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They’re back.
With colloquialisms.
Are Ya Having That writes:
‘LeatherJacketGuy’ & ‘JohnnyBS’ Teach you American Slang Words Created By Irish People!!
When you send them to the shop for 32 bottles of coke, but they only come back with 26. pic.twitter.com/rU45DRxCPd
— Tom Moylan (@moylato) August 17, 2017
FIGHT!
From top: Pat Hickey in Rio last Summer; Shane Ross this morning.
€60,000 paid to Mr Hickey was far in excess of what might reasonably be considered an honorarium, says Shane Ross #iestaff
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) August 17, 2017
“Judge Moran has exposed the stress and frustration caused to athletes, their families and their friends by the OCI’s appointment of a ticketing agent that was nothing other than a charade and totally unfit for purpose…
…He [Justice Moran] was not in pursuit of criminality, merely a narrative of events, however unpalatable….
Nothing in this report suggests that individuals in the OCI were benefiting personally from these arrangements.
But clearly commercial interests can never again be afforded priority over the interests of athletes, their friends and families, and ordinary spectators.I regret that the OCI under the leadership of Pat Hickey defined this doctrine.”
Shane Ross at the Transport, Tourism and Sport joint committee meeting this morning.
Tuesday: Let The Games Begin
Bread & Roses Festival 2017 in September
Free tonight?
ROSA – Reproductive rights, against Oppression, Sexism and Austerity – launches the Bread & Roses Festival with a table quiz TONIGHT at 7pm in Sin É. 15 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin at 7pm.
Keishia Taylor writes:
Funds raised will support the Bread & Roses Festival, a key event in preparation for the upcoming referendum on Repealing the 8th Amendment.
Bread & Roses Festival, on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th September, is a feminist-socialist gathering with discussions on how to win abortion rights and the separation of church and state, and workshops on topics such as gender-based violence, LGBTQ oppression and sex education in schools.
In fairness.
Table quiz will take place on 7pm (Admission €5/€10 per person, teams of 4).
Yoyo, Yo
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2017 World Yoyo Champion Shu Takada, performing at the competition last weekend in Reykjavík.
His prodigious two-handed looping skillz.
Let him show you them.
Available online for the first time.
Beauty & Chaos.
A short film by James Skerritt following Irish surfer Conor Maguire in India and Indonasia.
James writes:
It all started with a Facebook message from Conor Maguire simply saying ‘lets go to India’. We had discussed trying to make a film like this for years – an honest, or somewhat, portrait of what we were feeling as we roamed from place to place. We wanted the music to do the same.
I showed a friend of mine an early cut of the film and told him the title. I was greeted with a frown along with the notion that it was the worst title he had ever heard.
None the less, ‘Beauty & Chaos’, had its first screening at Shore Shots Surf Film Festival in April 16.and spent the following year screening in film festivals around the world with its last set of screenings throughout May this year.
I was even more pleasantly surprised after a festival in New Jersey, where a filmmaker whom I admire commented on how much she likes the title.
Like most films, I am always motivated by how much fun it will be to watch in about forty years time – a remembrance of the random happenings that come about in the unknown and unsure. So whether you like the title or not – it was a damn interesting process to go through.’
Gnarly.
Hmm.
David writes:
A letter I received a couple of days ago.
Now tell me this: if I was, let’s say, a plumber and I did extensive work at the hospital.
I got paid what I asked for on the day.
Can I go back to them nearly nine months later and say I undercharged them? And please remit the shortfall?
In fact, what other business (apart from the revenue, who make up their own laws) can do such a thing? You’d laugh if a restaurant tried it, or a house or car insurer.
How many of these letters go out? How many people pay up meekly?
In my humble opinion, this is the printed version of spam (especially given the extra apostrophe in the plural of ‘cheque’).
Does the person signing these letters ever put themselves in the recipients’ shoes?What do readers think?
Anyone?
Dame Street, Dublin 2
Slabs of concrete surrounding the former Central are being ripped up to be replaced with what we know not.
Anyone?
Leah Farrell/Rollingnews
Foiled!
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Yesterday morning.
Fownes Street Upper, Dublin 2.
Jason Botha writes:
“Seems like the thieves got more than they bargained for”