We may never see his chest.
Damn you, prudish dance gods.
Craig Mason, from Newcastle, a one-time Riverdancer now member of Prodijig, returns to Riverdance tonight at the Gaiety, Dublin (until September 2).
Those platform clog dance shoes are all the rage in Brooklyn.
Meanwhile, take it away river troupe.:
(Sasko lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
From Dublin SPCA:
Faith (above), a four-week female kitten, came into the shelter in a bad way last Friday, she had been separated from her mum, had an infected eye that had scabbed over with fly eggs hatching underneath, and had somehow gotten covered in cement.
So, how is she now?
Ah here.
Mike O’Shea writes about Eugene Moloney (above) in today’s Irish Independent::
“As an ex-colleague and near neighbour, I spent many a hilarious night in Eugene [Moloney]’s company as he doled out his inimitable but beautifully cooked meals and legendary drink concoctions in his darkened bijou abode — surely the very definition of a bohemian hangout, with its ‘sagging settees and the finest of whiskies’ — all the while listening to one of the most eclectic of musical selections anywhere.
He never bothered fixing the dripping tap, nor the wired toilet pull, but none of that mattered to mine host or his guests. Oddly, shortly before I heard the sad news, I was listening to The Byrds’ ‘He Was A Friend Of Mine’ — as indeed he was to all who knew him, however fleetingly.”
A Friend of Mine And All Who Knew Him (Mike O’Shea,Irish Independent)
And some tributes from commentors to yesterday’s post:
“Last Thursday evening I dropped my shopping in M&S on Grafton St and a kind man picked it up. It was Eugene. I hadn’t seen him in over 10 years. We chatted about his time running a hotel in Vietnam and the shit freelance rates at The Mail. I was happy to have bumped into him, he didn’t seem to have aged much, still had a giggle in his eye, the old befuddledy bemused air.
He had this way of making you feel like you were the very best person he could’ve hoped to meet at that moment. Yesterday morning I was shocked to find a cordoned-off crime scene right around the corner from my house. A passerby said that a man had been found collapsed there, but it was obvious something very violent had occurred. There was broken glass and, poignantly, a shoe. I stood and thought; I hope that wasn’t somebody I know. Eugene died without ever getting old; I can’t decide whether that’s bad or good.” Marion
Eugene was a close friend of mine, and I found out as I went to get my newspaper in the morning. Yet still, I cannot stop crying. He gave me a wonderful insight into the city, you can walk down a street with him and everyone seemed to know him; they’d say “hi Eugene, how are you”, through him I met so many more people. If I was sad I could give him a call; he’d always make me feel better. He will be sorely missed, but although I don’t believe in heaven, wherever he is now, I hope he goes to the best of places one can go, and is reincarnated into a world where nothing like this ever happens, and goes to live on there as the wonderful person he was.“ Anonymous
“Eugene was a man who had time for everyone no matter what race, creed, ethnic origin, age etc. My family now are missing a friend. I will remember the pints, the craic, the nights on the Greek islands, Kelly’s cellars, the Blackthorn Bar, your old Indian trick (he he ) and of course your love for Dylan.And most of all your smile. We are stunned, numb and angry.” Caoimhin o Muireagain (The Morgan/Donnelly family, Belfast)
Previously: Two Arrests In Death Of Journalist Eugene Moloney
Unless he really is a Garda.
In which case: Hubba.
Hostage Taker Tasered By Gardai (irish Times)
Thanks Ciano
Cathal Furey writes:
I’m one of the co-founders of 45sound, a four-person start-up based just down the road from Google on Barrow Street, Dublin. Without boring you too much – we’re developed a service for easily fan-sourcing live music videos and making them sound great by automatically matching them with a proper live audio recording.
The band arrange the audio recording and promote the idea to their fans so we don’t have to be at any of the shows. It can scale around the world.
Anyhow we have one major competitor called Switchcam.com who are based
in Silicon Valley and got $1.2m in VC funding this week. They just organise fan videos that have already gone up onto YouTube, they don’t even make them sound right or do it with the band’s permission always.
Our website needs a bit of polish at the moment but our back-end technology is miles ahead. We’re releasing our iPhone app next month and would love to get some feedback. Thanks, Cathal.
Your thoughts…
This morning Sean Quinn, his son Sean (top) and his nephew Peter Quinn were found guilty of trying to put some of Quinn Group’s international property assets out of the reach of Anglo Irish Bank.
On foot of this IBRC (formerly Anglo) CEO Mike Aynsley (above centre) said: “Bringing this contempt motion was a valid and necessary step for IBRC to take. “The proven planned, covert and illicit actions taken by the Quinns and connected parties have resulted in millions of Euros being lost or put at risk. IBRC will continue to seek to remedy this and recover as much of the remaining assets as possible on behalf of the Irish taxpayer.”
Separately last Saturday the Irish Independent reported: “The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), questioned the value of NAMA trawling for hidden developer assets, even where debtors were not co-operating with the agency.…Some hidden wealth was discovered, but the assets ‘were insignificant in value and not all would result in a benefit to NAMA’, according to the C&AG report. Questions over the value of the pilot scheme have left a major question mark over NAMA’s intention of carrying out detailed searches into the wealth of all of its borrowers.”
Nicola Tallant, in the Sunday World last, reported how auctioneer Arthur French owes €50million to IBRC following a series of loans from Michael Fingleton’s Irish Nationwide Building Society and property and land purchases in Dublin, Kildare, Galway and Two Mile Borris in Tipperary.
It stated 10 properties French bought are now in NAMA.
But, the article, continued: “The millionaire auctioneer has allegedly cashed in around €10million of successful property developments in the last three years but has failed to pay any of what he owes to the State.”
Adding: “(French) was shocked when we contacted him about his NAMA loans, saying ‘Why are you running a story on it? You don’t run a story on everyone who is in NAMA.’ French then refused to comment on why he has not paid any money back on the loans, despite reports that he has sold off assets in the region of €10million over the past three years.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Japanese university student and blogger Chooo-san graduated from doodling on her hands during lectures to applying acrylic paint and her considerable artistic skills in more elaborate ways.
