Cork-born former TCD student in Belfield, Dublin TONIGHT.
Nick Walsh writes:
“There is an open invitation tonight to see Jack Gleeson, above, of HBO’s Game of Thrones talk about his career tonight in UCD.”
More details here
Yearly Archives: 2013
Professor Gordon Lynch, of Kent University has collaborated with the Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Archival and Oral History Project to produce educational materials on the Magdalene Laundries, directed to 16-year-old and/or Transition Year students.
In a short film, Magdalene survivor Gabrielle O’Gorman (above) revisits the the Sean MacDermott Magdalene Laundry for the first time since her incarceration.
She was sent there by nuns when they disapproved of her relationship with a boy when she was 17.
She later escaped but was returned by the Gardaí, only to be sent to the Good Shepherd Laundry in Limerick, where she was told she would be called ‘Stella’.
This film was funded by the University of Kent, and completed with the help of the Women’s Studies Centre at University College Dublin who led an Irish Research Council project on the Magdalene Institutions.
Watch here
H/T: Women’s Museum of Ireland
Previously: All Apologies
And did you nick these seven lightning preventers?
RTÉ reports:
“Gardaí have issued a warning to the public after radioactive material was taken in a burglary in Swords, Co Dublin over the weekend.
“Seven lightning preventers, which were contained in a red metal box, were taken during the course of the burglary.”
“They have the appearance of aluminium or stainless steel but are of no scrap value.”
“Gardaí say these are highly dangerous and should not be touched or approached.”
“The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland has said “if handled they will cause radioactive contamination to the person’s hands and clothing with the possibly of internal radioactive contamination.”
Sweet Thesis
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That’s pretty cheap for de airport in fairness.
Justin Sinnott tweetz:
“A pint of Guinness in Dublin Airport is an absolute rip off!!!”
Dance Off
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You’ll recall Marina Shifrin’s dance video in which she quit her job at Taiwanese news animator Next Media Animation, claiming her boss placed little value on creativity and content.
Well.
Her colleagues have made a video in response.
And NMA’s commercial director Mark Simon, who hired Marina, sent the following email to Gawker:
“I am Mark Simon, I am the one who hired Marina Shifrin, who danced her way to fame in her resignation video which she sent to Gawker.”
Currently, I am one of the senior executives of the group and she reports up to the folks who work for me. Marina actually thinks enough of me to have given me a call the Thursday before she released this to say that she was resigning, which I appreciated. I asked her to tell her bosses, as I took our call to be in confidence. The first her boss saw was the video.
Look, I actually like Marina a great deal. Marina herself has said we are a great company to work for, and I do not think she intended to hurt anyone, but it has happened.
There are a few things I would like just make a point of and if there is an interest I will be happy to be asked any question. (We do not have a PR department and we are wide open to any and all questions).
There is an image now of a sweat shop, we are not. Marina made USD$42k per year. She had a 40 hr work week, 5 days a week. There is no expectation of OT on our behalf, you finish your shift and leave. In our office most folks leave when their shift is up as you work on news flow.
Also we ask journalists to work one month per year on the midnight shift as we just need to cover the shift. We pay a differential of 30% for these hours, which I know are hard hours to work.
Look, we do news animations. We are not investigative reporters. Two international outlets have asked us for comment, and her video is up on nearly 300 sites. We think we have something to say about this and we are hoping Gawker will have us.
I am not looking to slam her, nor am I engaged in anything but trying to help some other managers in their early 30’s, understand why the young lady they hung out with just cashiered them. I don’t think she meant for it to be seen as so harsh, but we are getting some nasty attacks on our managers, who she says she respects.
I just want any chance to answer any questions, answer anything on Skype or on phone.
I am not spitting nastiness at Marina, but in her 9 months with us we sent her to Hong Kong twice, to Thailand for a media conference, and she just came back a month ago from two weeks in LA and NYC where she was pitching animation stories. She logged 170 hours the last 3 months in creative time working up ideas to pitch. She is a hard worker, but I cannot foresee results or always give her the best story of the day.
We let her talk to all the press she wanted, we encouraged her stand-up, and frankly my folks in Taiwan are a bunch of granola’s… They are nice folks. We have 600 employees and I have not one outstanding case in labor tribunal. That is no small feat in Taiwan.
I though Gawker played this fair and so if anyone wants anything we are open.
Thanks
Mark”
Yikes.
Next Media Animation Responds to the Quit Heard ‘Round the World (Gawker)
Previously: Quitting In Style
But it would be nothing.
Nothing.
Without a woman or a girdle.
Words, phrases, and topics distinguishing female and male ‘banter’ on ‘social media’. Women on top men below.
Personality, Gender In The Age Of Social Media (PlosOne)
Thanks Niall C
…this is.
An extraordinary device created by John S. Holler in Germany around 1880 – ten years before the first ever Swiss Army knife.
100 accessories include blades, shears, scissors, an auger, a corkscrew, saws, a lancet, button hook, cigar cutter, pens and pencils, mirror, straight razor, piano tuning tool, a concealed compartment filled with miniature tools and a fully functioning .22 caliber five-shot pinfire revolver.
De Hedald
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Former ministers Alan Dukes (Fine Gael) and Liz McManus (Labour) launching the One House last-minute poster campaign for Friday’s Seanad referendum outside Leinster House this morning.
Both are walking on pretty thin ice in fairness supporters of the” civil society campaign” for a Yes vote organised by the One House group.
Hang on….
FIGHT!
Previously: “It’s Crude And It’s Wrong”
Pictures: Conor McCabe