Tiger, Bray, yesterday.
Not to be confused with ‘Bath Glove 4 Face’.
Thanks Noy
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What you may need to know:
1. A young woman’s (Elle Fanning) youth and vitality is devoured by the modelling industry in Los Angeles.
2. Hipster Dalai LamaNicolas Winding Refn returns from the critical drubbing of Only God Forgives (2013)
3. The Neon Demon will premiere at Cannes in May. It’s Refn’s third consecutive movie screened in competition.
4. This looks like another exercise in style over substance.
5. Broadsheet prognosis: Blacker Swan.
Release Date: July 8.
Plaza Plans
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The pedestrian-only plaza planned for College Green which will prevent traffic from crossing between College Green and Dame Street
As a citizen of Dublin, I thank you for highlighting on several occasions the daft idea of banning buses from College Green.
Essential bus routes providing cross-city services linking northeast to southwest, and northwest to southeast Dublin, carry thousands of commuters every day. Approximately 23 routes travel along Dame Street, and a further 20 go around Trinity to Nassau Street.
In addition, there are large numbers of coaches bringing tourists and shoppers from the country into an area full of cultural attractions, businesses, shops, theatres, etc. The “hop-on, hop-off” sightseeing buses use these routes also.
The complete closure of College Green to buses would bring the city to a standstill, with increased levels of pollution along the quays and other streets, longer travel times for already hard-pressed commuters, and a further limit to access for people with mobility issues.
The current ban on private cars in this area has worked well for public transport, but the recent Luas works have shown how quickly the area becomes massively congested when access to College Green is restricted.
Between Macken Street bridge and Fr Matthew bridge there are six other bridges, only four of which carry traffic, and only one of which (O’Connell Bridge) is large enough to manage significant traffic flow.
Dublin Castle/Temple Bar/Trinity combine to form a significant barrier through which College Green, D’Olier, and Westmoreland streets provide the only “pass” for effective traffic movement.
It seems that Dublin City Council is reacting to the previous underprovision of cycle paths by overcompensating and bringing all motorised traffic in our already congested city centre to a complete stop!Far more people travel by bus than by Luas or bicycle, yet it seems these are the only two forms of transport favoured by the council.
These changes are unnecessary and will have a detrimental effect on what is currently a well-functioning bus service. It is becoming almost impossible to travel across the city as it is. City-centre businesses are suffering.
Síle Uí Laighin,
Cluain Tarbh,
Baile Átha Cliath 3.
The plans for College Green will be available for public consultation until May 24.
Are plans for College Green daft? (Irish Times letters page)
Pics: Dublin City Council
Not Earth – released self-titled LP last week
What you may need to know…
1. Neither a band nor an album in the traditional sense, Not Earth comes about from a single four-hour recorded improv session in Cork’s Big Skin studio, featuring the trio of Dan Walsh (drums), Darren Keane (bass) and David O’Máthúna (synth).
2. Says Darren: “We’ve played in various bands over the years but first played together as a trio in 2014 at an improv night run by Dan. Something clicked then and we jammed a few times culminating in the recording session.”
3. Recorded, edited and engineered by Walsh, who cut the jams down to an album’s length, the resulting LP was mastered by Tim Fitzgerald (fka Twin Lights).
4. The album launched last night at Gulpd Cafe in Cork’s TDC, as part of Record Store Day weekend shenanigans, and is available for download from Bandcamp. This Sunday sees the Cork Improvised Music Club, under whose auspices the project’s initial jams occurred, host an open workshop in the same venue.
Verdict: Some fairly wild jams picked from the ether of improvisation. Spontaneity meets density and dexterity.
Old School
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Mark Fearon tweetz:
Just came across some Old School Dublin nightclub flyers from the 90s! Great nights at them all!!
Michael Noonan on way into Government Buildings: “There may be another election”.
— Mary Regan (@MaryERegan) April 18, 2016
FIGHT!
Rollingnews
From top: Yesterday’s Sunday Independent and Social Democrat TD Catherine Murphy
Yesterday the Sunday Independent reported that there have been discussions between Labour, the Greens, and the Social Democrats about “forming an alliance of the Left which would enter a rainbow coalition arrangement with Fine Gael”.
Further to this, Social Democrat TD Catherine Murphy spoke to Gavin Jennings on RTÉ One’s Morning Ireland this morning.
Grab a tay…
Gavin Jennings: “The Sunday Independent was reporting yesterday that secret talks have been held within the confines of Leinster House and elsewhere in Dublin between Labour, the Green Party and the Social Democrats – is that true?”
Catherine Murphy: “No it’s not. We’ve had no formal or informal talks with the Labour Party about joining any coalition.”
Jennings: “And Roisin Shortall or Stephen Donnelly haven’t been involved in any such talks either, no?”
Murphy: “No.”
Jennings: “The paper was also reporting that Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has been in constant contact with Fine Gael’s chief negotiator’s Simon Coveney. He strongly believes that the next government – this is Eamon Ryan – needs to be more balanced in terms of political ideologies and has been urging Labour and the Social Democrats to join him in providing this balance. Has he been urging you?”
Murphy: “He has, yes. We wouldn’t share his view that, we campaigned saying we wouldn’t support more of the same and we pretty much reaffirmed that commitment but we believe we’re in an entirely different situation and, indeed, the Dáil Reform Committee has been busy rewriting the Dáil rules to reflect the new reality and we would be, for example, quite, we would encourage and would be involved for example in setting out a framework for the Dáil with all the other strands of the Dáil in setting out a programme for the Dáil as opposed to a programme for Government because there has been a shift in power and that’s the message that the voters gave, there’s been a shift in power from Government to the Dáil and the rules have been rewritten, or are being rewritten, to reflect that so I think we’re in a very different scenario where, for example, if there was a broad strategic approach taken on major issues like health, like housing, we feel that there is a programme there that, there’s lots of possibilities of support for.”
Jennings: “But in terms of making up the numbers to make up this Government, are you ruling the Social Democrats out?”
Murphy: “We did some weeks ago…”
Jennings: “And that’s still the case?”
Murphy: “It is still the case.”
Later
Jennings: “When you mention an election, there is a possibility that we may have another election quite soon. Why do you think that voters would be more favourable to you for sitting aside and allowing a Government to be formed rather than getting in there and trying to do something about it?”
Murphy: “You see I actually don’t believe that’s the case. I think that the shift in power in the Dáil, the rewriting of rules actually opens up a really exciting prospect of sharing that power in a way that we haven’t seen before. And, as I said, it’s a question of drawing up a programme for the Dáil so as that the 158 TDs in the Dáil can participate, that it’s not confined to 15 members of Cabinet and everyone else is, you know, kind of has influence but there the only ones with power. It’s an entirely different prospect and it’s one that we would be very constructive and enthusiastic about participating in. So, essentially, this is a changed environment and, as I say, the Dáil rules have been changed to reflect that or are being changed to reflect that.”
Listen back in full here
Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews
Impeachy
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Yesterday.
Charlotte Way, Dublin 2.
CONTEXT: Brazil Gears Up for Crucial Vote on Whether to Impeach Dilma Rousseff (WSJ)
Brazil’s president loses impeachment vote (RTE News)
Thanks Sheila Larkin
UPDATE:
Rayne Booth writes:
I was at the impeachment protest with my partner, who is from Sao Paulo, and talked to a few Brazilian people living in Ireland to get their take on what is going on. There were and are certainly differences in opinion and politics, but all of the people there agreed that the impeachment is illegal, corrupt and undemocratic. I took a couple of videos of people having their say, hopefully you can post as your readers might be interested.
Watch Rayne’s second video here
David Brennan writes:
Two different weather forecasts for Dublin taken this morning. It’s hotter in Irish.