Looks like the Obamas may be dining in Matt The Thresher, off Baggot Street this evening.
Via Gavin Sheridan and Niamh Maher
Yearly Archives: 2013
PA's Alex Lodge fleshing out some issues with protester at #g8 demos. #blogpag8 pic.twitter.com/YFp2WiGGCh
— Brian Hutton (@magicbathtub) June 17, 2013
Oh.
Previously: Tea Erne?
Top pic via Paul Reilly
Michelle Obama speaks in the Gaiety with Moya Doherty, Fionnuala Kenny and Sabina Higgins standing behind her, top.
She said thanks to Mrs Kennedy.
Easy mistake.
Pics: Riverdance and RTÉ
Meanwhile, on top of the Gaiety:
Yikes.
Via Niamh Burke
A rather pleasing animated alphabet (a year in the making) directed by Laura Sicouri & Kadavre Exquis.
Mad. So mad, it’s also available as a 14-track LP.
(Hat tip: Shane L)
HOW Much?
at
Barry Keating tweetz:
On sale in Sneem in Kerry. Includes the special edition dubstep remix for only €18.99
A fund set up in honour of the late Mary Raftery – whose 1999 States of Fear series for RTÉ and August 2003 report on the 1993 exhumation of 155 women’s remains at the High Park Magdalene Laundry in Drumcondra paved the way for uncovering the suffering at the Magdalene Laundries – may help you.
From the Mary Raftery Fund:
“The deadline for journalists to submit a proposal to the current funding round of the Mary Raftery Journalism Fund is this Friday, 21st June, at 5pm. Applications under the current round must focus on the topic of children’s issues.”
“The Mary Raftery Journalism Fund was created by the family and friends of investigative journalist Mary Raftery, who died in January 2012, and is currently supported by The One Foundation.”
“The aim of the fund is to promote more in-depth coverage of issues that were close to Mary’s heart and on which she focused in her ground-breaking investigative work, namely: mental health, migrant issues and children’s rights. The fund offers an opportunity for journalists to carry out detailed investigations into these issues and to expose any injustices that might exist.”
“The children’s issues funding round is the third of three rounds supported by The One Foundation during 2012 / 2013. The first two rounds of funding were under the theme of mental health and migrant issues respectively. Awards totalling €89,000 were made to 18 successful applicants from all strands of media. The average funding awarded was €4,300. It is expected that successful projects will be broadcast or published throughout 2013 and will be promoted on www.maryrafteryfund.ie and on social media platforms.”
Pic: DHR Communications
Tea Erne?
at
Taoiseach Enda Kenny walks with G8 heads of state, including David Cameron and Barack Obama, above, in Lough Erne, and later discussing US-EU trade matters, above, in Enniskillen.
Via Merrion Street
The Obama gals have arrived, apparently.
Via Jill Molloy and EventServ
UPDATE:
They’re in!
Via Darragh Doyle and RTÉ
Dublin SPCA sez:
The DSPCA are delighted with the court results from today of an owner of a cat (above) who died due to severe neglect and starvation. Swords District Court found Rudolf Ciskos guilty of mistreating his cat and fined him €200 and court costs of €500 all payable to the DSPCA.
He was also banned from the ownership of any animal for a period of 2 years.
This is a great step forward in court proceedings in a case relating to a cat. The DSPCA is rarely successful in prosecutions around cases dealing with cats as proof of ownership is difficult to prove.
Unfortunately in this case the cat had to be euthanasied by a DSPCA Vet on humane grounds due to the severity of neglect.
Media FIGHT!
Possibly.
Ciaran Le Cool writes:
Following the success of the inaugural Spiel, in which we opened up The Bottom Half of the Internet for close inspection and grasped an understanding of bitcoins, Le Cool and Pilcrow.ie return with Spiel *002 tomorrow, Tuesday, June 18th in South Studios, Dublin. (Doors 7.30pm)
This time we are talking to the legends of The Phoenix, literally. After clocking up 30 years of publishing experience, we’ve invited Paddy Prendeville and Paul Farrell of The Phoenix Magazine. Interviewing them is RTE broadcaster Colm O’Mongáin and joining them on stage will be the Rabble.ie possé. Having secured their fund:it campaign recently, they celebrated by delivering some top notch dispatches from Istanbul in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, there will be sausages.
