A Slacktory supercut of excruciating mealtime scenes from various movies by video editor Alex Moschina.
Yearly Archives: 2013
You’ve left it too late to join the ‘We’re Not Leaving’ group.
However…
The people of ‘We’re Coming Back’ write:
“We’re Coming Back is a project aiming to mobilise all of those affected by emigration in a country that currently holds the highest European average in exodus.
Our mission is to organise the Irish emigrant generations – still Irish citizens – online. We want political representation in a country that should still account for and count us.
The ‘safety valve’ of emigration relieves pressure on the Irish Government to reform and re-think austerity. But it only works if those who leave are afterwards deprived of their opinion.”
Previously: Growing Pains
Thanks Conor O’Neill
Via EveningEcho.ie and Independent_ie
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Innovative occular slappery by Israeli makeup artist Tai ‘Scarlet Moon’ Peleg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAoZQXz8IHY
You may recall how a group of young asylum seekers wanted to make an information booklet and DVD explaining the Irish asylum process in a child-friendly way to other asylee children.
They were seeking help to raise €3,100 to complete the project via Fundit.
Well they did it.
And they’re currently launching the booklet and DVD at the European Parliament Office on Molesworth Street, Dublin.
Fair play.
Previously: Asylum Soul
Seeking Asylum From Our Asylum Process
The Institutionalisation of 1,818 Children In Ireland
Pics: Liam Thornton
Ah here.
The bathroom of a troubled €4m FÁS scheme to convert a famine workhouse in Tipperary to a tourist hostel.
Darren writes:
Poo stained toilet on a [RTE Six-One] segment [last night] about FAS p*ssing the country’s money away.
Unfinished FÁS project cost taxpayers €4m (RTE)
Happy #ff from peanut, Kate n Nicola @kingofpaws @DSPCApetspa @WetNoseStudio @lostfoundpets @brightwater98 pic.twitter.com/IQ9ARHgxTD
— DSPCA (@DublinSPCA) December 6, 2013
Nicola, the Canal donkey on December 3 (top) and today (above).
But for quick-thinking Derek Haughton, the DSPCA and the Fire Brigade who KNOWS what might hNOM OMNOMNOM
Previously: Help On Its Way
Folks at Vintage Values write:
“It’s hard to believe they are real designs, from the 1920’s to 1960’s. All done by Irish artists and brought back to life after 50 years. There are these prints, postcards and a book. The prints cost €25, the postcard packs a mere €5.99 and the book is €19.99.”
Buy here
Philly writes:
“A gang of us produce the 24 HOUR PLAYS DUBLIN, a manic and brilliant show where 25 actors, 6 playwrights, 6 directors and 20 technicians pool their skills to create 6 new plays in 24 hours. It happens at the Abbey theatre – this time on March 2, 2014, and all cash raised goes to the very deserving Dublin Youth Theatre. We’re in our third year, and tickets tend to fly out the door. We’ve released the best seats in the house at regular prices as an early bird special. Tickets would make a great stocking filler with a charitable edge.”
Buy here
Andra Gorski writes:
“Colourful, elastic hair ties that create perfect ponies and beautiful buns. Won’t kink or knot your hair. A lovely stocking filler at €8 for a set of 5. Handmade in my studio in Dublin and sold online. Four different colour sets available. Free shipping during the month of December with code DecemberLove.”
Buy here
Irish-made ‘Stocking Fillers’ to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. Cost: Cuddles (plus VAT).
John Spillane – The Ferry Arms
An epic tribute to The Ferry Arms, Passage West, Cork, John Spillane’s favourite hometown boozer and the city’s most Republican “number one Celtic supporters’ pub”.
Featuring authentic ‘regulars’.
Sorcha writes:
Opera, the haka and a load o mocks in a Cork pub….
Three players boycotted Ireland’s 1981 tour to South Africa, Hugo MacNeill (top), the late Moss Keane (centre) and Tony Ward.
The committee (South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee) said its chairman, Ambassador B. Alporode Clark of Nigeria, had sent letters yesterday to three Irish and two New Zealand rugby players commending them for their decision not to play for their national teams against South Africa.
The Irish team to play Scotland at Murrayfield a week tomorrow, is scheduled to tour South Africa in May and the South African team will play New Zealand if they tour there later this year. Their players, Hugo MacNeill, Tony Ward, and Moss Keane have told the Irish selectors they cannot travel to South Africa for moral reasons.
Glasgow Herald, March 13, 1981.