Garth Brooks announces fourth gig at Croke Park – beating U2’s record of 3 . Madness . 320,000 people . It would be rude not to go now…
— Jennifer O’Brien (@JenBizarre) February 3, 2014
Country legend Garth Brooks adds a fourth concert date to Croke Park (Irish Independent)
Designed by Benjamin Garcia Saxe and overlooking the Pacific ocean at Puntarenas in Costa Rica, the ‘Casa Flotanta’ is a steel framed wooden house on a steep gradient designed to capture a magnificent vista with minimum impact on the wildlife and vegitation.
Unlike neighbouring homes which are cut into the hillside with retaining walls, the lightweight, modular casa flotanta sits above it on stilts.
[Margaretta D’Arcy, who was jailed on January 15]
Galway Independent writes:
The Galway Alliance Against War (GAAW) is calling on Galway people to join them in tying yellow ribbons on trees in Galway’s Eyre Square tomorrow, Tuesday, February 4, at 1pm to call on the Irish Government to pursue the path of peace, by releasing Margaretta D’Arcy and “ending Ireland’s significant role in the wars of the past 12 years by closing the US military hub at Shannon Airport.”
Previously: Notes From Limerick Prison
Galway Alliance Against War (Facebook)
Via EveningEcho.ie and Independent_ie
Luke Sweetman writes:
My name is Luke, I’m part of Little Beast, a new company that makes all kinds of video – shorts, music videos, documentaries, etc. We are a group of individuals, staying in Ireland to make a go of it before we sink beneath the oceans of climate change, or emigrate. We launched our showreel, above, and we wanted to ask you to help people see it – and then come give us work! The video may even entertain you as it shows people doing stupid/entertaining/sad things.
Music: That Rythm by Rubix
Scenes from Tramore in Co. Waterford this morning.
Previously: Sink Estate
Pics: Tramore Tourism and Wally Bates
New figures from the Eurobarometer public opinion survey on perception of corruption in Ireland – 40% of Irish respondents think corruption is very widespread.
Full Eurobarometer study here
You may recall Deirdre Mullins, who made a radio documentary last November about a friend who conceived during lunch, via a Danish sperm donor, called Pregnant on my Lunchbreak.
She has now made a short film documentary, called Going The Distance, about her father.
Deirdre writes:
“I made about my father, a running addict who was diagnosed with cancer. It won the audience award at the Dingle Film Festival last year. I’ve just posted it on vimeo this morning and would be very grateful if you would share it.”
Previously: Made During Lunch
A weekend of bad news and shocks,
Was in store for the poor Madam Knox,
She’d got off scot free,
But now it seems she,
Might spend decades behind foreign locks.
John Moynes
(ABC)
Oh.
Coverage in the Irish Times (top) and on the RTE News website of the LGBTNoise demonstration against RTE’s payment and apology to the Iona Institute and John Waters for comments made by Rory O’Neill on The Saturday Night Show.
How many?
YOU decide.
Previously: Gaiety Pride
