Darragh Byrne writes:
A video I made about Ireland at Christmas in 2013- the shopping, the drinking, the jumpers, the lights, the homeless and the next morning with poem by Patrick Kavanagh ‘A Christmas Childhood’. It is read by Eoghan O’Drisceoil who himself spent a time homeless but has recently published two collections of poetry. This film is about a country re discovering simple childhood pleasures at this time of year. But mostly it is about Christmas Jumpers…
Over 400 jobs lost at Lufthansa Technik. More to follow…..
— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) December 20, 2013
The Lufthansa Automotive Technik plant in Ratchoole, Co Dublin.
(Sasko lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Dennis’s basketball gang,
Are all on the way to Pyongyang,
To take on some short,
Left wing people in sport,
The odds are they’ll win with a bang.
John Moynes
Pic: NPR
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They say:
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Meanwhile…
Photographer Donal Moloney caught up with Martin in Westland Row, Dublin for a coffee and a chat.
Previously: A Word from The Street
Mark Montgomerie writes:
Toupee on the Samuel Beckett bridge [Dublin] this morning…
Anyone?
A Reuters correspondent reports in the Ottawa Citizen about Newry’s cross-border Christmas shopping boom top, while RTE’s Joe O’Brien visits Jonesboro, Co. Armagh, (above), from December 1986.
Good times.
Via Conflict NI
Until it has a tree.
Brian Walsh writes:
Made with a Post-It and mince pie tray thingy…
Cristin writes:
We are knitting Christmas decorations in work and here is a Ginger Bread Man that my colleague Síle knitted.
It’s now re-enacting Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball on our office tree :)
Lonely Xmas office.home scenes to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
A new trailer for Jack And Ralph Plan A Murder (previously Trailer Parked on Broadsheet) Jeff Doyle writes:
Jack and Ralph Plan a Murder is a gross-out comedy, written, directed, produced by Jeff Doyle. Jack (Jeff Doyle) is being bullied in work , so, with a little help from his imaginary friend, Ralph (Johnny Elliott) they begin to plot the murder of his bully, Pat (Chris Newman) all the while trying to woo the office heart-throb Laura (Aisling Bodkin).
The film stars a host of Irish talent, Peter Coonan (Love/Hate), John Connors (King of the Travellers), Stephen Clinch( Love/Hate), Brian Fortune (Game of Thrones) and Steve Wilson(Vikings).
The film is now completed and is in search of distribution both nationally and internationally. Keep an eye out for Jack & Ralph in 2014.
Darragh O Tuama writes:
Dublin clampers “promoting sensible parking” on Montague Lane [Dublin 2] this morning….
Gunther (Barry Murphy) tells it how it is on last night’s Irish Pictorial Weekly on RTE 1.
Watch in full here.