Interview in tomorrow’s @IrishTimes with young woman refused an abortion
— Kitty Holland (@KittyHollandIT) August 18, 2014
MORE to folly.
Thanks Nick Sutton, Garrett Rowe, Tanya O’Neill, Enda Cunningham, Enda Bolger, Colm Heaney, Meliosa Fitzgibbon and Kevin Cramer.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Back on the street.
A fresh possibly Ferguson-related work.
Canvaz writes:
“It’s been great to finally escape the studio & go painting outside. The new piece is Dancing in the Tear Gas and is on Grand Canal Dock across from the U2 production building.”
Alan writes:
CCTV is monitoring this babbling brook in Cobh [Co. Cork]
Frances Fitzgerald (top) and Jan O’Sullivan (above)
“Obviously I would be concerned and people reading the accounts will be concerned for the woman and the baby involved. Clearly we passed legislation earlier in the year and will continue to monitor legislation and see how it is being implemented.”
Frances Fitzgerald, Justice Minister
“It’s very difficult case and everyone is concerned for the woman the baby…this is best possible legislation that could be introduced. It isn’t possible to deal with broader issues under terms of constitution and realistically, there isn’t going to be referendum in the lifetime of the Government”.
Jan O’Sullivan, Education Minister
(Leon Farrell, Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
Dublin artist Alan Mongey with his mother, Sally, (top) at the unveiling of the Malborough Street Mural in Dublin today.
Mark writes:
‘The Marlborough Street Mural’ is a community arts project sponsored by Irish Life and Luas Cross City. The mural is a colourful, large scale graphic art piece stretching over 50 metres and was unveiled by Alan Mongey and participating students.”
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
What you may need to know:
1. Michael Keaton plays a down-at-heel actor, once famous for playing iconic superhero “Birdman,” but now struggling to reclaim the respect of his peers.
2. It’s been 25 years since Batman (1989) forever changed big studio attitudes to comic book movies. Expect much meta-referential in-jokery.
3. Keaton’s presence automatically improves any project by at least 25%.
4. Birdman is director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first comedy, after the weighty (geddit?) 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006).
5. It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010) showed that Zach Galifianakis can do serious, but if it’s funny you’re after then Between Two Ferns is where it’s at.
6. There’s talk of this being presented as one continuous take a la Hitchcock’s Rope (1948). If anyone can pull that trick off, it’s Gravity’s (2013) Oscar-winning cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki.
7. Broadsheet Prognosis: We’re all over this.
Release Date: January 2, 2015 (UK)
(Delboy is away)
Mark writes on culture for WhyBother.ie
Bell Lane coffee founder Stephen Bell
The electric breakfast?
The little cup that cheers?
Read on.
Eoin writes:
“Artisan coffee roasters, Bell Lane, in Mullingar, Co Westmeath have just been awarded three-star gold at the Great Taste awards in London for their Dragonfly espresso blend. It’s kind of a big deal. To put it in context, out of 10,000 products entered from all over the UK and Ireland, only 125 achieve the top three-star accolade.
“In celebration, Bell Lane founder,
Ferris Beuller Stephen Bell, wants to give one of you a KILO each of the most critically-acclaimed espresso blend on the Irish market: Dragonfly; and another of their equally delicious Moondust blend. And to grind your beans he’ll also throw in a Hario home grinder (top).“All you have to do is complete this jitteringly easy sentence: Espresso is the finest member of the Italian coffee family because____________________.”
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Camille Hamet and Séréna Robin write:
We are two young French film makers working on a documentary about Irish women traveling to England to have an abortion. It will be broadcast on French public TV Public Sénat in December.
We just arrived in Dublin and plan to stay in Ireland for two months. We are already in touch with the IFPA [Irish Famile Planning Association], the ASN, Doctors for Choice and Senator Ivana Bacik, among others. But we are currently looking for Irish women that would agree on sharing their own personal experience of abortion. Our main challenge is to find a woman that would agree to let us follow her while she is in the process of seeking an abortion in England. Anonymity will be contractually guaranteed but we don’t even know how to reach them to discuss it. Therefore, we were wondering if it was possible to mention our project on Broadsheet. It would be very helpful. If anyone would like to help us regarding this please don’t hesitate to contact us.at taketheboat.themovie@gmail.com.
Here is a link to the project. You can also check its Facebook page and its Twitter account.
