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Ten Of The World’s Deadliest Tourist Destinations (ListVerse)
(H/T: Ed)
Yearly Archives: 2014
A recent iteration of the long, long tradition of extrapolated album cover art – this time by UK-based web designers Aptitude.
Road Blocked
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Robbie Loughlin tweetz:
Seeing as your going to be doin Crimbo gift ideas, I wonder how these might sell!!!????
Don’t know if I should quite sing this song
Don’t know if it maybe might be wrong
But then again it maybe might be right
To tell you ’bout the bullet and the red lightYou know I’m not from this place
I’m from a different time, different space
And it’s real uncomfortable
To be stuck somewhere you just don’t belongBut I got 8 good reasons to stick around
8 good reasons, well maybe nine nowI had a dream one night
About a bullet and a red light
You know it felt alright
You know it actually felt quite niceIf I could have gone
Without it hurting anyone
Like a child, I would have found me mum
Like a bird I would have been flownYou know I don’t much like life
I don’t mind admitting that it ain’t right
You know I love to make music
But my head got wrecked by the businessEverybody wanting something from me
They rarely ever wanna just know me
I became the stranger no one sees
Cut glass I’ve crawled upon my kneesBut I got 8 good reasons to stick around
8 good reasons, well maybe nine nowI had a dream one night
About a bullet and a red light
You know it felt alright
You know it actually felt quite nice
Sinéad O’Connor – 8 Good Reasons
The just-released video of Sinéad’s new single off the album I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss.
Video directed by Hugh O’Conor.
Waterford city (top) at the weekend
“With the 1989 Incitement to Hatred Act for all intents and purposes unworkable, we are, in 2014, operating in a policy vacuum where racism is concerned. This is not acceptable. We need the government to make bringing forward a new National Action Plan Against Racism a priority for the rest of its term. This National Action plan must include legislation for combating racially aggravated and other forms of bias-motivated crime, hate speech and incitement to hatred.“
Shane O’Curry, European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
Waterford anti-Roma protests criticised as ‘cowardly and racist’ (irish Times)
Thanks Mark Malone
‘Fro Real?
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Jaysus.
Further to the blackface make up currently on sale in the Halloween shop, Dundurm Town Centre.
A matching Afro.
Shawna writes:
Thought I might kick this (above) over to Broadsheet since I’ve had no response from Dundrum Town Centre nor Halloween HQ…
Saturday: Tonight Matthew…
UPDATE:
AK writes:
Here’s the full selection of ‘blacking up’ paraphernalia in Halloween HQ in Liffey Valley.
Free Today?
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Praveen Halappanavar and his late wife, Savita
Galway Independent writes:
A vigil for Savita Halappanavar will take place in Eyre Square today, on the second anniversary of the 31-year-old dentist’s death at University Hospital Galway. The memorial will take place in front of the Browne Doorway, where photographs of Savita will be on display. From noon, members of the public are invited to leave their thoughts on Savita in the form of written messages. Galway Pro-Choice will collect these messages and present them to Savita’s family and friends. The public are also free to leave flowers at the site. At 6pm, there will be a candlelit vigil, to which everybody who wishes to commemorate Savita is welcome.
Meanwhile…
Activists, including Nell McCafferty, centre, arriving in Dublin from Belfast in 1971
A number of pro choice activists will travel from Connolly Station in Dublin today to Belfast, in order to bring abortion pills back to Dublin with them. Abortion pills are banned in Ireland.
They will arrive back at Connolly Station at 2.30pm.
The action recalls how members of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement took the Contraception Train, from Dublin to Belfast, in 1971 to bring back condoms and the Pill, which were illegal in the Republic of Ireland at the time.
Greet the abortion pill train (Rosa)
Contraception Train (RTÉ, 1971 footage)
Previously: Illegal Abortion In Ireland
For What Died The Sons of Róisín by Luke Kelly
Darragh Byrne writes:
Save Kilkenny protestors this summer were used as practice by Gardai for Water Charge Protests. A complete over reaction whereby twice daily at 9 and 3 o’clock sometimes as many as 50 police helped escort materials to build an unwanted bridge in Kilkenny. Sometimes as little as only a dozen or so protestors were present to face down this onslaught- most of them women – many elderly. The local authority were present when gardai removed protestors from the site in September. Fund raising still continues to help Legal Actions at the moment in the High Court.
Music by Max Richter
Previously: Saving Kilkenny
Aerial Bold
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A proposal by ‘computational and speculative designer’ Benedikt Groβ and San Francisco based geographer Joey Lee to ‘run a satellite image based alphabet searching algorithm’ to identify man made structures that look like letters of the alphabet when viewed from above. They say:
..we will traverse the entire planet’s worth of satellite imagery and develop the tools and methods necessary to map these features hiding in plain sight.
Well might you scoff, but the project is already fully funded on Kickstarter.