Dublin Front Runners is a running group for the LGBT community. Established in January 2005, the…read moreclub is affiliated with the international network of Frontrunner clubs throughout the world and is a member of the Athletics Association of Ireland. The group have twice weekly meetings in Phoenix Park. The main run is on Saturday morning at 10a.m. Meeting point for this run is at the Papal cross. From October to March the Wednesday night the meet is at 7.30p.m in front of the Garda Head Quarters. For the summer months the Wednesday night meeting point is at the cricket grounds car park at 7.30p.m. No matter what your running abilities are you will always find members in the group to run and train with. It also has a huge social side to it. Every Saturday run is followed by the group going for breakfast and on Wednesday, it is to the local pub for some grub and a bit of craic. It also has a great social events calendar which includes wine tasting events, nights out, arranged marathon runs throughout Ireland and the U.K (but if that makes you feel exhausted just reading you can go as a spectator), there infamous annually table quiz and a lot more. It is a fantastic way to keep fit and socialise with like minded people. All members of the running group are extremely friendly and very welcoming to all new members. For more info on the group their website is dublinfrontrunners.ie

Century City arcade is situated beside the Cineworld on Parnell street, in behind the Woolshed…read more It's a perfectly functional arcade. A few racing games, a few shooters. They have Time Crisis 4, which gave me a big pang of nostalgia. Anyway, this is all beside the point. I include these details for those of you who might go to arcades for anything other than Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). I swear I've spent so much money on this machine, I'm basically keeping Century City afloat. It's not like it's a particularly good DDR machine, the songs are all J-pop, the price is €1 a pop, but it's very addictive. Very addictive. Thanks to those obsessive Japanese (even more so than yours truly), the game has 5 levels of difficulty, ranging from "bloody hard" to "break down in tears". I have yet to complete a mission on the 2nd easiest level of difficulty, something I find very emasculating. Not content with making you move your feet with the timing and precision of MJ himself, they also have a great laugh randomly changing the tempo, gah!

I used Century City for an impromptu location for a fashion shoot for Prowlster Magazine. The lady…read morein charge was very nice letting me use the arcade (people can be narky about people photographing in their premises for reasons unbeknownst to me). I was surprised at how many people were playing the games, this being at 11am and the year 2013, especially when you can download most of the games on your phone for 89 cent. A nice place, somewhat a look into the past when entertainment was simpler.