Monthly Archives: July 2012

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Dan Prichard writes:

I’m writing from the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, where I head new writing programmes. We have recently produced a short film called Bat Eyes, inspired by and featuring the WB Yeats poem ‘When you are old and grey’. The filmlooks at the awkwardness of first love and the power of poetry to clarify life’s experiences. The film is based on an original monologue by Sydney-based playwright Jessica Bellamy, who is a huge Yeats fan and who has attended the Yeats summer school in Sligo.
We have also just been selected by YouTube in their global film festival, so if you could consider sharing the voting link (here), too, that would be great.

Bat Eyes

“It would have been no different if he had taken a gun and shot him, it just took longer.”

 

A horribly familiar and genuinely frightening story broadcast this evening in Australia of child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church in Ballarat, Victoria.

The abuse involved “many children, committed over several years” and is believed to have lead to 40 suicides in the state

But “the most alarming revelation is the fact that the Church turned a blind eye to [one of the] the priest’s crimes…despite clear evidence of abuse, the Church allowed him to move from parish to parish, apparently without alerting the police.”

The programme reveals that “even now the Church will not admit the full extent of what it knew.”

Watch here

Thanks Mark Geary

Magdalena Kakol on O’Connell Street/Ulica, Limerick

“IN A bid to make non-Irish nationals feel more at home, Mayor Gerry McLoughlin wants to see the city’s street signs in Polish – and “African”.”

African?

Mayor Of Limerick Wants Polish Street Signs (Nick Rabbits, Limerick Leader)

(Pic: Adrian Butler)

Thanks Niall O’M