Hang sangwiches and a drop of milk.
Moments ago.
Sharon Gaffney tweetz:
Farmers protesting outside Dublin Castle, where EU agriculture ministers are resuming talks on CAP reform.
We’re going to need more rolls.
Farmers to protest CAP reform (Irish Examiner)
Top pic via Sharon Gaffney
(Sam Boal/Photocall ireland)
A supervised injection centre in Sydney, Australia.
The report from Merchants Quay and Ana Liffey Drug Project comes as a rise in drug-related activity in Dublin city centre is expected to rise during the summer.
It finds that 14% of addicts say they take drugs in public areas.
The report “A Safer City for All” also points out that there is no crisis detoxification centre in the country.
The report found that of 125 addicts who tested positive for Hepatitis C only 18 were in treatment.
It said that there is a high-risk group of intravenous drug users showing a high incidence of unsafe injecting practices.
You may recall James M Chimney’s memorable RTE Guide (above) which included YOUR fantasy telly scheduling.
Well.
It’s Monkey Tennis time.
Next Monday during the Kilkenny Cat Laughs festival [starting tomorrow] at 3.30pm in Langton’s Set Theatre, Kilkenny, Sky Entertainment are inviting people to pitch their telly ideas to a panel of EXPERTS.
Each person will have 90 seconds in which to pitch their idea and in typical comedy panel show style; there will be humorous and honest questions and feedback. So, only the brave need apply! At the end of the session, the person whose pitch has impressed the panel most will win a year’s FREE subscription to Sky.
Ideas must be submitted HERE and submitted by tomorrow Wednesday with 10 people selected and contacted in advance by Cat Laughs.
What you may need to know:
1. It’s the next film from Ben Wheatley, who did The Kill List (2011) and Sightseers (2012)
2. He might just be the new Great British Film Director.
3. Belfast actor Michael Smiley is a regular collaborator. Remember him in Spaced?
4. The cast includes Reese ‘League Of Gentleman’ Shearsmith and Julian ‘Mighty Boosh’ Barrett.
5. It looks a bit trippy.
6. It’s being released to cinemas, DVD/Blu-Ray and VOD the same day. This, kids, is the future.
Release Date: July 5th
Not as long as there’s tay.
Brian McMahon from the lovely vintage Irish archive website Brandnewretro.ie is speaking at the first Creative Morning this Friday morning at The Medley Restaurant, Drury Street, Dublin at 8.30am. FREE,
Creative mornings?
Is a monthly speaker series and morning gathering of creative types. Each event includes a 15-20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off at 10am. Free coffee, buns and magazine browsing
Brian’s presentation will be on the theme of “Backwards”. We’re there.
Thanks Brian Colhoun
The Garda report filed on the 2008/9 incident in which Justice Minister Alan Shatter was stopped at a drink-drive checkpoint “has gone missing”.
Don’t worry.
A concerned and informed garda whistleblower has been found..
An informed source has revealed the garda who stopped Mr Shatter felt he was not fully co-operative. She was also asked by the then Fine Gael frontbench spokesman: “Don’t you know who I am?
Information made available to the Irish Independent about the incident about five years ago appears to contradict Mr Shatter’s version of events.Informed sources familiar with the case say that the now Justice Minister:
* Said nothing about being asthmatic, preventing him completing the test.
* Intimated to the garda that it was unconstitutional to stop him as he was coming from the Dail and said: “Check your law book.”
* Appeared not to make a sufficient effort to complete the breath test.
* Drove off without being waved on by the officer.
Meanwhile:
And we know what happens to people such as Clare Daly, in similar circumstances.
She winds up handcuffed by the side of the road, taken to a police station and put in a cell. When she gives a urine sample she’s released with the remark: “Come back when you’re sober.”
The details of her alleged “offence” are then leaked and end up in the media. The fact she subsequently passed the drink-driving test with flying colours is beside the point.
Two whistleblowers started this. They misinterpreted and got wrong significant details, but they did us a service in disclosing what’s going on. Four TDs sought to clean up what has become a very, very rotten system.
Clare Daly ended up in handcuffs. Interaction between the Garda Commissioner and the Minister for Justice led to the release of private information about Mick Wallace. Ming Flanagan was publicly skewered for his bad behaviour.
The names of the VIPs and celebrities on whose behalf senior gardai quashed penalty points remain unknown. That’s confidential.
(Photocall Ireland)
The government wants to resume,
Our long-frozen property boom,
This country we’ll fix,
With mortar and bricks,
And a thousand green shoots soon will bloom.
John Moynes
Earlier: Breakfast Rolls For All
Stephen writes:
In a shop in Valencia [Spain] The Spanish are learning English watching the Guard. Everyone learning English should know the phrase “Like a donkey f**king a hippopotamus, it’s party time”.
You know, stuff.
Thanks Tim
