Yearly Archives: 2014

henrystreet

‘My son’s got nifty feet,
Thank you Henry Street…

A timely father/son duet extolling the seasonal products available in one of Dublin’s busiest thoroughfares.

We’re more Mary Street ourselves.

Mmf.

Contains salty language.

Thanks Gerry Claffy

jobridge

Ah here.

Niall writes:

Dept of Social Protection are advertising for an intern to work in their “busy office environment”. Presumably the job will entail sorting through all those JobBridge applications coming in?

Office Administrator, Social Welfare (JobBridge)

90363872

“Camden Street, Harcourt Street, George’s Street, Smock Alley.
No bells from the churches, no urban foxes, no first snowflakes.
Just the boom-boom of a bass, somewhere in the distance.
Rats skittering, across sodden blankets, beds of needles.
On our journey, people laughing, having the craic.
Making the most of their night out, under Christmas lights,
strung high on streets, over strung-out people.
On Grafton Street, a Gucci sign beams over the remnants of humanity.”

Enda Kenny on his time with the homeless in the Dáil this afternoon

Kenny gives personal ‘snapshot’ on plight of homeless (RTÉ)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

matildaxmas

‘sup?

Laura writes:

Matilda looking delighted and full of festive joy in her new Christmas outfit :-) I think she’s happy deep down…

Does your pet love Xmas as much as Matilda? Your pets to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘My Pet At Xmas’.

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From Swedish graphic designer Kalle Mattsson’s utterly wonderful Buffalo Bill Gates Tumblr, wherein entertaining celebrity face mashups are accompanied by equally entertaining portmanteau names.

Yes, he misspelled Schwarzenegger. No, it doesn’t really matter.

biotv

carol

Do you enjoy lush live music?

Barry writes:

Carol Keogh, formerly of The Plague Monkeys and one of the great underappreciated talents in Irish music, plays Whelan’s [Camden Street, Dublin] tomorrow night. It is the launch of Carol’s beautiful new album Mongrel City which, with titles such as ‘Forty Foot’, ‘Grand Parade’ and ‘Limbo Estate’, ring some of the cultural and political changes that the city, and the country, has been through in recent times.

Band members were Romy, Dave Hingerty (The Frames), Elton Mullally (The Tightrope Walkers), Martin Moran (The Tightrope Walkers) and composer, Colin J Morris and  guests included Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Bill Blackmore, who provided string and brass arrangements for a little touch of symphony.

Listen to Mongrel City here

Carol Keogh (Whelan’s)