Yearly Archives: 2014

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Dazzle your friends.

Take off your Xmas jumper to reveal your Xmas tee.

The wearing of items from the Savage Christmas Tee shirt range [see link below] at this time of year is a tradition as old as Jack Frost himself.

The range is available at Savage’s pop up store in conjunction with the Christmas Shirt Company in St. Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre.

We have two (yes TWO) Xmas jumper-style tees (as above) in 100 per cent cotton and in ANY size to recklessly give away.

Savage would like to you to tell them:

The worst present I have ever given was____________________to my____________________

Lines MUST close at 5.45pm 8.45pm

Savage Christmas Tee Shirts

Thanks Katie

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From left, Ruth Coppinger TD, Pearse Doherty TD, artist Robert Ballagh, Richard Boyd Barrett TD and Seamus Healy TD.

Mark writes:

Political affiliates of the Right 2 Water Campaign holding  a press conference in Buswell’s Hotel {Molesworth Street, Dublin] today to coincide with the beginning of the debate on the Water Services Bill 2014 and to further outline plans for the demonstration at the Dail on 10th December.

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(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)

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Minidrones Blew Up My Toys: a slick, live action Corridor Digital short wherein remote controlled cars and miniature drones battle over batteries stolen to save the life of a teddy bear.

A story old as time.

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Brown Thomas car park, Dublin city centre This afternoon.

Beamers be beaming.

Thanks Ciaran Cahill

Meanwhile…

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Rathmines Road, Rathmines, Dublin

Simon Judge writes:

JCDecaux chap putting ads up [this afternoon] too busy to see he ‘inADvertently’ parked in a bike lane

 

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Petrified Irish Times ‘Pol Corr’ Harry McGee

And say it anyway.

“It looks like the next Dáil will be settled by Independents. I don’t think the number will be quite the 52 that has been projected but I think they will almost have a seat in every constituency. And then people would have to think through the consequences of that. Like just what Shane Ross and others have been saying in the past week, they’ve been saying that they would dispense with the whip system which is a political popular thing to say.

But it means that, I mean, the reason for the whip system isn’t, they’re not just doing it for the health or the discipline of the party. They’re doing it because they have to ensure that when they’re making very tough decisions, when they’re doling out the tough medicine for everybody, that there has to be some discipline and they have to make sure that everybody is on board and if they were to throw the whip system open, as some Independents are doing, it would mean that you’d have a system where taxes would inevitably be cut and spending would be increased and you get the kind of most populist policies being projected and then, in relation to legislation, you’d have TDs subject to intense lobbying both from vested interests and also from their constituencies and you have situations that would conceivably lead to stagnation and paralysis.

There’s not really been any instance in Europe of a country in which and independent administration has been successful. The only place indeed it has worked is in very small instances. You’d have to go to Tahiti islands and other places to see that. So people would have to think through the consequences of what their vote will mean and if the figures that were projected this morning come to pass, I think it will lead to inherent instability and a general election being called in short order. We’ll have a 1981/1982 situation… when there were three elections held in the course of just a year and a half.”

Ah here.

Following the Ispos poll results in the Irish Times this morning, on Today with Seán O’Rourke, the newspaper’s political correspondent Harry McGee warns voters to “think through the consequences”.

Listen back in full here.

Earlier: Ispos Factos

Pic via YouTube

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A what now?

Alison Martin writes:

How about a ten-man (and women) show with 1,400 characters? New Line Theatre is in the grip of a Twitter play challenge. Over the course of ten days, writers are posting their scenes to the @Newlinetheatre Twitter page for its Play With 1,400 Characters. The play finishes tomorrow and will be published in full on Monday. Featuring writers @columkav, @MartinAlison, @turnthegoat, @ahayzer42, @zoedunlopdoyle, @michaelconway10, @cadubh, Heather Hadrill, Adrian Wisdom and @WestleyBarnes.

New Line Theatre

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Zebra-patterned ear muffs?

Again?

Malahide, Co Dublin yesterday.

The launch of Beloved, Focus Ireland’s first retail store trading in pre-loved clothes, gifts and whatnot in time for Yule.

From top: Models Sophia Polz (left) and Naoise McDonnell and from left: Sophia, actress Susan Loughnane (centre) and Naoise all sporting clothes from the Beloved ‘collection’.

Collection.

Suit yourselves.

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(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

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Diarmaid Ferriter (above) and Boston College (top)

Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. sat down with Hot Press magazine this week.

A gentle enough encounter until the subject of The ‘Belfast Project‘ was raised.

After the Good Friday Agreement former loyalist and republican paramilitaries gave a series of candid interviews that chronicled their involvement in the Troubles with the recordings held in a library at Boston College. Until things went horribly wrong.

Hot Press: “You lectured in Boston College for a year. Were you there when the ill-fated Belfast Project archive was being put together?”

Diarmaid Ferriter: Interestingly, it was going on in the background. There was great secrecy around it. We were told a few times, (whispers) “Boston College has a very important project going on with former paramilitaries, and they’re being taped for posterity.” And I thought that it was actually a very good idea. It was done in this country, which people forget, after the War of Independence, but they did it in the 1940s and ‘50s. They collected statements from the survivors. It was called the Bureau of Military History, and do you know when they were released? 2003! Now what those gobshites did was they didn’t get proper legal advice. They went and did these interviews, and do you know what the agreement was? “We won’t release these tapes until you’re dead.” If I made an agreement with you that I’ll talk to you as long as you don’t release this until I die, on the understanding that that will be well into the distant future, so that it would be history and not current affairs, what happens if I walk out and get hit by a bus and die?. That’s the fundamental mistake they made. They didn’t get proper advice, they kept it secret.

Hot Press: “Why?”

Ferriter: “There were people who were pushing their own agendas because they wanted this material either for journalistic reasons or for political reasons… and the whole thing was a mess. It could have been a very valuable project. So they got the worst of all worlds then because it became an issue for practices and procedures in relation to oral history, which were embarrassing for those involved. Remember, the history department in Boston College wasn’t even consulted about this. There were particular individuals within Boston College who were trying to control this for themselves and, again, they got high on their own sense of importance. They thought they were players in the peace process, and they made fools out of themselves.”

Gulp.

The full interview is in the latest issue of Hot Press, on sale now.

Thanks Olaf

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Aoife Dooley writes:

I was wondering if you could you share my first animation?  It’s the start of a short series I am doing based on kids stories. This story is told by 11 year old Terriss. She’s looking back on a story her dad told her about “when he was young”. He passed away two years ago and she was dying to tell one of his funny stories.