Category Archives: Misc

This morning.

Cooldrinagh, Kerrymount Avenue, Foxrock, county Dublin.

Via Irish Times:

Interiors are elegant and refined. The five reception rooms, some of which have impressive and highly detailed marble fireplaces and wall panelling, have superb views of one of the real selling points of the property – the gardens.

When the Beckett family lived at the imposing Edwardian house, they employed a gardener called Christy, who also gets a mention in the Samuel Beckett play, though as a whip-wielding dung carrier. His legacy is still alive today in the acre of magical gardens that have grown and matured over the past 119 years, since the Edwardian three-bay house was constructed.

Samuel Beckett’s childhood home in Foxrock for €3.8m (Irish Times)

What if I grew a little moustache just here?

Chilly.

This morning/afternoon.

Templemore, county Tipperary.

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, on the stand as new garda recruits parade at the Garda Training College.

Meanwhile…

Templemore ‘passing out’.

New guards do their thing.

Meanwhile…

The Garda Commissioner has accepted a finding by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission that gardaí failed to properly investigate sexual abuse allegations.

The allegations of childhood sexual abuse were first referred to gardaí by Greater Manchester Police.

The allegations were made to GMP over incidents that occurred in Ireland and a “comprehensive report” was sent to gardaí.

But GSOC found that very little was done over a protracted period to carry out an investigation, or to deal with the suspected offender, meaning he remained a risk to children.

Harris accepts GSOC finding on failure to investigate sexual abuse allegations (RTE)

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1998.

Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

Powerful and original.

*cough*

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It was a scrum.

Last night.

Burlington Road, Dublin 4.

The Rugby Players Ireland Awards supported by Accenture, in The Clayton Hotel withf rom top: Josh van der Flier and Sophie De Patoul; Dorothy Wall and Beibhinn Parsons; Marie Kirwan; Linda Djougang and Alice Yinka ; Susan and Mal Bradley; Rob Kearney; Francois Richardson; Christina Mahon; from left: Garry Ringrose, Bundee Aki and Jamison Gibson-Park, who went ‘full McGregor’.

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seeds

I am a woman of wonder.
Cast into this realm of mortality,
I seek to cleanse my accounts.
Growth is a process of unlearning.

A maze of reckoning lies ahead.
Boundless is the darkness that blankets my consciousness.
I am free

In meditative silence
I see beyond the bindings
of science and psychics.
See beyond the concrete of our earth,
Into the abyss.
And receive the abundance that lies above.

An enchantress in her element.

The road to redemption is a tedious feat.
But I promise no one regrets the journey.

We build clocks yet curse the ticking.
Fear the marching
of the clicking.
The sound
of our own demise.

Slow down moon child.

Time is but a construct
A bid to control the everlasting.

Breathe.
Time is arbitrary
For the essence is eternal.

Flesh is fleeting.
The fossils that house our souls wither away
Then vegetate the grave.

It’s memories that house that coffin.
Create them.

Memories are trinkets.
For power is experience gained.

Fragments of realization pieced with growth.
Benevolence is vested within.
Be patient.

There is merit in this pursuit.

Healing wounds
leave threaded words
Written testaments
of hope.
A survivor despite the climate.

And when sun shines
I smile.
Her warm hug dissolving into my skin.
Recharging my system.

Aoife Cunningham

Previously: Aoife on Broadsheet

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Free June 15?

State-run Covid Care Concerts have this morning announced a special gala concert at the National Concert Hall, Dublin 2 for frontline health workers.

Hosted by Miriam O’Callaghan, the concert features performances by artists such as Mary Coughlan, Niamh Kavanagh, Iarla Ó Lionáird and, er, Professor Luke O’ Neill alongside a 47-piece orchestra.

Tickets here

What you may need to know.

1. Shot on location in London & Brighton, Andrew Dominik’s new feature documentary  captures Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life the songs from their last two studio albums,  Ghosteen (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Carnage (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis).

2. In this document of their first ever performances of these albums, filmed in spring 2021 ahead of their UK tour, we see the two, accompanied by singers and string quartet, as they nurture each song into existence.

3. The film features a special appearance by close friend and long-term collaborator, Marianne Faithfull.

4. Shot in colour with cinematography by Irishman Robbie Ryan, this is a companion piece to Dominik’s monochrome Cave doc One More Time with Feeling (2016).

5 It reaches into the deep friendship and personal relationship between Cave and Ellis, something glimpsed in the 2014 Cave pseudo-documentary, 20,000 Days on Earth.

6. The film will prove to be another significant moment in the journeys of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis ( who is a genius!), capturing the mood and spirit of the pair as they move through a new, optimistic phase following the death of Cave’s son.

7. Desperately poignant after the recent death of Cave’s second son.

Andy’s verdict : Into His Arms, O Lord!

Release: In cinemas now.

Ah here.

Meanwhile…

That was dengue.

This is…

…now.