Monthly Archives: September 2012


Fight Dub by Eclectic Method. What it says on the tin:

The first rule of Fight Dub is to tell everyone about Fight Dub. Eclectic Method explores the idea of fighting across the frames, mixing fight scenes so characters reach from one movie into another and punch the behoozle out of someone. James Bond steps into Snatch, Adam Sandler knocks out Indiana Jones and Bruce Lee repays Uma Thurman for borrowing his yellow outfit in Kill Bill. Oh and just for good measure, Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves self-harm. And who can say they never wanted to punch a panda?

We can.

laughing squid

Finally, Murray has crossed the Rubicon line. Finally, after four wrenching defeats in slam finals, he has claimed the prize he coveted above all others.
The scale of the achievement, as Murray became Britain’s first slam champion for 76 years, should not be underestimated – and nor should the determination it required for him to break this breakthrough.

 

Andy Murray’s Triumph At The US Open Is The Perfect Postscript To An Amazing Sporting Summer (Oliver Brown, Telegraph)

Thanks John Gallen

INDEPENDENT TD Mick Wallace plans to use the €41,000 a year “leader’s allowance” he has begun claiming to fund research into “different issues that concern the people of Ireland”, he has said.

Mr Wallace has for the first time defended his decision to join other Independent deputies in claiming the allowance, which is untaxed and unvouched. “If I don’t claim it, when all the others do, I am at a disadvantage,” he said last night.

The Wexford TD also indicated on his Facebook page that he has no intention of resigning over his building company’s evasion of €1.4 million in taxes.

“I’m also aware that some sections of the media want me out of politics – surely a good reason to stand and fight for what I believe in.”

Oh dear.

Mick Wallace to use ‘leader’s allowance’ to fund research (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

 

 

The motion?

 

That this Council calls on the current government to delay proceeding with a monument to victims of abuse as recommended by the Ryan Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, until such time as the many unresolved, uninvestigated and outstanding issues concerning the abuses for which Irish society is responsible, in particular those affecting the Magdalene women, those who endured abuse in Bethany children’s homes and the many children who suffered horrendous abuse in day schools throught the Republic of Ireland are resolved.
To proceed at this time with a Government sactioned and financially supported artistic memorial before the said issues are addressed and redressed would inevitably be seized upon as closure by the abusers, their congregations and managements, and as a pretext for the evasion of accountability and truth by them and by the Irish State.

Stop The Monument

Previously: Irish Government Unveils Design For Memorial To Abuse Victims (BBC, July 20, 2012)

Team Ireland return from the London Paralympics 2012 to Dublin Airport this evening.

From top: Michael Mckillop & Jason Smyth; Catherine O’Neill; Mark Rohan & Shane Barker; Darragh McDonald and his mother Caroline; Catherine Walsh, Catherine O’Neill and Fran Meehan, and Mark Rohan’s friends and family.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)