Clockwise from top left Horse Riding at Grange, Co. Sligo, Fly Fishing at Glenbeg Lough in Co. Cork, cycling on the Aran Islands in Co. Galway and surfing at Inch, Co. Kerry
Wild Atlantic Way stamps by Red and Grey design launched by An Post today.
But that’s not all.
An Post writes:
In a hi-tech twist each stamp features augmented reality technology and when scanned using a smartphone or tablet with the CEE App installed, allows the user to access additional material on the Wild Atlantic Way….
Mick tweetz:
One of me best mates [Dara Kenny] painted this down in Arklow. Legal wall, no permission needed. #repealthe8th
Previously: Meanwhile, In Temple Bar
There’s only one way of finding out.
Someone please bring the spooked waif home for pity’s sake.
Dublin SPCA writes:
We understand you don’t normally do this but this is Luke a 12 week old kitten waiting for his forever home. Many kittens have come and gone in the weeks that Luke has been in the cattery but no one has picked him. If you think you can offer a suitable and loving home to Luke please call up to our shelter [Mount venus Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16] Today, Tomorrow or Saturday 11am to 4.30pm.Thank you.
Anyone?
Chris Power – Cork beatsmith returns with WhytFaux: The Conman & Slim
What you may need to know…
01. Amid an already stupidly-decent few weeks for Irish hip-hop comes another quality drop, this time from Cork beat-maker, previous column featuree and chicken roll aficionado Chris Power.
02. As mentioned previously, Power’s been a busy man, working with much-fancied MC Atari Jones, and hip-hop royalty in Illa J (J Dilla’s brother), with another flurry of new material due later this year.
03. Streaming above is WhytFaux: The Conman & Slim, a brand-new tape of instrumentals laden with smooth sampling and boom-bap goodness. Cover image (top) by Shane O’Donovan features the entrance to Castlepalooza (Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Co Offaly),
04. This is also the debut release from the newly-formed label arm of Cork’s Cuttin’ Heads Collective, a multiple-headed beast of DJs, producers, promoters and other such folk that have banded together to advance the cause of beats in Leeside society.
Verdict: Innovative, yet instantly accessible sample-play and well-placed skits abound. Serious business.
Splutter!
Presumptive Fine Gael leader Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald ‘listening’ to former Us Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (on stage, above) at the US Democrat Party Convention in Philadelphia and beset by ‘erb propaganda online.
From top: Protest outside Leinster House, 2016; Dan Boyle
Being unburdened by history and being uncaring about the future are just some of the benefits of living in the ‘Us’ world.
Dan Boyle writes:
For the past ten years of my life I have been one of Them. I didn’t apply for membership and I don’t particularly want to be a member. It has been determined that this is who I am and this is where I should be.
It is only membership of the Irish branch of the global Them organisation, nevertheless, the sins of the many throughout the World are visited on we few.
Unlike the far more cool group, the Us organisation, we in Them are responsible for all that is bad or has gone wrong. Our foibles are all equivalent, equal to the worst transgressions that have ever been committed.
I long to be part of the Us group. Those whose accusations have greater weight when based on prejudice without needing to be in any way evidentially based. Facts about Them become facts through repetition.
The flaws of an Us member get to be judged differently. These are more sins of omission than commission. Context is all in the Us world. For their selfs at least.
Language is looser. Us people get to harangue Them losers at great length and with deep intensity. No epithet is out of bounds.
Consistency in word, thought or deed is not encouraged in the Us world. To be or become consistent is something of a heresy.
Logic is a pathetic shield that we in Them hide behind. The freedom to change what we say and what we believe is only the prerogative of those who belong with Us.
Being unburdened by history and being uncaring about the future are other hidden benefits of living in the Us world. In their world the counter factual explains everything.
A thesis doesn’t need to be challenged. If it exists it is believed. It becomes endorsed by others among Us who accept the truth it becomes.
As we in Them are responsible for all that is wrong, all that is required for Us to put things right, is to be the polar opposite of those who have brought wrong about.
The leaders of Us tell Us what they want to hear. Among Them there are those experts. Of whom there are too many. Of whose thoughts too much weight has been given. To whom too much attention has been made that has led Us down too many dark alleys.
For Us people there are no complex situations. There are no issues that cannot be resolved without the devising of an appropriate slogan. Solutions, like facts, become solved through the repetition of these mantras. It’s quite Zen like.
There is the option of being neither part of Us or Them. It is the saner option. The only downside is that the Us and Them groups share a mutual antipathy towards the Other. For both groups Other Wise is an oxymoron.
Maybe there is an Other way. A different way. A better way. For those who dream it is to be hoped that it may soon become Thus.
Dan Boyle is a former Green Party TD and Senator. Follow Dan on Twitter: @sendboyle
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De-Dimension – clever, clickable, hangable and apparently sturdy flat-pack furniture by Korean designer Jongha Choi.
He’s back.
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‘LeatherJacketGuy’ asks Irish People – Do You Want a ‘United Ireland’?
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