It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

From the return of RIOT to Vicar Street, to an evening of theatre in The Pearse Centre, and a music-filled BBQ in Hen's Teeth, there is plenty happening across Dublin this weekend.