Monthly Archives: February 2013

The Standards Commission Inquiry Officer confirms its intention to investigate complaints made against Tipperary TD Michael Lowry over his failure to declare his co-ownership (with Liam Carroll) of a 25-acre piece of land outside Wigan.

The Moriarty Tribunal discovered money given to a property agent to find the site was part of a “settlement reached” between Lowry and Denis O’Brien.

Previously: Michael Lowry’s “Worthless Land”

Via Elaine Byrne

Japanese Twitter user @Kya7y recently posted these pictures of a fiendishly complex and painstakingly hand-drawn labyrinth, sprung directly from the brain of her father (a university custodian).

30 years ago, he started with a blank sheet of A1 paper, seven years later, he’d completed the maze in his spare time, at which point, the sheet was rolled up and  forgotten, until his daughter discovered it.

The maze should, and probably will, be available as a print in the near future.

colossal/spoonandtamago

Irish writer Darragh McManus has brought out a new book, The Polka Dot Girl which offers a unique twist on the classic noir-style mystery – all the characters are female….”Sam Spade in lipstick and a dress”.

And that’s not all.

Darragh writes:

 

“Buy The Polka Dot Girl and you’ll be entered into a draw, run by me under the strictest conditions of fairness and probity. And the prize is: I’ll name a character after you in a future book. A published book, not just a file I have lying around my computer marked “Completely Unpublishable Avant-Garde Junk Prose-Poem.” Although that does sound good, now that I think about it. It may not be a major character, but it’ll be someone cool, nice, interesting. It won’t be a villain or a character who has something embarrassing happen to them or anything like that. It’ll be good.”

Buy the book here.

Darragh McManus, Author and Journalist 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts5jbc0ZLSQ

Bagpuss

By Waterford-based King Kong Company.

Luke Abbot Writes:

A new video from King Kong Company. They’re doing their first Irish tour stopping off at The Forum Waterford on Feb 9th; Cyprus Avenue in Cork on Mar 2nd and POGO at the Twisted Pepper on Mar 16th.

 

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