Yearly Archives: 2016

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A scarf for the lady.

A cravat for the gent.

Racy.

Charmaine Kenny, at the Irish Workshop, online home of Irish-made stuff, writes:

‘Twas far from silk we were reared, but we are a little giddy about a new silk scarf collection by Dúinn Designs. Inspired by heritage sites like the Giant’s Causeway, Skellig Islands and the old library at Trinity College Dublin, these scarves weave stories of Irish heritage in an exciting modern twist in 100% Silk Crepe De Chine. Fancy!

Fight!

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Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’

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Hate that.

A compilation of unsatisfying things by Parisian animation studio Parallel Video – also a promo for their Unsatisfying Challenge in which they invite you to submit your own unfulfilling animations.

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Ropemaker – playing Galway with Hope is Noise and The Magnapinna

What you may need to know…

01. Math-rock three-piece Ropemaker hail from the alternative-music capital of Ireland, Portarlington, Co. Laois.

02. Having gigged sporadically the last few years, they’ve already shared stages with Steve Strong, the dearly-departed Terriers (the real ones, not the Dublin-based pretenders), ZINC and others.

03. Streaming above is the band’s 2015 extended-player, Abyssinia, available for download via the band’s Bandcamp.

04. Catch them live next at the Roisín Dubh on the 19th, in support of FEAST’s Cork takeover of the Roisín Dubh, featuring Hope is Noise and The Magnapinna.

Verdict: Swaggering, striding math-rock in a Battles or Alpha Male Tea Party vein. Grand.

Ropemaker

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Canadian artist Annette Labedski takes a break from abstract figurative painting to create pigment mixing videos, some of which (as above) use symmetrical mirroring, obscuring the palette knife to strangely mesmeric effect.

More at her Instagram account.

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For the weekend that’s in it.

January 20th, 1973.

Snatching a draw from jaws of yet another defeat to the all-conquering All Blacks.

When some of the goys played twice a week such was the demands of the amateur game at the time.

Paul MacWeeney reported:

The All Blacks can kick themselves all the way back to New Zealand for allowing Ireland to snatch a draw, with two penalty goals and a try to a goal and a try, six minutes from the end at Lansdowne Road on Saturday.

Completley inflexable thinking cost Kirkpatrick and his team the glittering prize of becoming the first from their country to beat all four HOME countries on a single tour, and assuming that the captain is the final arbiter of policy once play has started,

Kirkpatrick, one of the greatest forwards of history, must shoulder much of the blame for not ending with a margain of at least 10 points.

Harsh.

Meanwhile..

Earlier that week,

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The “good leg“.

Ireland v New Zealand (RTÉ Sport)

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A clip from Tuesday night at the Stand Up For Heroes chartity event at Madison Square Garden in New York in which former Daily Show host Jon Stewart recalls a 2013 twitter skirmish with potential Commander In Chief Donald ‘Fuckface Von Clownstick’ Trump.

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Louis Berry – Restless

Finn Keenan writes:

Here’s my new music video for Liverpool lad Louis Berry. With this video I wanted to do a surreal take on all the worries and distractions that prevent us from achieving a certain goal. I wanted to make something that was specific to Louis but also something anyone with a restless mind could relate to.

All shot in Cavan Town Hall, with endless help from Cavan locals! :)

In fairness.

Louis Berry

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Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan  at Garda HQ, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2 last night

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Assistant Garda Commissioner Michael O’Sullivan said: “We had a contingency plan yesterday, which we suspended at 7am this morning, in which we had a particular deployment of personnel throughout the country, and at no stage did martial law appear in the plan at all, nor was it necessary.”

He said he did not want to discuss the negotiations with the various associations as the process is still ongoing, but he welcomed last night’s developments.

“I simply want to reassure the public that the Garda was there yesterday, there today and will be there tomorrow to protect the communities,” he added.

Right so.

Martial law was never in strike contingency plan, says Assistant Commissioner (RTÉ)

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