Yearly Archives: 2016

Julien Mercille

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From top: Dr Julien Mercille; William Campbell

Journalist William Campbell’s excellent Here’s How current affairs podcast this week features pillow-lipped, Gallic-accented, elite-basher Dr Julien Mercille, often of this parish but known to ‘wander’.

William writes:

Is ‘pink pricing’ – charging higher prices for women’s products than for largely identical men’s ones – real?

Does it count as discrimination? Should it be made illegal?

And if women choose lower-paying careers, should society try to persuade them to do otherwise?

To hear two men debate this, listen here

Fight!

Here’s How

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Andy Wilson and the Longshots – Summer of ’16

DeepRed Productions write:

We’re a video production team that just made this music video for local Cork musician Andy Wilson. It’s a soccer song for the upcoming Euros and we hope it catches on!

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Euro 2016 tunage to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘For Euro Consideration’.

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From top: ‘Don Conroy’, Ray D’Arcy, Ciara Carroll and Simon Young: Denis O’Brien

YIKES!

Humanoids of Ireland write:

Denis O’Brien first attempted to influence the people of Ireland by appearing on The Den under the alias “Don Conroy”. Getting into the psyche of Irish children was a clever tactic to improve public opinion of him in future generations. Unfortunately, it didn’t go quite to plan. Most of these kids (now grown-ups) realise he’s still a complete [REDACTED].

He’s no Vladimir Savčić, in fairness.

Humanoids of Ireland

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This lunchtime.

A notice of the Luas strike; Luas drivers and members of SIPTU on the picket line at Sandyford Luas Depot in Dublin; and commuters walking along the green Luas line tracks towards the city centre.

Meanwhile…

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From the February edition of SIPTU’s Liberty magazine.

Glenn Fitzpatrick tweetz:

What do Luas drivers have to say about the dispute? Hear it from a primary source, not consumer media.

Liberty

Previously: Strike That

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An exercise in ‘nano-tourism’ at the Slovenian town of Vitanje (pop: 800, annual visitors 25,000) – home to the Cultural Center of European Space Technologies since last year.

In 2015, the town hosted the AA Visiting School project – a two week experimental architecture course organised by the Architectural Association School Of Architecture in London.

One of the projects was a ‘land installation’ (visible from high altitude) featuring the motto of Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy on a pasture above the town.

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