Monthly Archives: January 2013
Vincent IRL
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Go On Now Go
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Weren’t you the one who tried to hurt us with goodbye.
You think we’d crumble?
Etc.
Rosie the Seal who will be let back into the wild on Sunday..
Rosie has been staying at Tayto Park, Ashbourne, Co Meath, following her discovery on a beach in Mayo before Christmas.
A bar of Tayto Chocolate and she was back to full health.
Rosie will be released on Sunday at 12.30 at Howth East Pier, Howth, Co Dublin, by Brendan Price of the Irish Seal Sanctuary. Another seal, Masie, will remain at Tayto Park for another month.
On the subject of Tayto, the controversial chocolate competition winner, who takes home 24 19 bars of Tayto Chocolate – will be announced at 2pm.
Always think twice when you tweet,
Something funny if it’s indiscreet,
Because if you enrage,
An old right wing sage,
He’ll make you buy the Sisters a treat.
John Moynes
Earlier: Declan’s Victory
A brief and giggly interview on Radio Kerry this morning with Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (above), a 26-year-old student from Cromane, Co Kerry, who has been nominated for an Oscar in the short animated category.
Fodhla becomes – apparently – the first person from the ‘Kingdom’ to be nominated for an Acadamy Award.
Took their time.
Listen here.
A still from Fodhla’s short Head Over Heels, which tells “the story of a married couple; one partner lives on the ceiling of their house while the other lives on the floor.”
Oscars 2013: British Students Celebrate ‘Head Over Heels’ Nomination (Variety)
(Pic: Angus Young)
Do they not.
Yikes.
Also: anyone else getting a bang of Enda in a brown wig here?
Just us so.
You may recall Bryan’s anxious wait for news from the SUSI, the student application grant clearing house.
Well, he has some news.
And it’s a tale as old as time.
Bryan writes:
I have had an interesting few days with SUSI. Having heard nothing from them since December, I phoned them on Monday and it turns out they sent me an “award letter” in December, but they seeing as they sent it to my old address, they had to post me another one, this time to my new address.
Then I found out that I had been awarded the wrong amount: Only the student contribution was to be covered, €2,000, and I was going to have to pay the tuition fees of nearly €6,000 per year myself.
I thought enough was enough. I contacted a TD on Wednesday who had offered his help to me regarding SUSI months ago.
He contacted SUSI and exactly 24 hours later, yesterday (Thursday), my application had been reassessed, and I was awarded 100% of my tuition fees, as should have been the case from the beginning.
It takes them over 6 months to assess an application and award the wrong amount, but less than 24 hours to assess an application and award the correct amount when a TD is involved.
It says quite a lot about Irish bureaucracy, doesn’t it?
Previously: Waiting For SUSI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4_bdS3_gr0
What you may need to know:
1. Danny Boyle won the Best Director Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), having given us two of the most influential motion pictures of the modern age, Trainspotting (1996) and 28 Days Later (2002). 127 Hours (2010) wasn’t half bad either.
2. Boyle is getting back to the day job after the whole Olympics thing. Word has it he turned down a knighthood the other week.
3. Trance was shot a year ago – Boyle took time out to do the Olympics, then came back and finished it.
4. We’re getting a distinct Trainspotting vibe, then it all goes a bit Shallow Grave (1994). Boyle’s old mucker Rick Smith (from Underworld) did the music.
5. He’s also dating his leading lady, Rosario Dawson (top). We love her.
6. Vincent Cassel! Always a pleasure.
7. James McAvoy is using his Hollywood clout to do smaller British movies, such as this, forthcoming Welcome To The Punch (2013) and an adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Filth (2013).
8. Prognosis: Optimistic.
Release Date: March 2013
They don’t get cultures of openness, transparency and sharing, and the interrelationship of these individual-collective values that frame many peoples understanding of democracy power and agency. And they sure as fuck don’t get the lulz.
Libel laws have always been about controlling the medium itself rather than controlling what people can or can’t say, but the more mainstream media spin this as some muzzling on Twitter and the internet, the more they look like me talking about dubstep at a party. Daft.
In public… Ganley himself is being lauded by some as the saviour of decent polite discourse, but to other he looks like Cartman screaming “respect my authority”.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)