Yearly Archives: 2013

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In case you missed it, the live broadcast event the Discovery Channel has been plugging for weeks took place on Sunday as ‘aerialist’ Nik Wallenda became the first person to wire-walk across the Grand Canyon.

He did it in a 40mph cross-wind on a two inch wide cable with a 43 foot balancing pole and no safety harness. It took him 22 minutes at a nice, steady, Jesus-thanking pace and he ran the last bit.

Next, he wants to cross from the Empire State to the Chrysler building in New York City.

(PIx: Reuters/AP)

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d3s0616John Duignan, bassist with Waterford blues-rockers Kodakid writes:

Very sorry to be bothering you but we’re in a proper pickle here. We opened the Sea Sessions festival at the weekend on the main stage at 6.30pm. We took loads of footage on a Sony camera, which, unfortunately, went missing (cause of missing camera is potentiallyone too many but it was a music festival. It was expected :)) We really need to get the camera back as the video to our next single is going to be made up of loads of on the road footage and the camerahas loads of this, including studio work. We know full well the reach that Broadsheet has so if you could assist we’d really appreciate it. As a reward we are offering the person who finds it passes to all of our gigs in 2013 along with some pretty exclusive merchandise, which we will personalise as much as possible. Thanks in advance for helping us out here. You could be a life-saver!

Contact the band via their website or FB page.

(Pic: Shane O’Neill)

clare Independent TD Clare Daly’s attack on Ireland’s ‘slobbering’ relationship with the United States approaches a million views on You Tube this evening.

Clare play though, in fairness.

Previously: Raining On Their Parade

 

AngelAngel, above, a beautiful Lurcher, was found in Cork in a horrendous condition last week.

But she’s getting better.

Cork Dog Action Welfare Group writes:

Angel has had her wounds stitched up today and has come through the surgery well, she is still very shook. We still don’t know if we will be able to save her back leg or not. I saw her in the vets today and she is a sweet, gentle girl. We need to get her strong before we can contemplate further surgery.

We are looking for two things, firstly a foster home where she can recover from her ordeal and secondly donations toward her vet bills. If you can help with a foster please contact us on 0863457488 or info@dogactionwelfaregroup.ie or if you would like to donate please do so through our website (below)

 

Cork Dog Action Welfare Group

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The play Mr Joyce Is Leaving Paris, by Tom Gallacher, is being performed every evening in the Back Loft Theatre (7-11 Augustine Street, off Thomas Street) except Sundays, until August 24.

What’s it about?

The blurb:

“Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris is a play about James Joyce when he was living in Trieste in Italy with Nora Barnacle and their children.  He was teaching in The Berlitz College and was also the opera critic for the local newspaper.  His brother Stanislaus comes from Dublin to support them as they were living in dire poverty while Joyce was drinking and not writing.

“The second part of the evening is set in Paris in 1939 as the Germans are advancing on Paris and Joyce is about to travel to Zurich in Switzerland.  He is now an ageing, nearly blind man and he is confronted by ghosts/friends from his past that he has used in his famous novels –Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and The Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man.”