Monthly Archives: January 2013

“You want lies with that?”

Enda Kenny and Larry Goodman at the SIAL Foodfair in Paris last October.

They’re calling him Dirty Larry.

Go ahead, make his neigh.

Bentley-driving Mr Goodman, an intensely private man, started out as a 15-year-old school drop-out selling sheep guts to butchers in Dundalk, Ireland for use as sausage skin.

 

Good times.

Revealed: Dirty Larry, The Multi-Millionaire Behind Firm Sneaking Horsemeat Into Your Supermarket (Mail Online)

Pic via Conor Ryan (irish Examiner)

 

Oh, go on then.

Domenico writes:

The team for the Irish Pavilion Venice Biennale is currently seeking expressions of interest from individuals for the position of Volunteer Venue Attendants for the Irish Pavilion.
This opportunity is suitable for students and graduates with a background in Fine Art, Photography or History of Art and creative practitioners with knowledge of contemporary visual art. Proficiency in Italian or other languages is desirable.The attendant positions will be offered on a staggered basis across the entire exhibition period with two attendants per session on duty. We require a minimum commitment of 4-5 weeks. As this is an unpaid position based in Venice, the Irish Pavilion will provide return economy airfare to Venice, accommodation in a shared apartment with other Venue Attendants, and a modest per diem. Applications close Monday 28 January 2013. Interviews will take place week of 11 February, 2013.

 

Application here

 

Richard Mosse is the Irish artist selected to represent Ireland in 2013.  Anna O’Sullivan, the Director of the Butler Gallery Kilkenny, is the Commissioner/Curator of the Irish Pavilion. The 2013 Venice Biennale runs from 27 May to 24 November 2013.


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From Smithfield Market to the Dunsink dump in Finglas.

An Unexpected End.

By Italy-born, Dublin-based photographer Gianpaolo la Paglia.

Barbra Leonard writes:

With the many sad and and sorry tales of horses in the media at the moment the following photostory may be of interest to your readers.  It really is hard to believe that these beautiful animals are coming to such a horrible Unexpected End here in Ireland.  This project was made in 2010 and as of yet the story is not getting any better for the horses of Ireland

Test results are expected today from new samples taken at the Silvercrest Foods plant at the centre of the controversy over horse meat in beef burgers.

The samples, taken by Department of Agriculture staff at the Ballybay, Co Monaghan, plant on Tuesday, will show if its burgers still contain horse DNA.

They were ordered by Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney after it emerged that a Tesco Everyday Value beef burger made at the plant contained 29.1 per cent horse DNA, relative to meat content.

The finding emerged after the Food Safety Authority of Ireland analysed 27 frozen beef burger products. It found 10, or 37 per cent, tested positive for horse DNA. With the exception of the Tesco burger, the other samples showed horse DNA at very low levels, of 0.1 to 0.3 per cent.

Neigh, neigh and thrice neigh.

New tests to reveal if horse meat still present in burgers (Alison Healy, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)