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Radio host Richard Curran and ‘Grumpy Cat’ duke it out

Listening to the radio tomorrow?

Liam Geraghty writes:

Tomorrow on The Business with Richard Curran (above with Fat Cat) we’ll be talking to comic book artist (and County Clare man) Declan Shalvey about working on DC Comic’s All Star Batman as well as Sarah Bowie, Maura McHugh, Emma Byrne, Luke Healy and Philip Barrett about making a living in the independent comic book scene. RTÉ Radio 1 at 10am. We even had a go at making our own (above)…

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https://vimeo.com/ondemand/adayliketoday

You may recall a previous post featuring a trailer for Gerard Walsh’s first feature film A Day Like Today, about a woman with marriage difficulties who meets a homeless man and spends the day with him

Further to this…

Today, at 3pm, A Day Like Today will be released on vimeo on demand (€7 to rent/€12 to purchase).

Ger writes:

“Shot on a micro budget of just €500 all around Dublin City we are going to be donating all of the first month’s revenue generated from VOD [Vimeo on demand] to Action Autism Ireland.”

A Day Like Today (Vimeo on demand)

Previously: For Your Consideration: A Day Like Today

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Acting Environment Minister Alan Kelly outside the newly built modular homes in Ballymun yesterday

Further to yesterday’s forum on housing and homelessness in Dublin, during which acting Environment Minister Alan Kelly claimed the constitution prevented him from fixing the housing crisis…

Ellen Coyne, in The Times Ireland edition, writes:

Mr Kelly, according to himself, is an unsung hero who tried to save us all from vulture funds, mean landlords and undesirable developers. The whole time that the media and homelessness charities were claiming government inaction on the issue, Mr Kelly was trying again and again to pass remedying legislation, only to be foiled every time by that nefarious constitution.

…“I didn’t have to do this [forum],” Mr Kelly said nobly. “I was under no obligation.”

…Mr Kelly stood beaming and posing outside one of the [modular] houses [in Ballymun] as if he was about to start hosting his own episode of Room to Improve.

“The minister will take some questions on modular housing first,” Mr Kelly’s special adviser said.

“Temporary housing,” Mr Kelly interjected.

You’re not supposed to use “modular housing” for the “fast build” homes, which are finally almost finished, over budget and well over deadline. They cost more than other properties for sale in the area, and there are concerns that they looked suspiciously more like permanent, normal houses where people could end up living for years.

“I’m not a developer,” Mr Kelly pleaded.

Neither were any of the journalists but most of them noticed something strange about the houses. Is it normal for temporary housing to be made of bricks?

“No,” Bríd McGrath, the head of social policy for Respond Housing Association, said.

The houses are very warm and nice and big. A bit like ministerial offices, only a tad smaller, one presumes.

“I’d say they’ll have problems getting people out of these,” Ms McGrath said as the camera flashes exploded around a temporary minister who, unfortunately, doesn’t have the option of staying put.

I tried to save you, insists unsung hero as he scuttles for the door (Ellen Coyne, The Times Ireland edition)

Previously: ‘There Was No Concrete Plan’

Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews

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The gak factsheet.

A gaksheet, if you will.

Not to be sniffed at.

David Burns, of UCD Students Union, writes:

UCDSU will launch a drug harm reduction campaign, the “What’s in the Powder?” campaign, in collaboration with DITSU,TCDSU & the Ana Liffey Drug Project today in the Mansion House, Dublin this afternoon
The campaign aims to educate students on the common constituent parts of illicit substances, especially those sold in powder form, and follows the template of last year’s What’s in the Pill campaign.
Resources created include posters and a factsheet, which will be distributed on participant campuses as well as promoted on social media and via the drugs.ie website.

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Gavin Prior – Between Breaths

Here’s what you may need to know…

1. Guitarist/producer/improv veteran Gavin Prior returns with latest solo LP All Who Wander, available now for preorder on Bandcamp via Deserted Village. Single Between Breaths is streaming in the widget above.

2. Currently of free jazz/metal lads Tarracóir and acapella group The Primal Barber Trio, he’s also been part of folk outfit United Bible Studies and improv group Murmansk.

3. Among the host of musicians he’s improvised live with are Can vocalist Damo Suzuki, world-renowned cellist Okkyung Lee, and London reductionist-school harpist Rhodri Davies.

4. Previous solo works The Avalon Suite (inspired by examples of second-language English while teaching in Korea), and Babbleon Cork (a series of field recordings completed while resident in Shandon’s Guesthouse) are now available for free download.

Verdict: A man with an extensive and intriguing body of work across original compositions, improvisation, and field recordings continues his journey.

Gavin Prior

If you don’t want to look like a fool,
Then remember this one simple rule,
What the newspapers say,
Is nonsense today,
The rest of the year though, they’re cool.

John Moynes

Lego Batman

What you may need to know:

1. Will Arnett’s Lego Batman gets a spin off. With Ralph “the ‘L’ is silent” Fiennes as Alfred.

2. There are no fewer than FOUR Lego movies in the pipeline. Ninjago is due in 2017, and Phil Lord/Chris Miller’s Lego Movie Sequel is out in 2018. Jason Segel is also developing The Billion Brick Race for a 2018 release.

3. That’s a lot of bricks.

4. So, what did we think of Batman v Superman?

5. It seems to be getting a lot of hate, but in fairness I’ve seen worse.

6. Broadsheet prognosis: Everything’s not awesome.

Release Date: February 10, 2017.