Improv Fest Ireland returns to Dublin in November with a sizzling line up of international acts from around the world. Showcasing a huge range of improvised theatre and comedy styles, the festival features acts from 13 different countries performing in 29 different shows
. The festival also features world-class workshops and master classes, international ‘mixer’ performances, as well as a nightly Festival Club. It’s a veritable feast of international talent, all under the same roof (in two theatre spaces) with all shows priced at an incredible €10.
An impressively stabilised GoPro helmetcam video from the noggin of mountain biker Steve Storey featuring a super smooth descent he’s perfected over two years.
The impressive work of 27 year old self taught candy sculptor Shinri Tezuka.
The ancient craft of amezaiku (the rolling, sculpting and painting of elaborate lollipops) is a disappearing art and Tezuka is one of two known practitioners in Tokyo.
From top: Taoiseach Enda Kenny addresses the all-island forum on Brexit; Michaél Martin
This morning.
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.
At the all-island forum on Brexit.
Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin criticised UK ministers for pushing a “crude and chaotic” Brexit agenda.
Urging Ireland to attempt to soften the UK’s exit from the EU, he said June’s “divisive and damaging” referendum result had profound short, medium and long-term implications for Ireland.
“Our agenda is the clear one of wanting to minimise the damage and division of Brexit and to maximise progress for all parts of this island,” he told the forum.
“Let’s explore radical ways of softening Brexit, but we also have to talk about the crude and chaotic Brexit which some in the London cabinet appear to be advocating.
“Unlike the Foreign Secretary (Boris Johnston), we don’t have the luxury of being pro-having the cake and eating it.”
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said the forum should “not be about a hard Brexit or a soft Brexit. It needs to be about moving beyond the consequences of Brexit and looking at alternatives”.
Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged session was released as a full-length recording on November 1st, 1994, months after the suicide of frontman/guitarist Kurt Cobain.
A historical article on the emergency landing of Captain Reuben Ocaña, in Mallow Racecourse in 1983 has been doing the rounds on local Facebook in the last week or so.
A Gulfstream II executive jet piloted by Ocaña made an emergency landing in the racecourse, and rather than transport the aircraft by road, insurers insisted on a temporary 3,000-foot tarmacadam runway to be built to fly the aircraft out.
The crew stayed in the North Cork town for five weeks, and became local celebrities, adjudicating the Rakes of Mallow beauty contest.
Their legend in the area endures to this day, with local nightclub Marakibo rebranding as Ocaña’s earlier this year.
Cammac66 writes:
Gerard Callanan, who owns a service station in Mallow, witnessed the landing. “I was opening up the garage at the time,” he says. “The next thing, I see this plane hovering around. It came around a second time, and I saw it landing. I kind of got a fright. It went down about 10 inches into the ground. It ran for about 100 yards or 200 yards, and the wings hit some of the fence posts
I could see the cockpit opening, and people getting out. I went over then, after a few minutes. The gardaí were arriving at that stage. When the captain of the plane came out, I said, ‘You’re welcome to Mallow’.”
“While Trump wants to make America great again, we have to ask ourselves, ‘What made America great in the first place?’… The short answer to that is simple. America was great not because of what our forefathers did — but because of who our forefathers were. America was founded as a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Republic it became great.”
