A fast-paced comedy from Dice Productions, originally shown on Channel 4’s Random Acts strand, in which Rik Mayall argues the joys of being dead, aided by a montage of corpses and a dance-crazed Grim Reaper.
Directed and animated by Louis Hudson. Written and produced by Ian Ravenscroft.
A short documentary by Yves Marchon about Finnish Element team rider and landscape architect, Janne Saario, the zen of skate and the making of his ‘steel park’ at Lulea in Sweden.
A selection from James ‘Scorpion Dagger’ Kerr’s Renaissance-gif-a-day Tumblr wherein famous late Medieval art is mercilessly Terry Gilliam’ed for your delectation.
Not as easy as it looks.
Billy writes:
Nationally promoted phonebook opt out. Tried yesterday and today to opt out. Site not working. Says it all.
(Mairead McGuinness MEP, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and John Paul Phelan TD)
Fancy graphics on the Fine Gael website contradict the Carlow/Kilkenny TD.
Not laughing at you John Paul, laughing with you.
Abolishing Seanad would not save €20m, FG TD says (Mark Hennessy, Irish Times)
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
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A collection of Giovanni Trapattoni’s struggles to be understood at Ireland interviews compiled by Darren Cleary..
Thanks Conor Walsh
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
The running order of aircraft for this Sunday’s Flightfest.
You’ll get the best views between the East Link tollbridge and the Customs House.
Kicks Takes off at 12pm.
Previously: Meanwhile, Above Dublin
From left: Ruth Coppinger, Paul Murphy MEP and Mick Barry at the launch of the Socialist Party’s campaign to abolish the Seanad at Leinster House this morning.
“It is the purpose of the Seanad from its inception – a more limited franchise is designed to ensure a Seanad that is more conservative than the Dail. None of the proposals for a reformed Seanad change that reality.
Hypocrisy abounds on all sides on this issue. On the No side, Fianna Fail’s bleating about a reformed Seanad is just as hypocritical as the government’s talk about democratic change. The collection of right-wing politicians and journalists that makes up the so-called ‘civil society’ group, Democracy Matters, is just as guilty. If Fianna Fail was serious about reform of the Seanad, it could have driven it during its dominance of politics over the past decades.”
Scrap The Seanad (Paul Murphy, The Socialist Party)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
