Yearly Archives: 2013

The Beast Of Charmouth Beach

Admin at 5:25 pm July 17, 2013

1003308_563749570343408_176860499_n A promo by London PR company Tayler Herring for the Blinkbox premiere of Game Of Thrones season 3 – a 40 foot giant dragon’s head which appeared on the Dorset coast earlier this week (harking back to a similar discovery made at King’s Landing by Arya Stark).

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OK, We GET It

Admin at 5:19 pm July 17, 2013

French culture minister Aurélie Filipetti and Bono in Paris yesterday

Before she hung the green silk ribbon with the gold medal around Bono’s neck last night the French culture minister Aurélie Filipetti recounted his life: Protestant mother, Catholic father. Abhorrence of bloodshed during the Troubles. Scourge of apartheid, south American juntas and the martyrdom of Sarajevo. Fight against Aids, third world debt and poverty…

….Filippetti lifted the medal from a crimson cushion and held it poised. “In the name of an entire nation, won over by your immense talent… Cher Bono, … we make you a commandeur de l’ordre des arts et des lettres.”

Commander Bono grazed the hand of the tall, slender, suntanned minister with a baise-main à la francaise. The camera flashes crackled, their light bouncing off gilded mirrors and crystal chandeliers.

Lara Marlowe , Irish Times

Firstly, it can’t be denied that U2 are one of the superpowers of rock. Few bands can match their genius for stadium rock and the pick of their albums – ‘The Joshua Tree’ and ‘Achtung Baby’, to name but two – are among the finest in the genre.

Secondly, Bono has directed his considerable energies for many years now to helping those in the Third World who are incapable of helping themselves. He has bartered with the great and good and had the ear of many a powerful world leader.

Editorial, Irish Independent

Jaykers.

Francophile Bono receives honour from a grateful nation (Lara Marlowe, Irish Times)

Taking pride in the name of our greatest rock star – Bono (Editorial, Independent.ie)

Photo: Paris Match

Meanwhile, In Kilkeeee

Admin at 4:53 pm July 17, 2013

Co Clare this afternoon.

Emmett Keane writes:

My 11 year old daughter jumping off the pier in Kilkee. Her mother calls this parenting? Me heart…

Eleven.

Meat The Girls

Admin at 4:42 pm July 17, 2013

In Galway.

Robin Oree writes:

“‘Meat’ is set in an upmarket brothel run by Demo, a gifted hawker and collector of beauty. The exquisite specimens in his menagerie are Anezka, glamorous courtesan with a flair for the esoteric, Shóna, hard-bitten veteran of the street trade, and Miriam, whose speciality is everything. Enter Free, a young mother desperate to make money for the sake of her son and a radical new element in Demo’s masterfully composed concoction.”

“Meat” opens TONIGHT and runs until Saturday, July 20th, in the new Cube Theatre, as part of the Galway Fringe Festival. Tickets can be bought at the door.

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By Any OTHER Name

Admin at 4:41 pm July 17, 2013

Daniel McCrum writes:

“Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? A type of rose in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast.”

Quad Hovers, Niagara Falls

Admin at 4:40 pm July 17, 2013

As his submission to the DJI Phantom Video Contest, YouTuber questpact sent his quadrotor on a flyover of the waterfall with the highest flow rate in the world (168,000m³ per minute in high flow, if you don’t mind).

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Deafiance

Admin at 4:38 pm July 17, 2013

The Irish team for the Deaf Olympics,

Cabra, Dublin, this afternoon.

Sabrina Ryan writes:

I was out at the Deaf Village in Cabra today for the launch of the Deaflympics teams heading to Sofia [Bulgaria next week. I was startled to see a rather huge gap where the press usually are, aside from myself and a bloke. Such a shame to see these fine athletes not getting the attention they deserve…so much COYBIG!