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Banks are forcing over 40 children to become homeless every single month. pic.twitter.com/xIBVDVJb9d— Focus Ireland (@FocusIreland) December 2, 2016
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Reissued digitally and made available for free download yesterday by Limerick’s Out on a Limb Records (after years of only being available on CD-R) is Cork post-metallers Rest’s take on Walking in the Air, a staple of annual indie Irish Xmas playlists and awkward seasonal band communiqués.
Bah, humbug.
Which begs the question of our regulars: favourite Irish-artist Christmas tunes that aren’t by Frank Kelly?
From top: Cover and sample page of Jonathan Sugarman’s book The Whistleblower; and Mr Sugarman (centre) at the launch of his book at Buswells Hotel in Dublin this morning, with MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan and Diarmuid O’Flynn, of Ballyhea Says No
A bit of a hero, in fairness.
Jonathan Sugarman is a former executive at Unicredit Bank Ireland in Dublin’s IFSC who resigned in September 2007 after giving a detailed account of enormous liquidity breaches at his bank a year before the financial crash.
Mr Sugarman, whose warning were ignored by the Central Bank, gave an address (above) to MEPs last week and earlier today launched his book The Whistleblower, published with the help of Luke Flanagan MEP, in Buswells Hotel, Dublin 2.
.@whistleirl “What I did was report a crime…” Resigned, went into central bank reported it, a crime involving billions, nothing happened.
— Seanán Kerr (@seanan_kerr) December 2, 2016
Those who wish can buy the book, priced €3.75, a on Smashwords here
Transcript via Oireachtas.ie
Pics: Smashwords and Denis pⓐrfёnov
Thanks Richard Farrell
Of this brief Rogue One twerkathon, visual effects artist Nicholas King, who made it, sez:
Wrap parties are always necessary, especially if the film was shot on a beautiful island.
Results of a year long aerial project by Canadian photographer David Burdeny in which he captures (and presumably enhances) the vibrant hues of salterns in Utah, Mexico and Australia, laid out like abstract Modernist paintings.
MORE: David Burdeny: Salt
The new trailer for the upcoming new Legend of Zelda game, Breath of the Wild. reveals a bit more of the story, and the applications for its unusual visual style.
Available in March for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U.
It MIGHT have your name on it.
Handmade by Maeve Murphy, who writes:
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They are available in my Etsy shop or people can drop me a line on Facebook. International shipping available and 10% on 3 or more stockings.
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William Street – hip-hop from Cork
What you may need to know…
01. A relatively new name and face to Cork’s slowly renaissant hip-hop scene, is MC Shane Kavanagh, aka William Street.
02. Quietly getting around Cork with gigs, and garnering community radio play around the country, he’s picked his time well to horse into formally releasing music.
03. Streaming above is Move E.P.: Part One, available for download from his Bandcamp now. A pair of tracks featuring production from Irish beatmakers Gerryboy and G.I.
04. Part two of the extended-player is due in early 2017, according to the man himself.
Verdict: A Cork-accented voice, with a way for verbal broadsides that’s complemented by the accent itself.
Further to yesterday’s story in The Irish Times, by Patsy McGarry, about an alleged sexual assault against a boy in King’s Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin…
Today.
Mr McGarry reports:
“The school contacted lawyers on Friday for legal opinion on dealing with the matter, and was advised to report it to Tusla and the gardaí immediately.”
“However, this was not done until late on Tuesday afternoon of this week. By this stage, The Irish Times had contacted the school with questions about the matter.”
“It has also emerged the boy’s family was told last Friday that the school had been in contact with Tusla.”
“This was understood by the family to mean the alleged incident had been reported to Tusla. However, it is understood the school had put a hypothetical case to the agency, seeking an opinion on what was the best course of action in an apparently construed situation.”
School delayed reporting alleged sexual assault for four days (Irish Times)
Previously: In Palmerstown