Yearly Archives: 2016
Free tomorrow night?
Can you be in Ashbourne, County Meath at 6pm?
Would you like to win a Family pass to Tayto Park’s After Dark VIP experience?
Ian Collins at Tayto Park writes:
We have an EXCLUSIVE Tayto Park After Dark VIP Experience for a family of four (aged 14 years or over because it’s a night event) before it opens to the public.
Guests will experience the House of Horrors, night ride the Cu Chulainn Coaster, Air Race, Rotator, Windstar and endeavor the terrifying 5D Horror Movie, along with a reception afterwards in the park.To enter please complete this sentence:
‘My scariest crisp-related experience to date involved_________________________________’
Lines MUST close at – woooh! – MIDNIGHT.
‘After Dark’ bookings here
Damage to two GoCars in Blackpitts, Dublin 8 from suspected arson attacks last night
The GOCar car sharing service was last night hit by two separate incidents of suspected arson on their vehicles.
GoCar Head Of Operations Jonathan Roche responding to the attacks in Dublin 8, said:
“As a small Irish business, an attack on two vehicles worth €15,000 each is obviously a huge disappointment for us, but it is an isolated incident and we’re reassured by how swiftly and thoroughly the Gardai have been dealing with it.
This is an ongoing investigation so we cannot currently comment any further on details of the suspected arson.
These 2 cars are consistently very busy, and with them off the road our members are inconvenienced and we’re losing out on essential revenue.
Our cars are like our shop for any small Irish store, and this attack will cause many knock-on effects for our business with a small team.
We’re confident the benefits of GoCar are being felt by both members and non-members, as each GoCar takes up to 14 private cars off the streets of Dublin and Cork”
FIGHT!
Pics via Darragh Genockey
The Walking Dead returns this weekend for its seventh season.
If you’ve not been bothered in the slightest with the attendant hype train, fear not.
John Cleese is here to talk you through the first six seasons, with a few lessons in zombie walker evasion along the way.
Sunday
Portmarnock Raceway, Portmarnock, County Dublin
Photographer Donal Moloney and writer Patricia Murphy visited the race track for an afternoon of pony trotting, harness racing and fascinating people and horse watching.
Patricia writes:
It’s a sunny Sunday in October as we pull into Portmarnock raceway. The retro burger wagon gleams in the sunlight as Chariots Of Fire plays out over the tannoy. Men clad in race colours akin to motorcycle super heroes saunter through the paddocks with mud splashed faces and cheeky grins. A slice of laid back Americana.
It’s not long before we are introduced to John ‘JR’ Richardson and Alan the ‘Wild Thing’ Wallace, seasoned veterans of the Irish Harness Racing (IHRA) circuit.
The bikes or sulkies lie to one side as owners, trainers and drivers prepare their prize pacers and trotters for the day’s races.
Out on the all weather track there is plenty of activity. Horses and drivers are warming up, the tractor loops around raking and sprinkling the surface between races before the moving gate lines up the competitors and they’re off to a running start.
Everything and everyone is in slow perpetual motion until a race starts and then it’s three minutes of focused attention, cheering and shouting.
Technically, we learn, there are a few differences between the races: Trotters follow a diagonal gait while the Pacers have perfected a lateral stride.Continue reading →
‘sup?
This afternoon.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Liam O’Brien writes:
The lads at Dublin City Council have really upped their signage game…
In fairness
Phil Mitchell anyone?
Australian video artist Nick ‘Pogo’ Bertke’s personal tribute (yes, that’s him throughout) to the musical ouevre of Star Trek TNG’s science officer and captain. To wit:
Data & Picard is my tribute to one of the greatest TV series of all time. It is an original track featuring the voices of Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Commander Data (Brent Spiner), accompanied by a music video I shot entirely in my living room with a green screen and lights. The track opens with the Klingon Victory Song, followed by a remix of Data singing Che Gelida Manina in the episode ‘In Theory’. This episode was the first ever to be directed by Patrick Stewart and I didn’t realize this until after the track was finished.
LA based photographer Mike Kelley’s composites of air traffic taken at various airports around the world.
More here.
Related: Landing Rush
