Mark Orford tweetz:
…not sure if this is the kind of thing you’re interested in. But here’s a lady with a tap on her head.
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Yearly Archives: 2016
New Order’s Blue Monday was released 33 years ago this week. Orkestra Obsolete examine how it would have sounded had it been made 50 years earlier using instruments from the 1930s including dulcimer, musical saw and harmonium.
Because why the hell not.
Independent TD Mick Wallace and BBC One’s Mark Carruthers
Yes.
Independent TD Mick Wallace will be speaking to Mark Carruthers about Stormont’s report on the sale of Nama’s Northern Ireland property loan portfolio.
At 10.45pm on BBC One.
UPDATE: Newstalk’s George Hook, Una Mullally, of the Irish Times, and Claire McGing, of Maynooth University, will also feature.
Previously: Contradictions And Refusals
Bunny How?
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Glenda Gilson with personalised Lindt Gold Bunny
The votes are in
To celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and with FOUR personalised Lindt Gold Bunnies to giveaway we asked you: if you could give a chocolate bunny to a fellow ‘sheet commenter who would that be.
You nominated people in your dozens.
Happy Molloy: “Please give a personalised Lindt Gold Bunny to Broadsheet commenter ‘Clampers Outside’ because he/she is happy, friendly and an example on how to be civil to those we disagree with.”
Dόn ‘The Unstoppable Force’ Pídgéόní: “If we are going to be saps, then I think Meadowlark should get it. She is always lovely and funny even in the face of complete stupidity and is touchingly honest about the state of her winter legs.”
Janet, I Ate My Avatar: “Please give broadsheet occasional commentator Janet, I Ate My Avatar the lindt bunny because my Mam once cooked my real bunny Nibbles when I was a kid ( he was digging up the garden and she’d from the country ) and I think it would help with the trauma to eat another bunny but this time with knowledge and purpose…”
The Old Boy: “Please give a personalised Lindt Gold Bunny to Broadsheet commenter Sarah Murphy because she may find herself in need of an emergency sugar intake more than most.”
We will contact all winners via email.
Previously: A Bunny To Call Your Own
Drone-B-Gone
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This afternoon
Mattress Mick’s store on Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
Mmf.
Thanks Mattress Mick
Free TONIGHT?
Paul Mullin of The White Hag [craft] Brewery, writes:
So we’re launching our newest mystery beer tonight in 57 The Headline [57 Clanbrassil Street Lower, Dublin 8] and we’d like to invite all our loyal BS readers/Critics along..
We’re pouring FIVE beers on a tap takeover and giving away some freebies, fun starts at 7pm.
To win a bottle of our batch of Barrell Aged Black Boar (above centre) just guess what kind of new beer you think we’ve made?
Lines MUST close at 4.50pm
Union Jacks
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The Fenian Café, Falls Road, Belfast
While the majority of the merchandise on sale relates to historic republican figures and 1916 there are a number of items of questionable taste including ‘Union jack toilet tissue’.
“Almost everything we sell is of our own, we design almost all of it,” the staff member said.
However, he did add that while most of the items have historic significance some of the items were intended to be tongue in cheek and for the benefit of tourists.
Fenian cafe with ‘IRA’ sign defends Union flag toilet tissue (Irish News)
Piling It On
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Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams with the party’s new TDs at Leinster House this morning
Further to the yesterday’s post about media bias during General Election 2016.
Evan writes:
Having read your article on #VinB with Mick Clifford on media coverage through #GE16 here is a discussion from The Pat Kenny Show last Friday morning on Newstalk. It annoyed me so much I transcribed it (as below) and lodged a complaint about it.
This was a five-minute discussion with participants which included Pat Kenny, outgoing Independent Senator Averil Power, former political editor of the Sunday Independent and Renua communications director John Drennan and political commentator, former advisor to Bertie Ahern, Paddy Duffy.”
Grab a tay.
Pat Kenny: “Just, a by the way, in terms of Sinn Féin, because they are largely irrelevant to this discussion because they are not going to go into coalition with Fianna Fáil or with Fine Gael. What do you think did for their prospects, I mean they’ve improved their number of seats but at 13 whatever it was, point eight per cent was it, or something certainly less than 14%. It was not up to their expectations. I mean was it? They had no ambition really on the USC which would put money back in people’s pockets or was it the Special Criminal Court or?”
Averil Power: “I think it was two words Gerry Adams… was their leader.”
Paddy Duffy: “Yeah, I think it was the faulty arithmetic of Gerry Adams (A), and (B), no middle sector worker or higher is ever going to let Sinn Féin get near their pay packet, okay. Because they don’t believe in that crazy economics that they have, okay, and then all the other attendant things, Mairia Cahill and all of that sort of stuff and the sort of, the, the stronghold that the Central Committee has on the party as a whole, particularly the women who were quite obviously ill at ease during many of those days, and their Deputy Leader in particular”
Pat Kenny: “Micheál Martin has always been pushing the line that Sinn Féin, Dublin, is controlled by Belfast, is that…”
Duffy: “Well, obviously I don’t personally know, so, this is what people think…”
John Drennan: “It certainly was, it was certainly a strong image was were you letting the Army Council into the cabinet rooms of the State via the back door, if you voted for Sinn Féin? I think another thing to possibly bear in mind is that, was it Ruairí Quinn had a very interesting piece during the middle of the campaign, in the Irish Times on Saturday, where he talked about Labour not really being a party of working class people, and that…”
Duffy: “I agree with that.”
Drennan: “…and what struck me was that, to a certain extent, Sinn Féin are not a party of working class people, in that, in that they have sort of, they’re very opposed or seem to have great difficulty in the sort of tax cuts that would improve the lives of working class people and they don’t understand that working class people aspire to improve their lives, aspire to better education, better services, they’ve no concept of that and I mean if you look at the track record of Sinn Féin in West Belfast and the, the, the almost Stalinist…”
Duffy: “The state of it, the state of it..”
Drennan: “…the East Germany economy that Gerry Adams presides over whilst he flies over in airplanes to get his teeth done in America. They do not…they are not a party with which the working class identify with. And I think they were very much squeezed in this election too, by the multitiude of options that were, such as Averil herself in Dublin Bay North, that was competition to Sinn Féin that they would not have expected and would not have wanted.”
Kenny: “But as part of their overall project they have improved their number of seats. They are obviously hoping that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will go into one massive coalition which will allow them to be the largest party on the Opposition benches, not necessarily the loudest voices because you’ll have your Mick Wallaces and you’ll have all those other people who have made the running in the last Dáil.”
Duffy: “Yes, and the party has quite a quota now Pat, of intellectual young things who are very bright, very sharp, very good, very well trained communication-wise. But it’s the gospel they preach is wrong. The performance is fantastic.”
Kenny: “Well, it has to be said…”
Duffy: “…economically, I mean…. economically, yeah.”
Kenny: “In Dun Laoghaire, when we had our debate in Dun Laoghaire the young Sinn Féin candidate, and I was talking about Gerry Adams being perhaps a liability, a political liability, and I didn’t want to go through the list of charges for fear I would be accused of actually… you know…labelling him and he said to me “well, what are you talking about?”. So then I had to begin, reluctantly…”
Laughter
Kenny: “….but he said “I am a child of the Peace Process”. You know he doesn’t have any memory, he could read about it in the history books but it’s not in his DNA.”
Duffy: “And we have to give them credit, I mean we give them tremendous credit. Gerry Adams, [Martin] McGuinness and all that team and all around them for having brought us from that horrible fratricidal war to where we are – that’s to their greatest credit. Simply we don’t believe any of their economic policies.”
Drennan: “They got us into it in the first place.”
Power: “It’s not the legacy of the Troubles that’s holding them back it’s their modern day attitudes on certain issues like the Special Criminal Court. You know I’ve a constituency that includes Coolock and other areas that have been blighted by gangland crime.”
Duffy: “Yeah…”
Power: “And, and people simply don’t understand Sinn Féin’s attitude on the Special Criminal Court. The notion that you would expect ordinary people to serve on a jury who would go up against these kind of gangsters without protection, people just can’t…”
Kenny: “About half of their own supporters disagree with their policy to abolish the Special Criminal Court and another interesting statistic in one of their polls was that… I think it was 40% of their people didn’t trust them on running the economy…of the people that are going to vote for them…”
Laughter
Duffy: “That doesn’t surprise me…”
Laughter
Kenny: “Anyway I want to read you some of the texts…”
Listen back in full here (part 3).
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Fianna Fáil’s Seán Ó Fearghail in the Dáil this afternoon
Fianna Fáil’s Seán Ó Fearghail has been elected as Ceann Comhairle of the 32nd Dáil.
On the fourth count, Mr Ó Fearghail gained 13 votes, bringing his tally to 74. Fine Gael’s Andrew Doyle gained 10 bringing his to 58.
There were 19 non-transferable votes.
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