One thousand Bord Gais employees are to share in a €55m windfall. The workers at the state-owned utility company are to get payouts averaging €55,000, a meeting in Cork was told today. News of the bounty for the gas and water workers was announced as part of the process of getting the company ready for sale.
Jay.
Sus.
Exclusive: One thousand Bord Gais employees to share in €55m windfall (Irish Independent)
Transport Minister Leo Varadkar, Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter and a European traffic colleague at a road safety event last May.
Geraldine Lynagh, of TV3, tweets from a Road Safety Authority conference in Dublin Castle this morning.
Pic: Leovaradkar.ie
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, of Altan, will try to ascertain why OUR songs are so maudlin’ identifiable in a new six-part RTÉ One series called Guth na nGael: A Thematic Exploration of Irish Song.
Paddy Hayes writes:
“Mairéad explores in each episode what particular hang-ups do the Irish have, what are our pet obsessions, just why is it that all our wars are happy and all our songs are sad. While meeting and jamming with the cream of Irish musical talent, she explores Irish song under the following themes across the six-part series: 1. Home and the Homeland. 2. Rebel Songs and Defiance. 3. Unrequited Love. 4. Spirituality and the Gods. 5. Liquor and Lust. 6. Keening and the Blues.”
FIGHT!
The series features contributions and performances from: Eddi Reader, Mary Black, John Spillane, Wallis Bird, Damien Dempsey, Ger Wolfe, Luka Bloom, Séamas O Beaglaíoch, Eleanor McEvoy, Jimmy Kelly, Gemma Hayes, Karan Casey, Róisín Elsafty, Treasa Ní Cheannabháin, Delorentos, Sinéad O’Connor, the Monks of Glenstall, Nóirin Ní Riain, Liam ó Maonlaí, Julie Feeney, Susan McKeown, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, the Voice Squad and Declan O’Rourke.
No Kila? No watchee.
The series begins tomorrow night at 7.30pm.
Thanks Paddy
A cover to mark Le Cool Dublin’s OFFSET special by Dublin design studio Detail.
OFFSET, “Dublin’s creative festival” starts in the Bord Gais Theatre, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin tomorrow.
Detail’s Holly Brennan sez:
“We’re very excited to be speaking at the conference. The cover is a based on the lovely light sculpture by Martha Schwartz .which marks the entrance to the [Grand Canal] theatre.”
Le Cool Dublin will be programming the Yellow Stage at the event. Expect Parnell beards, tatts and fashionable eyewear.
This week’s le cool Dublin issue
And now we’ve reached Happiness Day,
When the chaps at the U.N. all say,
That they won’t let your frown,
Bring anyone down,
So cheer up. Right now. Just obey.
John Moynes
(UN)
[An object discovered overnight in the Southern Indian Ocean during the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370]
Diarmaid Frain asks:
“I’m sorry but does the bit of wreckage look like Ireland?”
Yes and yes.
MH370: two objects spotted in southern Indian Ocean, Australia says (Guardian)
What you may need to know:
1. Scratch is a new Irish short film.
2. It’s screening at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, which is kind of a big deal.
3. In NYC? Tribeca screening details here.
4. It stars Ian Lloyd Anderson from Love/Hate, and Stephen Jones, from Love/Hate. Being in Love/Hate is like being in Father Ted – even if you were in it for two seconds, you’re ‘Love/Hate star…’ for THE REST OF YOUR DAYS.
5. Tribeca are also screening The Stag (2014). The Irish are coming, etc.
Release date: N/a
Celebrating Nowruz, the Persian new year, in Stephen’s Green, Dublin yesterday afternoon.
Thanks Elaine Mooney
Hank Green of SciShow breaks down the biology, symptoms and treatment of migraine. Sez he:
If you’ve never had a migraine, you might think it’s just a really bad headache. But if you’ve ever had them, or you know someone who does, you know that they’re much worse and much more complicated. A true migraine is a multi-symptom disorder of the central nervous system that affects the brain. But yes, really bad headaches are a major component of it, probably the most significant and identifiable component, but usually they last longer than a normal headache, lasting any where from 4 hours to several days and it brings along a whole array of other symptoms.
Previously: Cacao? Cocoa? Coca?
Meanwhile, an illustration by Jane McCormick:
Thanks Jane
