A Stratton!
Laura writes:
I realise you don’t normally do this but I just found a beautiful old Stratton fold-up bicycle dumped beside the canal in Portobello [Dublin]. I presume it was nicked and then dumped, and it’s not in great condition.
Monthly Archives: March 2013
A Capra-sized laugh?
Joe writes:
I’m a projectionist down at the Lighthouse cinema [Smithfield, Dublin]. Since it’s such a beautiful day there’s some guaranteed cheer on down here, ‘It Happened One Night’ is on at 8.30, kicking off our Screwball Comedy Season.
Screwball movies were the comedy answer to The Great Depression and are the drunken bickering parents of all your favourite sitcoms (30 Rock, Arrested Development, etc.).
I’ll be stuck here anyway, so it’d be nice to see the tops of as many heads as possible laughing through my tiny window. Keep on truckin, (or your equivalent metaphor).
Lighthouse Cinema – Screwball Comedy Season
More than 800 schoolboys from Blackrock College and Willow Park, Co Dublin, forming the world’s ‘largest human shamrock’, as part of the schools’ 25th anniversary celebrations of their annual ‘St Patrick’s Day Badges’ campaign in aid of GOAL and Aidlink.
They could have done an Ireland while they were at it.
*throws buke in bin*
800 Dublin Schoolboys Set World Record For Largest Human Shamrock (Independent.ie)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)
Indeed and there will.
If last year’s event (see 20 seconds in) is anything to go by.
You’ll be running to the ‘bog’, then.
As in bathroom.
Right so.
Not too late to register.
The Wexford Beach Bog Run (Facebook)
(Thanks Marcella O’Shaughnessy)
Think your family tree is complex?
Carmen and Dan from Off The Great Wall break down the intricate and highly specific nomenclature of Chinese relatives.
And this is the simple version.
Having previously helped you double-check your humanity, zefrank returns to the world of zoology with some true facts about the majestic and dirty megabat.
And Erik the microbat.
And Lilly.
Covers to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Gulp.
Denis O’Brien taking a personal interest in the fate of Newstalk’s much-admired Off The Ball show, dealing with anchor Eoin McDevitt directly, according to the latest issue of Phoenix magazine, on sale now.
All that money.
Previously: They Help Make Radio Great
The le Cool Dublin walking experience.
Incorporating elements of the city which have become staples of Le cool content such as pop-ups, new collectives and initiatives, we want to share these ‘of the moment’ living culture experiences. This continually evolving two-hour tour will reflect the now and engage with people behind initiatives which are reshaping Dublin city in vibrant and meaningful ways.
Does that stroke your beard?
We have two, yes TWO places on Michael le Cool’s Le Cool Dublin Experience’ (above, pictured outside The Hacienda, on Little Green Street) THIS Saturday starting in Dublin at 11am.
Perfect for the damn hipster friend just in from Berlin or even to impress a new vintage-cloth draped chum.
To enter, just complete this sentence
I would like to nominate………..as the most damn hipster place in Dublin owing to its……
Lines close at 6pm
Oh.
Dear.
Fine Gael Senator Fidelma Healy Eames at the oireachtas hearing on social media.
Fidelma Healy Eames: “There is absolutely responsibility on parents and educators, but they cannot keep up with it. Take, for example, the form called ‘fraping’, where you’re raped on Facebook. Where a youngster has their status open and another person puts a message on there, as if they wrote it. And that message could be, for example, sexual. It goes out into the world as if they said it. This type of thing has to stop. There has to be some controls put in place here.
What about sexting? Where they are texting sexual images. Now I heard recently that that is a criminal offence. Can you verify that, Minister (Pat Rabbitte)? I also heard recently that no matter what you do on the internet, you leave a digital footprint and even if those images are erased, that they can be, or images, or text messages, is it true that they can be, em, found again? I want to ask you that question. Because everybody needs to work together here: parents, teachers, the youngsters.
And I believe, until we have a system minister, similar to what we have with the Press Ombudsman, for the print media and the broadcast media, we need some type of set of guidelines. We need some type of report, place to report it to. We do need to know that there’s sanctions there. I believe that, until we have that, the public aren’t going to be adequately educated or protected. And, minister, would you see it within your remit, minister, your responsibility, to ensure that there’s a set of guidelines there for people who have been hurt and damaged by social media. I am particularly thinking of our youngsters.
And somebody else referred to counsellors in schools. Well may I now say this to you, minister. I am quite familiar with counsellors, who are very, very busy because they’re trying to work with the youngsters that have been hurt as a result of abusive social media. So I absolutely take the good on board but while, no, I really want to say this, while the good is happening, around freedom…”
Chairman: “I know..but it’s for questions, now. We’re on very limited time.”
Healy Eames: “I’m finishing on this. We need to ensure that the abuse isn’t greater than the good, in the terms of the damage. And my final question, minister, is can we have a situation here where an identity, the identity of every user is registered with an IP address in this country? I am familiar with where IPs were registered in the United States and they couldn’t be tracked down. So thank you (chairman) for that opportunity.”
Script by Chris Morris.
Thanks Oireachtas Retort