Yearly Archives: 2016

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Loah – playing Cork for d’Jazz

What you may need to know…

01. Sallay Matu Garrett is a soul singer of Irish/Sierra Leonean origin, dealing in a self-devised fusion she’s monikered ArtSoul.

02. Having collaborated extensively with a wide variety of musicians from all over the Dublin scene during her time in Trinity College, she’s struck out with a solo run that’s won over a lot of people in the past year or so.

03. Streaming above is the video for most recent solo single Cortege. You can also check out Take It, her collaboration with producer Bantum, here.

04. Appearing next at Cork Jazz Festival weekend, playing the Green Room at Cork Opera House on the 28th of October, with DJ set from Colm K. Tickets on sale now.

VERDICT: Effortlessly cool and fearless in her sound. She makes the whole music thing look easy. Big things surely await.

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Photo: Tara Thomas Photography

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That odd plumage sticking out of an unidentified chimney top in Cork (top) and from The Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin (above) …

…Explained.

Amy Lyons writes:

Last week Broadsheet.ie asked what the big yellow feather was for…

The feather belonged to ‘Tommy McAnairey’, the spokesperson for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning to kick off Co Awareness Week.this week

He also left this note…

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‘sup?

Well you could knock us down with a large PR novelty prop.

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Last weeK: A View To A Quill

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Minister for Finance Michael Noonan and Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe at government buildings earlier this month.

Our unfortunate ministers fear
That they won’t get to spread much good cheer
Just two euros a week
But they have the cheek
To call it a hundred a year.

John Moynes

Rollingnews

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A new low.

‘Whaddyanuts?’ writes:

A piece of schiße on a water meter that looks like our fair old isle. Spotted in Rathmines [Dublin 6] to restore some pride…

Human or canine?

We can but guess.

The Broadsheet Book of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland, edited by Aidan Coughlan (New Island). A vast small number of copies still available.

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Lester Holt and Hillary Clinton before Monday night’s US presidential Election debate

Further to Monday’s US Presidential debate…

Which brings us to [debate moderator[ Lester Holt and the accusations that he tipped Monday’s debate in favor of Hillary Clinton. Holt’s bias was obvious, but the impact was not inevitable. It mattered largely because, shockingly, Donald Trump was shocked that Holt was in the tank for Clinton.

How could Trump not see that coming? And if he did, why wasn’t he better prepared?

…It was outrageous — but no surprise. After all, Holt is part of the Big Media establishment that has uniformly protected President Obama and broken all its own standards to trash Trump and elect Clinton.

…It’s possible that anti-media sentiment could help decide the election. The nationwide numbers suggest the possibility.

A recent Gallup survey found a new low in public trust of the media, with only 32 percent of Americans saying they have a great deal or some trust in newspapers, TV and radio “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly.” Trust fell eight points in one year alone and is only 14 percent among Republicans.

In a change election where both candidates have historically high negative ratings, many voters could make their choice for secondary reasons.

Voting against the other candidate is the most likely option, while voting against the media as a proxy for voting against the establishment is emerging as another.

In that case, the news media could be more than part of the story. They could be the story.

FIGHT!

The media loves Hillary — and it could cost her the election (Michael Goodwin, The New York Post)
Yesterday: The People Have Spoken

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.Anon writes:

I was just wondering if you’d had other people writing in to ask about the Repeal jumpers you had up on the site in June. I paid for one, and have received nothing since save an email in July explaining that they’re very swamped and busy, and they haven’t responded to my polite emails since then querying exactly how long the delay is going to be. While I’m happy to donate and be involved, I don’t feel comfortable about paying for a good or service and neither receiving it nor any explanation or response. Have you had other readers asking?

We’ve had a couple, in fairness.

Anyone?

Pic: Rollingnews

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