Yearly Archives: 2013

Cornerstone-no-text1-1024x436Dublin-based filmmaking/screen-acting/training resource house The Factory, supported by the Irish Film Board, has just announced Cornerstones – a new micro-budget funding initiative whatsit.

Five successful applicant teams will EACH get €5,000, loan of equipment, access to facilities, mentoring and a screening of the completed film before an invited audience of film industry types.

Apply here (for €50).

(Thanks Muireann)

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Niall Davis in pleasing city centre-Dublin Mountains pro-cycling propaganda.

Daniel Gray, of Visit Dublin, writes;

We invited Niall Davis of biking.ie to get from the city centre to Ticknock on his pair of wheels. Follow him through the winding streets of Dublin up to the forested mountains as he gets to grips with some serious mountain biking.

 

Visit Dublin

biking.ie

011Worth every cent.

The former right of way through Lissadell House in Co Sligo. The entire estate was purchased for approximately €4m in 2004.

Private property again.

They might have a look at those potholes now.

G’wan de land de land de land de land de land.

Etc.

Supreme Court overturns Lissadell House ruling (RTE)

Previously: The Right Of Way Through Lissadell House, Co Sligo

NEXTArchitectsmeixilakebridge1NEXTArchitectsmeixilakebridge3NEXTArchitectsmeixilakebridge2The winning proposal in an international competition to rejuvenate the Changsha Meixi lake district in China – an undulating, 500-foot-long steel bridge spanning the Dragon King Harbor River, inspired by the Möbius strip and designed by Beijing and Amsterdam-based firm NEXT Architects.

Construction begins in 2014.

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1452390_10153492567400038_773681757_n[Commemorating] Armistice Day, College Green, Dublin 11am, November 11, 1924.

Via National Library of Ireland:

This huge crowd was gathered in College Green for the unveiling of a Celtic Cross in memory of the 16th Irish Division. The Irish Times estimated that 50,000 people were present at this ceremony. The Celtic Cross was temporarily erected in College Green for later transport to Guillemont, France, to stand as a permanent memorial to the dead of the 16th Irish Division.

 

16th Irish Division?

foi1foiTheStory.ie is a crowd-funded investigative website run by journalists Gavin Sheridan (who co-founded the site with Mark Coughlan) and Ken Foxe and lawyer Fred Logue that sources Freedom of Information documents.

It has obtained a mass of unseen data since it began four years ago, funded by public donations.

Gavin writes:

As time went on we developed new techniques for seeking data rather than paper, techniques to obtain large amounts of information with a single request, included billions of euro of previously undisclosed public expenditure. We have trained journalists in Ireland, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary and Spain.

However, proposed changes to the funding of FOI requests (including a raft of hidden charges) could spell their end.

Gavin adds:

We’ve had sight of new amendments to the FOI Bill 2013 proposed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform [above].

We will be blunt: if passed, Freedom of Information is dead. TheStory.ie will, in all likelihood, cease all FOI requests. And we will not seek funding from the public to support an immoral, cynical, unjustified and probably illegal FOI fee regime.

We will not pay for information that the public already pays for. We will not support a system that perpetuates an outrageous infringement of citizen rights.

READ ON: Killing Freedom of Information in Ireland (Gavin Sheridan, TheStory.ie)