Monthly Archives: October 2012

Photographer William Gedney died of Aids in New York in 1989.

After his death, the quality of his work was recognised as a bit special and his photographs are now exhibited at places such as the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.

In August 1974, he visited Dublin and took these stark, often erotically-charged, images, among others now housed in the Duke University digital archive.

William Gedney

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

Darren Conlon (above, second left) writes:

I emigrated to Australia from Ireland over 15 years ago, before it was fashionable and all (!). I am currently involved in a by-election for the State Seat of Sydney, NSW Australia.
The front-runner in the election is one Alex Greenwich (he’s second right in the photo above), who has been heavily involved in the Australian Marriage Equality campaign for the last 5 years.
There is currently no marriage equality in Australia and this necessitated Alex having to marry his same-sex partner overseas. If Alex wins he will become the first member of the NSW parliament in a same-sex marriage.
His website is at AlexGreenwich.com The election is in less than 24 hours so we would love a shout-out if possible.

 

‘Sydney Deserves A Strong Voice’ – Greenwich (GayNewsNetwork)

The government has said it is working on a strategy with the European Union to exit Ireland’s rescue programme at the end of next year without a second bailout.

Mr Noonan said he was very confident Ireland would exit the programme by the end of next year “in all circumstances”, irrespective of getting relief on the historic cost of bank recapitalisation.

Mr Howlin pointed out that Ireland had drawn down 80 per cent of the €67 billion loan from the troika and had fulfilled 160 conditions.

“We are the most successful programme country. We have hit all the targets,” he said.

Separately, a highranking member of Germany’s central bank warned against using Europe’s nascent banking union to deal with “past sins”. Andreas Dombret, a Bundesbank executive director, argued in an interview with The Irish Times against the ESM fund taking on legacy banking assets. He insisted he was not trampling over Irish hopes for debt relief but said people should be “particularly realistic” about what was doable or not.

Oh.

Government confident of bailout exit next year (Harry McGee, Arthur Beesley, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Oh.

Greg Rooney writes:

A lesson in branding from Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp. Bring your mics along, record nothing but throw them on the table anyways and the pics will get in the paper. Not made half obvious by the fact they’re all using the same mic stand. As a radio presenter with Near FM the first thing I noticed was there’s no cable going into 98, Newstalk, and Spin (Fm104 and tv3 are wireless mics hence them being thicker). What the point? [Picture is from James Crombie at Inpho photography].