https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8gSztjwJ8Q
Anne Marie O’Connor writes:
Wexford musical theatre group Oyster Lane Theatre Group are auditioning for Jesus Christ Superstar, which they’ll perform later this year. As always, it’s hard to find men to take part in shows, so they made this video to try and get people to join up and audition.
RealPolithicks writes:
My friend Ken, saw this car with an interesting license plate, just outside Boston…
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More to folly.
Thanks Neil Henderson, Dermot Ahern, Mick Crowley and Paul Murphy.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
But where?
Anyone?
Lines MUST close at 9.30pm
Thanks CF
Dublin 1740.
The hungry rising.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
“Tonight is the anniversary of the start of the Great Dublin Bread Riots which began in the early hours of 31 May 1740 and lasted until the 2nd June. According to this account:-
“Several hundred persons banded themselves together, and, proceeding to the bakers’ shops and meal stores, took the bread and meal into the streets, and sold them to the poor at low prices… Some days after the riot the Lord Mayor issued a proclamation giving permission to “foreign bakers and others” to bake bread in Dublin; he also sent to all the churchwardens of the city to furnish him with information of any persons who had concealed corn on their premises; he denounced “forestallers,” who met in the suburbs the people coming in with provisions, in order to buy them up before they reached the market; thus in a great measure justifying the rioters who were whipped and transported. The bakers began to bake household bread, which for some time they had ceased to do, and prices fell”
The riots took place against the context of the other Great Famine of 1740 during which it has been suggested 38% of the population died.Some of the rioters paid for the bread; others did not, all were threatened with excommunication by their respective churches. Quite a few ‘respectable’ citizens participated in the riots, and were subjected to transportation as a result. Harsh times indeed.”
Extract Via History of the Great Irish Famine
Who suffered a prank at the hands of John Bishop, Dave Gorman, Ricky Grover and Karl Spain?
Which unexpected place did George Wendt encounter Dylan Moran?
And just why was Dom Irrera almost never invited back to the festival?
For the weekend that’s in it.
Andrew Mickel writes:
“We’ve just published a book on on the Cat Laughs’ festival. kilkenny Secrets is 224-page guide brings together contributions from Irish funnymen including Jason Byrne, Ardal O’Hanlon, Graham Linehan and Mark Doherty [see extract below]. American contributors including George Wendt, Dom Irrera and Harland Williams and UK talent including Fred MacAulay, Simon Munnery and Comedy Store Players Steve Frost and Andy Smart.
The book also tells the story of the festival’s development from a late-night pub chat to an internationally-renowned brand. AND There’s a discount of 25% for the €4 ebook to Broadsheet readers using the discount code thebroadsheet2014 HERE
Otter Madness
“I think the year was 1998. It was the Sunday, and I was in the hotel bed with a hangover. It was before children, when you could indulge in a hangover – enjoy it, even – and just wait.
So there I was, half-awake, half-asleep, drifting, when the door burst open. Ross Noble stood facing me, with an otter. A stuffed otter. Under his arm. He stared at me. I stared at him. It’s hard to find the words sometimes. Was there really a man there? With an otter? My brain was poisoned, but doing its best. It’s unusual a man breaks into your room with an otter. But it’s Ross Noble. It’s unusual, but…
At last, I had a sentence ready. So did he.
“What are you doing in my room?” one of us said.
“It’s my room.”
He gave the room a quick scan. “Or I’m on the next floor up.”
And he left. And I went back to sleep.
I couldn’t find Ross that evening to confirm or deny the scene. But the following day, I was leaving for Dublin. Out on the main street, Eddie Bannon and Ross were standing at the traffic lights, Eddie with a bucket of water, and Ross with the otter. Each time the lights turned red, Eddie threw soapy water on the windscreen of a car, and Ross polished and dried it with the otter. Then Eddie gave the driver a coin, as payment.
So it did happen.”
Actor/comedian/director Mark Doherty
Secret Kilkenny (SuchSmallPortions)
Meanwhile…
Naoise writes:
“Lovely piece following George (Norm from Cheers) and Bernadette Wendt on the Wild Atlantic Way ahead of the Sky Cat Laughs Comedy Festival which started last night….”
Aquaman, Optimus Prime, and Batman sitting on their blocky asses in builder Angus MacLane’s all-action Lego Couch series.
Scenes from Dublin Airport today as Aer Lingus cabin crew who are members of the trade union IMPACT went on a 24 hour strike over a dispute in rostering, causing more than 200 flights to be cancelled.
Earlier: Little Erratic Rosters
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
[Lucinda Creighton]
The Reform Alliance.
Where are YOU?
David Quinn writes:
“Basically, Lucinda Creighton needs to declare her intentions soon or make clear that someone else needs to set up a party that will seek to reward work, will allow a free vote on social issues, will make a pact with voters to keep its promises, and will eschew populism as distinct from policies that are both sound and popular. It should also promise that it will belong to no government that includes Sinn Fein. \Fine Gael will make some of these promises as well, but this is where the Reform Alliance brand is a huge advantage; Lucinda and co can turn around and tell voters they have shown they keep their promises and Fine Gael has shown that they break theirs.”
