Monthly Archives: June 2012

Protestors outside the Dail this afternoon (including Tara O Grady above) calling for the release of Mahdi Abu Deeb head of the teachers’ union in Bahrain and his assistant Jalila Al Salman who have been in prison since the attempted Bahraini uprising two years ago.

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

Bahraini Human Rights Defender’s Letter Smuggled Out of Prison (Human Rights First, June 12, 2012)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFZ2eQ0PpW4

What you may need to know

1. Don’t f**k with the Ballymena.

2. Liam Neeson used to be a respected, Oscar-nominated thespian hired
to class up franchises like Star Wars and Batman. Now he’s a 60-year-old bad-ass turning up pissed on the Late Late and banging out the testosterone-driven action flicks like there’s no tomorrow.

3. Like all good sequels, it’s the same film again. Only more so.

4. Albanians = convenient generic European bad guys of choice.

6. The director’s name is Oliver Megaton. Naturally.

5. They should have called it Taken 2: Takener. We haven’t been this
stoked since Crank 2 (2009).

 

MORE Joyce????

Yay.

Tomorrow at midday Joe “no relation’ Joyce’s play The Tower about Joyce (James) and Oliver St John Gogarty’s enmity will play its final performance at the New Theatre, New Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin. Starring Tom Hickey (above left although Barry McGovern plays the role tomorrow) and Bosco Hogan (right) and Directed by Caroline Fitzgerald.

Broadsheet’s view?

Joyce: wrote Ulysses.
Gogarty: introduced swans to the Grand Canal.

Verdict: swans.

The Tower By Joe Joyce (CultureFox.ie)

Joe Joyce?

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