Dublin Old School Nightclubs by Maxi

The votes are in.

Last Monday, with a beautiful A2 print of Dublin nightclubs of old by Maxi – available at Jam Art Prints – to giveaway, we asked you to recall (if possible) your most memorable evening at any of the establishments featured in Maxi’s print

Thank you for the many hilarious entries.

Sadly, there can be only one winner (selected By Mark at Jam Art).

Third Place:

MacGafraidh writes:

‘All my memories in Pod were crazy, honestly, it was an amazing place. I used to work for a really large mobile phone company, let’s call them Fodavone, no wait too easy, Doblafone.. We had a corporate gig there hosted by one of the brands we sold, let’s call them Nokio.. and they brought in ‘Example’.. At a time when I thought his music was ‘deadly’.

Gig was great. Afterwards we’re at the bar having drinks and who is off to the side of the bar only Mr. Example himself talking to two women.

After a minute or two of gentle persuasion and an unavoidable double dare from my mates, I strolled over.. Drink in hand, eyes locked on Mr. Example, and as I approached his little circle I got this surge of confidence with my mates about 10 feet back behind me.

Me: “Example, sorry to interrupt but it’s not often you get to meet….”
Example: “can’t you see I’m talking to these girls for fuck’s sake.. Some people have no sense..”

Example walks away with the girls. Can’t believe I got to meet my hero.. And at Pod.. So I deserve the prize here. On an alternative note, David DeValera used to play at Pod and he had the place absolutely heaving.. Crazy night out guaranteed every week. Loved it.’

Runner-Up:

Bri Nylon writes:

‘I was in the Pod one Saturday night. This woman came over and said she loved my hair, and that I had a lovely face with beautiful skin. We got married two years later. Still together!’

Winner:

Liam Deliverance writes:

‘Many fuzzy memories from these magical places of dance, I was never let in to the POD for some reason and 2 visits to System marked the end of the era for me personally. I do distinctly remember one gig in the Ormonde though

It was 1996 and just before Christmas week. Myself and 2 buds got dropped in to Dame Street by my Mam, she would not have known that we were heading to Ormonde Quay later, as I thanked my Mam and got out she forced a £20 into my hand as well as a bag of Mars Funsize.

I stuffed them into my jacket pocket and got busy with a few pints. During the obligatory search from the “very” hands-on bouncers at the Ormonde they found the bag and looked at me funny, I shrugged my shoulders, ripped open the bag and offered one each to the three bouncers, they smiled and accepted, shrugged their shoulders and sent me inside.

Again I forgot about the Mars bars after putting them back in my jacket, I was more than a little embarrassed by them too. The night was a good one, couldn’t tell you who was playing, busy as with Christmas looming the next gigs would be a couple of weeks away.

Sometime in the early hours, still in the Ormonde, that bag resurfaced, and never has a small piece of chocolate, caramel and nougat tasted so very good.

I shared them around and made at least 10 new friends that night, of course I never saw any of them again but hopefully they remember fondly that night with yer man and his bag of little Mars bars!’

Thanks all.

Monday: Dublin In The Rave Old Times

Jam Art Prints

Chairman of the boards and future Fine Gael Senator Eamonn Coghlan  before the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Update:

Ah lads.

Eamonn Coghlan – What Went Wrong in Moscow? (Magill, August 1980)

Previously…..

For the 1976 Montreal Olympics

Also by Alan Corsini

That’s right – two tails. What do you mean you’ve only seen one? To wit:

Of the two tails evident, the blue ion tail on the left points directly away from the Sun and is pushed out by the flowing and charged solar wind. Structure in the ion tail comes from different rates of expelled blue-glowing ions from the comet’s nucleus, as well as the always complex and continually changing structure of our Sun’s wind. Most unusual for Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), though, is the wavy structure of its dust tail. This dust tail is pushed out by sunlight, but curves as heavier dust particles are better able to resist this light pressure and continue along a solar orbit. Comet NEOWISE‘s impressive dust-tail striations are not fully understood, as yet, but likely related to rotating streams of sun-reflecting grit liberated by ice melting on its 5-kilometre wide nucleus. The featured 40-image conglomerate, digitally enhanced, was captured three days ago through the dark skies of the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, China. Comet NEOWISE will make it closest pass to the Earth tomorrow as it moves out from the Sun. The comet, already fading but still visible to the unaided eye, should fade more rapidly as it recedes from the Earth.

(Image: Zixuan Lin (Beijing Normal U.)

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ireland’s largest single span masonry arch bridge (33 metres)

Meanwhile on Da Northside writes:

Lucan Bridge…. By George Knowles – Ireland’s larges single span [masonry] bridge 1841, not too shabby but hey could do with a clean and a lighting up…

Anyone?

Lucan Bridge

 

The Irish History Show.

Episode 68: Bram Stoker and the Sligo Cholera Epidemic of 1832 (listen above).

Cathal Brennan writes:

We had Dr. Marion McGarry and Dr. Fiona Gallagher on to talk about Bram Stoker and the great cholera epidemic in Sligo in 1832.

Stoker’s mother Charlotte was from Sligo and lived through the outbreak in the town and wrote about her experience of it.

Marion and Fiona believe that it was these events, and Stoker’s interest in Irish folklore, that inspired Dracula….

Bram Stoker and the Sligo Cholera Epidemic (The Irish History Show)

Irish-made LOGÜ’s desks can be assembled and disassembled in less than 60 seconds

This morning.

LOGÜ is a father and son woodworking and design business based in Letterkenny, County Donegal.

John Logue writes:

 We have launched a new DESK + DONATE campaign to support struggling Irish charities this week.

We manufacture sustainable birch wood desks for remote workers and have pledged to donate 10% of profits from 2020’s corporate sales to a charity partner of each participating company’s choosing.

Companies signing up for the DESK + DONATE programme will be asked to nominate a charity partner. They will then be given a unique company code for employees to use on the LOGÜ website…

LOGÜ’s stylish desks can be assembled and disassembled in less than 60 seconds, making them the perfect choice for remote workers who want to keep their work and home lives separate….

LOGÜ

Irish-made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.

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Monster, in fairness.

Meanwhile….

This morning.

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Anyone?

Earlier: A Limerick A Day

Meanwhile…

Oh.

Worth a try.

Ultra HD ‘footage’ of Mars created by panning (using the Ken Burns effect) across high definition panoramas composed of stills taken by various Mars rovers. It’s not video but it’s very engaging.

Full screen for best effect and, if you’ve turned down the volume, ElderFoxDocumentaries sez:

Although the cameras are high quality, the rate at which the rovers can send data back to earth is the biggest challenge. Curiosity can only send data directly back to earth at 32 kilo-bits per second. Instead, when the rover can connect to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we get more favourable speeds of 2 Megabytes per second. However, this link is only available for about 8 minutes each Sol, or Martian day. As you would expect, sending HD video at these speeds would take a long long time. As nothing really moves on Mars, it makes more sense to take and send back images.

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