The work of Japanese miniaturist Kiyomi – who creates meticulously detailed furniture and decorations for dollhouses – placed alongside normally proportioned objects to highlight the scale.
Not really on point, but lol at Mattie getting dragged. #rtept pic.twitter.com/BNrHN459tF
— Dáiligh Shona Daoibh (@Dailigh) December 11, 2018
Starts around @.39 .
Nat writes:
[Independent TD] Mattie McGrath getting a massively-overdue dragging on telly [Prime Time last night] – there is not nearly enough of this for the blethering bag of bulldung. No idea who she is though…
Anyone?
Kilnamana – Kill The Kool
Kilnamana aka Irish-Spanish electronic duo Enda Gallery and Miguel Garcia Solert take inspiration for their name from the area of Tallaght “where the two musicians realised they had a common connection”.
Currently based in Berlin, Enda and Miguel call Kill The Kool a ‘commentary on how we are living in this age of modern coolness’.
YOKESYOKESYOKESYOKESYOKESYOKESYOKESYOKESYOKES, etc.
Gracious Me!
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From top: Seán O’Rourke; Former Tánaiste and Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald
This morning.
On RTÉ’s Today with Seán O’Rourke.
The former Tánaiste and former Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald, along with the fellow former Tánaiste Mary Coughlan, of Fianna Fáil, spoke to Mr O’Rourke ahead of Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May facing a leadership vote of confidence later today.
While speaking to Mr O’Rourke, Ms Fitzgerald spoke about the difficulties of confidence motions; how a minister usually knows their department “inside out”; how a Tánaite must be prepared for difficult questions; and how she was “vindicated” by the Disclosures Tribunal.
On her resignation as minister in November 2017 and her political future, Ms Fitzgerald had the following exchange with Mr O’Rourke:
Seán O’Rourke: “You saw the rough and the smooth, particularly the rough side of it.”
Frances Fitzgerald: “I certainly did, as Michael Noonan said to me ‘you were cut off in full flight’..”
Ms Fitzgerald laughs
Fitzgerald: “….which is very true.”
O’Rourke: “And you resigned amid that controversy over the treatment of Maurice McCabe and the handling of the tribunal, sorry, not the tribunal, but the inquiry presided over by Mr Justice whose name I can’t quite remember.”
Fitzgerald: “O’Higgins. It was the commission that there was a query about which turned out not to be a proper query at all.”
O’Rourke: “[Justice] Charleton then ultimately, he effectively vindicated the way you’d handled that. But do you think you’ll see the Tánaiste’s office again or what are your hopes…”
School’s blushes spared.
Roisin writes;
The price to see our 5-year-old’s Christmas Nativity [play]…
‘sup?
This morning.
Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Scenes from the launch of the Irish Farmer’s Association’s Live Crib, featuring living sheep and donkeys in a recreation of the Nativity scene, watched in awe by angelic tykes from St. Josephs Nursery, Dublin 8.
Performers Daniel Gourski and Jonas Appel sample the sounds of an abandoned industrial dock to create every sound you hear.
Michael O Keefe, Chief Executive of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
“Media pluralism makes an important contribution to a well-functioning democratic society,” said BAI CEO Michael O’Keeffe.
Mr O’Keeffe was questioned at the launch about the BAI’s stance in July 2012, regarding the media interests of businessman Denis O’Brien – who has a 29pc stake in Independent News and Media (INM), which publishes the Irish Independent and other titles – where it ruled that Mr O’Brien does not control INM, “rather he has a substantial interest in the company”.
“I am absolutely happy to stand over that analysis that was done at that time,” he said.
Good times.
Broadcast watchdog set to tighten licence rules (Independent.ie)