Yearly Archives: 2016
Want to SAVE Gaeilge speaking community radio in Galway?
Only 24 hours left to raise €3,980.
Raidió na dTreabh writes:
Raidió na dTreabh is an Irish language community station, currently recording in FlirtFM studios, Galway.
Whilst we are very grateful of their support, we are quickly outgrowing the few slots a week available to us and would like to put together our own studio so as to allow us develop and improve our schedule as well as increasing the number of opportunities we can offer those who are and who wish to work with us.
We have a strong team of presenters and producers with experience in broadcasting and the media. We also hope to develop and grow this team by providing training for those who are starting out and seeking experience.
FundIt will help us buy our own studio equipment and will cover other costs of setting up and running a radio station, which will be based in Áras na nGael in Galway city.
Thanks Clisare
From top James Behan; William Campbell
William Campbell meets James Behan, spokesperson for men’s rights group Men’s Voices Ireland in the latest edition of his Here’s How current affairs podcast.
William writes:
James talks about discrimination against men in family law courts, education and wider society. But are his points undermined by suggestions on his website making false claims about the level of false rape accusations?
Fight!
Listen here
The ‘micro Baroque’ artworks of Colombian artist Mateo Pizzaro – miniscule graphite drawings packed with detail.
Dara?
at@daraobriain is it just me or did you model as St Bridget for a stain glass window?? pic.twitter.com/5tukl4lyUU
— Barry (@BarryA_82) July 25, 2016
Uncanny.
Meanwhile…
@daraobriain I just seen this on the motorway !!!! pic.twitter.com/lDFBd1kFnL
— Scotty (@Scottworld) July 25, 2016
Jaykers.
Spekulativ Fiktion – new tunes on the way
What you may need to know…
01. At last, an excuse to talk about Corkman Sean Murphy, a.k.a. rapper and beatsmith Spekulativ Fiktion.
02. Emerging earlier in the decade with scattered live appearances and periodic single releases, Spekulativ Fiktion arrived seemingly fully-formed with 2013’s Deathly Words, a gritty, incisive extended-play that touched on external themes & internal monologues. This was followed in 2014 by Slave Labour, a transcendent piece of collaboration with Limrock beat god Deviant & Naive Ted.
03. Streaming above is a live cut from office fave Alan Newman‘s Boss Level Series, with Spek and Switch X spitting over one of Newman’s own (saucy!) beats. FIlmed in Cork City’s White Street car park, a local graffiti hall-of-fame.
04. Himself and Switch are starting a new group off the back of this collaboration, and guest appearances are due soon on upcoming records for Sligo’s This Side Up and beatmaker Mankyy.
Verdict: With a prophet’s eye, and a most writerly verbal prowess beneath his Cork-accented flow, Spekulativ Fiktion is one of Irish hip-hop’s cornerstones.
Health Minister Simon Harris
Minister for Health Simon Harris is patting himself on the back and feeling good because of the deal the HSE has done with the pharmaceutical companies. But what about the feelings of the ordinary Irish taxpayers, who fund the HSE but who also have to pay for their own medicines?
I was being charged over €20 for my monthly generic medicine at the local chemist. When I recently discovered that the “HSE price” was between €5 and €6, and queried this with the chemist, I was informed that the €20-plus price I paid was correct. Apparently this was made up of the HSE price (presumably this includes an element of profit for the chemist), plus a “prescription charge” (aka profit), plus a mark-up (profit again).
But it’s not all bad news. Luckily, I have a travel pass and now buy my medicine in Newry. For £5.
Michael Marr,
Dublin 13.