Category Archives: Misc

Thank Frosty it’s Friday.

And a happy new year to all you good good people.

With snow falling on cedars and other trees today, there can be only one theme to this week’s voucher-less music chat: what’s your favourite song about or featuring snow?

Here’s mine.

Please include video links if possible.

Lines close on Saturday at Midday.

Meanwhile…

The Pogues & The Dubliners – The Irish Rover

Last month, I asked you for your favourite drinking song. Goldenbrown won my esteem with this entry:

“A great drinking song about the drink – and a great tale – I wanted it to be a true story LOL. And it’s my party trick when I’m out on the jar.”

Nick says: Thanks Goldenbrown and all who entered.

Pic: Freebird, Dublin

This afternoon.

Fleet Street Car Park, Dublin 2.

Musicians – above from left: Bridin (on harp) with members of Kila: Colm O Snodaigh, Brian Hogan, Ronan O Snodaigh, and Dave Hingerty – perform an impromptu live session in the car park next to the Oliver Sty John Gogarty pub to mark the launch of TradFest Temple Bar 2022, running from January 26-30.

Tradfest 2022

Leah Farrell/RollingNews

Car park, you say?

Anyone?

Free Monday?

Are you unjabbed?

Is it something you’d prefer to keep to yourself (fearing ridicule or WORSE?).

Or would you like to share your story on the ‘telly’ among a panel of like-minded souls?

We will be hosting an online get together HERE on Monday night for anyone who wants to reach out and explain their reluctance to be poked.

Wacked-out, crinkled-up. tin-foil merchants of crazy?

Or perfectly-reasonable, peace-loving adults of sound minds and healthy bodies?

We will know on Monday at 9pm.

Email to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Unjabbed’.

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And well he might.

Meanwhile…

Via Pearse Museum

Name those TDs, anyone?

This afternoon.

Further to eye-popping alcohol off-sales price hikes…

…via Lucille Destrade, KU Leuven and Michel Destrade, of NUI Galway:

One standard drink in Ireland contains 10 grams of alcohol, so the minimum price for one standard drink will now be €1.

A 12.5% bottle of wine has 74 grams of alcohol and it cannot now be sold for less than €7.40. A bottle of spirit like vodka or whiskey cannot be sold for less than €21. A point to note here is that the price of a bottle of champagne (which cost more than €7.40 in 2021) or fine whiskey (which cost more than €21 in 2021) remains unchanged.

The main issue is that it is a price floor instead of a tax. The HSE believes that “people drink more alcohol if it is cheap. If you raise taxes for alcohol, you are raising the cost of alcohol for everyone. Minimum pricing most impacts people who are drinking alcohol harmfully. It is designed to target the heaviest drinkers who seek the cheapest alcohol, which means it will have the greatest effect among those who experience the most harm.

However, no evidence is provided for these claims. Is it wise or correct for the Government to base an economic policy on the assumptions that price is enough to deter heavy drinkers and that heavy drinkers only seek cheap alcohol?

Why minimum pricing for alcohol won’t reduce harmful drinking (RTE)

Yesterday: Can-Kicking Exercise

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Meanwhile…

Somebody’s Child – Crazy

Out standing in his field.

Looking back on the Irish year in music just passed, we must not forget this single from Dublin songsmith Cian Godfrey aka Somebody’s Child.

The bandcamp blurb states:

“Starting his musical journey at age 5 in Paris, Cian took to playing the piano in the family apartment. Upon moving back to Ireland, Cian gained an interest in songwriting, enabling him to tell his own stories. These narratives often reflect upon difficult mental health experiences, as well as the endearing happenings of a youngster growing up in Dublin.”

The video is directed by Sam Follover and edited by Robert Bass.

Nick says: Child’s play.

Somebody’s Child