Free tonight?

The launch of Lost Lane – Dublin’s new state-of-the-art music venue and night club on the site of the former legendary celeb haunt Lillie’s Bordello, beside Porterhouse Central off Grafton Street.

The inaugural gig is headlined by multi-talented Choice Prize nominee Kormac, aka producer/DJ/musician Cormac O’Halloran.

Later on at 11pm, there’s a free club night called ‘Spacer’, with key music blogger, influencer and journalist Nialler9 behind the decks, spinning electronica, disco and euphoric ‘80s sounds alongside Cian O’Ciobhain.

Nick says: Stop crying at the memory of overpriced Twister Screwdrivers and oversized stilettos – Lillie’s is dead; long live Lost Lane!

Lost Lane

The return of ‘Arachnophilia’

A story about love and spiders.

involving NO live spiders.

At The New Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 ( April 16-20) following a spine-tingling run in the Dublin Fringe last year.

Tickets here.

Previously: Do You Like Spiders?

From top: a Daft vacancy; Daft owners Eamonn and Brian Fallon

In January, Sinn Féin introduced the Property Services (Advertisement of Unfit Lettings) (Amendment) Bill 2019. It aimed to stop poor quality accommodation – including overcrowded properties – from being advertised online.

eoin writes;

We’ll be seeing crying chair-type ads from Daft.ie for some time to come as FF gang up with FG to cynically delay legislation to force Daft to vet ads for legality.

The Shinners tried to introduce their Property Services (Advertisement of Unfit Lettings) (Amendment) Bill 2019. It makes total sense and this was accepted by all, FG and FF included.

But, while FG and FF voted to approve the progress of the Bill, they both voted to delay any further consideration of the Bill for six months.

Meantime, looks like we might have to continue moral suasion on the Fallon brothers, Eamonn and Brian.

Maybe have a polite word with them if you come across them, I’m sure they’re decent people and would be aghast if they knew what sort of ads they’re hosting, and even the €8m dividends wouldn’t merit such despicable standards.

Previously: The Crying Chair on Broadsheet

Conor Kavanagh at the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

 

Conor Kavanagh, from Dublin, writes:

I’m after emigrating to San Francisco and have signed up for one helluva challenge – a 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

It’s called the AIDS LifeCycle, a seven-day ride in the blistering heat along the coast. I’m fundraising for the AIDS Foundation, which is focussed on getting to zero new HIV infections.

They’ve made incredible progress over here and I want to raise $10,000 (just under €9,000) to contribute to the cause.

HIV impacts my community and the people I love.

The Broadsheet community has helped me raise money for ShoutOut and to get the word out about LGBT events about HIV in Dublin – so I’m shamelessly soliciting donations.

Every euro counts. I’ve seen the work the foundation does here, and their PrEP programme is so effective it’s something activists in Dublin are trying to force the state to replicate in Ireland.

If you can’t spare a couple of euro – send sunblock. I’m going to need it!

Those who wish can support Conor here

Previously: Conor Kavanagh on Broadsheet

From top: ‘The Death of Wolf Tone’ by Walter Mills (1897); Michael McDowell in last night’s ‘Rome Vs Republic’ documentary on RTÉ 1

‘Our starting point was in Paris. We wanted to challenge the viewer to see the revolutionary era in Europe, beginning in the French capital in 1789 with the Declaration of the Rights of Man, as the starting point of the bloody birth of the modern relationship between the Catholic Church and the Irish state.

Why was this?

Theobald Wolfe Tone, a man of the Enlightenment and one of the leaders of the United Irishmen, had come to Paris in 1796 with a bold and daring plan to create a Republic along French lines…

…This was the decisive moment in church-state relations in Ireland. Both the British Crown and the Catholic church reviled the notion of a republic, and now the threat of revolution reconciled these age-old enemies. The French did land in Ireland but Tone was arrested, court-martialled and sentenced to death. His dream of a republic died with him.’

Niamh Sammon, director of Rome Vs Republic, RTÉ 1.

Alternatively…

‘Niamh Sammon’s historic revisionism reaches incredulity when she writes that the British brutally suppressed the Wolfe Tone led rising of 1798 ‘with the support of the Church ‘.

The ’98 rebellion was suppressed brutallly by the forces of the Crown and the Crown alone. Catholics, including celebrated priests like Fr Murphy of Co Wexford, were among the rebel ranks.

It is true that the Church, having witnessed the excesses of the French Revolution, did officially oppose the movement. In this they were prescient as it quickly descended into sectarian strife between Protestant and Catholic rebels, leading to the slaughter with fork and pitch cap of many Catholic supporters. The Act of Union that quickly followed the failed rebellion excluded Catholics from participation in Parliament.’

David Quinn, Iona Institute.

The making of ‘Rome v Republic’: How a senator came to examine church-state relations in Ireland (Niamh Sammon, RTÉ)

Yet another exercise in Church-bashing (David Quinn, Iona Institute)

Pic: RTE

What.

The.

Fupp.

Harry Crosbie said he had received “significant positive feedback” for his proposal to refurbish the chimneys and create a lookout tower at Pigeon House.

Under his proposal, the lookout tower would stand as a separate structure next to the 207-metre tall chimney stacks. He said he had discussed the project with Marks Barfield, the company that designed The London Eye.

Last month he called for the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) to improve the look of the chimneys by painting them….

Over Bodger’s dead body.

FIGHT!

‘Lookout can rival Guinness Storehouse’ (Catherine Sanz, The Times Ireland edition)

SAVE Poolbeg

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