Anne Marie O’Connor tweetz:
Took this pic of a bin on the Main St in Gorey last night. Flying elephants in North Wexford. That’s not snow!
Jaykers.
RUUUUNN!
Yearly Archives: 2014
Le Château de Rentilly – a 1960s country house 30 km east of Paris reclad with polished mirrored surfaces. Inside, most of the internal volume has been cleared to house a regional showcase of contemporary artwork.
By Stand Still, Stay Silent, who sez:
Language trees for the language lovers! I’ve gathered pretty much all the data for this from ethnologue.com, which is an awesome well of information about language families. And if anyone finds some important language missing let me know! (Naturally most tiny languages didn’t make it on the graph, aww. There’s literally hundreds of them in the Indo-European family alone and I could only fit so many on this page, so most sub-1 mil. speaker languages that don’t have official status somewhere got the cut.)
Huge version here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DueSeIWn2E
What you may need to know:
1. A teenage English mathematics prodigy is chosen to represent Great Britain at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He is faced with many challenges including falling in love.
2. Bit of an all star cast for this BBC production. You will not recognise Asa Butterfield from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008).
3. You might recognise Sally Hawkins from Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine (2013). She got an Oscar nomination for that one. Although she was better in the excellent Layer Cake (2004) in our opinion.
4. The director Morgan Matthews is better known for his documentaries. His Beautiful Young Minds is the inspiration for this drama.
5. Not to be mistaken for the New York based flick X/Y(2014) which is dire. X + Y (2014) is meant to be much more compelling.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Let’s get physical, physical.
Release Date: March 13, 2015
(Delboy remains at large. Tom Dillon (aka Dylan) is Broadsheet’s social media manager and man of the soil)
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The National Museum of Ireland
“The National Museum of Ireland would like to clarify that reports in today’s media that the Museum’s four sites face imminent closure or that entry charges are to be introduced are incorrect. No decision on the closure of sites or on the introduction of charges has been taken by the Board and no recommendations have been made to the Minister of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht in this regard. The Museum’s four sites are and will remain open to visitors and entry to all Museum sites is free. The Board remains committed to the principle of free entry. So far this year, the Museum has welcomed over 1 million visitors.”
Further to reports on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that four of Ireland’s major museums may close on January 1, unless they receive more financial support from the State, the National Museum of Ireland has released a statement
National museum board discussed closing sites (RTE)
Press release issued on behalf of the National Museum of Ireland
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Marie Farrell arriving at the High Court on Wednesday
Marie Farrell in tears in High Court. Says Gardai bullied her children when she withdrew false statements against Ian Bailey. More at 12.30
— Geraldine Lynagh (@GerLynaghTV3) December 5, 2014
Breakingnews.ie reports:
“Marie Farrell has said her teenage children were punished by gardaí after she admitted making false statements about Ian Bailey. The shopkeeper from Schull, Co Cork has told the High Court she met with the journalist 9 years ago to apologise for the claims she had made about him during the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation.
“Her garda statements place the 57-year-old on a bridge near the scene early on December 23, 1996. An emotional Marie Farrell said her 13-year-old son was followed around Schull by a garda who told him: ‘I’ll do you’.
Garda told my 13-year-old son ‘I’ll do you’, says witness at Bailey trial (Breakingnews.ie)
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
This month’s Modern Toss Advent Calendar.
Pablo, of Maglus Stylus at the Grand Canal with Paddy Kavanagh and the pen in action
The Maglus Stylus.
The Offaly-made ipad stylus with graphite alloy tip Patrick Kavanagh would probably use were he alive and so minded.
Louise writes:
I work for a company called Maglus Stylus. The Maglus stylus is the brainchild of two young college graduates from Tullamore [Co Offaly] (Noel Joyce and Andy Shaw), they’ve done a great job creating what is considered by many to be the best iPad stylus you can buy.
The promo we are running this weekend is ‘20% off EVERYTHING on MagusStylus.com PLUS free worldwide shipping’. The promo code is XMAS14 and must be entered at the checkout. The offer is valid until December 8. Thank you and a Happy Christmas to all Broadsheet readers.
Irish-Made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee just an innocent tickle.