The Limerick blues and folk-tinged hip-hop group, Hip-Neck Blues Collective writes:
One year after our final performance we are delighted to share this video with you. We decided to record three new tracks and our last gig which took place in Cobblestone-Joes.
Thanks Shane Tighe
An award-winning short from British animator Ollie Magee. To wit:
A falling man finds peace in his fate as a he learns to let go of emotion, sensation and his physical body. His impact on the city and people below is felt if only for a brief moment.
Ah here.
Latest edition of The Phoenix magazine.
On all good shelves now.
FIGHT!
UPDATE: this ‘came out’ last week. Sorry all.
Planificación anticipada…
Neil Curran (him off the telly) tweetz:
Overseen at a Spanish shopping mall. They really do have everything here…
From the Office of the Information Commissioner’s annual report for 2016
Today.
Information Commissioner Peter Tyndall released the Office of the Information Commissioner’s annual report for 2016 – a year which saw requests to An Garda Síochána rise from 183 in 2015 to 459 in 2016, representing a 150 per cent increase.
In the report, Mr Tyndall also says:
I am disappointed to report that my office has noted ongoing and, in some cases, increasing examples of some public bodies failing to meet the statutory requirements of the FOI Act.
For example, later in my report I comment on the number of occasions that public bodies have not responded to FOI requests within statutory timeframes and on the fact that my office noted an all-time high of instances where the request was deemed to have been refused by the public body in the absence of a timely decision. I also report on several instances where my office had to issue statutory notices to ensure compliance with the Act.
Specifically.
In regards to the OIC – under Section 45 of the Freedom of Information Act – being able to order a public body to provide it with any information it believes to be relevant for a review.
It issued two such Section 45 notices to TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency.
In relation to this…
Mr Tyndall writes:
TUSLA was requested to provide copies of the subject records for a review, on 14 April 2016. Despite a further telephone reminder the records were not forwarded to my Office. On 4 May 2016, we issued a section 45 notice to the Chief Executive of TUSLA and the records in question were delivered almost three weeks later.
And in relation to the second case, Mr Tyndall writes…
My office wrote to TUSLA on 13 June 2016 and requested copies of the relevant subject records within ten working days. On 27 June an incomplete set of records was received.
On 15 July, my Office issued a section 45 notice to the Chief Executive, again requesting the relevant records. While TUSLA delivered a further set of records on 29 July, they were not the ones requested. As a result, on 8 August, we took the unusual step of issuing a second section 45 notice to the Chief Executive. We received the correct records on 11 August, two months after the original request.
Read the report in full here
From top: Dr Rory Hearne; From his paper ‘A home or a Wealth Generator’?
A conference, entitled Solid Foundations? Economic Inequality and the Housing Crisis, will take place in the Croke Park Conference Centre in Dublin, organised by TASC, next Friday (June 16).
One of the speakers will be post-doctoral researcher at Maynooth University Dr Rory Hearne, who will present his research A Home of a Wealth Generator? Inequality, Financialisation and the Irish Housing Crisis.
Ahead of this.
Dr Hearne was interviewed on Today with Seán O’Rourke earlier today.
Rory Hearne: “My analysis is that the Government’s policy and strategy, up to this point, has been inadequate in terms of social housing or even new forms, and what I propose is, and support others, like the Nevin Institute, towards the idea of an affordable rental housing company. That the Government is not doing enough to directly supply itself and what it has done is it’s over-focussed on incentivising private sector.
And by doing this incentivisation, whether that’s reduction in apartment sizes or it’s the Help To Buy scheme to try and introduce demand, that it has in actual fact inflated rents and inflated house prices and contributed to the crisis.
They salute him.
Ahead of Thursday’s British general Election…
The latest cover of metal magazine Kerrang! featuring UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre) with Architects frontman Sam Carter (right) and Creeper singer Will Gould.
*devil horn sign*
Meanwhile…
The lines track the weighted average of recent UK national polls.The points represent the vote intention percentages given by each pollster to each political party, representing in this way a variable showing the margin of error.
IBTimes UK has calculated a weighted average from the eight biggest UK pollsters, showing the Conservatives leading by 6 percentage points over Labour.
FIGHT!
Ultimate Poll of Polls (IB Times)
Meanwhile…
First thirteen pages of today's Daily Mail are absolutely relentless. pic.twitter.com/IJEYqcQmk4
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) June 7, 2017
Sharon’s up the pole.
Again.
Aine Kerrigan writes:
Grab the popcorn and settle in for a barrel of laughs as one of our favourite home grown comedies, The Snapper (1993) returns to RTÉ!
A whopping 24 years on from when we first met 20 year old Sharon Curley and her densely populated family from the fictional region of Barrytown in Dublin, The Snapper remains a firm favourite among Irish audiences with quotes from the movie infiltrating our colloquialisms more often than not…
On RTÉ tonight at 9.35pm or on-demand for up to seven days on the RTÉ Player
Meanwhile…
The slightly misleading US poster for The Snapper.
