Ah here.
David Donoghue writes~:
Shorter Darts during rush hour!?.. Barely room to take a pic…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Should you care for bass driven new ‘new’ wave and Munster musings about a disco. Probably Sir Henry’s.
Saint Yorda – Disco.
David writes:
This is the first single from my brother’s band Saint Yorda from Cork…have a listen you’ll be glad you did!
When do we not want it?
Now.
Members of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA), – from left: Sinn Fein TD Sean Crowe, Seamus Rattigan and David Morrison) – released a Red C commissioned poll result today on Irish attitudes to intervention in Syria.
They say that approximately 8 in 10 Irish People do not support a war in Syria without a UN mandate – roughly the same number who are now in favour of Irish neutrality.
PANA seeks to advocate an “Independent Irish Foreign Policy, defend Irish Neutrality and to promote a reformed United Nations as the Institution through which Ireland should pursue its security concerns”.
Artist Pedro Reyes has a thing about turning weapons into musical instruments. His new project, Disarm, is an eight-piece mechanised orchestra constructed (using weapons confiscated from Mexican drug cartels) with the help of several musicians and media studio CoCOLab.
All the mechanised instruments are connected to computers and pre-programmable.
The exhibition debuted earlier this year at the Lisson Gallery in London and moves to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh next month, with a talk by the artist on October 1st.
Former Garda John Wilson, top, and Eileen O’Brien, Lucia O’Farrell and Catherine Costelloe, above, held a protest over the dismissal of journalist Gemma O’Doherty outside the offices of Independent News and Media on Talbot Street, Dublin earlier today.
John Wilson is one of the Garda whistleblowers who exposed the quashing of penalty points.
He originally made a complaint about the quashing of points through the Garda Confidential Recipient in March 2012, which was sent on to the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan.
He says after several months passed, and after he received no response from the Commissioner, he contacted United Left Alliance TD Clare Daly. Ms Daly, along with several other TDs, went on to name people who had penalty points quashed in the Dáil, last December.
Lucia O’Farrell, from Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, lost her 23-year-old son Shane in a hit-and-run on August 2, 2011. The man who struck Shane, Zigimantas Gridzuiska, 39, had 42 previous convictions in three different jurisdictions, was found not guilty of dangerous driving causing death. Judge Pat McCartan had directed a jury to find him not guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Judge McCartan ordered him to leave the country.
Catherine Costelloe, from Limerick, used to work with the London Metropolitan Police and when she returned to Limerick she became involved in helping families of missing people. Today she spends much of her time trying to find out the truth behind the cases and to find their bodies with Search For The Missing.
Previously: Dear Mr Rae
Related: The Penalty Points Whistleblower
Please help us find out what happened to our missing sons (Gemma O’Doherty, Irish Independent)
Hit-and-run driver avoids jail term over death of cyclist (Nicola Anderson, Irish Independent)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
No locking materiel is safe.
David Sexton writes:
My bike hacked off the railings through my kryptonite lock on Camden Row [Dublin] in broad daylight. It’s a Felt QX75 (above). I am amazed that someone could saw through my lock like a knife through butter on a city street in broad daylight. This would have required an electric saw/angle grinder at the very least!
Anyone?
Kitty
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Or ice slipping guy? Or Dancing Garda? Or indeed Awesome Saturday Night Audience Guy.
Our nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you.
Coming soon: The Irish Internet Legends Tour.
Joe and Keith of Phantom 1052 explain:
We’re gathering together the following people:
· The taxi driver who danced along to Get Lucky in a Dublin street
· The ‘ah here leave it out’ lady
· The man who famously slipped on ice during an RTE news report
· The man who wiped his brow with a 50 euro note, also during a news report, at the Galway Races
· The Garda who danced on stage at the Indiependence music festival
· The ‘audience legend guy’ from the Saturday Night Show
· The Cork pothole swimmer
We’d like to people to help us track them down, especially the ‘man who slipped on ice’ as he seems quite reluctant to be found, and bring them to a live stage show setting.
We’re going to interview them about their experiences, get an insight into what motivates them, and of course have them recreate their famous acts We’d like people to get in touch with us to suggest any figures that deserve to be added to the list. We’ve already successfully contacted some of these but it’s time to cast the net out and seek assistance from the public! People can email joeandkeith@phantom.ie or follow us on twitter @joeandkeith
Shaun Tracey tweetz:
“Dublin and Mayo cakes on sale in the Dáil canteen. Dublin ones seem to be more popular.”
zefrank returns to the world of zoology with true facts about the fraawwg.
Imagine sneezing, but through your entire body.
That is how a frog do.