Yearly Archives: 2016
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Who first created “the most ordered fast food item in Ireland”?
Liam Geraghty writes:
On RTE Radio 1’s The Business, I attempted to solve Ireland’s greatest mystery – who invented the Spice Bag?
Listen here
Previously: Emma Doran on The Spice Bag
Two gardaí in this car arrived unannounced at the home of journalist Gemma O’Doherty (top) last night
Yesterday evening, a male and female Garda, dressed in plain clothes, arrived unannounced at the home of journalist Gemma O’Doherty.
She had just arrived home, had parked her car and she was entering her house when they approached her.
They said that they were members of An Garda Siochana and mentioned a communication Ms O’Doherty had made with the Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan.
Finding the situation intimidating, Ms O’Doherty immediately asked them to leave.
Ms O’Doherty believes it was in relation to her ongoing investigation into allegations of malpractice in the Raonaid Murray murder investigation.
They refused to leave a number of times despite being asked and it was only when Ms O’Doherty said that they were being recorded and that she would be seeking legal opinion, that they left.
Ms O’Doherty legal team have been informed of the incident and she has also written to the Minister for Justice and a number of other Dail deputies.
Their visit followed a complaint made by Ms O’Doherty to the Data Protection Commissioner some months ago – after the Garda Press Office gave Ms O’Doherty’s private email address to a garda from Dun Laoghaire Garda Station.
In relation to that complaint, after some months, the Data Protection Commissioner eventually found that the guards had no case to answer and that it was acceptable for the Press Office to hand over private details of a reporter to other sections of the gardai.
Ms O’Doherty maintains it was not.
Ms O’Doherty feels the arrival of the two guards last night to her home was an act of harassment and intimidation.
Previously: Gemma O’Doherty on Broadsheet
Pic: Gemma O’Doherty
Rollingnews
Tapt – Donegal-developed and published rhythm game
What you may need to know…
01. Because not all musical endeavour involves bands and artists, presented for your consideration: Tapt, an Irish-developed rhythm game for iOS.
02. Developed and self-published by Donegal man Stephen Coyle, the game focuses on rhythm rather than melody, unlike a lot of similar endeavours, and encourages attention to detail in listening to said tunes.
03. Streaming above is a playthrough of the first stage by French mobile-game YouTuber First Stage, demonstrating its capabilities.
04. Get it at the App Store, and check the various expansion packs. Every purchase helps fund Coyle’s development of an educational edition of the app.
VERDICT: An interesting concept that should rightly help a lot of people with the basics of rhythm, and provide a satisfying puzzle-game experience on the way.
All Irish music tech/app-related projects welcome to submit to the column, please, to the usual email address. No charge.
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Yesterday.
Along the quays, Dublin.
(Thanks Thom McDermott)
Right So
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At the weekend (location unspecified in Rathgar, Dublin 6).
Jenny Headen writes:
Sweet graffiti outside our gaff…
UPDATE:
Jenny adds:
At first they thought we were gas… Then they changed their minds.
Saturday.
Love Lane, Crampton Court, Dublin 2.
(Thanks Harry Warren)
250 years old: The Long Hall, South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2
There’s a pub that has been the downfall
Of many a well planned pub crawl
When you find that your feet
Grow tired on George’s Street
And you stay the night in the Long Hall.
John Moynes
Pic: Rollingnews
This morning.
Clontarf from the North Bull Wall.
Thanks Joe Stuart
Last night.
Burrow Beach in Sutton, Dublin 13.
Meryl Diab writes:
The colours are real – no filter.
Previously: How Low?