Robert O’Dwyer asks:
A new age of public transport? Quantum Leap Card today in The Irish Times.
Anyone?
What you may need to know:
1. It’s directed by Michel Gondry.
2. Gondry went Hollywood with The Green Hornet (2011). It didn’t work out so well. Now he’s gone back to his native France, and is getting his quirky on again. Big time.
3. It stars Audrey Tatou, doing her Ameile thing, and Roman Duris, from The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), Heartbreaker (2010) and The Big Picture (2012).
4. That Lumineers track is everywhere these days.
5. The trailer is best described as Gondry-esque. This, we stress is a good thing.
Release Date: Summer

Bad news for socialist Clare,
Coming home from a family affair,
Now she’s in hot water,
With whiskey. They caught her,
Out driving while the worse for wear.
John Moynes
Earlier: The Daly What
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
“The evidence tells us that our frozen burger supplier, Silvercrest, used meat in our products that did not come from the list of approved suppliers we gave them.
Nor was the meat from the UK or Ireland, despite our instruction that only beef from the UK and Ireland should be used in our frozen beef burgers.
Consequently we have decided not to take products from that supplier in future.
We took that decision with regret but the breach of trust is simply too great.”
Tim Smith, Tesco Group Technical Director.
Over to you, Mr Goodman.
Tesco: Burger Supplier Used Meat Not From Approved suppliers (ITV)
Luke Kelly.
Monto-bound, golden voiced, Ginger-Marley.
Died on this day 1984 aged 44.
Any excuse to play this.
Meanwhile, before the ballads….
Luke was part of Ronnie Drew’s unfulfilled dream to bring ballet to the masses.
Good times.
Poster via It’sTheDubliners
Thanks Sibling
The 123 year-old, 6200 tonne, 80 metre long MFO building in Zurich was shifted down the road on a series of carriages to make way for a new railway line last summer.
A glacial 60m journey captured in timelapse by Patrick Gautschy.
A British Army recruitment poster featuring a fattened Ireland.
Good times.
Via Center for Modern Literature, Materialism and Aesthetics



Zombified teddy bears by UK illustrator Phillip Blackman are ‘repurposed soft toys transformed into fluffy, bloody horrors to keep you awake at night.’
Available from around £30 depending on the size of the bear and the level of gore applied.