Bit of a night, in fairness.
Philip Chevron Testimonial (Olympia)
Previously: A Dublin Punk Icon
Choice Cuts present Hot 8 Brass Band, Ajo Arqestra @ The Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin (€17.50)
Nialler9 writes:
The New Orleans’ band are known for their joyous cover of [Marvin Gaye’s] Sexual Healing and you might have seen them in the TV show Treme. They’re back in Dublin for the second time this year, with Tombstone a new album of original material to draw from.
This is what they sounded like last time around.
Support from the Dublin Afrobeat Orchestra aka Ajo Arqestra along with two of Dublin’s finest DJs Handsome Paddy and Lil Dave spinning after.


Top, from left Lisa Chambers, a vice president of Fianna Fail, Michael Martin and Senator Averil Power at Leinster House today.
For the launch of a report containing recommendations by the Taskforce on Female Participation in Fianna Fáil chaired by Senator Power.
Have a gender…
The appointment of a Gender Equality Officer based in Fianna Fáil Headquarters;
A target of women making up one-third of the party local election candidates;
The establishment of a new Fianna Fáil Women Network to organise events for female members and provide support to female candidates;
A focus on encouraging more women to take up internal leadership positions, for example as constituency chairpersons;
A requirement for all constituency organisations to draw up their own plans to boost female participation locally.
Hmm.
Fianna Fail Action Plan (Fianna Fail)
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Part two of a series of short films from Thinkhouse that examines youth cultures across Ireland.
This week; carving phat ones on your BODY.
James writes:
“We turned our cameras on some of Ireland’s best known tattoo artists – and those whose bodies exhibit their work – to analyse Ireland’s changing tattoo culture.
Skin Deep explores the history and future of tattoo culture with artists from Dublin Ink, Spilled Ink and Dragon Tattoo.”
Via Thinkhouse
Full sized version here.
Eamon Bell writes:
Something that I’ve worked on in the Summer holidays that I have before I move on to more study…
(Enda Kenny with Joe Mulholland, founder of the McGill Summer School in the Glenties, Co Donegal. This year’s topic: Reforming and Rebuilding Our State)
2. Joe Mulholland refused to publish my speech from last years #macgill13 because it referred to Denis O’Brien. http://t.co/PcnivxwON9
— Elaine Byrne (@ElaineByrne) July 29, 2013
Elaine Byrne’s 2012 speech here
(Eamon Farrell/Photocall ireland)
Bokeh is the aesthetic use of blurred or out of focus imagery in photography.
Here, French artist Stanislaus Giroux adds a little gunpowder into the mix.