Yearly Archives: 2013

nymphomaniac

http://vimeo.com/78330045

What you may need to know

1. Here’s the latest in a monthly series of trailers for Lars Von Trier’s forthcoming rudie movie.

2. It’s Shia LaBoeuf! In the LeBuff!

3. Provocateur General Lars is milking the whole Nymphomaniac thing for every drop of potential scandal.

4. He’s shot hardcore and softcore versions of the film.

5. Then there’s those fourteen hilarious orgasmic character posters. Our favourite one: Stellan Skarsgard (top second left), who looks like he’s having a stroke. No, not that kind of stroke.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: The most eagerly anticipated dirty movie since Colin Farrell’s sex tape.

Release Date: Christmas Day (Denmark)

colinKilkenny comedian Colin Chadwick is the last Irish funny person standing in line for the BBC Radio New Comedy Award.

Originally shortlisted from over 600 comedians Colin  is hoping to make it into
the final 12 in an online vote.

Voting closes at 6pm TOMORROW.

Watch and vote for Colin (should you like him) HERE

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Introducing Saoirse Ronan, Ireland’s first honest-to-goodness Hollywood ingénue, just 19 years old, and with the most flawless skin I’ve ever seen

 

Yesterday’s New York Times’s style supplement.

Fair play though in –

saoirse2FIGHT!

*applies Factor 50*

Saoirse Ronan, Hollywood’s Leading Lady in Waiting (Belinda McKeon, New York Times)

PIc: Paolo Roversi

00143287In these tough times we all now should spare,
A thought for poor old Ryanair,
When the stockbrokers call,
That their profits will fall,
Well sometimes life just seems low fair.

John Moynes

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

gun

Elsee writes:

Interesting study creating a lot of fuss in the American right wing press at the moment, showing once and for all that white Americans with racist attitudes ARE more likely to own guns and oppose gun control. Fox News (above) even had a (“fair and balanced”) 5 min rant about it.

Two of the researchers stirring up this hornets’ nest are Irish – Dermot Lynott (Lancaster University) and Michael Daly (University of Stirling). Kudos lads!

 

Racism linked with gun ownership and opposition to gun control in white Americans (Monash University)

Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in US Whites May Influence Policy Decisions ( Kerry O’Brien, Walter Forrest, Dermot Lynott, Michael Daly)
 

22/7/2011. Quinn meets Catholic congregations(Representatives of the Sisters of Mercy meeting the Minister of Education in 2011)

Conor Ryan writing in today’s Irish Examiner shows correspondence between religious orders (including the Sisters of Mercy) and the State.

In a letter to the Minister for Education dated 29/5/2012 Cóirle McCarthy, leader of the congregation states:

In the course of several letters and meetings, I have explained our position that we are not responsible for a 50:50 cost sharing. The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy has not made any agreement with the Government to pay half of the State’s expenditure in respect of the Redress Scheme and CICA (Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse). This continues to be our position.

Our voluntary contribution in response to the Ryan Report, as contained in our Contribution Document of December 2009, is not a matter for negotiation. We will not be participating in an exercise of valuation or reckoning with the State in relation to those parts of the Contribution which the State has decided to accept, or otherwise.

We are not willing to enter negotiations with Government towards its fulfilment of the commitment which it made in its Programme for Government for the tranfer of school infrastructure, currently owned by 18 religious orders cited in the Ryan Report, at no extra cost, to the State.

Conor Ryan also reveals that 66 schools worth €412m were transferred to the Ceist Trust. CEIST (Catholic Education, an Irish Schools Trust) includes MEP and former GAA president Séan Kelly as a member and Ronan Mullen is listed as being on its board of directors.

Its website states:

CEIST engages with all people of good will to promote a preferential option for those made poor, to take action for justice, and to exercise care of the earth in a spirit of respect and welcome for diversity.

Order told State to scrap vow on abuse redress (Conor Ryan, Irish Examiner)

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)