Taken within the last hour.
They’re calling them the ‘Brad and Angelina of Templemore’.
Garda Lesley Roche from Wicklow being congraulated by her partner James Kearney, who is also a garda, on her graduation from the Garda Training College in Tipperary.
The 126 gardai (41 women and 85 men), that graduated today will be the last garda recruits for the next two years due to, well, you know.
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Seamus Heaney and the Ulysses medal, the highest honour UCD can bestow
Brian Friel, who was awarded the Ulysses Medal last year and poet John Montague
Heaney and fellow poet Ciaran CarsonThis morning at Belfield for the awarding of the Ulysses Medal (Joyce studied at UCD) to Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney.
Poetic champions pose.
As if drawn by Matt Groening.
http://vimeo.com/27019462
Published just this week, Go the Fuck To Sleep by Adam Mansbach (a profanely affectionate bedtime book for children and parents who ‘live in the real world’) has been given a new and perfectly appropriate twist – an audiobook narration by Samuel L. Jackson.
He nails it.
Werner Herzog’s also done a version.
UPDATED: Listen to the whole thing here.
It’s Molly Bloom’s soliloquy written on a single page by the frankly talented Annie West.
Here’s a close-up:
It’s literally a challenging read.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaBKb3NId4U
TJ O’Grady writes:
“Myself and my co-director have just finished a music video for the German producer Tensnake. It is an Irish production where everyone worked for free. The video stars kids from Dublin Stage Coach where the principle Evan Holten Murray found us 30 wonderfully talented kids to realize this film (which was made on a shoestring budget)”
It’s already garnered over 50,000 hits on You Tube.
Is Raver Linn.
Looking up at just the right moment when cycling up Shaw Street into Pearse Street junction.
