Rapthor x Alan Newman – Kamakazee
A new single from the forthcoming album ‘The Advocates by Rapthor & Alan Newman’ .
Video directed by Jonathan Lambert and starring Shaila Ward, Daniel Newman, Saoirse Doyle, Andy Duff, Ewerton Fraga, Simon ‘Siyo’ Young and Leanne Cooney.
Merrion Street writes:
“Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe TD, has today welcomed the launch of Tourism Ireland’s phase two of its special Star Wars campaign, targeting fans of the science fiction franchise around the world. It involves a specially-commissioned ‘behind-the-scenes’ film, created during filming in 2014 on Skellig Michael…”
FIGHT!
Earlier: The Force Sleeps
Anne-Marie McNally, of the Social Democrats, writes:
“This is a come-along event, no tickets required, all welcome on the evening. We’ll be talking about how we can and should do things differently – how do we make politics serve the people rather than the golden circle of the same faces and names that keep cropping up; and how do we develop and implement proper transparency with real accountability in a way that allows people to trust the system? I’ll open up, Catherine Murphy will speak, followed by Fintan O’Toole, then I’ll close.”
Previously: Someday My Prints Will Come
Children protesting at the Kinsale Road Direct Provision Centre in Cork in 2014
Further to the announcement that the weekly allowance to asylum seeker children is to be increased from €9.60 to €16.60…
The Irish Refugee Council writes:
[Junior Justice Minister Aodhán] Ó Ríordáin said yesterday the welfare of children was of paramount importance, and the obvious priority was on their wellbeing.
“Living a life in direct provision is no life for a child. Given our own history of child incarceration and institutions, this was an obvious focus,” he said.
So they double the allowance for children for the first time in 15 years and they continue to live their lives in institutions?
Asylum seeker child allowance to rise from €9.60 to €16.60 a week (Irish Times)
Previously: The Institutionalisation Of 1,818 Children In Ireland
Renua leader Lucinda Creighton launching the party’s manifesto with party members this morning at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
4 of the 18 Renua candidates raise their hands when @oconnellhugh asks for a show of hands in favour of repealing the 8th Amendment
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) January 4, 2016
Meanwhile, last night…
Women in #Rebellion discuss the option of going in to England in secret with a crisis pregnancy. All changed, changed utterly.
— Oireachtas Retort (@Oireachtas_RX) January 3, 2016
Read Renua’s party manifesto ‘Rewarding Work Rebuilding Trust’ here
Mark Stedman/Rollingnews.ie
Meanwhile…
Ah here.
Thanks Spaghetti Hoop
Pixar’s Inside Out – a much darker film with the comedic ‘inside’ scenes removed by editor Jordan Hanzon.
A new promotional video from Mattress Mick.
Jaykers.
Previously: Mattress Mick on Broadsheet
Thanks Paul Kelly
