Cliffs of Moher, Liscannor, Co Clare
Joanne writes:
On a day like yesterday when I arrived at it was pea soup and you literally couldn’t see a hand in front of you and then lo and behold half hour later this (above). It was just stunning….tourists were in their element. I met 2 Japanese tourists who had come specially to Ireland to see it as they are HUGE fans of The Princess Bride (1987) which features the cliffs. Makes a change from Game of Throners…
Rory McIlroy (right) points out a heckler at yesterday’s British Open
I come here in sadness to say
Europe lost to the great USA
There was heartbreak and tears
And mean-spirited jeers
Which I will not repeat, oh no way.
John Moynes
Pic: Reuters
On Saturday.
Spotted at the Archery Field Championships in Kilruddery House, Bray, Co Wicklow.
Up the Ivory Coast
Thanks Dubháin
SAND – second album for post-rock solo project
What you may need to know…
01. Keen observers of post-rock/instrumental ongoings may recall North Atlantic Oscillation, an Irish/English/Scottish outfit based in Edinburgh, releasing thru KScope, that came in for serious critical acclaim in the early part of the decade.
02. They’re fronted by Dublin/Limrock man Sam Healy, whose solo project SAND surfaced with a self-titled full-length in 2013, taking NAO’s soundscaping in a more introspective direction.
03. Streaming above is Seldom-Used Furniture, taken from SAND’s newly-released sophomore effort, A Sleeper, Just Awake.
04. The album is available now on CD and digital. Meanwhile, fans of Healy’s mothership will be happy to learn that a compilation of the band’s tunes is also up for pre-order at present via the band’s site.
VERDICT: Arriving at a mad intersection of post-rock, prog, psychedelia and taking on inflections of jazz, SAND plays with the various boundaries and lines between them all, to glorious effect.
With Daragh Malone, of St Mochta’s National School in Clonsilla, Dublin 15.
Ailish Brennan, of St Mochta’s National School Build Action Group, writes:
Nine hundred and seven children attend school in St. Mochta’s National School in appalling conditions. The Government promised us a new school building in 2006. We are still waiting. The Government just announced grand plans for education. This is a joke to us. Children in our school have to use buckets to catch leaks on rainy days. Crowded, cramped, smelly, mouldy, fungus-ridden classrooms are the norm.
This is the face of Irish education in 2016. Four hundred and fifty children in delapidated overcrowded prefabs. Our children deserve better!
Our parents and children are marching to Dáil Éireann on Wednesday morning.
He’s back.
Are Ya Having That writes:
‘LeatherJacketGuy’ Visited Oktoberfest For some crazy German Facts and got into a Punch Up!
