Yearly Archives: 2016

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Glen Hansard, left and Brendan Ogle, right, with Home Sweet Home supporters outside the Four Courts this evening.

There you go now.

Earlier: Apollo Mission

Midnight At The Apollo

Meanwhile…

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Sligo Rises.

Thanks Ronan Emmet

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It was a funny old one , in fairness.

Barry writes:

Are you sick of taxi drivers and publicans havin’ a laugh with their prices on New Year’s Eve? Fancy a proper chuckle without the hassle of the last night of the year? Then come on down to the Dublin Comedy Club’s ‘Not New Year’s Eve’ Special’ live from The Speakeasy Lounge in Flanagans of O’Connell Street on December 30th from 8.30pm.

The December 30th show features Damien Clark, Jim Elliot and MC Danny O’Brien. A two hour comedy show for just €12. And none of the nonsense of the following night!

Not New Year’s Eve Special (The Dublin Comedy Club)

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This afternoon.

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Enda Kenny join the Department of the Taoiseach’s staff choir for the annual recital of Christmas carols with minister Paschal Donohue (top left) and government chief whip Regina Doherty (top right) and (above) The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone with Minister of State with Responsibility for Disabilities, Finian McGrath.

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This afternoon.

Our Lady’s Hospital, Cooley Road,  Crumlin, Dublin 12.

Star struck patients witness a celebrity walkabout and sing song at the country’s largest children’s hospital with Chris De Burgh, his daughter Rosanna Davison, Brian McFadden, Brendan O’Carroll, Rugby’s Shane Thingy, and Gavin Duffy.

FIGHT!

Pics: Mark Stedman

 

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Stuck for a gift for a tech-minded teen?

Read on.

The Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin writes:

MAKESHOP is delighted to announce our second coding workshop aimed at students aged 13-15 –– Apps After School is a four-week-long course, taking place on Wednesday evenings, and it requires no previous coding knowledge.

We’ll be starting with the simplest class and working our way up to make more complicated apps by the end of the month. The entire course costs €75 per student.

By the end of the course, students will be bringing their own designs to life with code and making apps for: Text messaging; Picture messaging; Playing games and Using voice commands  Learn more and sign up here.

Apps After School

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Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.

Meanwhile…

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YIKES!

The Science Gallery’s digital Christmas Card for 2016

*shudder*

Thanks Niamh O’Doherty

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The Christmas trees of Tallaght Hospital

Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24.

Triona Murphy writes:

Every year in Tallaght Hospital there is a Christmas tree competition.Year on year the staff have put more and more effort into creating the trees. Similar competition running in Beaumont Hospital with their Decorate a Door competition!  “Nice news” stories from the Health Sector! :)

Fight!

Tallaght Hospital staff create incredible Christmas trees (Tallaght Echo)

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A bright spot in a dismal year.

Sarah Neville writes:

Pull Like a Dog, a special one-hour documentary following Olympic silver medallists Paul and Gary O’Donovan ollow the brothers as they return to their parish of Lisheen and Skibbereen rowing club in the aftermath of their success.

In this clip (above), Gary and Paul and their father Teddy O’Donovan remember the first time the boys got on the water in a rowing club. Teddy says: “After that Sunday I was probably dreaming of what might be really, rather than what would be.”

Pull Like A Dog airs on Tuesday, December 27 at 9.25pm on RTÉ One.