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De Tuesday Papers

Admin at 12:05 am December 6, 2016

MORE to folly.

Slow To Attract

Admin at 4:56 pm December 5, 2016

The aerial ballet of rare earth Neodynmium magnets filmed with a high speed Chronos camera by TAOFLEDERMAUS..

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Hulla Baloo

Admin at 4:54 pm December 5, 2016

Ryan Tubridy (right) with cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack

Did you stay in on Friday night?

Of The Late Late Show’s Jungle Book-themed Toy Show…

…Gareth Naughton writes:

Friday night’s The Late Late Toy Show was the most watched programme on Irish television so far this year, with an average audience of 1.4 million* viewers watching the entire show.

Four in five people watching television at the time were tuned in to The Late Late Toy Show on Friday night with an average audience share** of 77 per cent. B

ased on overnight figures Friday night’s broadcast of The Late Late Toy Show was even more popular than last year’s and had its highest TV audience since 2011.

The show had a one-minute reach of more than 2 million***, while on RTÉ Player, this year’s Late Late Toy Show was watched in 102 countries outside of Ireland….

* Average viewership figure was 1,398,100
** Average share of 77 per cent of the available audience watching television at the time of programme broadcast.
*** Reach is the number of people who tuned in for at least a minute of the show.

Baloo?

On the Throne

Admin at 4:32 pm December 5, 2016

A sadly-unloved short from August of this year, from the good folk of Cork web-development magnates Double Marvellous.

The lads at Scumland Com get a new student.

Maxin’ and relaxin’.

Double Marvellous

Awkward Silence?

Admin at 4:29 pm December 5, 2016

Bt Miguel Marquez.

Previously: Cut Here

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There’s Gold In Them Thar Stockings

Admin at 4:08 pm December 5, 2016

Glittering neckwear handmade in Ireland ideally shaped to slip into free-hanging stockings.

Charmiane Kenny, at The Irish Workshop, online home for Irish crafts and whatnot, writes:

Still looking for that perfect gift? Or maybe you haven’t even started looking yet?! Either way, we’re here to help. With less than three weeks away to go to Christmas morning, we turn the spotlight to the work of three talented Irish jewellery designers:

1. Heart of Gold Pendant by MTW Jewellery, Co.Kilkenny

2. I Still Get the Butterflies Pendant by deBláca Jewellery, Dublin

3. Flow Pendant II by Miriam Wade, Co.Westmeath

For lots more Irish design and gift ideas check out The Irish Workshop [link below]…

The Irish Workshop

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.

But You Promised

Admin at 3:48 pm December 5, 2016

Trumpgrets.

A page dedicated specifically to the exact moments that Trump voters realise the meme is beyond their control now.

What a time to be alive.

Trumpgrets

“Like A Shillelagh Right In The Feels”

Admin at 3:15 pm December 5, 2016

With a Golden Discs voucher up for grabs we asked you to complete this sentence:

‘The most outstanding example of traditional music from the island of Ireland would have to be______________________________’

The competition was particularly stiff.

but there could only be one winner.

Scottser takes top prize for this probing analysis of The King of the Fairies by The Dubliners (above):

“This tune features a lovely modal device of introducing the sharpened 7th in a minor key, which is ordinarily proper to the major key. This play between major and minor is a very ‘gypsy’ feel, so nice and topical, given the current debate around traveller ethnicity. Oh, and John Sheahan is an absolute gentleman and a total legend.”

Runners up:

Harry Molloy:

“Would have to be the Tabhair Dom do Lámh by Planxty, bolted on to the end of the Raggle Taggle Gypsy. The bouzouki never sounded better! I remember when the Planxty Live at Vicar Street CD came out and was being advertised on TV, I heard a few people saying they would buy it based on that piece of music alone. Had it played at my wedding too.”

Eimear:

“The most outstanding example of traditional music from the island of Ireland would have to be Arthur McBride sang by Paul Brady. Every listen is akin to a shillelagh right in the feels.”

TheQ47:

“The most outstanding example of traditional music from the island of Ireland would have to be Mise Éire by Seán Ó Riada, because it combines the best elements of traditional Irish music in the classical music style. It always reminds me of Sunday afternoons at home with my late Dad listening to this while I washed the dinner dishes, usually with me giving out because he was listening to “this rubbish” instead of RTÉ Radio 2, and him telling me I’d appreciate this good music some day. He was right. He was wrong about James Last though, he was rubbish.”

Real PolitHicks:

“For me, though, the most outstanding example of traditional music from the island of Ireland is this fine choon from the legendary Trad/Rock band Moving Hearts. I used to go see them play every week in The Baggot, back in the day. They were far better live than anything they ever recorded, they’d set your heart racing and your foot tapping.”

Penfold:

“The most outstanding example of traditional music from the island of Ireland would have to be Fester and Ailin’s Tropical Diseases. Voices like angels, and model good looks.”

Thanks all.

Golden Discs