Yearly Archives: 2016

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The highlight of new exhibition at Roppongi Hills Tokyo City View (52 storeys up) celebrating  30 years of the great Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle) featuring, among other things, models of the elaborate flying machines that featured in many of Ghibli’s animated films.

Centrestage is an illuminated, automated model of the airship from Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky (1986). Elsewhere there are posters, collectibles, tribute art and a restaurant serving 11 dishes inspired by the films.

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A letter sent from the Standards in Public Office Commission to Independents 4 Change TD Mick Wallace last Thursday.

It details how, on March 2, Nama chairman Frank Daly made a complaint to SIPO about Frank Cushnahan, a former member of Nama’s Northern Ireland Advisory Committee.

It also states that SIPO will contact Mr Wallace soon to meet with the TD and possibly obtain a statement from him. SIPO also requests that Mr Wallace furnish SIPO with any documents that may help SIPO’s inquiry into the complaint against Mr Cushnahan.

Three Four months.

Good times

Related: Nama chair lodges complaint against Frank Cushnahan (Irish Times)

Frank Cushnahan broke law, Nama complaint in Republic alleges (March 3, Belfast Telegraph)

Previously: Screech

‘The Figleaf Has Been Blown Out Of The Water’

Spotlight Falls On Noonan

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From top: Mabel, Henrietta and the full brood.

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Henreal ceramics from The Irish Workshop (online home of Irish-made crafts and whatnottery)

Allison Wheeland, from The Irish Workshop says:

Trying to decide how best to celebrate a friend’s hen party? Well, these sassy chicks may be of some assistance Potter Kathy Mooney crafts these fun creations from her studio in Dublin, and they make a fabulous addition to any newly-hitched woman’s fireplace. Now that’s certainly something to cluck about…

Stop that.

We do the punnage.

Kathy Mooney’s pottery hens (The Irish Workshop)

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Irish made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.

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Dublin City Council write:

This video, created by members of Dublin City’s Comhairle na nÓg (Youth Council) highlights the importance of promoting and protecting Dublin Bay and the surrounding area.

This [area] extends to over 300 km2. Over 330,000 people live within the Biosphere area. Dublin Bay Biosphere is the only UNESCO Biosphere in a capital city in Europe.

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Dublin Bay Biosphere

Dublin Bay Cruises

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Tonight on RTÉ One at 9.35pm.

Peacekeepers: The Irish in South Lebanon.

Gareth Naughton writes:

Irish peacekeepers have been serving in the Middle East continuously since 1958. In that time, 47 Irish soldiers have paid the ultimate price in the cause of peace while on active service in south Lebanon, an area often beset by conflict and war.

In tonight’s documentary, viewers will hear from Sergeant Michael Merrigan who was serving alongside Private Billy Kedian (22) when he was killed in May 1999 as the Irish outpost where they were stationed came under attack from mortars fired by the South Lebanon Army militia group.

Pte Kedian, from Ballyhaunis in Co Mayo, was killed when a mortar struck directly in camp as the soldiers were making their way to the safety of a bunker, an emergency response known as ‘groundhog’.

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Denis O’Brien

Another day.

Another law suit.

Businessman Denis O’Brien has lost an appeal against a 2011 High Court decision dismissing his claim the Moriarty Tribunal had incorrectly restricted cross-examination of a key witness at its public hearings.

A five-judge Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal in which he claimed there was a breach of fair procedures by sole tribunal member, Mr Justice Michael Moriarty, to limit both the amount of time and the extent of the questions his lawyers could ask Danish telecommunications expert, Professor Michael Andersen.

… Mr O’Brien had argued a declaration that fair procedures were not applied during part of the tribunal, which centred on payments to politicians Michael Lowry and Charles Haughey, would have an effect on the public view of the tribunal’s report.

If he got such a declaration from the Supreme Court, he could also consider moving to quash certain parts of the report and this could also have consequences for the issue of the tribunal’s costs, he claimed.

The tribunal had opposed the appeal arguing the matter is now moot as its report has been published and there has been no challenge by Mr O’Brien to its contents.

Denis O’Brien loses appeal against decision on Moriarty witness (Irish Times)

Previously: Connecting The DOBs

#Moriarty: A Phone Book. In More Ways Than One

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