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Friday August 5 – 7: Dublin Rock N Roll Festival @ Dame District/Whelan’s (Some free)

Nialler9 writes:

Formerly known as the Rock-N-Roll Conference, Dublin Rock-N-Roll Festival is a three-day event centered on retro rock’n’roll, rockabilly and all things vintage that go along with it: cars, pomp hairstyles and dance competitions.

Music wise, there are gigs in 10 venues from The Strypes, Donna Dunne, Slim Jim and the Bone Breakers, The Slick Hicks, The Dublin City Rounders, The Jive Cats, Mushburgers, Sunset Kings (USA) and more. Some gigs are free.

Nialler9’s Gig  Guide August 2-August 8 (Nialler9)

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From top: Senior Counsel for Denis O’Brien, Jim O’Callaghan (right), at Dublin Castle for the  Moriarty Tribunal in 2010 and Denis O’Brien

Mark Tighe, in The Sunday Times at the weekend, reported that Persona – which is suing the State and Denis O’Brien over the awarding of the mobile phone licence to the businessman in 1996 – has been allowed a “leapfrog appeal” to the Supreme Court.

It follows the High Court ruling in April that Persona – run by Tony Boyle and Michael McGinley – could not use funds from a third party, Harbour Litigation, to fund its case.

Mr Tighe reported:

The High Court ruled that Harbour had no direct interest in the case so its funding of Persona would breach the laws of champerty, a criminal offence.

Both the state and O’Brien opposed Persona’s attempt to appeal directly to the Supreme Court.

In O’Brien’s legal submission, signed by two senior counsel including Jim O’Callaghan, Fianna Fail’s spokesman on justice, it was denied that Boyle and McGinley needed financial assistance to run the case.

… Since the Court of Appeal was established in 2014 to handle a backlog of appeals from the High Court, the Supreme Court has restricted direct appeals to only those issues of “public importance” and cases with “exceptional circumstances”.

The state had argued Persona’s appeal did not concern a matter of general public importance.

Both O’Brien and the state also argued there was no urgency to the case, which involves allegations that Michael Lowry, as communications minister, improperly awarded the licence to O’Brien’s consortium 20 years ago.

In its determination the Supreme Court, comprising the chief justice Susan Denham, William McKechnie and Elizabeth Dunne, said in light of constitutional principles of access to the court and access to justice, they considered Persona raised issues of general public importance.

“This application is one where there is in essence a single legal issue of general public importance which transcends the interests of the parties before the court in these proceedings, namely the application of the doctrines of maintenance and champerty,” it said.

“As the application may involve the issue of access to justice, and access to the courts, it is a matter of significant importance. The court is satisfied it is a case where leave to appeal may be granted from the Court of Appeal.”

… The Persona appeal will now go into a case management process before the formal Supreme Court hearing.

O’Brien case leaps to Supreme Court (The Sunday Times)

Pics: Laura Hutton/Sasko Lazarov (Rollingnews)

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It isn’t hard to see.

Trademark lawyer Brian Conroy writes:

Yesterday a trademark application was filed for EU wide protection for “John Lennon”. I immediately thought ‘unless whoever has applied for that is actually called John Lennon, I don’t fancy their chances of getting the trademarks across the line’,

Particularly because Yoko Ono was previously involved (to some extent anyway) in a trademark spat with a US Singer called Lennon Murphy – You can read more about that HERE… But happily it turns out  the application was made by Yoko…

John Lennon Trademarks – Yoko Ono Applies for John Lennon TMs (Brian Conroy)

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This afternoon.

Ashford Service Station, Ashford, Co Wicklow

Via Frlly Keane

Update:

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Another angle.

*shakes fist*

Meanwhile…

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This afternoon.

Jon Dardis writes:

Not so SMART Parking in Tesco car park Celbridge [Co Kildare]

Alternatively

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Eek.

This afternoon.

On the River Liffey by the Seán O’Casey bridge.

Leah Farrell writes:

A boat turns over as swimmers jump into the River Liffey, while they launched the 97th Dublin City Liffey Swim at North Wall Quay in Dublin today. The 97th Dublin City Liffey Swim takes place on Saturday (August 6), at Rory O’Moore Bridge, beside the Guinness Brewery, Dublin 8.

The men’s race begins at 1.30pm and the women’s race at 2.30pm. More than 400 swimmers will take part in this year’s race. The Dublin City Liffey Swim is organised by Leinster Open Sea, a not-for-profit voluntary organisation, and is sponsored by Dublin City Council.

Rollingnews

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Sunday’s Sunday Business Post

In the Sunday Business Post, at the weekend, Elaine Byrne wrote about how, at 3am one morning, two men chased her in an attempt to attack her.

Recalling the event, Ms Byrne wrote:

The gardaí came. They said I shouldn’t be out so late and dropped me home.

I never really told anyone about this incident. The narrative would have been predictable. Were you drinking? “No.” Well, you should have known better anyway. You shouldn’t have been out so late. What were you wearing? Somehow, it would have become my fault. I was wrong. What did I expect at that hour of the night? There was no Garda report, no incident recorded for the statistics. Nothing.

Ms Byrne added:

I sat through my friend’s rape trial. I watched her on the stand being cross-examined by a barrister and heard him say the most disgusting line I have ever heard in the English language.

“Your injuries are consistent with the straddling of a gate. Did you straddle a gate?”

Because that’s what women do for fun. We straddle gates.

Why do we ignore Ireland’s rape problem? (Elaine Byrne, Sunday Business Post)

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Yesterday.

Brixton, South London

Ireland-born Richy and Jamaica-born Taurayne modelling Conscious Power tees which sneakily subvert the nasty ‘No Blacks No Dogs No Irish’ message to UK migrants in the 1960s and 1970s

You can order a ‘More Blacks, More Dogs, More Irish’ tee by emailing Consciouspower@outlook.com.

More Blacks, More Dogs, More Irish: Brixton street scene (Brixton Buzz)

Thanks Marissa McEntee

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Wise words from the busy notebook of Bruce Lee.

READ ON: Bruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence (Brain Pickings)

(Image: Bruce Lee Foundation)