Yearly Archives: 2017

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Record Store Day is this Saturday, and Dublin Digital Radio is on the case with a weekend of programming.

Writes Cathy Flynn:

It’s been another exciting week on DDR with a number of new shows starting. Popular interview series Femme Fatale returned to Irish airwaves, hosted by Sophie Murphy. Record label Lyxliv joined the DDR family & celebrated their first release by grime/footwork artist Wastee. We are also now joined by Kate Butler for a monthly residency.

This Saturday is Record Store Day 2017, and DDR will be marking the day. Tune into Getting Away With It for a Record Store Day special from 12 – 1pm, to hear previously unreleased material from The Smiths & new tracks from The The, the first plays on Irish radio (a bold claim). From 1pm on, we will be broadcasting live from All City in Temple Bar for their annual Record Store Day instore, with sets from DDR residents ONE -CP, Fio & a live set from New Jackson.

Join the party

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Wastee – ‘bangdance’ sideproject

What you may need to know…

01. Veteran column readers may remember we covered Dublin electronic/glitch man Wastefellow last year upon releasing his debut E.P.

02. This past week saw his much harder-edged beats and pieces released under the name Wastee, in advance of a number of festival dates flitting between pseudonyms.

03. Streaming above is the project’s debut single, Cola, available now for download via ‘Dublin-via-Sweden imprint’ Lyxliv.

04. Wastefellow spreads his wings to the UK this summer, including Y Not Festival in July before Another Love Story in August.

Thoughts: Wastefellow’s trademark pop/glitchiness through a bassier, grimier, filter. Filth.

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Further to the Religious Sisters of Charity getting ‘sole ownership’ of the new National Maternity Hospital.

And the online petition, against the move, that has gained more than 75,000 names…

And the Sisters of Charity basing their decision not to pay redress to the Magdalene survivors based on the findings of the McAleese Report…

Readers may wish to recall the following reported by Conor Ryan and Clare O”Sullivan, in the Irish Examiner, back in February 2013…

The Sisters of Charity made €63m in sell-offs during the boom of which €45m came from the 2001 deal for land around its former laundry in Donnybrook, Dublin.

Last year, the Religious Sisters of Charity, who amassed a €233m property portfolio, said they could not afford to release €3m it promised to put into a trust fund for the victims of institutional child abuse.

The order blamed the decision to reduce its cash offer by 60% on the poor property market.

In 2009, when they supplied details of their assets to the Government, it had financial interests of €33m and sold €63m of property in 10 years. The order said it needed to set aside €38.6m to care for its 264 sisters.

Substantial assets, but no more cash for redress (Irish Examiner, February 2013)

Pic: Gloucester Street Magdalenes via Limerick Museum

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A petition set up on Tuesday night by Denise Kieran on Uplift against the Sisters of Charity gaining ‘sole ownership’ of the new National Maternity Hospital has just passed the 75,000-signature target.

Make it 100,000.

Sign here.

Block Sisters of Charity Ad Sole Owners Of National Maternity Hospital (Uplift)

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Meanwhile, At The Department Of Health

68.613 And Counting

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Jason Weisberger of Boing Boing compares Barry’s and PG Tips.

Who ya got?

PG Tips tastes weakly of old cardboard and has a distinctly metallic tang. I imagine jolly old English folk shredding a Vans shoebox, and adding the tiny metal flakes generated when stripping the screws of a children’s toy battery box cover.

Storm’s a-brewin’.

READ ON: Ireland and England’s ‘best’ teas, reviewed by an American (Boing Boing)

(H/T: Jogginjoe)