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The work of Thai wedding photographers คนตัวเล็ก (lit. ‘little person’), who create charming miniature tilt shift dioramas for those few happy couples who have not yet wearied of the shallow depth of field effect.

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Meanwhile, further to the documentary Mary Boyle: The Untold Story, written and directed by Gemma O’Doherty…

RTÉ reports:

A specialist garda unit is to take a fresh look into the disappearance of six-year-old Mary Boyle, who was last seen almost 40 years ago in Co Donegal.

The Serious Crime Review team will scrutinise the case from when Mary was first reported missing in March 1977.

If anything new is uncovered or warrants further investigation it will be followed up.

Garda cold case unit to review Mary Boyle disappearance (RTE)

Via IrelandSaysNo

Previously: For Your Consideration: Mary Boyle – The Untold Story

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Table showing quarterly and annually changes in house prices across Europe and the EU

Eurostat, the statistical arm of the European Union, writes:

House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 3.0% in the euro area and by 4.0% in the EU in the first quarter of 2016 compared with the same quarter of the previous year.

…Compared with the fourth quarter of 2015, house prices rose by 0.4% in the euro area and by 0.7% in the EU in the first quarter of 2016.

House prices up by 3.0% in the euro area (Eurostat)

Previously: Crisisier And Crisisier

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Saturday July 16: I Am The Cosmos, This Greedy Pig, Padraic E.Moore @ Bello Bar, Portobello Harbour, Dublin 8 (€10)

Nialler9 writes:

Analogue synthesizer dance music of the highest order is what these Dublin boys make. They launch their new single Letting It Go with a live set and DJ sets from their buddies.

Nialler9’s Gig Guide July12-18  (Nialler9)

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The highlight of new exhibition at Roppongi Hills Tokyo City View (52 storeys up) celebrating  30 years of the great Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle) featuring, among other things, models of the elaborate flying machines that featured in many of Ghibli’s animated films.

Centrestage is an illuminated, automated model of the airship from Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky (1986). Elsewhere there are posters, collectibles, tribute art and a restaurant serving 11 dishes inspired by the films.

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A letter sent from the Standards in Public Office Commission to Independents 4 Change TD Mick Wallace last Thursday.

It details how, on March 2, Nama chairman Frank Daly made a complaint to SIPO about Frank Cushnahan, a former member of Nama’s Northern Ireland Advisory Committee.

It also states that SIPO will contact Mr Wallace soon to meet with the TD and possibly obtain a statement from him. SIPO also requests that Mr Wallace furnish SIPO with any documents that may help SIPO’s inquiry into the complaint against Mr Cushnahan.

Three Four months.

Good times

Related: Nama chair lodges complaint against Frank Cushnahan (Irish Times)

Frank Cushnahan broke law, Nama complaint in Republic alleges (March 3, Belfast Telegraph)

Previously: Screech

‘The Figleaf Has Been Blown Out Of The Water’

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From top: Mabel, Henrietta and the full brood.

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Henreal ceramics from The Irish Workshop (online home of Irish-made crafts and whatnottery)

Allison Wheeland, from The Irish Workshop says:

Trying to decide how best to celebrate a friend’s hen party? Well, these sassy chicks may be of some assistance Potter Kathy Mooney crafts these fun creations from her studio in Dublin, and they make a fabulous addition to any newly-hitched woman’s fireplace. Now that’s certainly something to cluck about…

Stop that.

We do the punnage.

Kathy Mooney’s pottery hens (The Irish Workshop)

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Irish made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.