Following student protests on Govt diversion of €12,000,000 from 2016 mental health budget, 200 UCD Medicine students have made the following video to lobby for increased funding Ireland’s mental health services.
UCD students have raised over €100,000 for registered charity Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland so far this year. It took them 6 months to raise the money and there is a lot of anger on campus over how few TDs it takes to debate funding cuts of €12,000,000.
Ireland has one of the highest rates of youth suicide in Europe but depends largely on charities for a response rather than government policy. It is a disgraceful situation that the good work of UCD students to support one of these charities, Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland, is being completely undermined by huge Govt funding cuts.
An article by Paul Wilson in yesterday’s Guardian with the headline, ‘Jürgen Klopp’s prediction comes to pass as Liverpool vanquish Villarreal’
The same article in yesterday’s Irish Times with the headline, ‘Jurgen Klopp, players and fans make it happen at Anfield’, and attributed to the Guardian Service
BaldyMcBalyFace writes:
Why would I pay for an Irish Times service when I can read the same article for free with the Guardian online service?
It was the same last week with the Tiger Woods article, same story but different headline.
This is really annoying when I’m sitting in work bored, looking for something to read to kill the monotony of being a slave to a corporate conglomerate…
Projection Paul prepping a beautiful 70mm print of The Master (2012) screening at the IFI Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday. First time on this format in Ireland …
Behold: the ethereal hypercollages of Canadian artist Ysabel LaMay – each composed of hundreds of merged photographs weaving fragments of plants, animals, and elements into “panoramas of natural splendour”.
I run a small guided tour outfit in Prague called Naked Tour Guide. Our team have just produced a cool new map of Prague (top). It is a large format, high quality, printed map, showing not just the city centre, but also the surrounding districts (i.e where the cool things happen.) It rolled off the presses last week and we are absolutely delighted with it.
The map is divided into categories, marked with our recommendations of: Czech Food, International Food, Great Beer, Cocktails, After Dark, Great Coffee, Old Style Cafes, Music & Culture, Gardens & Parks and Film & Fun. We have not accepted any sponsorship in the production of the map. Our recommendations are independent and based purely on our personal experience.
We think that it is a really cool guide and feedback so far has been excellent. We want it to become the bible for a weekend in Prague and we’d really love to promote it to an Irish market. (Ryanair and Aer Lingus fly here every day).
We’ve shouldered the production costs ourselves as we want the map to help raise our profile as a tour company. Our hope is that some of the people who will use the map will decide to join one of our tours and thus the map will pay for itself. As for the people who decide not to take a tour, they still get a bloody good map.
P.S. Massive shout out to young DIT architecture graduate Jo Flahive, who did most of the design work for us!
Brand spanking new club Wicklow SUP Club is opening its doors (hidden metaphor in that our door is the door to the outside world, i.e we don’t have premises!) and looking for new members.
Roof rack-style based in the Blessington Lakes, you’ll need your own equipment to take part. But as the club grows so will the funding and we will eventually be able to afford equipment and have regular sessions for those that don’t have their own equipment.
Get involved, there will be beer and maybe ice cream…
After much heated debate GavD wins a voucher worth €25 to spend at his leisure in any of the 13 Golden Discs Stores nationwide.
Gavin selected surprisingly sturdy, stupidly infectious 1998 smash Sunburst by Picture House (above) as the ‘quintessential’ song to start an Irish Summer.
He explains: “Perfect pop loveliness that even your granny would sing along to.if it doesn’t cheer you up, you have no soul.”
Fight!
Bubblin’ under:
Otis Blue: “The perfect song to herald the start of an Irish Summer is ‘Five honours and a 175’ by Irish band The Alsatians. A perfect paean to the post-leaving summer months.“Five honours and a 175, an education and a licence to ride”
Columbus: “The perfect song to herald the start of THIS Irish Summer is “Joxer Goes to Stuttgart”.As we return to the Euros and return to the good times(?), Christy’s feelgood social commentary is your only man!”
Anne: “The perfect song to herald the start of an Irish Summer is ‘No Rain’ by Blind Melon.”
Smith: “The perfect song to herald the start of an Irish summer is ‘Summer in Dublin’ by Bagatelle ‘and the Liffey as it stank like hell.’ Still does.”
Brother Barnabas: The perfect song to herald the start of an Irish summer is Welcome to the Cheapseats by The Wonder Stuff.
Brianers: The perfect song to herald the start of an Irish Summer is Hello,Hello,Hello,Hello,Hello by Something Happens.
Randy Ewing: “The perfect song to herald the start of an Irish Summer is July by Mundy, all the highs and lows of an Irish summer in a few minutes.Saw him sing it 2 weeks ago in the Academy and still sounds great. He even wore the cowboy hat!!”
JoeO: “The perfect song to herald the start of an Irish summer is Samhradh, Samhradh by The Gloaming.”
