Mmf.
Maynooth town, Co. Kildare yesterday.
AnnMari O’Reilly writes:
“The repuddle of Ireland…”
Related: The Broadsheet Book Of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (Aidan Coughlan, New Island, €5)
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The Dublin 7 ‘gentrification’ continues.
Via Rob Doyle in today’s Guardian:
In the aftermath of the culturally barren Celtic Tiger years, Ireland is said to be undergoing something of a literary rebirth. It’s now harder than ever to swing a cat in Dublin without skulling a handful of writers and dole-queue poets. Debut novels and short story collections are launched with pummelling frequency. Stoneybatter has become a hub of this renaissance.
Moynes? Fight!
A word to the hungry: Stoneybatter’s tastiest almond croissants are found in the Green Door Bakery on Manor Street – but only if you get there early enough, which I have managed on no more than two occasions. A few doors down is a real gem, still largely unheralded: the pleasant and unpretentious Biscotti Caffe, which offers what is hands down Dublin’s most satisfying full Irish breakfast (available all day, too).
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Discover Dublin’s Stoneybatter, a district on the rise (Rob Doyle, Guardian)
Pic: Failte ireland
Thanks Kevin Finnerty
YouTuber Ireland writes:
We got some Irish Kids to Discuss the ‘1916 Rising’ . Apparently, it happened 1,000 years ago and we should have used “shrink ray guns” to beat the British…
The proud Irish brand Supermac’s,
Is subject to savage attacks,
They won’t let it trade,
With the name that it’s made,
By selling its nutritious snacks.
John Moynes
(Supermac’s)
Daniel writes:
Good morning Dublin…
Meanwhile…
Portobello, Dublin 2
Thanks Sheila Larkin
Stephen McManus tweetz:
RTE says that TV license money plus in-programme ads isn’t enough to let me listen to radio online.
MORE to folly.
No Regrets
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A screen grab from The Irish Times this evening
Following on from the publication of the Banking Inquiry report…
The Irish Times has published a video of witnesses who used the word ‘regret’.
The video included clips of Gerry O’Regan, former editor of the Irish Independent, Tim Vaughan, editor of the Irish Examiner, and Ed Mulhall, former head of news and current affairs at RTE.
The report found that property revenue for the Irish Times ranged from €10 million in 2002 to €22 million in 2006 – at its peak, accounting for 17% of the newspaper’s total revenue from all sources. The equivalent figures for the Irish Examiner and Independent News and Media were 7% and 14% respectively.
But what of former managing director of the Irish Times Maeve Donovan and former editor of the Irish Times Geraldine Kennedy – who don’t feature in the video?
Well, they had no regrets.
From Ms Donovan’s testimony…
Good times
Regrets, they’ve had a few. But can you guess how many? (Irish Times)
Pa Reidy – Losing My Mind
Colm Dunne writes:
Something for the way home: The latest in a series of showcase singer songwriter shot in The Blue Note Pub, Galway. This week is [Galway born folk-soul singer songwriter] Pa Reidy
‘sup?
The Little Museum of Dublin, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Patriotic cartoonist Fergal McCarthy (left) left launches an exhibition, sponsored by Luas Cross City, of illustrations from his Easter Rising comic book 1916: A Country is Born (see link below) now showing at Little Museum of Dublin with tricolour-loving tykes from left: Benjamin White and Dash McCarthy.
You might recall Fergal from his ingenious one-man-in the-River Liffey show in 2012
That’s why he glows.
1916: A Country Is Born (Fergal McCarthy, irish Times)
Pic Philip Leonard