A 2018 short by Alexandra Lemay featuring a neurotic mother-daughter relationship inspired by the filmmaker’s own unorthodox upbringing with a dog-breeding, child-fostering, multi-tasking single mum.
Stop That
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This afternoon.
Goatstown, Dublin 14.
Past winners of the Vhi Women’s Mini Marathon Catherina McKiernan (above left) and Maria McCambridge (above right) joined pupils from Mount Anville Secondary School to begin the countdown to this year’s event on Sunday, June 2.
Catherina McKiernan has won the race four times (1997, 1998, 1999, 2004), while Maria McCambridge crossed the finish line first in 2015.
Everyone else walked.
(pause)
FIGHT!/Leg it
Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
Cake?
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🚨 Richard Bruton: "I only act on the permission of the Dáil – if the Dáil fails to support what’s being done, the Dáil has its prerogatives which you know"
In other words: You can block the NBP if you want, you just have to remove me from my job
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) May 9, 2019
This afternoon.
Dáil Eireann.
Social Democrat co-leader Catherine Murphy (top), Sinn Féin’s Brian Stanley (centre) and others are questioning Minister for Communications Richard Bruton on the National Broadband plan.
Watch proceedings live here
Last night: ‘The Procurement Process Should Be Cancelled’
Meanwhile…
A very interesting comment from the judge in this case … and very sad to see how very ill people like this are being abandoned: https://t.co/oVn0G76t6B pic.twitter.com/neRpiZaxPy
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) May 9, 2019
Reflective
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Aerial views of the 1,600 hectare BrightSource Ivanpah solar plant in California’s Mojave desert by German photographer Bernhard Lang.
Bobby Ryan’s children Robert and Michelle outside the Criminal Courts of Justice following the conviction of their father’s killer
On The Late Late Show.
Sarah Whiteacre writes:
Bobby Ryan’s children Michelle and Robert will join host Ryan Tubridy to speak about their father and the sentencing of Patrick Quirke….
Chart-topping band Kodaline will be in studio for a chat ahead of their Dublin shows later this month, and they’ll also perform their hit single ‘Brother’.
In her new book Can I Say No?, Stefanie Preissner explores why simply saying ‘no’ is such a difficult thing to do. Stefanie joins Ryan to discuss how we’ve lost the ability to say no…
With just under a month to go until the Leaving Certificate begins, Ryan will catch up with 6 students from around the country who are currently preparing for the exams…
We’ll also have the first Late Late Show birth as we meet the robot being used to teach medical students about the process of having a baby…and music will be from SYML.
The Late Late Show on RTÉ One at 9.35pm.
This morning.
Iveagh Garden Hotel, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin launches his party’s Local Election Manifesto flanked by Dublin Local Election candidates.
A total of 415 Fianna Fáil candidates will compete for council seats on May 24, of which 87 are women .
Mr Martin said:
An important part of Fine Gael housing policy in recent years has been to try and blame local authorities for the failure to build houses – while the facts show that the critical blockage remains Government restrictions and inexplicable delays which are holding back well-planned and urgently-needed projects.
Local Authorities are only allowed spend €2 million on building houses locally and we believe this should be changed but the Fine Gael government are dragging their heels.
This should be initially increased to €6million so more houses can actually be built without having to go through numerous loop holes.
Fight. etc.
Top pic from left: Fianna Fáil candidates Fiona Nolan, Claire O’Connor, Leader of Fianna Fáil Michael Martin, candidates Keith Connolly, Imran Khurshid and Helena Kelly.
Speech by FF Leader Micheál Martin at the launch of the Party’s Local Election manifesto (FF)
ReGroovanation – ATM (All That Money)
“They cover their asses we won’t recover our assets
We won’t discover what happens ‘til the economy crashes.”
This versatile Irish collective take the scenic route between acid-jazz, funk, hip-hop and soul in this strident anti-capitalist takedown.
The video was recorded in Sun Studios, Temple Bar, and you can catch them live at The Workman’s Club in Dublin 2 on May 15. Tickets from Eventbrite.ie
They also play a free gig in Cork’s Crane Lane Theatre on May 16.
Nick says: Urban soul for the post-troika generation
Housekeeping
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Tuesday.
Beautifully-shorn Irish slebs/hot people at the launch of Clipped barbers and male grooming studio, a start-up installed in the Iveagh Fitness Club, Bride Road, Dublin 8.
From top: Damien Broderick, Alannah, Shauna Lindsay, Sarah Halpin and James ‘Exchequer Street Guy’ Kavanagh (left) and Lawson Mpame.