This morning
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the Franchise Show in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
It’s not a caption competition, etc.
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Gesundheit!
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This morning.
Leopardstown Shopping Centre, Lepoardstown, Dublin 18.
Rob O’Loughlin writes:
So Bob, it seems you can’t…
Do you know your OCI from your THG?
A swanky, five-star interactive timeline of the Rio ticket controversy from The Times Ireland Edition.
Go on. Swipe it.
Updated as they get it.
Meanwhile…
Brazilian police investigating Pat Hickey in connection with an alleged ticket touting operation believe they have evidence that a similar scheme was in place at the London 2012 Olympics and there were plans to repeat it in Tokyo 2020.
Police have reviewed documents and emails seized during an operation at the Rio Games last month and have claimed that the full extent of the suspected scalping operation is wider than initially thought.
“The exchange of messages, spreadsheets and documents analysed has strengthened the investigation and showed that the scam was vast,” a police source said.
Touting ‘scam’ involves five Games, say police (The Times Ireland)
Every Friday we give away a voucher worth a pony [twenty five EUROS] given to us by Golden Discs and free to spend at any of the record giant’s 13 stores nationwide.
In return we ask you to choose a song we can play at 2pm 4pm 5pm TODAY. Monday at 10am.
This week’s theme: Male/Female.
What cross gender contemporary musical performance tickles your ear buds?
To enter, please complete this sentence.
‘The greatest man/woman pairing in music is__________________and_________________owing to____________’
lines MUST close at 1.30pm 3.30pm Midnight.
*jitter*
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Trade Union TV needs your help.
The online video outlet for union and community activism in Ireland is using Australian social enterprise platform Chuffed to crowdfund new equipment for future video, and to catalogue the already-hefty archives of anti-austerity activity.
Sez TUTV boss Paula Geraghty:
We’ve been there for communities to document their struggles. Our output has slowed down because our equipment is out of date. We’re also not funded by the state or any organisations.
We get no funding at all. But we keep getting asked to cover events for groups that have even less resources and we don’t want to let them down.
Now we need your help to be able to continue to document and tell those stories, honestly, professionally and independently.
We want to continue to report on the stories that don’t always get the coverage they deserve.
Please help us to replace equipment to allow us to let people’s stories be heard. We also need hard drives to archive the footage. We have a lot of footage!
Donations here.
Crowdfunding deadline is October 18.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g95KRpSTujg
‘Stew in SF’ writes:
If you feel you’re not getting the full picture about the American election and If you have a spare 30 minutes this weekend can I recommend to your readers this excellent rant.. [Political and media analyst] Lionel skewers Hillary’s health, the Clinton Foundation, ‘boorish’ Donald Trump, self styled ‘Libertarian’ Gary Johnson (top left), mainstream vs alternative media and even dope smokers…
FIGHT!
New Valley Wolves – releasing new single Silver Tongue
What you may need to know…
01. Dublin duo New Valley Wolves specialise in stripped-back, no-nonsense, heads-down rock ‘n’ roll.
02. Last year saw the release of debut album Refusal is Our Weapon on iTunes/Apple Music. “It doesn’t break the mould but it should break your mood”, said Nialler9 in the Irish Times.
03. Streaming above is the video for new single Silver Tongue, filmed on the road during the band’s summer touring by Junior Soares.
04. Having just finished the summer festival grind with two sets at Electric Picnic, more live dates to support the single release are to be announced, but for a start, catch ’em at Hard Working Class Heroes.
VERDICT: If you’re going to do the blues, do ’em with the same piss and vinegar as these lads.
Punk’d
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A faithful replica of Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s helmet, hand-sculpted with custom PCB electronics, Wifi, MIDI, motion and audio interaction, and 250 RGB LEDs.
It took master builders Love Props a year to create but they’ve released full build instructions so you can make your own.
Bless ’em.
Prefer Thomas Bangalter’s LED lid?
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