Thanks Enda Cunningham, Colin McGann, Wroxy Meredith, Kieran Murphy and Nick Sutton.
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Yearly Archives: 2014
[From top: Gene Wilder and Eileen Colgan in Quakser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx (1970 The Bronx; with Mick lally and Jeni Courtney in The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) and as Esther in RTE’s Fair City and a portrait from 2007]
Eileen Colgan, whose stage film and television career in Ireland spanned five decades [including fabulous hidden Gene Wilder classic Quakser Fortune] has died aged 80 after a short illness.
Apart (from possessing) extreme acting chops, Eileen was warm, wise and wickedly funny. She was so kind she even bothered to give us encouragement and advice over the years. We will miss her very much and send our condolences to her family and many friends.
The funeral mass will take place at 10am on Thursday at the Church of the Visitation, Fairview, Dublin with burial at St Patrick’s Church cemetery in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow.
Fair City Actress Eileen Colgan Dies (RTE)
Pics: IMDB/RTE/Lisa Richards
The Wellington Memorial, Phoenix Park, Dublin this evening.
Thanks Vinny O’Reilly
Cáca Cacti
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Diabetes-inducing frosted botanicals by Brooklyn based baker Alana Jones-Mann
Lent be damned. We would faceplant those houseplants in a New York minOMNOMNOM
Full how to here.
Sleazed Out
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Frank Flannery, former Rehab director, lobbyist and Fine Gael Director of Elections.
He could always get into bananas.
“I have informed the Chairman of the Rehab Group board, Mr. Brian Kerr, that I wish to step down as a director of the Rehab Group and any other group boards with immediate effect.
“It is a step that I undertake with real regret but I have come to the opinion that my involvement with the board is making the Rehab Group the subject of political controversy as this time. I spent 34 years in the Rehab Group and retired in December 2006.
I rejoined the board in 2011. The Rehab Group has played an enormously valuable role in Irish Society for nearly 70 years and I wish it continued success for the future.
“I have also informed the General Secretary of Fine Gael, Mr. Tom Curran, that I am stepping down as Director of Elections and as a Trustee of the party as of today. My involvement with Fine Gael related only to electoral strategy and organisation and I had no role in advising the government.
“Fine Gael has been mandated, along with the Labour Party, with the onerous task of turning the economy around after the deepest recession since 1929.
“I believe the government, and Fine Gael in particular, is performing well and the economy is on the mend. The party and the Taoiseach will continue to have my complete support and I will assist the party in any way I can as a private citizen and as a proud ordinary member of Fine Gael.”
Frank Flannery this afternoon.
Frank Flannery quits Rehab and Fine Gael roles RTE)
Earlier: How Do You Lobby Yourself?
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
BodBridge
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The Pet Shop Boys featuring Miss Pant’s [Rory O’Neill’s] ‘Noble Call’ speech from the stage of the Abbey Theatre last month.
Pet Shop Boys release new song based on gay rights speech (NME)
Meanwhile…
Dr David Robert Grimes writes:
“Another major reason for the persistence of homophobia may be a defensive reaction, rooted in fears and discomfort about one’s own sexuality. A 1996 study by Henry E Adams et al at the University of Georgia in the US took a group of self-identified heterosexual men and split them into two groups according to whether they openly expressed homophobic sentiments. The groups were then shown heterosexual, lesbian and gay pornography while bloodflow to the penis and erectile changes were recorded.
“While both homophobic and non-homophobic groups experienced increases in penis circumference when exposed to the heterosexual and lesbian pornography, only the homophobic group showed an increase in response to male homosexual porn. Furthermore, when asked to rate how arousing the material was afterwards, homophobic participants declared it had no effect, despite their penis saying otherwise.
“This led the authors to conclude that “Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.”
“In a similar vein, a 2012 study found that individuals who experienced low parental approval were sometimes motivated to conceal same-sex attraction, leading to exaggerated defence mechanisms including homophobia.”
Similar vein eh?
FIGHT!
Why is it proving so hard to root out homophobia? (David Robert Grimes, The Guardian)
Previously: Dear John
The tux/quiff alternative.
Oisin O’Reilly writes:
“BeLonG To [LGBT youth group] have a new video out entitled ‘Stand Up for Your Friends’ it’s been released today as part of ‘Stand Up LGBT Awareness Week’ their annual campaign to end homophobia & transphobia in Irish schools and youth services. The campaign brings a very simple message to young people ‘Show your support to your LGBT friends & don’t stand for homophobic bullying’.”
Twitter feed: #StandUp14
Dayum.
Cathal writes:
“Fresh in the door in Drumcondra [Dublin]. Yes it’s addressed to me. No I can’t afford it.