Last night.
Leon writes:
Dublinatchristmas.ie has transformed Wolfe Tone Square in Dublins City Centre into a vintage festive fun fair. The vintage amusements including a chairoplane, a classic helter-skelter slide, a miniature carousel and game stalls will be illuminated in the evening. The fun fair will run until the 22nd of December….
Wolfe Tone Fun Fair (DublinatChristmas.ie)
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
In one of my favourite places – “Dublin’s fair city where the boys/girls are so pretty, Singing cocks and and muscles alive alive-o”
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) December 5, 2014
Splutter.
Honest Pizza, 12 Dame Court, Dublin 2
It’ll put hairs on your hair.
Eoin writes:
Everyone loves an oul pizza … and now
damn hungry hipstersDubliners can enjoy authentic Italian pizzas backed by the reputation of one of the capital’s best-loved eateries. Brought to you by the lads behind Honest to Goodness, Honest Pizza features proper thin-crust pizzas made with top-notch ingredients, baked in a custom-made, wood-burning stove. Situated above Honest to Goodness on Dame Court (opposite the Stag’s Head) smack-bang in the centre of D2. And to celebrate … one lucky broadsheet reader can win dinner for TWO at Honest Pizza THIS weekend by completing de following: ‘A thin crust pizza is the most honest pizza because………….”
Honest Pizza, Dame Court (Facebook)
Lines MUST close at 7.45 (winner will be notified before 9pm)
Mount Trenchard outside Foynes, Co. Limerick, above, and Lycamobile
The Irish Refugee Council described the Mount Trenchard direct provision centre outside Foynes, Co. Limerick as “one of the worst in the system”.
It’s understood 50 men live in the centre where there are six to eight beds in some rooms.
They receive €19.10 a week and are not allowed to work.
If any readers would like to send care packages to the men in Mount Trenchard this Christmas – or indeed to any of the asylees in the direct provision centres in Limerick – they can send them to Limerick NGO Doras Luimní and the group will distribute them to the asylum seekers.
Aideen Roche, of Doras Luimní, said the people in the direct provision system would really appreciate phone credit as this is, by far, the one thing asylees spend most of their weekly allowance on, with Lycamobile being the most popular service used.
People can purchase Lycamobile SIM cards (with €10 of preloaded credit) and/or phone credit from Centra and SuperValu stores nationwide.
The other most popular items would be toiletries, such as deodorant, shower gel, etc. Snacks for eating in the centre outside of the set meal times would also be warmly received.
Doras Luimní’s address is Central Buildings, 51a O’Connell Street, Limerick.
Meanwhile, each asylum seeking child in Ireland receives €9.60 a week. There are approximately 1,500 children living in the direct provision system in Ireland.
In light of this, the Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland is hoping to deliver toys to children living in direct provision centres this Christmas. The group is appealing for people to send a new, unwrapped toy by December 17 and they will distribute them to the children.
The JRSI has two offices, one in Limerick and one in Dublin. The Limerick address is Della Strada, Dooradoyle, Limerick while the Dublin address is The Mews, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1.
Would you like to help distribute care packages to asylum seekers in direct provision centres in your area this Christmas? Email broadsheet@broadsheet.ie with the subject line: Direct provision care packages.
Previously: ‘We Want To Be Heard By The Irish People’
Launch of 2014 Christmas toy appeal (Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland)
Spotted in the window of Travers Photography on Clanbrassil Street, Dublin.
(Thanks Anna Shelswell-White)
The Irish women’s rugby 7s team are into the #Dubai7s Invitational final after beating Almaty RFC. They face Tribe 7s at 1.16pm Irish time
— Mary White (@mary_white33) December 5, 2014
Tribe 7s?
FIGHT!
UPDATE:
The Irish have beaten us 19-0 in the Cup final @Dubai7s — Tribe Sevens Rugby (@tribe7s) December 5, 2014
Boola bus!
Of these frankly superb Communist era Czech posters for Hollywood films (the top one, believe it or not, is for Ghostbusters [1984]), Jason Pirodsky of Expats.cz explains:
Some writers attribute the bizarre nature of Czech (and Polish) movie posters from the 1960s through the 1980s to “an artistic alternative to banned U.S. publicity material” (what, the posters were banned, but the movies weren’t?), but the actual story is much more interesting. While artists behind promotional material elsewhere needed to be able to sell their product in the most effective (read: least imaginative) way possible, the communist regime inadvertently created a unique environment for this particular form. Free from most commercial interests, the artists behind these posters were given an incredible amount of free reign over their design – an artistic freedom even the filmmakers behind the movies didn’t enjoy.
MORE: Top 25 Czechoslovak Movie Posters (*for US Films) (Expat.cz)
(All images: Terry Ponozky)
(H/T: Qzak)
Jackie Healy-Rae
Jackie Healy-Rae (83) former TD for Kerry South has died. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. How about this for passion – https://t.co/SHAUkxW8o7
— Elaine Byrne (@ElaineByrne) December 5, 2014
Former Independent TD Jackie Healy-Rae dies (RTE)
Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland
A snowy scene from the Grand Canal in Dublin in December 2010
Well, maaaybe.
Met Éireann says the weather on Sunday will be:
“Bitterly cold and rather blustery. Good spells of sunshine but scattered showers too – mainly affecting the western half of the country. Some of the showers will be wintry in nature, with snow on western and northern hills and possibly some sleet on lower levels here. A flurry or two is possibly on higher ground further east. Highest temperatures just 3 to 6 degrees Celsius, in a fairly fresh westerly breeze. Similar conditions persisting overnight. Cold with some frost as winds moderate, with some snow accumulation possible in the north overnight.”
Via Met Éireann
Pic: Mark Griffin