This afternoon.
RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Scenes from the the first day of the 2017 Horse Show.
From pic 3: Joe and Julia Carey;l Lillie Keenan riding for the USA team; Sarah and Denise Conway and Rose Collins ; Barry Twomey; Emily Jenkin and Victoria Ollivier.
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Kevin writes:
My wife was booking some spa treatments in a plush hotel down the country, in an email they asked for her credit card details – I said no way, that’s crazy, anyone could read that email, or forward it.
Then when she telephoned them in reply they asked for her CVN and again I called bullpoo, pretty sure that’s only for online purchases.
It seems common that high end hotels ask for these details without regard to their customers privacy or security.
The last time we stayed in an over prices hotel ( for a wedding of someone who is an oniomaniac) just after booking my credit card was used to run up a huge debt on a poker site, I had been stupid enough to give my CVN at the time.
Is this an Irish thing or a rich people,thing or hotels just don’t give a fupp?
Anyone?
From top: The Stand with Eamon Dunphy podcast; Kevin Myers
Three weeks ago, Eamon Dunphy posted an interview he carried out with Kevin Myers for his podcast The Stand.
This was prior to the fallout of Mr Myers’ column in The Sunday Times on July 30 and his subsequent sacking for the same.
During the 71-minute interview they discussed The Irish Times and Mr Myers’s time in Northern Ireland, Beirut and Sarajevo.
He told how he wasn’t invited to Queen Elizabeth’s visit to the war memorial in memory of the Irish soldiers killed in World War I, in Islandbridge, Dublin; and how a journalism student told him he was warned not to mention Kevin Myers’ name if he wanted to proceed on his course; and how media/journalism courses in Ireland teach conformity.
He also lamented the lack of “good columnists” in Ireland under the age of 40, or even 50.
From the interview…
Eamon Dunphy: “Now you got the job of writing the Irishman’s Diary in The Irish Times which was very prestigious. You had some very amazing predecessors in that slot, you might tell us about. But it’s quite onerous because I think it’s three or four times a week?
Kevin Myers: “It was five times a week when I started.”
Dunphy: “Tell me who’d done it before.”
Myers: “Well, Patrick Campbell famously.”
Dunphy: “Yes…”
Myers: “Not famous anymore. He was a very, very celebrated man in the BBC and a very funny man and, before that, or well, after him, there was Seamus Kelly whom I never knew. He had a reputation for being very irascible but perhaps that was because he was drunk every morning by 11am and he had terminal cancer for a long time, so that would make you irascible.”
“But, it was, I didn’t want to be a diarist, I didn’t want to be a columnist. It seemed to me to be onerous, too onerous. But it was something that was a marking in the absence of anyone else, somebody else, a journalist in the newsroom pool, would be given the diary to write. So I was doing, they were going down well. Douglas…”
Dunphy: “In journalistic parlance, just to make it clear, a marking is a gig.”
Myers: “Yeah. And, I…Douglas Gageby that then edited The Irish Times didn’t like me at all. And made it very evident that he didn’t like me. He didn’t want me to be employed by The Irish Times but the overwhelming impression, decision amongst his, opinion amongst his senior editors around him, I should be employed, he was emphatically against me being employed as a columnist but, again, there was no one else to do the job.”
‘Ireland’s youngest artist’.
He’s two.
Anon writes:
I don’t know where to start…
From top: architect, Sam Stephenson, outside the Central Bank in 1989; The proposed Central Plaza development
The development would see the creation of a glass-roof, two-storey 20,000 sq ft rooftop hospitality destination and viewing area that would offer a 360-degree view of the city.
The mixed-use scheme, known as ‘Central Plaza’, would also include retail, restaurants and café uses at both street and basement level.
It is understood the cost of the redevelopment would be at least €70m.
The proposal also envisages an expansion of the existing plaza and the creation of a new streetscape towards College Green and along Fownes St and Cope St.
€70m plan to redevelop former Central Bank HQ (RTÉ)
Ironically, the work will bring the building closer to what its designer, architect Sam Stephenson, originally intended.
He was forced to redraw his plans for the structure when it emerged that they exceeded the height laid down in the original permission granted for the building in the 1970s.
Developers want to alter the roof of old Central Bank (Irish Times)
Free this weekend?
Like improv?
Neil Curran (him off the telly) writes:
Coming this weekend to the Pearse Centre Theatre [27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2] is [PLAY], a weekend of improvised plays, one acts and even a musical! created in the moment, and inspired by audience suggestion, this is a wonderful opportunity to experience the exhilaration of improvised theatre with some of the finest improvisers on the scene.
There are shows at 7:30pm, 8:30pm and 9:30pm on Friday and Saturday. Tickets from €8.
