Yearly Archives: 2014

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Hobby Buddies – a photo series by Swiss photographers Ursula Sprecher and Andi Cortellini featuring like-minded members of various clubs posing together.

Above: The St. Brandan Scout Section; BDSM Regular’s Table; the Poodle Club; Slot Racing Club; HB9BS Ham Radio Club; Merriment Pipe-Smokers’ Club; Dintefisch Diving Club; Train Club; Naked Projects [redacted]; the Orchid Club and the Swiss Garrison (Serving the 501st Legion).

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View the complete gallery (including the scandalous nudie one) here

 

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Monica O’Connor and Eddie O’Neill, who have home educated all of their six children

A woman who had been handed a jail sentence after she refused to pay a fine related to home schooling has been taken into custody.
Mother of six Monica O’Connor from Tullow in Co Carlow was taken from her home by gardaí this morning.

Mother who refused to pay home schooling fine is jailed (Newstalk)

Pic: Home Education Support Fund (Facebook)

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What you may need to know:

1. A prequel  to the original Mad Max (1979).

2. Dystopian badlands are Fast and Furious.

3. Director George Miller has taken a break from making films about adorable Babes and Dancing Penguins to get back to his original angry roots.

4. They trashed the Interceptor. Again?

4. It stars Charlize Theron. There are already plans for the next Mad Max installment written around her character, Furiosa.

5. Tom Hardy turned down Robocop (2014) to drive a mile in Mel Gibson’s shoes.

6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Not a Thunderdome in sight buíochas a ghabháil dia.

Release Date: 2015

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Universal Pictures Ireland and Jameson Dublin International Film Festival are hosting a preview screening of Dracula – Untold (2014) on Tuesday September 30th at 7.30pm in The Savoy, O’Connell St. Tickets (€10 each) are available online here.

It’s all in aid of the St. Francis Hospice in Raheny [Dublin].

Dracula Untold is Dublin native Gary Shore’s feature debut and cast members Luke Evans and Sarah Gadon will also be in attendance.

Shot on location in Northern Ireland in 2013, the film portrays the origin story of its title character, Count Dracula. Muahahaha.

Gary is a big supporter of the work of St. Francis’ adding that “I cannot speak more highly of the people who work there and the service it provides to patients and families.”

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Previously: Broadsheet Trailer Park: Dracula Untold

Thanks Patrick Leahy

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You may recall Dr Ali Selim?

Well.

About the RSE programme in schools Dr Selim says there are “crucial differences” with Islam. It forbids pre- and extramarital sexual relations, whereas RSE perceives sexual relations outside wedlock as part of normal practices.”
He suggests there is “a clash of values” also between Islam and “traditional ways of teaching PE”. In some schools, “under the guise of health and safety, Muslim girls are obliged to take off their headscarves for PE classes, which is not acceptable to them”.
Where schools were “persistent”, they should “employ a female PE teacher and provide students with a sports hall not accessible to men during times when girls are at play. They should also not be visible to men while at play.”

Call for State schools to accommodate Islamic beliefs (Irish Times)

Previously: Not Buying What You’re Selim

Pic:TV3