Happy Enterprise Week.
A possibly ‘congested’ looking Enda Kenny and Richie Boucher, Bank of Ireland CEO at the Building Business Momentum conference earlier in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel as part of Enterprise Week.
You couldn’t make it up.
(Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland)
And by ‘viking’ we do mean like a pair of damn hipsters in natural ethical clothing.
Too perishing cool to wear horns that lot.
“‘Vikings’ hero Ragnar Lothbrok, above, is recruiting an army of paid extras for filming of Season 2 of the epic History Channel series this summer, and has his sights set on Wicklow and Dublin, this 5-7th June.
“Anyone who has spent months cultivating an unkempt beard or practising with a plastic sword in preparation for battle, your time has come.”
…
“Men and women without beards are also in high demand, with the call out for adults from all ethnic backgrounds, shapes and sizes – with preference given to anyone with relevant skills including fishermen, sailors, carpenters, butchers, craftspeople, blacksmiths and anyone who can wield a sword, axe or bow.”
‘Vikings’ Call for Extras with Open Casting in Wicklow and Dublin, 5-7th June (IFTN)
Pic: Fanpop
You may recall the launch of The Jump: Escape The City, the first-ever game from GoneGaming.ie in March.
This week the team behind The Jump celebrated 500,000 games played.
Being IT people they haven’t celebrated by getting wasted.
Oh no.
They’ve gone into a darkened room and tweaked the code, and mousematted some gigabytes to the cloud so the whole damned thing plays better AND then got wasted.
Enjoy the fruits of their labour for FREE here
New rules for the unmanned strike drone,
When deployed in a foreign war zone,
If they want to get rid,
Of some guy and his kid,
That’s fine even if they’re homegrown.
John Moynes
Illustration via space4peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWou9cd2GhA
What you may need to know.
1. Video games have better trailers than movies these days.
2. It’s the new game from the people who brought you Halo.
3. The trailer’s directed by Jon Favreau, who directed Iron Man (2008) & Iron Man 2 (2010). Long way from Swingers (1998), baby!
4. Yes. that’s Giancarlo Esposito, AKA Gus Fring from Breaking Bad. We’re not worthy.
5. Destiny is one of the games coming to the forthcoming XBox One.
6. If you’re a gamer, GEEKGASM. If not, what the what now?
Release Date: TBC
A report for the United Nations cultural body, Unesco, has called for a halt to a proposed £100m golf resort close to the Giant’s Causeway. It said the planned Runkerry development would have an adverse impact on the world heritage site.
Unesco has published extracts of the report compiled after a visit to the Antrim site in February.
The report, carried out for Unesco by one of its advisory bodies, states that the planned resort – 550 metres outside the boundary of the Causeway site in north Antrim – would “create an irreversible change of landscape character” in a protected area of outstanding natural beauty.
Giant’s Causeway resort row: Unesco report calls for halt (Julian O’Neill, BBC News NI)
Pic: Dave Mitchell
Container yourself.
Sure it’s an ad but…
The Red Bull Cúl 5 arena at the Eastpoint Business Park, Alexandra Road Extension in Dublin Port for a five-a-side GAA event tomorrow.
Organisers moved 30,000 tons of rubble, added 150 tons of earth and some 1,800m2 of grass to create the pitch, above.
More here
Previously: GAAsp
Thanks Susie Dardis
(L-R) Ray Ellard, Consumer Director of FSAI, Prof Alan Reilly FSAI Chief Executive.
Can we do NOTHING right?
Many people were annoyed that “the Paddies” uncovered the horse meat scandal that turned out to be a case of massive international food fraud, Ray Ellard, consumer production director of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland said yesterday. He said it was felt, particularly in Britain, that the authority was acting on information, but it was just doing its job.
“There was a massive international food fraud going on and Ireland found it and that’s annoyed a lot of people, that the Paddies found it,” he said. “I’m sorry to say that, but that’s the truth of it.” Mr Ellard and the Food Safety Authority’s chief executive, Prof Alan Reilly, recently encountered hostile questioning from MPs when they met the Westminster committee on the environment, food and rural affairs. MPs repeatedly insisted that the Food Safety Authority was acting on a tip-off when it tested for horse meat and were critical of the fact that no one has yet been prosecuted for their role in the horse meat scandal. Prof Reilly said he was shocked and dismayed at the aggressive nature of the questioning and the political point-scoring.
He said it was a case of “blame the Irish” for uncovering the fraud.
(Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland)
A cut away shot from last night’s Question Time (broadcast from Belfast) showing a camera operator’s seating plan, featuring Ian Paisley Jnr of the DUP and John O’Dowd from Sinn Fein. LGBT activist Peter Tatchell was also on the panel and he had this tussle with Ian Paisley Jnr.
Paddy Hoey writes:
DUP are the “Goodies” and “SF IRA” according to camera men in Belfast…
SF Lodge BBC Complaint Over IRA Label For Education Minister (Newstalk)
Thanks The Stoat
UPDATE: BBC apologises over Question Time seating plan (RTÉ)
Outside the Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin, this morning.
Anyone?
Thanks Deirdre O’ Shaugnessy
