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Yearly Archives: 2016
SPLUTTER!
Gasp.
Rarr.
Last night.
The Liquor Rooms, Wellington Quay, Dublin
Eamonn Farrell writes:
After a Bloomsday of big breakfasts, celebrity readings, gentle strolls through Dublin City, sidewalk lunches in Sandycove and Burgundy wines and Gorgonzola cheese, punters got down to the real business of the day, as night descended with a visit to the Poetry Brothel in ‘Nighttown\.
The Bloomsday After-Party transformed the Liquor Rooms into a late night, early morning, Nighttown Brothel scene, with ladies of the night, writers, poets, artists, radicals and performers, all kept in disorder by master of ceremonies, John Farrell [pic 6].
According to Mr. Farrell, the Brothel experience restores a sense of intimacy and fun in poetry and is quickly becoming a worldwide phenomenon with satellite poetry brothels in Paris, Barcelona, New Orleans and Portland.
This was the first time in Dublin and hoping to become a regular feature of Bloomsday, the event was themed on Bloom and Stephen’s sojourn into Dublin’s once notorious red light district…
Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews
Former health minister, now Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar
Ahead of the Dáil voting on Thursday, June 30, on a referendum bill proposed by Independents 4 Change TD Mick Wallace, which would allow for abortions in the case of fatal foetal abnormalities…
Newstalk reports:
[Former Health] Minister Leo Varadkar says the 8th Amendment was not considered fully and properly before being added to the Constitution.
Leo Varadkar says considering the repeal of the amendment should not be rushed.
However he conceded that it cannot be put on the long finger either.
“Part of the reason why our abortion laws have given us so much trouble in this country is because we put an amendment into the Constitution in 1983 without considering it fully and properly,” he suggested.!
8th Amendment was not considered ‘fully and properly’ – Leo Varadkar (Newstalk)
Previously: ‘By Law, Nobody Could Help Us’
Was It Really Unconstitutional?
Rollingnews
Taken at the Belle Etoile Shopping Centre in Luxembourg.
(Thanks Nikkeboentje)
‘sup?
Sligo-based artist Annie West writes:
This fella arrived at the office earlier this week and then came back again yesterday.
He’s sitting up there on the top layer of the office glaring at me. Well, gazing maybe.
Ironically sitting right beside the *Paddy Pigeon* illustration file.I get very twitchy when I’m working while being watched so I kind of need to find out what I should be doing. He’s ringed but I don’t want to freak him out either or I’ll have Pigeon poo all over my artwork. Any suggestions.
Anyone?
Dad Rocks
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Update: Owing to a premature posting yesterday we are featuring this Golden Discs voucher offer until MIDNIGHT Saturday.
Each week we give away a voucher worth €25 to spend at any of the 13 Golden Discs nationwide.
Twenty. Five. Big. Ones.
All we ask from you is a song we can share at 1pm this SUNDAY.
This week’s theme: a song for Father’s Day.
To enter, please complete this sentence:
‘For Fathering Sunday, please give the Golden Discs voucher to my father____________[name] and play him__________________ while you’re at it.’
Lines MUST close at 12.45pm Saturday MIDNIGHT.
‘sup?
Ken Curtin writes:
Creationists out in #Cork today, apparently dinosaurs were around just few thousand years ago, Science is wrong.
More as we get it.
The weekly weekend map with cheap and free STUFF to do around ireland compiled by Ross O’Mullane and Steve McCarthy for Energia [Details of events at link below].
An impressive and rather mesmeric interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ (followed by something even more impressive) by Turkish artist Garip Ay using the traditional paper marbling technique of ebru.
Colours are floated on the surface of a viscous watery solution called size before transferring the image to a sheet of paper.