Culch.ie Information

We cover everything from movies to comedy gigs, from albums reviews to games previews and, of course, music gigs and festivals. We have a 20 strong team of writers who all contribute on a voluntary basis. Culch is a non-profit site that began just as a hobby and became one of Ireland’s busiest group blogs with unique hits in excess of 1,500 each day, peaking at over 8,000. The idea was a simple one – in February 2009, we thought it’d be fun to start a group blog project (well, everyone seems to have one these days). We had personal blogs and twitter accounts, facebook pages and some rather grand websites, but pop culture was one of the few common threads that ran through almost all of us and Ireland doesn’t have a huge, enormous pop culture review site/aggregator/news place (can’t you see we’ve researched the lingo here?) so we decided to give it a go. In August 2009, we thought it was time to expand so invited our readers to become writers. The response was phenomenal with over 50 people applying. While it would have been logistically impossible to take on everyone, we’ve welcomed a number of new writers to the group. So here we are.