Yearly Archives: 2013

LARAELaraeDó [The Outlaw].

An Irish-language musical cowboy comedy set in the Irish west.

At An Taibhdearc, Middle Street, Galway on 14th December 2013.

Sinéad Ní Uilleacháin writes:

Based in Texas in the 1800s, LaraeDó presents to us a young man from the East who has decided to head to the Wild West in search of adventure. That’s exactly what he gets!He finds himself in Fitzies saloon in the town of LaraeDó where he meets LaraeDó’s greedy rancher, preacher, wild Indians and saloon girls. Some of them are looking for a fight. Some are looking for romance. All are looking for drinkin’, singin’, and general mayhem …

 

They’d have found that down at the bottom of Quay street any night, in fairness..

An Taibhdearc

tree tree2Mick writes:

Following the Haddington road agreement, this year in Dublin City Council we had to make do with an austerity Christmas tree. A phenomenal attempt even though I do say so myself.

 

Lonely office/home scenes Xmas to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

chocolate bacon

You heard that right.

Award-winning foodies Forkful returns with a new video by Aoife McElwain, Mark Duggan, and Killian Broderick. For ingredients and whatnot see link (below)

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Chocolate Bacon (Forkful)

Thanks Ciaran Le Cool

donovanThe New York Times on Ireland’s recovery:

But in the suburb of Shankill [Co Dublin] where John Donovan (above) , 55, lives, the economic hubbub is absent. Many of his neighbors are barely scraping by. He moved into his mother’s small cottage after his hardware supply business buckled during the crisis.

With his scant savings eroded, he shoots pigeons for food and grills them outdoors to reduce his gas and grocery bills. “I do that just to live,” he said.

 

Hardships Linger for a Mending Ireland (Liz Alderman, New York Times)

(Paulo Nunes dos Santos/NYT)

Thanks Brian

17/12/2011. Christmas Scenes Shoppers

According to the ESRI, from their latest report, Social Transfers and Poverty Alleviation in Ireland, 2004-2011; Ireland claims the top spot in Europe for AROP (At Risk of Poverty Rate).

The at-risk-of-poverty rate before social transfers is the share of persons with an equivalised disposable income, before social transfers, below the risk-of-poverty threshold, which is set at 60% of the national median equivalised disposable income (after social transfers).

 

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The Best Little Country In…Which to Be At Risk of Poverty (Brian Lucey)

Previously: Best For Business

Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

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Bordered by Aughrim Street, Prussia Street and the North Circular Road, the Dublin cattle market was opened by the Rt. Hon. J.P. Vereher, Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1863. It was one of the biggest in Britain or Ireland. It operated every Thursday and before the break of dawn, cattle would arrive in by road from all parts of Ireland, primarily coming from Celbridge, Chapelizod, Dunshaughlin and Ashbourne. Some grazed overnight in fields along the Cabra Road. Many farmers indulged in the spit and shake excitement of selling the poor auld beasties amid the confines of the City Arms Hotel in Prussia Street and Hanlon’s Pub.

The poo-trails radiating out from the place were said to be legendary.

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(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)

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Meat meant for dog food is believed to have ended up in the human food chain in an “industrial-scale” fraud carried out in Northern Ireland, a government report has found.

The Elliott Review into food supply said the fraud came to light in 2005. The report said the potential profit on about 1,000 tonnes of meat found was in the region of £3m. The report did not state where in Northern Ireland the so-called “Category 3 meat” was found, but it was located after officials traced a suspicious container that had arrived in Northern Ireland from Asia.

The report said it became evident “that the primary business of the cold store was repacking and re-labelling as fit for human consumption Cat 3 ABP meat”. Category 3 ABP meat is defined by government as meat that has been passed fit for human consumption but which is not intended to be eaten. It may include hides, hair, feathers and bones.

Dog food meat ‘ended up in human food chain’ says report (Conor Macauley, BBC News NI)