Monthly Archives: June 2013

Short: Untitled

Admin at 9:00 am June 23, 2013

Conor McBride writes:

…just wanted to drop you a note to let you know a little documentary I directed came second at the Brooklyn Short FIlm Festival this week. ‘

G’wan the Conor!

Untitled’ directed and edited by myself, a Kerry expat in New York of 4 years, profiles an artist turned drag queen in Brooklyn. The film, originally commissioned for Accent Magazine, explores how the life of artist Matthew de Leon has changed since he gave rise to his drag persona, Untitled, 12 months ago. Giving a humanizing insight in to the world of drag the film questions the role art plays in entertainment and vice versa. I hope you enjoy it!

What Our Country Did For Them

Admin at 12:15 am June 23, 2013

The Kennedy love-in continues.

Scenes from New Ross, Wexford, today at events to mark the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.

Enough already (even the hot ones).

Bring on the Nixon-in-kildare festivities.

From top: Seamus Heaney with a bust of the late Senator Edward ‘Good Senator, bad date’ Kennedy; Jack ‘Hottsberg’ Schlossberg (JFK’s grandson); Max Kennedy (RFK’s grandson); The Air Corps perform a fly past over the Dunbrody Famine Ship on the quays of New Ross, Co Wexford; the JFK ’emigrant flame’; the emigrant flame monument; Caroline Kennedy, Enda Kenny and jean Kennedy Smith, and Harper Petitgout (Ted Kenndy’s great granddaughter).

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

De Sunday Papers

Admin at 10:57 pm June 22, 2013

Live from de Spar.

More to follow

Meanwhile,

In the Sunday World

Donabate beach, Dublin.

“….perverts’, you say?

Hmm.

Covers to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

Lions

Aaron McAllorum at 10:06 pm June 22, 2013

Members of the Ireland Wheelchair Rugby team with the first Wheelchair7s Triple Crown trophy after beating Scotland 30-8 in Vichy, France, this evening.

Previously: Meanwhile, In Vichy

Thanks Graham Merrigan

Sure Where Would You Get It?

Admin at 6:14 pm June 22, 2013

Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, this evening.

Thanks Joe Culley

Lough Corrib from the Hill of Doon, this evening.

Thanks John Gallen

Over Dublin 2, tonight.

Thanks Simon Judge

Ardee, Co Louth, tonight.

Thanks Nikki O’Carroll

Heroes Of Ninghai

Admin at 2:59 pm June 22, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_wb-1T-kQU

On Thursday night, a group of delivery men in China’s Zhejiang province caught a toddler who fell from the window of a fifth floor apartment, having crawled out after waking from a nap.

Coming together in a ‘human safety net’ to cushion the two and a half year-old’s fall, BBC News Asia reports, two of the men suffered impact injuries to their arms. The little girl, named Qiqi, survived with just a minor wound on her face.

dailywhat/bbcnewsasia

It’s Perigee, Chum

Admin at 11:58 am June 22, 2013

The opposite of apogee.

A perigee/super moon From Galway, May 2012.

Alan C writes:

Tomorrow [Sunday] night’s rising full moon will be a perigree moon, the closest point to Earth in the moon’s orbit, and make it the largest full moon of 2013 (and the largest for another 14 months). More details here

Supermoon/Perigee

Pic: newlifeinireland

Cover That Up, Please

Admin at 11:30 am June 22, 2013

Harrumph.

Rihanna leaving Lillie’s Bordello nightclub, Grafton Street, Dublin in da wee hours following her concert at Lansdowne Road.

With a sweary message to her fans backstage.

Via Rihanna Diva

Meanwhile, In Grangegorman

Admin at 10:45 am June 22, 2013

The Nurses Home Building facing onto Lower Grangegorman, Dublin.

Annebix writes:

Windows knocked out at the old nurses home in Grangegorman, To be demolished as part of the DIT [Dublin Institute of Technology] move to Grangegorman.

Top pic via Rooney Media

Olympian

Admin at 10:12 am June 22, 2013

1010596_645911642103289_998692169_n Christy Dignam closes his tribute cncert last night with a stage-filled rousing version of Aslan’s Crazy World.

Among those joining Christy at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, included Paul Brady, Gavin Friday, Jerry Fish, Danny O’Reilly from the Coronas, Mary Black, Jedward, Don Mescall and Steve Walla

Proceeds from the night will help Christy, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer, to pay mounting medical bills.

Meanwhile…