Going out or staying in? Here's your weekend guide for Cork
Dirtbirds' Girls World Tour is at The Everyman.
- DirtBirds: Girls World Tour, The Everyman, 8pm: Ireland’s Queens of Comedy, DirtBirds, bring their highly relatable, spot-on observational comedy to Cork. Tickets €30, everymancork.com
- Cortisol, Cork Arts Theatre, 8pm: Written by Cork sisters Megan and Shannon Haly, this describes life in your 20s. Cortisol isn’t just a play - it’s an adrenaline-fuelled odyssey through the messy, beautiful, and utterly exhilarating journey of crash landing into adulthood. Tickets, €20.
- Sunday Songbook: It’s Not Unusual - The Tom Jones Story, The Everyman, 7.30pm: The Everyman Sunday Songbook team and guest narrator Michael Grennell host a celebration of Tom Jones’s brilliant career. Tickets €28, everymancork.com
- Together At The Hall, Atkins Hall, Dunmanway, 7pm: Free mental health and wellbeing community event, with entertainment from the likes of musician Ger Wolfe and Dunmanway Community Choir. The fun continues on Sunday from 2-5pm, with John Spillane among the performers. See www.musicalive.ie/west-cork-feel-good-festival.
- Make Some Noise Cork 2024, Firkin Crane, 7.30pm: Concert in support of local charity Shine A Light Suicide and Mental Health Awareness, with Myles Gaffney, Dots Tobin and Roger Ryan from August Walk, and special guests The Kabin Crew. Tickets €10 from boxoffice@firkincrane.ie or phone 021-4507487.
- Róisín Ó, Sea Church, Ballycotton, 8pm: The Irish singer-songwriter performs her new-found folk sound. A night of singing, storytelling and entertainment is planned as part of her upcoming tour.
- Salsa By The Lee In Aid Of Palestine, Crane Lane, 3pm: Raise money, raise awareness, and raise your pulse at the regular salsa social.
- Creedon’s Musical Atlas Of Ireland, RTÉ1, 6.30pm: New series. The popular Corkman explores how music shaped the identity of Ireland. In the first episode, he hears ancient long-horned trumpets, Iarla Ó Lionáird guides him through the rich tradition of sean-nós singing, and John learns the secrets of the trad session with musical greats.
- At Your Service, RTÉ1, 7.30pm: Ciara O’Brien returned home to Mitchelstown during Covid, and decided to open a bed and breakfast - on her own, spending her life savings. But the Brennan brothers are worried - she only has four rooms.
- The Last Days of the Space Age, Disney+: Eight-part comedy-drama set in Perth, Australia. In 1979, America’s first space station crash landed in the area as the city was hosting Miss Universe. It retells the story through the eyes of three families.
- Where’s Wanda?, Apple TV+: 8-part German-language comedy. A 17-year-old girl has been missing for months, so her parents and tech-savvy brother decide to take matters into their own hands.
