Yearly Archives: 2019

Louise Duffy (left) and Muireann O’Connell

 

Mairead Ronan to lead Today FM afternoons as Muireann O’Connell and Louise Duffy leave the station (Breakingnews)

Pics: Twitter

Meanwhile..

The former Christian Brothers school Eblana Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin(top) and how it will look as a co-living hub

The new bedsits Co-living.

Now with ‘cooking facilities’.

Permission has been granted for a 208-bedroom co-living scheme in Dún Laoghaire on condition that each unit will have its own cooking facilities.

Developers Bartra Capital Property issued a statement welcoming the decision, saying that it reflects Ireland’s need to cater for changing living habits.

… the shared accommodation model involves en-suite bedrooms of just 16.5 square metres with communal living areas and kitchens.

The original application involved one kitchen for every 40 people.

Good, squashy times.

200 co-living homes proposed for Dún Laoghaire (RTÉ)

Previously: Co-Living In Dun Laoghaire

New hand-painted maps illustrating cinematic journeys by cartographer Andrew DeGraff.

(From top: Fargo; Mad Max: Fury Road; Guardians Of The Galaxy; Silence Of The Lambs; Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom; Labyrinth; Monty Python And The Holy Grail (with a key to the main characters); The Lord Of The Rings, The Shining and The Wizard of Oz.)

More of Andrew’s excellent Cinemaps here.

Previously: Plot Maps

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David Hopkins – C’est La

Here’s one to be filed under ‘overlooked’.

The former Lir keyboardist last year released a solo album called ‘Overlook’ which flew under the radar round these parts.But it deserves wider recognition as it shows an artist who’s fully engaged with his muse.

C’est La is sung in French with a propulsive rhythm section, strings and synths.

The video by Yoshi Sodeoka is a psychedelic trip for the senses.

Nick says: Douze points from the Dublin jury.

David Hopkins

The Haulbowline Lighthouse, Carlingford Lough

Stuck for something to do this bank holiday weekend?

let us light the way.

Ian Collins writes:

The Haulbowline Lighthouse, situated on Carlingford Lough, separating County Louth and County Down, is the first and only lighthouse in Ireland and the UK to be externally illuminated.

To mark this special occasion Carlingford Lough Ferry is offering guests the chance to enjoy a closer view of this beautiful scene, arranging a sailing towards the lighthouse at 9:30pm on Friday.

Enjoying refreshments and music onboard, passengers can choose from sailing from the Carlingford Lough Ferry terminal at Greencastle, County. Down at 8pm or at the Greenore terminal situated in Co. Louth at 8:20pm..

Tickets are limited and are priced at €15 for adults and €5 for children who must be accompanied by an adult.

Tickets here

Carlingford Ferry

The Haulbowline Lighthouse will be illuminated from 9:30pm to 12:30am every evening until August 31 with the Newry Maritime Association overseeing the illumination with the permission of the commissioners of Irish Lights. This occasion marks the 195th anniversary of the commissioning of Haulbowline Lighthouse which was commissioned in 1824.



ARRRGGGHHH!

This morning.

Tayto Park, Ashbourne, County Meath.

Tayto Park – Ireland’s only theme park and zoo – has this morning announced that twins will go FREE on Saturday, August 3 to celebrate International Twins Day… while also revealing that the ‘Big Bug Bonanza’ will return to the Park from Monday August 5 to Sunday August 11 with a spidery “array of activities and talks for all the family to enjoy”.

From top: twins Adam and Jack Carroll with Lenny the Madagascan hissing cockroach; twins Abbie and Megan Murphy with Fluffy the Chilean rose tarantula and Abbie with Rita the Brazilian, salmon pink, bird-eating tarantula.

*shudder*

Tayto Park

Leon Farrell/Photocall ireland

A short by Emily Downe based on an interview with a professor in artificial intelligence that explores the notion that the human brain tends to anthropomorphise even the most rudimentary forms, and how – in the modern age – we might end up doing exactly the same thing to machines. To wit:

What does it mean to be conscious in a world that is becoming increasingly artificially intelligent? Can machines really see?

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From top: Sonic Youth’s ‘Goo’ and Loreana Rushe’s GAA-flavoured tribute

Liam writes:

My friend Loreana Rushe made this great Sonic Youth/hurling mash-up. The artwork was originally created for the band Half Forward Line and featured in the inlay of their album ‘The Back of Mass’.

You can get em’ as a tote or a tee for the next week only. They won’t print until 10 are sold so if ya want one now’s the time!

Sliothar Youth Merchandise (Mercht)

Irish made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.

A spectacular two-image composite of lightning striking communication antennas near the top of Volcán de Agua (Volcano of Water) in Guatemala earlier this month.

Details of what causes lightning are still being researched, but it is known that inside some clouds, internal updrafts cause collisions between ice and snow that slowlyseparate charges between cloud tops and bottoms The rapid electrical discharges that are lightning soon result. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known as thunder. On average, around the world, about 6,000 lightning bolts occur between clouds and the Earth every minute.

(Image: Sergio Montúfar (Pinceladas Nocturnas)

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