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The Cinemobile arriving at the Guth Gafa International Festival at Headfort House in Kells, Co Meath last year..
Restless movie theatre Cinemobile Ireland announced yesterday that it is go off the road due to lack of funding..
The truck was to travel to Headfort House in Kells, Co Meath for the tenth anniversary of the Guth Gafa International documentary Film Festival next month.
Cinemobile Ireland was one of largest recipients of Millenium Project Funding with a
£500,000 grant.
Anita Guidera of Guth Gafa, writes:
The mobile cinema was provisionally reserved as far back as last November and the booking confirmed in March of this year.
Guth Gafa received no advance notice before last weekend that the Cinemobile was in financial difficulty or about to cease trading.
We have been left in a really difficult situation. Guth Gafa gets underway on August 3 and will screen over 60 documentary films from all over the world and host visiting filmmakers from as far away as Australia and Canada.
If we can’t come to some arrangement, we will have just three weeks to build a 100-seater flagship venue that will do justice to the work of these filmmakers.”
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
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
#olympics not a priority for @McIlroyRory pic.twitter.com/OJdtiBlpHi
— Gregg Strellis (@GreggStrellis) July 12, 2016
Rory McIlroy speaking at a press conference this morning
Further to his recent decision to opt out of the Rio Olympics due to the the Zika virus…
Rory McIlroy commented on his decision at a press conference this morning ahead of The Open.
Rory McIlroy: “I’ve no regrets about it [deciding not to take part in Rio Olympics] and I’ll probably watch the Olympics but I’m not sure golf will be one of the events I’ll watch.”
Reporter: “Which events will you watch in that case?”
McIlroy: “Probably the events that, track and field, swimming, diving. The stuff that, the stuff that matters.”
Rory McIlroy Gets Brutally Honest About Golf At The Olympics (Balls.ie)
Rory McIlroy takes six shots to get out of bunker ahead of The Open (Sky Sports)
Previously: Blame It On Rio
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.
This afternoon.
College Green, Dublin 2.
Not remotely confusing.
Thanks David Green
Hushnahan
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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
From top: Mabel, Henrietta and the full brood.
‘sup?
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)
Irish made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.
BayGood?
Dublin City Council write:
This video, created by members of Dublin City’s Comhairle na nÓg (Youth Council) highlights the importance of promoting and protecting Dublin Bay and the surrounding area.
This [area] extends to over 300 km2. Over 330,000 people live within the Biosphere area. Dublin Bay Biosphere is the only UNESCO Biosphere in a capital city in Europe.