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Just now.
Bride Street, Dublin 8.
Just a centaur. Out walking his horse.
(Thanks CON)
Earlier: Right So
This evening.
Miltown Luas Station.
Ruthie writes:
The standards of the Irish Bank holiday are alive and well….
Yesterday evening.
George’s Quay, Dublin 2
Stephanie McCardle tweetz:
Out of work in time to actually see the sunset (usually get its reflection in a nearby office), so this made me VERY happy…
Thanks Jeff Harbourne
Applications are open for BARE in the Woods 2017, and the protocol for artist applications is a little different this year for the boutique festival, with mobile video platform MobStar getting in on the action.
Michael Carr writes:
The acts upload a video to the BARE in the Woods category through the MobStar app, which in turn are reviewed and the selected acts will then play at various BARE events throughout 2017.
Additionally, acts who are chosen to play at BARE events via the MobStar app will have their music reviewed by music industry mentors.
Until then, there’s the documentary Fleadhed (trailed above, showing next Monday on RTE1), filmed at this year’s festival, where Polly O’Sullivan entertains hip-hop innovators The Sugar Hill Gang.
Don’t forget.
The clocks go back 100 years this weekend.
Via Irish light bulb makers Solus:
The clocks go back in the early hours of Sunday October 30th at 2am, it marks 100 years since the concept of ‘daylight saving’ was introduced in Ireland under British rule.
Every year the clocks go forward an hour in March and back an hour in October but according to a new survey carried out by olus, 63% of Irish people would prefer if the practice was abolished…
When asked why the clocks go back, 83% of respondents cited day light saving and to benefit school children, energy efficiency and community, 13% believe it is to signal the end of summer, 1% quite rightly mentioned it is because William Willet wanted to play more golf
It was, in fact, the great-great-grandfather of Coldplay rocker Chris Martin – William Willet – that first introduced the concept of ‘daylight saving’ in 1907 and he actually was a keen golfer.
FIGHT!
Stressed? Unemployed? Unlucky in love?
Don’t worry, Lil has an app for that.
The penultimate episode of the first season of the weekly web comedy series created by Dublin writer/performers Kelly Shatter, Luke Benson and Kevin Handy.
Previously: Long Dark Twenties: Episode 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMWRvzMxBU
Valhalla, they are coming.
Ahead of the General Election in Iceland tomorrow [results Saturday night], a look at The Pirate Party, a collection of internet activists from both left and right that may help form a new government in the land of the midnight sun.
Couldn’t happen here.
FIGHT!
Pirate party prepares for first major win in Iceland elections (New Scientist)