Monthly Archives: September 2012

What the Doctor ordered:

“In addition, I wish to apologise for my own previous lack of understanding  of the sinister and recedivist nature of the child abuser, and the life-long damage that this destructive behaviour has on victims. 
Most of all – whilst I did notify the civil authorities at the time of these complaints – I profoundly regret and apologise for moving the priests concerned to different parishes thereby placing others at serious risk.
Both these parish changes occurred in the early to mid-1990s before the 1996 publication of Child Sexual Abuse: Framework for a Church Response, the first Catholic Church guidelines for the handling of abuse issues. 
Whilst no further abuse has been reported, this act was a grave mistake on my part.  I operate very differently now and will continue to do so in the future.”

Bishop of Clonfert, Dr John Kirby

Child Protection Reports Live (RTE)

Lars Biscuits writes:

Brendan Smyth’s extradition controversy brought down the Albert Reynolds’ government in 1994.  It was one of the biggest news stories of that year after the World Cup and the IRA ceasefire. How Bishop Kirby can say he did not understand “the recidivist nature of the child abuser” lacks all credibility when Smyth’s crimes were so well publicised.

 

Listen here: Bishop Thought Paedophilia Was “Friendship That Crossed Boundary Line”(Newstalk.ie)

Crikey.

Andy Sheridan writes:

Meeting House Sq all set up as an urban vineyard.

 

Anyone?

Update:

Django writes:

This is the scene in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, right now. The area normally used for the weekend food market as well as movies and gigs during the summer has been transformed into an inner city vineyard. Apparently the vines are 70 years old. OK, it’s a promotion for the Aussie wine McGuigan’s and all, but still… free wine! I’m not promoting this or anything by the way, just stumbled across it and scabbed some vino. Surprised more of the local “characters” in Dublin weren’t doing the same..

 

A new billboard in Glasnevin, Dublin, part of the nation-wide Turn Off The Red Light campaign (organised by an alliance of groups) against prostitution and sex trafficking.

Meanwhile, on Leeson Street:

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (part of The Turn Off The Red Light Campaign) launching its annual report and its own awareness campaign earlier.

From left: Roisin Shortall, junior minister, Department of Health, and Ellen O’Malley Dunlop & Frances Gardiner, of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre Report Rise In The Number Of First Time Callers (BreakingNews)

(Sam Boal/Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)


Devin Supertramp’s short film of a real life Altair from Assassin’s Creed, performed by freerunner Ronnie Shalvis.

Sure, the get-up is rather incongruous in the modern setting and the moves are, for the most part, limited by gravity and real world physics, but it’s still pretty impressive cosplay.

Behind the scenes video here.

awesomer/kotaku

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRabulURk3I

“This is the Gate Theatre in Dublin. First night audiences are always an experience. In this theatre I faced the very first, first night audience of all in Dublin – that grand capital of eloquence and violent opinion where audiences enjoy and they delight in the privilege of free speech. And you can sometimes hear as much dialogue from the gallery, as from the stage itself. But first nights often end in a literal riots and actors have been known to seek police protection from the public they’re trying to entertain. Well here I am in Dublin on that very first of all my first nights. If you don’t recognise me that’s just as it should be. I’m heavily made up for the role of the profligate and depraved archduke Jew Suss. And as you can see from the drawing (above)  there’s almost no sign of anything at all resembling first-night nerves. Now there’s a reason for this lofty calm. It’s the bliss of ignorance.”

Orson Welles was 16 when he came to Dublin and made his stage debut in The Gate Theatre in 1931, appearing in Jew Suss.

From Orson Welles’ Sketchbook (1955), 15-minute monologues made for the BBC.

Baz writes:

Here’s a video of Orson Welles talking about getting schooled by the Dublin theatre crowd, skip to 4:21 if you’re impatient. Part 2 here.

 

(BBC4)

Sketch by Orson Welles

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmw7e5wUx_U

Jackson Parker.

Explains the tears.

Niamh Hassell writes:

For all the hipserati who turned out to ‘Shut up and Play the Hits’ in the Lighthouse Cinema, here’s a vignette of ‘the Crying Boy’ who might have smudged some eyeliner in his mmmff -inducing scene in the LCD Soundsystem Documentary.

 

Previously: Broadsheet Trailer Park: Shut Up And Play The Hits