Taken literally this afternoon at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin 4.
Saoirse Ronan launched the 4th Coca Cola Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People. The Festival (until May 18) offers ‘a wealth of cinematic experiences from masterclasses with well known names and faces’.
We ask you to pay particular attention to Saoirse’s denims. Consider them a victory for common sense.
‘As if Joyce had sat down and written Sin City.’
‘If Fred Astaire had been a novelist he’d have been Paul Bailey.’
‘An homage to Miss Marple – or Miss Marple as a badass, paralysed Norwegian lesbian detective.’
‘Put Charles Dickens, Chuck Palahniuk and Ignatius Reilly into a blender…’
‘A Nabokovian celebration of psychological obsession. Add a pinch of O’Connor, a dash of Hannah, heat with an imagination reared in both the canon and its rock and roll antipodes.’
‘Henry James, but without the boring bits.’
‘An active personality on the London literary scene, Stuart is well connected and highly promotable.’
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Shot in and around Dublin City between March and April 2011 by Richard Twomey.
Capital stuff.
Music: All Things To All Men by The Cinematic Orchestra.
Portal 2. Sigh. So mainstream.
Try the authentic 2D experience at online gaming site Kongregate. It’s a Flash version. You’ve probably never heard of it.
Portal: The Flash Version includes over 40 challenging portal levels, with almost every feature the real game does, in 2D – energy balls, cubes, turrets and even the famous crusher from the trailer. The game also includes a console to mess around with after finishing the game, or just being frustrated thinking with portals.
(Thanks Mike Casey)
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The Fields of Anfield Road.
They don’t really sing that do they?
In 1999, student Ian Clarke of Dundalk created the first software for peer-to-peer file sharing and made it freely available. Result: mounting chaos in the music, film and television industries as their content appeared online, people stopped paying for it and copyright became meaningless. Current cost: €60 billion a year in the EU, €75 billion a year in the US and €100 billion a year in lost taxes across the G20.
In 1995, Irish diplomat Peter Sutherland changed the name of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to the much catchier World Trade Organisation, earning himself headlines as “the father of globalisation”. Result: an obscure technical process caught the attention of every paranoid nutter. Cost: holding up a 1 per cent tariff cut by one year blocks €110 billion of trade.
In 1969, Gerry Adams of West Belfast took exception to certain local government arrangements. Cost over the next 30 years: €300 billion.
In 1826, Aeneas Coffey of Dublin perfected the distillation process, delivering 95 per cent pure alcohol from grain. Current worldwide cost of alcohol abuse: 4 per cent of all deaths and €400 billion a year (minus profits from alcohol).
In 1999, Dublin technology firm Aldiscon, which invented the mobile phone text message, was sold to a British company for £51 million. Its Belfast division, which invented mobile phone internet connectivity, was sold the same year to a US firm for £150 million. Annual global revenue from both technologies today: €370 billion.
He’s usually shy around girls but Miriam’s different.
She doesn’t laugh in his face.
Minister For (moderate) Fun Leo Varadkar and Miriam O’Callaghan at the Gibson Hotel, launching a conference on the future of Dublin Port this morning.
Previously: Leo Makes A Friend
Irresistible to women, men and metal filings.
An American tourist, sitting at the back of the Globus coach, described what he saw, “I think our driver became faint, the bus started to drift to the left, ploughed into a number of parked cars and was stopped by a lamp post.”
Tourist Coach Crashes In Dublin (Irish Times)
