper article above). O'Hanlon's stand-up is as original and offbeat as ever, says Bruce Dessau

As always our patron Ardal O'Hanlon will be mastering the ceremonies with Milton Jones 'the funniest man on the telly', hilarious actor/comedian Brendan Dempsey making his return to Aisling, something different from 'genuinely alternative' comedian Sara Pascoe and very talented Drogheda native writer actor and performer Yasmine Akram all working for free for the Aisling... Read More

This is the 14th annual charity fundraiser organised by the Aisling Project's patron Ardal O'Hanlon and Noel Faulkner of the Comedy Café in Shoreditch. Ardal will be the host for the evening with the superb line-up of Ed Byrne, Andrew Maxwell and Ian Stone on hand to provide a great night's entertainment. Sun 12th Feb... Read More

We are having a Fundraising Race evening on Sunday 13thNovember at 4 p.m. at the Sheephaven Bay pub, poster attached. It is £50 to sponsor a race for which you will get good publicity or £10 to sponsor a horse and you will get a bottle of champagne if it wins. If you or anybody... Read More

The Absence of Women is a funny and poignant play about the journey of two ordinary and lonely Belfast men. It’s a tale of life and its endless possibilities, missed opportunities and how one man’s choice, in one instant, can alter the path of his life forever. [Based on research in Arlington House] The Absence... Read More