For the day that’s in it.
Annie West writes:
Look what I found (above) in the back of the drawer…
When men were men and players had proper, full-time work.
Final score: Ireland 12 Scotland 8
Meanwhile….
This afternoon.
Scotland fans in Temple Bar, Dublin. From top: Oscar Munson, from Devon, England, Hanna Main from Glasgow, and Willie Abren from Glasgow.
Sam Boal/Rollingnews
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RTE reports:
Star Wars makers Lucasfilm and Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board have confirmed that filming on Star Wars: Episode VIII is set to take place along the Wild Atlantic Way.
Lucasfilm’s Vice President of Physical Production, Candice Campos, said the company was “thrilled” to come back.
For the day that was in it, yesterday.
Noel Aungier, of Comedy Shenanigans, presents 10 famous movie quotes…as Gaeilge.
TROID!
Previously: Are You Taffin A Laugh?
Thanks Aislinn Ní Uallacháin
Andrew Mullan writes:
After a couple of pints, I placed excessive confidence in the Uber driver’s ability to bring me home. He may have confused me with a (caretaker) cabinet minister on a junket. Luckily, Uber HQ have now rectified the near-marathon journey.
From top: Actor John Connors and journalist Paul Williams
A documentary, entitled I Am Traveller, will be broadcast on RTÉ2 next Thursday (March 24), at 9.30pm.
Love/Hate actor John Connors will present it.
Kitty Holland, in the Irish Times, reports:
Connors discusses crime among Travellers with the crime journalist Paul Williams, putting it to him that media coverage of rural crime has implied that it is being run by “Traveller gangs”.
Williams argues that some Travellers are involved in rural crime and tells Connors that his community is “being let down by the criminal element all the time”. Society bears some responsibility, says Williams, “but it is also your fault as an ethnic grouping”.
He asks Connors: “When is the Traveller community going to really come out? When are they going to go up and march on the streets and say, ‘We want the drug dealers, the rapists, the people who are terrorising our own people, we want them f***ed out’?”
In his narration Connors responds: “Why should I protest about a gang of drug dealers who have nothing to do with me? I’ll take responsibility for things I can control.”
I am a Traveller, not a ‘knacker’ (Kitty Holland, Irish Times)
Rollingnews
Protesters occupying buildings linked to 1916 on Moore Street, Dublin 1, in January
You may recall how protesters occupied buildings on Moore Street earlier this year.
They were attempting to prevent the demolition of certain buildings on either side of 14-17 Moore Street – which has been declared a national monument – claiming other buildings on the street also had historical significance and should be protected.
Newstalk reports:
The High Court has ruled that extra buildings are to be designated as national monuments on Dublin’s Moore Street.
Relatives of the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation had been trying to have a number of buildings added as national monuments.
The State had disputed the buildings had any link to the 1916 Rising.
High Court rules more buildings to be preserved on Dublin’s Moore Street (Newstalk)
Previously: Moore As We Get It
‘I Have Been Asking Questions And Not Getting Answers’
Rollingnews
The work of Hungarian graphic designer and illustrator István Orosz,
More of his anamorphic, still life and trompe l’oeil shenannigans here.
Sample panels of finishes for the sea wall in Clontarf
The Clontarf Residents’ Association is inviting people to indicate which finish they would like, or wouldn’t like, on the sea wall in Clontarf.
Those interested can give their opinion here or they can email clontarf.res.assoc@gmail.com
Sea wall finishes – have your say (clontarf.ie)
Previously: Something Off The Wall
