Yearly Archives: 2014

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Word Play is a monthly workshop at Wexford Arts Centre where actors work on new scripts and writers see their work performed.

Earlier this year, Colum Kavanagh, Dominic Palmer and Eoghan Finn were chosen by playwright Billy Roche as the winners of the Word Play Playwriting Competition for their plays Question Five, Hot Topics and Come Along The Road Until You Stop Dead.

The three plays will be performed at the Wexford Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday night.

Book tickets (€12) via Wexford Arts Centre or call 053 9123764

Thanks Alison Martin

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Chrissy Curtin writes

I wrote and illustrated this big, sprawling timeline on the whole Pantigate thing from a couple months ago. Thought you might be interested what with the Referendum on the way…

EXPLORE: Pantigate: An Illustrated Timeline (Chrissy Curtin)

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Don’t be board bored this Christmas.

Be Squared,

Karl Cummins writes:

I’ve recently launched an online shop selling a new board game called Squared based on the game ‘Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe’.
The game of Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe went viral last year thanks to the blog “Math with Bad Drawings” and I downloaded an app to start playing it. I found that it has all of the characteristics of a classic strategy board game like chess or draughts; it has simple rules, it’s difficult to master and it’s addictive.
One difference though is that it didn’t have a board game format. It existed initially using pen and paper and then through various smartphone and tablet apps. The game deserved a great format so I set about designing it.
The result is Squared and it would be brilliant if you could tell your readers about it. The board game comes in 3 variants, birch plywood (€36), solid Irish beech (€47) or solid walnut (€53). More info can be found at the link below including a short video showing you how to play and the shop is open and taking orders here

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Irish-made stocking fillers marked Irish-Made Stocking Fillers to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. No fee just a virtual neck rub.

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Pat McGrath tweetz:

Around 50 people outside Ballina District Hospital [in Co. Mayo] as Taoiseach attends function here. Opposed to water charges

Protesters call for abolition of Irish Water as Kenny attends Ballina function (RTE)

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With precious little to work with beyond the coquettish cutaways of The Force Awakens teaser trailer and the new-look light saber (now with bonus cross-guard), fan boys and girls of the Internets have already started work on an impressive new wing of the already sprawling Musée De Fan Art Star Wars.

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(H/T: Nick Moran)

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The Irish Times reports this morning that, between August 2013 and October 2014, Irish Water spent almost €5.2million on legal fees. This bill included:

€3.6million to A&L Goodbody
€81,000 to Arthur Cox and Company
€46,411.95 to Mason Hayes and Curran
€1.3million to McCann Fitzgerald

Ruadhán MacCormaic, in the Irish Times this morning, reports:

“The total spend on lawyers’ fees is equivalent to one-third of the annual budget of the Office of the Attorney General, which provides legal advice to all Government departments…The figures on legal spending come at a time of increasing optimism among Dublin’s biggest law firms about their business prospects.”

Right so.

Irish Water spends more than €81,000 a week in legal fees (Ruadhaán MacCormaic, Irish Times)

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A touch of urbex in Mulgrave Street, Limerick.

Photographer Donal Moloney writes:

Limerick Lunatic Asylum was founded in 1827. It was originally built to accommodate 150 patients. “Lunatics”, “imbeciles” and “idiots” as they would have been described by the authorities of the day, the asylum had 337 patients. By 1848 its population exploded to over 1,000 and kept growing. Ireland was the first nation to legislate for the provision of facilities for the mentally ill, and as such the Asylum stands as one of the first large institutions for the insane in the western world. In 1959 the complex became better known as St Joseph’s Hospital. Much of it today is lying derelict.

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