This afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2.
Former President of Sinn Féin Gerry Adams, sporting an 1980s throwback ‘do’, on the plinth at the Dáil with current president Mary Lou Mcdonald after greeting the party’s new TD, Mark Ward.
Business at the front: bomb in the boot party at the back.
Earlier: Welcome To The Jungle
BBC 6 Music
NME
Paste
Stereogum
From top: Dogrel best album lists: BBC 6 (Number 1); NME (critic score of 91); Paste (Number 14) and Stereogum (Number 10)
Dublin’s punky tykes Fontaines D.C. cluttering up the end of year best album lists with their debut long player Dogrel.
Greatest Irish debut ever?
Pogo! FIGHT!
Best Albums of 2019 (Stereogum)
Previously: Fontaines D.C. on Broadsheet
‘sup?
This afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2.
As the Markievicz Pool, Townsend Street, Dublin 2 faces demolition to make way for the Metrolink rail line, local residents, including above from left in pool: Bob Cleary (with unidentified dog), John Gantaley and Gerry Doyle present a novel riposte to these plans.
Previously: The People’s Pool
Meanwhile…
Or maybe just preserve the amenities the city has already? @SaveCollegeGate #saveMLC
— Save Markievicz Pool & Gym (@savemarkievicz) December 3, 2019
Good times.
Dublin councillors approve white-water rafting facility (RTÉ)
The Lost Brothers – Christmas In The Heart
The Lost Brothers have paid tribute to their late manager Frank Murray by recording a Christmas EP in his honour.
Murray, a legendary figure in the Irish music industry who managed Thin Lizzy and The Pogues, had urged Lost duo Oisin Leech (top right) and Mark McCausland (top left) to record a Yuletide album.
The result is a nostalgic ballad that harks back to the golden age of swing.
Gavin Wood‘s video also nods to a different era… but with a twist.
The Lost Brothers play The Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, County Meath on December 13 and 14.
Nick says: Swing when you’re winning.
ATTENTION LONDON JOURNALISTS:
As freezing temperatures hit UK last winter, we put a rail outside a church with clothes on it & a sign: “If you’re cold, take one. If you can help, leave one.”
What happened next was remarkable.
Tmw, we’re launching again.https://t.co/A2wuyTdClu
— Stefan Simanowitz (@StefSimanowitz) December 3, 2019
As snow and freezing temperatures hit Britain last January, a small group of friends decided to put a rail outside a London church with some warm clothes on it. Beside the rail we placed a sign which read: “If you’re cold, take one. If you can help, leave one.” What happened next was remarkable.
By the afternoon the clothes rail was full. People living and working near Exmouth Market had donated jackets and coats as well as gloves, hats, scarves and blankets; passing homeless people were helping themselves to whatever they needed.
As well as the clothes rail, ‘pledge cards’ had been created which enabled people to offer homeless people free food, drinks and other services. These pledge cards could be bought by locals from shops at a discounted price or donated by shopkeepers .
More than 100 meals and hot drinks were donated in the first day alone, in the form of pledges, and more than a dozen businesses on the street got involved.
The rail stayed for the entire winter, being replenished each day with warm clothes and spawning similar initiatives around London and Britain.
In fairness.
Thanks Bebe
OK.
We’ll say ‘when’.
Keep going…
WHEN!
OK.
Maybe a pinch more…
AND we’re good.
Nicole Osborne writes:
This winter, the Master Chocolatiers at Lindt have created a new milk chocolate experience.
Combining the creaminess of milk chocolate with the benefits of high cocoa content with the Excellence High % Cocoa Milk Chocolate collection.
And we know how much you like chocolate.
So we have ONE lovely hamper of the new range along with an assortment of Lindt goodied to give away to a Broadsheet reader….
Very decent of you.
To enter, just complete this sentence:
‘I deserve the Lindt hamper especially at this time owing to________________________’
Lines MUST close at 6.45pm.
This afternoon.
Aiken Promotions announce three major Sineád O’Connor concerts in 2020.
*Unfurls prayer mat*
Thomas Barry, owner of Thomas’s Trendy Socks at the Dun Laoghaire Christmas Market
Fill your stocking.
With trendy socks from Thomas.
Helen O’Dwyer writes:
Thomas Barry, owner of Thomas’s Trendy Socks, is a very special market trader at Dún Laoghaire Christmas Market [Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin] this year.
Thomas has Downs Syndrome as well as a host of other serious illnesses but this hasn’t affected his creative desire to express his inner self.
He now has his very own new sock business with the support of his proud Dad Finbar and family from Tallaght.
Running until December 23rd. The Dun Laghaire Christmas Market and Festival features the largest ever display of Christmas lights in Dún Laoghaire, the iconic Ferris Wheel from the movie ‘Grease’, a Vintage Funfair, Santa’s Post Box and the very popular Christmas market with a traditional and nostalgic theme bringing the magic of Christmas and a winter wonderland for the festive season….
Dun Laoghaire Christmas Festival 2019
Irish made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’. No fee
This morning/afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2.
Joe O’Brien, elected TD at last Friday’s Dublin Fingal by-election, with Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan (above right) and Green Party Deputy Leader Catherine Martin (above left) on the plinth at the Dail.
Meanwhile…
This morning.
Leinster House, Dublin 2.
Fianna Fáil party leader Micheál Martin (centre) with Malcolm Byrne [Wexford] (left) and Padraig O’Sullivan [Cork North Central] (right) newly elected TDs from Last Friday’s by elections on the plinth at the Dail.
Meanwhile…
This morning.
Newly-elected Dublin West Sinn Fein TD Mark Ward with with his son Oisin (top) and party leader Mary Lou McDonald (above) on the plinth at the Dail.
