Ooer.
Some of last weekend’s Electric Picnic 2014 just released in .gif form
From top: Dancing to Interskalactic; dancing to Mogwai; front row for Chic and Kelis getting ‘jiggy’.
More here: Electric Picnic In Animated Gifs (Nialler9)
Thanks Nialler9
Yearly Archives: 2014
Protests earlier this week in Clondalkin (top) Michael Buckley, CEO of Greyhound
Further to the breakdown of talks between Greyhound Waste and locked out workers blockading the firm’s recycling centre in Clondalkin, Dublin.
Via SWP.ie
The Greyhound dispute has taken a sinister turn today as it emerges that Michael Buckley has served a High Court motion on nine of the locked out striking workers.
Buckley is seeking an order from the High Court which includes seizing workers homes so as to compensate him for loss of earnings and threats of imprisonment. This brings the treatment of these workers to a new low as their family homes are put at risk.
We call on Greyhound to immediately reinstate the workers under their original terms and conditions and to then enter the Labour Court for honest and transparent negotiations with the striking workers and their representatives.
It would be an absolute outrage if any worker was to go to prison for simply defending their job and conditions. There will be outrage and fury across the trade union and labour movement and working class communities across the country if this happens.
Greyhound Dispute Takes A sinister Turn (Socialist Workers Party)
Previously: Greyhound on Broadsheet
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland, RTE)
Thanks Tony
Back To Work
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Foot and cycle wheel-bound commuters this morning in Dublin.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Of this, the culmination of his year-long ‘Illustrated Planets’ project, Andy Martin writes:
The Planets is an intergalactic animated journey through twelve distinct worlds. In them we find plasticine battles, bored sheep, robots in love, ghostly fish & chips, superhero kids, as well as lots of other shenanigans.
‘Pleather’ Crying sofa as standard.
House Hunter writes:
“€900 a month for a STUDIO on the North Circular. Greedy ar$eholes….”
No need for that language.
Ah here.
Further to An Post’s nod to the cat demographic.
DeSelby writes:
“…In an effort to appeal to a generation that has never sent a letter in their lives, the ashen faced members of An Post’s Philatelic Advisory Committee have forgone the usual ultra conservative tedium of illustrated landscapes and utterly lifeless stamp designs and have issued a series of stamps inspired by famous felines of ‘the internet’ …”
Earlier: Was It For This?
At the Button Factory, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.
Rósa writes:
“Viva Gaza is a cultural project harnessing the goodwill of artists and their audience for the sole aim of raising humanitarian aid for Gaza.”
Tickets here
A Letter from Shane Ross TD to former Labour now radical left Fingal Councillor Cian O’Callaghan inviting him to a meeting of “like minded independents”.
FIGHT!
Twenty-five years ago today, and long before any lines were drawn in the sand, Century Radio went on air.
The Flood Tribunal found that the then Minister for Communications and Justice Ray Burke received £35,000 from Oliver Barry (a director of Century) which was deemed a corrupt payment.
The Flood report states:
In March 1989, some months prior to the payment in question, Mr. Burke, in his capacity as Minister for Communications, had issued a Directive which fixed the level of transmission fees payable by Century to Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), the national broadcaster. Mr. Burke’s Directive resulted in Century paying RTÉ considerably less than RTÉ had sought for the use of its facilities. In 1990, the year following the payment, Mr. Burke promoted legislation which, inter alia, restricted RTÉ’s income from advertising in anticipation that independent broadcasters would benefit.
Mr Burke still receives €103,000 in a ministerial pension annually.
Good times.
Via RTÉ Archives