Taken by Barbara McCarthy at the Red Bull Cliff Diving Championships at the weekend.
Meanwhile, via Frank Croinin at Glowpunk:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dujBfgWYROQ&feature=youtu.be
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Don’t Fret
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Oisin Davis writes:
A stag party acting the maggot at the Indiependence Festival [Mitchelstown, Co Cork].
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-hXSKt66MQ
What you may need to know.
1. Dollhouse is the new film by Kirsten Sheridan, daughter of Jim and director of Disco Pigs (2001) and August Rush (2007).
2. Cry nepotism all you want, she has an Oscar nomination and you don’t.
3. Dollhouse screened at the Dublin Film Festival in February, before playing Berlin, where the reviews were more than decent.
4. Sheridan is one of the driving forces (along with John ‘Once’ Carney and Lance ‘Kisses’ Daily) behind The Factory, a filmmaker-friendly ‘creative space’ in Ringsend. Dollhouse was produced under its auspices.
5. If there’s anyone out there still complaining about Irish film, go and make your own. Seriously.
Release Date (Ireland): TBC
THE first signs in decades saying ‘Welcome to Northern Ireland’ have been erected at the border…
The signs, which will inform travellers that they are leaving the Republic, are to be placed at eight key border crossings [including Fermanagh above].
And TUV [Traditional Unionist Voice] leader Jim Allister welcomed the move, adding:
“These signs are a useful reminder that traffic laws in the United Kingdom differ from those in the Republic and indeed it is only polite to welcome foreign nationals into our Province.”
Unionists Welcome Border Signs (NewsLetter)
Welcome To NI Signs ‘Waste Of Money’ Says Sinn Fein MLA (BBC)
“Dark-haired, deep-eyed and engaging, Taylor is not what you’d expect in a fighting Irishwoman, nor is she surrounded by people who’d prefer a punch to a potato … Katie is deeply rooted in her mother’s Christian faith, an avid bible reader who zones out to songs of worship…”
Ah here.
Update: the old switcheroo:
Thanks Eoin Darby and Brian McDonald
Meanwhile, In USA Today:
(Getty)
South African runner Oscar ‘Blade Runner’ Pistorius, the first double amputee to compete in the Olympics, may not have made it past the Men’s 400m semis yesterday but this inspiring photo from 2009 is all over the interwebs right now.
The little girl is Ellie Challis from England who lost both hands and lower legs to meningitis at 16 months.
(Hat Tip: @davidcoldwell)
Life On Mars
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Meanwhile, Curiosity’s Descent: a POV:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGMDXy-Y1I