Yearly Archives: 2016

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Enda Kenny finally emerges to review the storm crisis that has been ongoing for over a month. When he does so, he and his friends share a joke as one unfurls an umbrella printed with the words “I love rain” (January 1st). There are many who do not love the rain, many for whom the floods of the last number of weeks have caused personal devastation and economic misery.

Cake, anyone?

Paul Kelly,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.

Responding to flooding crisis (Irish Times letters page)

Meanwhile…

Said Enda by the floods in Athlone
As the people there cried out ‘ochón’
Mayor Tom with your brolly
In this season of jolly,
To the haterz just say… ‘póg mo thón’

Mícheal Ó Diarmada

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‘sup?

Andrew writes:

I know you don’t normally do this but does anyone recognise these people? Their pictures (including the one above) were uploaded in my Dropbox after my phone went missing. I last had it on South William Street, Dublin on Sunday, December 20 between 7.45 and 8.30pm.

Anyone?

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It’s the election they’re all talking about.

And Broadsheet will be there every step of the way.

Our crack GE16 team are looking for a psephal pseudologis sephic person who understands polling patters, proportional representation and, in particular, tactical voting. If you would  like to share your expertise with ‘sheet readers during the forthcoming campaign please contact broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘GE16’.

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What you may need to know:

1. It’s a trailer for a trailer. That’s a thing now.

2. Eddie Redmayne is Newt Scamander, a magizoologist with a magical expanding briefcase containing dangerous creatures and their habitats. No hand baggage allowance for him.

3. This is the first of a new trilogy – a sort of Hobbit to the Potterverse’s (Pottersphere’s?) Lord of the Rings.

4. It’s J.K. Rowling’s first screenplay. Harry Potter 5-8 director David Yates returns.

5. Folks do love a bit of Potter.

6. Broadsheet prognosis: Abrakebabra (I wanna reach out and grabya).

Release Date: November 18.

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Yesterday afternoon.

The Bastion Apartments, Athlone, Co Westmeath

Poland-born Emily Topka sips tay after being evacuated from her home due to flooding from the River Shannon.

Ms. Topka purchased a ground floor apartment in the block last April.

Good times.

Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews

Meanwhile…

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Anti Irish Water Interlopers during a live flood report by Ciaran Mullooly in Athlone on RTÉ One’s Six News last night.

Thanks Ultan Monahan

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Steve Collender writes:

I do mashup videos of songs and films. At the weekend I released a video made of clips from Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) accompanying the song ‘Turn it Off’ by New York electronic band Phantogram. The band loved it

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The speeder bike chase through the forests of Endor from Return Of The Jedi (played here by the woodlands of California) recreated by drone enthusiasts Eric Maloney and Sahand Barati.

Gerry ‘Thunderbirds’ Anderson would have approved.

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Members of Renua, including leader Lucinda Creighton (centre), at the party’s General Election 2016 manifesto launch in Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin yesterday

Lucinda thinks tax on your car,
Mercedes, Rolls, or Jaguar,
Should go, but the fool,
Wants to raise tax on fuel,
And Newry is not very far.

John Moynes

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