Elaborate, life-affirming, fancy-dressed hi-jinks, including a brace of Doctor Who-a-likes and the Dude (3.09).
All the best bits from the Dublin Comic Con lovingly compiled by Graham Dillon.
Music: Fitz and the Tantrums – The Walker.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Linda C writes:
Saw this this morning in the Phoenix Park, driving along slowly, boot open, window down and walking the dogs out the window on a lead…
Ballsbridge, Dublin this afternoon.
Soon there will be nowhere left to go.
Mark writes:
“The closed “public convenience” at the junction of Anglesea Road and Merrion Road, across the road from the RDS. One of 70 public toilets, many having been built over a 100 years ago, that once operated in Dublin, stretching from Harolds Cross to Howth, including areas like Mountjoy Square, Glasnevin, Sandymount, Terenure, Dolphin’s Barn and Infirmary Road. These relics of a different time have a long history, their journey from use to disuse reflects how Irish society has evolved over the past 100 years. In the Ireland of the late 19th century not every home had an indoor loo – or even a toilet at all. This location was put up for auction by Dublin City Council last year but is now being demolished….”
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
The Optics
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A get back to the pub campaign by the Vintners’ federation of Ireland.
Country ‘n’ Western version here.
Meanwhile…
@TheVFI_IrishPub Except when the local isn’t a member of the VFI http://t.co/ifGo2GIORk – bloody disgrace!
— Mark Foley (@MarkFoley_) August 12, 2014
FIGHT!
Splutter.
Innuendo-drenched, single entendre-driven advertising for Michael Murphy’s furniture store in Newbridge, County Kildare this afternoon.
Take that, so-called IKEA.
(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Saturday August 16: Tucan, Prison Love, & more @ Button Factory, Temple Bar, Dublin (€10)
Nialler9 writes:
“Jack Of Diamonds Rhythm & Roots Festival happens in the Dame District area and nearby venues over three days this week from Friday to Sunday. There’s also a Rock & Roll Conference happening concurrently on Friday. Some gigs are free, some are €10 in. Saturday’s Button Factory gig is headlined by the instrumental folk band Tucan who have post-rock leanings.”
Magnificent
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Flying machines and their attendant infrastucture from an exhibition entitled The Principles of Aerodynamics by Australian artist Daniel Agdag.
Sculpted from cardboard by eye with no blueprints and no plans by Agdag, who just gets to work on his unforgiving medium with scalpels and glue.
Annie Body?
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Annie West’s magnificent poster for the Fleadh festival in Sligo [running until August 17] contains a number of well known faces.
How many can you spot?
Annie will give the most correct ‘spots’ a FREE print on LOVELY paper.
White Hag Brewery (out of picture).
*shakes fist*
Lines MUST close at 4.45pm 6.15pm MIDNIGHT
Meanwhile….
President Higgins [who was given a FREE print] meets Annie at the Sligo Fleadh launch on Sunday. If he was only 40 years younger.