Derdiedas writes:
Spotted in the Asia Market on Drury Street in Dublin 2 – fruity!
But doesn’t it look gonomnomnomnomnom…
Yearly Archives: 2014
A 21-minute documentary about internet addiction by 18-year-old filmmaker, Eoin Corbett.
Eoin lived without the internet for 30 days.
He also got some of his mates to go offline for a time.
He writes:
This is the second documentary I have made. I came up with the idea for this in December last year. I wanted to challenge myself and see if I was really as addicted to the internet as I thought I was. I planned the documentary and began my month without the internet in January of this year. I made the film over 4 months on a very part time basis (when I wasn’t in school or working). I had no budget and the only money I ended up spending was on transport. I’m proud of it and it’s the best thing I’ve made so far but there is a lot I could improve on.
Thanks Jack Corbett
Annie Byrne, Don Bailey, Aaron Abbey and Dermot Walsh, from the Disability Federation of Ireland, with posters encouraging people to ask three questions regarding the rights of people with disabilities during the current local and European elections campaigns.
The DFI says almost 600,000 people in Ireland have a disability, or 13% of the population, and that people with disabilities are twice as likely to live in poverty as the rest of the population.
DFI Local and European Election Campaign 2014
Previously: While I Have You There
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins in Illinois, Chicago and Bloomington, Indiana at the weekend.
From top, President Higgins visits the Gaelic Park in Chicago, meeting children at the Gaelic Park with President of the Gaelic Park, John Devitt, yesterday; President Higgins and Sabina at his alma mater Indiana University in Bloomington with President of Indiana University, President Michael McRobbie on Saturday before he received an Honorary Degree.
President Higgins graduated from Indiana University in 1967 with a Masters of Arts Degree in Sociology.
Squee
Previously: Squeezing Everything In
Photocall Ireland
Ten-year-old Niall Kehoe [above] released his first game last week, Kehoes Crazy War of the Worlds which he created using Game Salad.
Dermot Daly of Tapadoo (who Niall got in touch with for some advice) says:
[Niall] e-mailed us out of the blue to help him upload his app to the store.
His problems were in the process of submission – getting certificates, bundling the app correctly and so forth. Problems that any developer could run into. He was quite a dab hand at getting around the keyboard; seemed super-smart.
It’s great to see that people as young as 10 show an interest in software development. I started young myself, and always like to see movements like App Camp for Girls and Coder Dojo. Meeting enthusiastic young developers tells me that the future of software is in safe hands.
It’s fantastic to see someone so young be motivated enough to develop skills still not taught in schools despite all the lip service given to the Smart/Knowledge Economy given by politicians.
Kehoes Crazy War of the Worlds available on the Apple app store now. Why don’t you download and review it to give this budding young developer some encouragement?
Do you have an Irish app? Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
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Spotted in Kinvara, Co. Galway.
U writes:
One man’s bread, is another man’s drinking problem.
The proposition that it is restricted, this kind of misconduct and misbehaviour – inadequate investigation, vulnerability of citizens – that it is confined to Cavan-Monaghan I think is unlikely.
Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte this morning on RTE Radio One’s Morning Ireland, speaking in light of the Guerin Report into allegations made by Sgt Maurice McCabe.
Previously: This Just In
Garda misconduct ‘unlikely’ to be confined to one district (Irish Times)
Photocall Ireland
Attendees at the first Women On Air conference in Dublin Castle this morning.
Fair play, in fairness.
Pic: WomenOnAirIE
The Shard Building in London
From the Irish Times letters page:
Sir, – Thomas Piketty’s analysis (Capital in the Twenty-First Century) of global income inequality is brought into sharp relief with the news today that a one-night stay in the hotel located in London’s Shard building will cost you £14,000. According to the World Bank Development Indicators 2008, half the world’s population lives on $2.50 a day. £14,000 is worth $23,728, which divided by $2.50 gives 9,491 days. Dividing this by 365 gives 26 years. One night in the Shard costs the amount of money that half of the world’s population live on for 26 years. – Yours, etc,
FIGHT!
One night in the Shard (Irish Times)
Pic: Electroautomation