Last night.
Bill Callahan at Vicar Street, Dublin.
SarahK (who won free tickets with us), writes:
It was truly magical. He played my favourite song ‘Rock Bottom Riser’ (above) for the encore and it felt very special. Thank you…
Previously: Through The Smog
Yesterday.
Gavin Nugent tweetz:
A pre-film Brown Thomas ad literally just got laughed out of the cinema. People openly howling in derision at it…
In fairness.
Yesterday’s Sunday Independent LIFE magazine
“One day I stopped under the nest and I was looking at the debris of eggshell on the ground. I said to myself, ‘You’re just useless, you’re day-dreaming here, go home and do something’. I was giving out to myself about my pace, even though I was in nature.
“Then something extraordinary happened on my way out of the [Phoenix] park. It was February, a very cold day and there was trouble in the water. There was this man and a baby boy had fallen into the pond.
“The water was quite deep, up to the man’s chest. He was an older grandfather. The buggy had tumbled in, and the grandfather was trying to save the boy.
“I clocked them, then legged it down the hill, and helped them out of the water. There was fierce panic but they were all right in the end.”
“…That day I realised there was nothing wrong with my pace.”
Cavan singer-songwriter Lisa O’Neill in yesterday’s LIFE magazine.
YouTube brainbox GGP Grey investigates efficient and not-so-efficient ways to board commercial airline flights.
Random boarding is better, it seems, but as physicist Jason Steffen showed in 2008, there is a precise order which minimises the delay caused by other passengers stowing their luggage in overhead compartments.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revealed worms were found in a filter at a plant which provides drinking water to more than 131,000 homes in Cork
When you take a glass to the sink
To fill it with refreshing drink
The thing that comes out
Of the end of the spout
Should never be wriggly and pink
John Moynes
More to follow.
More to follow
