From top: Kat Clinch, Emma-Jane Stoker Phelan, Jack Danaher, Ian Mooney, Kasia Sweirad and Conor Clancy.
Stephen Garry, welfare officer at Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union writes:
Last week I talked to 12 TCD students about their experiences with Mental Health Problems. We’re hoping that their bravery will encourage more people to talk, as the first step on the road to recovery.
Previously: Staying Alive
Steve: ““Proof that both me and the little fella had a jersey! Oh, and I’d like a new one because I’d like to stick it away in storage and present it to the young fella when he’s old enough to fit into it, as a reminder of when Ireland hammered England and went onto win the six nations when he was a baby!”
Eve: “Proof of my retro jersey that I’ve had over half my life, back when Permanent TSB could afford to sponsor a team, and heavy duty cotton was the pinnacle of sports performance technology – still looking pretty sharp, even if I’m not in this photo!”
Kev Meagher: “My Jersey’s so old there are pictures of Paul O’Connell wearing it and he has hair.”
Derry Durand: “That’s me on the left, with my Ireland jersey (World Cup 2003 jersey). My son and I were spectators at the Paralympic Games in London 2012 … suitably attired in our jerseys. I’d like a new one, so that that my son might think I am hip!”
Ronan Mulchrone: “Here’s me jumping from a plane over the Great Barrier Reef down unda proudly wearing the Irish jersey!”
Brian: “I thought the poster behind my now haggard Ireland jersey from 2001 was more fitting than plonking my ugly mug front and centre.”
Mark Hanley: “I’d like a new Irish Jersey please, last one got eaten…”
Mark Hennessy: “Back when I had more cash I done my best to keep up to date with Leinster and Ireland rugby Jerseys. Haven’t bought one in a couple of years so as you can see some of them are a little outdated and a worn a little thin…”
Conor Steenson: “This photo is of me and my Ireland jersey, taken on March 21st 2009, on a tram in Melbourne, just mere hours away from watching [on telly] Ireland beat Wales to secure our first Grand Slam since 1948. As you can see, I’m pretty nervous! A few weeks after this photo was taken I was working on a dairy farm near Matamata in New Zealand. I somehow managed to fall directly into the produce of a cow that obviously ate quite a bit of fibre. The jersey, unfortunately (and much to the delight of the Kiwi farmer), took the brunt of the damage. I still have the jersey (I’m too sentimental to throw it out), but between all the travelling and washing out of cow dung it’s on its last legs.”
Avril Doyle: “I have been hanging onto this jersey for years, in the hopes that maybe somehow I’d get back down to the size I was as a teenager and be able to wear it properly again (I want to say I got this around 2005? Can’t be sure but I’m wearing it in a photo from around then). However that clearly hasn’t happened, and I can’t wear this outside my house as “bet onto me” doesn’t even begin to describe this sad jersey. I can’t bring myself to throw it out as I have no other jersey to wear while watching a rugby match, and having one that would actually fit my non-teenager body would be great. I’ll donate the old one to a hipster, if that seals the deal…”
James Fagan: “That’s me on the right there wearing the “Triple Crown” during Ireland’s defeat of Wales in Cardiff last year. I’m living in London now and my brother pilfered my jersey from the wardrobe back in Dublin so I think I’m in need of a new one!”
Robert: “TWO retro jerseys – both could do with an upgrade…”
The finalists in yesterday’s Life Style Sports Ireland jersey competition.
There can only be TWO winners.
YOU decide.
Voting closes at 2pm. 3.15pm
UPDATE: Steve & son, and Mark Hennessy win the jerseys. We plan to have a ‘quiet word’ with Life Style Sports on Monday to see if we can get Avril and Derry one too. More as we get it.
Previously: This Could Be On Your Back
This afternoon.
Dave Hayes writes:
Farm Centre, home of HSE on Bishopstown Road, Cork..
That’s showbiz.
Thanks Atticus
Animal by Cork electrorock outfit Toy Soldier.
It’s also the Munster rugby team’s official song for the season.
Download here
Previously: You May Like This
Outside The Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin today.
Kevin McGuinness writes:
“Today FM’s Shave or Dye campaign smashed a Guinness World Record with the most amount of heads shaved simultaneously. It was set in 2013 with 77 heads but today 179 heads were shaved. Great cause and achievement. Good job to everyone. Now feeling that bit lighter :)”
The full version of a stop motion video visualising the physics of sound, created by Katarzyna Kijek and Przemyslaw Adamski. The award winning film has been doing the rounds of film festivals for the last few years. The creators say:
[Noise is] inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It’s a game of imagination provoked by sound. Individual sounds penetrating into the apartment of the main character relieved of their visual designates evoke images distant from its origins.
(images via Kijek/Adamski)
Yeah.
You heard right.
Orlagh Bailey writes:
Jack from [damn hispter kids’ show] TRTÉ heads down to 3D Printing Dublin to find out how it works and finds out that the machines can use any material, like chocolate or nylon…
Absolutely fasciNOMNOMNOM
Incredible swirling formations of Crevalle jacks off the coast of Mexico, photographed (possibly in 2012) by marine biologist Octavio Aburto and fellow diver David Castro
Yes they do look like the lads from Finding Nemo.
But no – those were silver moonys, it seems.
O’Connell Street Somewhere on the Quays, Dublin this afternoon.
(Pic: Tony Battersby)
