Monthly Archives: May 2012


A mini documentary from the PBS OffBook web series about the world of fan art:

The fan art community is one of the most creative and active online. Taking pop culture stories and icons as its starting point, the fan community extends those characters into new adventures, unexpected relationships, bizarre remixes, and even as the source material for beautiful art. Limited only by the imagination of the artist, the fan art world is full of surprises and brilliance.

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Bronagh Walsh writes:

I wanted to remind you that suicide and self-harm crisis centre Pieta House’s annual fundraiser, Darkness into Light, will take place tomorrow at 4am this Saturday morning, May 12. The event will take place in 14 locations around the country where thousands of people will gather in darkness and walk, run or jog from the darkness into the light as dawn breaks. This event is symbolic of the work that Pieta House does – they bring people from darkness back into the light.

 

Locations:
The Papal Cross, Phoenix Park, Dublin
The Band Field, Mardyke, near Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork City
The Gleneagle Hotel, Muckross Road, Killarney
Lee’s Road, Ennis, Co. Clare
Arthur’s Quay, Limerick City
Blackrock, Salthill, Galway
Naas Racecourse, Tipper Road, Naas, Co. Kildare
Lough Key Forest Park Visitor Centre, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
The Radisson Blu Hotel, Farnham Estate, Cavan
Railway Walk, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow
The Scout Hall, Abbey Street, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
Westport House, Westport, Co. Mayo
Mountmellick GAA Club, Acragar, Mountmellick, Co. Laois
The Causeway Tennis Club, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford

Journalists in Ireland have raised concerns about the country’s draconian gagging orders on police officers talking to the media, including allegations that the state is monitoring their mobile phone calls to try to reveal sources.

Dublin-based reporters, some of whom are under death threats from armed criminal gangs, have told MediaGuardian that the Irish police force, Garda Siochána, has questioned them about police contacts, threatened them with arrest and has been checking their mobile phone calls to suspected sources.

 

Irish journalists Accuse Police of ‘Stasi-like’ Monitoring (Henry McDonald, Guardian)