Last night.
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin 2
The opening night of Druid’s production of John B. Keane’s Sive, directed by Garry Hynes.
From top: Enda Kenny and daughter Aoibhinn; Sean O’Rourke; Shay Healy; Kathleen Watkins & Billy Keane , son of John B Keane; Garry Hynes.
With a cast that includes: Gráinne Good, Andrea Irvine, Barbara Brennan and Tommy Tiernan, Sive runs at the Gaiety until March 3.
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‘Projection Wall’ by Japanese artist Rintaro Hara – an installation that invites visitors to raise a rope grid from a soapy trough into the path of eight motorised fans with a set of pulleys, generating prismatic bubble sculptures.
Who’d say no to that?
A similar work in 1998 by the same artist entitled ‘Soap Opera’ was inspired by the watery aliens in James Cameron’s The Abyss.
Ah here.
More un-cheesy Valeintine’s Day cards.
Mark at the Jam Art Factory writes.
Just thought I’d get in touch with you as it’s that time of year again when businesses try flog some cards in the name of love.
We thought we’d jump on the band wagon with these cards by Dublin designers Rob Stears and Stephen Heffernan.
Available to but from either of our Dublin shops or online at link below
Valentine Cards (Jam Art Factory)
Yesterday: Who Says Romance Is Dead?
Irish-made Valentine’s Day things to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked’ Irish Made Valentine’. No fee.
Big announcement coming tomorrow! 🇮🇪 https://t.co/QLTXiDuaWp
— Ryan O’Shaughnessy (@Ryan_Acoustic) January 30, 2018
Frank Yoka writes:
We’ll find out today who Ireland’s sending to Eurovision 2018. Ryan O’Shaughnessy (above) may be hinting it’s him…
The Sun claims Heathers were approached first but refused to sing a song by other songwriters…
Fight!
Update:
Via RTÉ
RTÉ is delighted to announce the ballad Together penned by Ryan O’Shaughnessy, Mark Caplice and Laura Elizabeth Hughes as Ireland’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Singer-songwriter Ryan O’Shaughnessy will perform the ballad in the first Eurovision Semi Final in Lisbon on Tuesday May 8….
The Echo Chamber podcast.
Hosts Tony Groves (left) and Martin McMahon (right) welcome Janet Sullivan (centre), writer, activist, pro-choice campaigner, geek gamer feminist and one of BBC’s Top 100 Inspirational and Influential Women for 2016.
Martin writes:
Jan is one of the founding members of the Abortion Rights Campaign and broke a taboo when she, on the @Ireland twitter account, spoke about her own personal story
We discuss the work that went into getting us here, the campaign to come and how why she is so passionate about the right to choice.
Available on iTunes here
The Earth ‘by night’, captured (in 2012) by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on board NASA’s Suomi NPP Satellite.
MORE: Black Marble: Amazing Earth at Night Photos from Space (Space.com)
When showing kids Paddington Bear
It’s vital that you take good care
I’m sure you’ll agree
You don’t want them to see
Any nipples, or worse, pubic hair.
John Moynes
Pic: StudioCanal
Former Tanaiste and Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald this morning
Today, the former Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald will give evidence to the Disclosures Tribunal.
Readers will recall how Ms Fitzgerald resigned in November 2017 following the publication of emails she was in receipt of pertaining to the O’Higgins Commission of Investigation in 2015 – which examined allegations of poor policing in the Cavan/Monaghan area made by Sgt Maurice McCabe.
It’s likely Ms Fitzgerald will be asked, among other matters, about the following…
– Her exact knowledge of Ms D’s allegation made against Sgt Maurice McCabe in December 2006 which was found to have no basis by the DPP in April 2007.
– Her exact knowledge of the former Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan’s understanding of Ms D’s complaint – given Ms O’Sullivan has given evidence to say she received a false referral alleging Sgt McCabe stood accused of rape in May 2014 and was never told this was incorrect.
– Her knowledge of Ms D’s complaint about the 2007 investigation into her allegation.
– Her knowledge of the Independent Review Mechanism’s counsel involvement/contacts with Ms D and/or complaint about the investigation.
– Her knowledge and understanding of who and what her predecessor Alan Shatter was talking about when he told the Dail on June 19, 2014:
“If the statutory inquiry [which eventually became the O’Higgins Commission of Investigation] is to be comprehensive, it should include all cases dealt with in Bailieboro Garda Station which had given rise to complaint.
There is a matter which has been the subject of articles in the Irish Independent, which included a report of Deputy Micheál Martin meeting an individual who alleges she was the victim of a sexual assault and her complaint was not recorded on the Pulse system and did not result in a prosecution.
I understand from the newspaper report that Deputy Martin was to provide information on this matter to the Taoiseach and I presume he has done so. This case should clearly form part of any statutory inquiry.”
– Her knowledge of GSOC’s investigation in December 2014 which eventually found there was no issue with the original investigation into Ms D’s allegation of 2006/2007.
– Her knowledge of the consideration given to including Ms D’s complaint about the investigation in the O’Higgins Commission of Investigation.
– Her knowledge of members of the Department of Justice and An Garda Siochana orchestrating the Ms D investigation file being given to the IRM counsel for their examination.
– Her knowledge of the IRM counsel deciding – in November 2014 – that, after examining the Ms D file, that her complaint should not be included in the O’Higgins Commission of Investigatioj
– Her reaction to the email of May 15, 2015 which sent from Michael Flahive, the then Department of Justice assistant secretary, to Christopher Quattrociocchi, Ms Fitzgerald’s then private secretary and cc-ed to the Department’s General Secretary Noel Waters, among others.
This email wrongly claimed that the legal row at the O’Higgins Commission centred on counsel for An Garda Siochana raising Ms D’s IRM complaint about the 2006 investigation at the commission.
Mr Flahive later said this was a coded reference to the IRM as a means to avoid explicitly describe Ms D’s complaint against Sgt McCabe.
But, as mentioned above, Ms Fitzgerald was informed in November 2014 that Ms D’s complaint would not be included in O’Higgins.
– Her communications with Noirin O’Sullivan and Terry Prone, of the Communications Clinic, in May 2016 after reports about the legal row in the commission first emerged in the Irish Examiner and RTE.
– Her decision not to publish the “letter of comfort” Noirin O’Sullivan got from her legal counsel on the afternoon/evening of May 15, 2015 – after she requested it via her liaison officer Chief Supt Fergus Healy – after the legal row broke out. The tribunal has already heard that Ms O’Sullivan asked Ms Fitzgerald to publish the short letter but didn’t.
– Her appearance on Prime Time on May 17, 2016.
– Her speech given to the Dáil on May 18, 2016.
Olga Cronin will be tweeting from the tribunal today. Follow her here.
Previously: Disclosures Tribunal on broadsheet
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