A visual mashup of notable news and pop culture events of 2016 (based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden Of Earthly Delights) by graphic artist Niv Bavarsky.
Huge version here.
Illustrated key here.
Sean Walsh Park, Whitestown Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24.
Lynne writes:
So, I was walking to college on Saturday morning when I got a bit lost and ended up walking over this hill. A guy on the path beside it started shouting at me: ‘missus, missus, you didn’t walk over that did you?’ ‘Over what?’ ‘That…. On the grass, that was done by a satanic cult.’
In case you can’t make it out, it’s an upside down pentagram. ‘You’re cursed love, cursed. Six people who went near that are fucked. Go home and bless yourself. Seriously love you’re cursed,’ he added..
It was 9am. I have no idea how to bless myself. But at least everything I did at the staff Christmas ‘do now makes sense. It wasn’t me, it was the pentagram.
Previously: Occult’ symbol etched in grass (Tallaght Echo, November 2015)
Cruiser – fuzziness and pop from Limrock
What you may need to know…
01. Limerick four-piece Cruiser make minor-key pop that falls somewhere inbetween shoegaze’s fuzziness, and pop-punk’s enthusiasm.
02. Coming together in 2014, the band settled on a solid line-up in 2015, and have since been a solid presence on Limerick gig bills, sharing stages with The Altered Hours, Windings and Rats on Rafts among others.
03. Streaming above is the HOT 4U E.P., released in May of this year. Available for free/name-your-price download along with the rest of their tunes on Bandcamp, including a non-loathsome take on Fairytale of New York. In fairness, etc.
04. Catch them next at Dolan’s in Limerick on Stephens’ Night, as part of I’ll Be Home for Christmas, a big, feck-off wedge of Limrock for holiday returnees, also including Windings, FONDA and Slow Riot.
Verdict: Immediately likeable, earnest music, slathered in fuzz and feedback, with a notable (and much-needed) lack of notions.
Choke Up
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A minimalist gem for the bottom of your stocking.
Judith Ritchie, at A Box For My Treasure writes:
Handmade in Dublin, these dainty gold choker gemstone necklaces come in a range of colours and lengths and are the perfect accessory to add a little flash of colour.
They cost €45 and can be purchased online at link below and Broadsheet readers can take 10% off all jewellery with the code XMAS10 (enter this at checkout).
P.S. All jewellery is packaged in a gorgeous gift box and there’s FREE postage for online orders!
Chokers (A Box For My Treasure)
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.
Louis Le Fronde writes:
Having nearly been run off the run road more than a few times in the last week in the annual wacky races engaged in by Dublin taxi drivers. Perhaps it’s time to standardise the city’s taxis and put a few of the Christmas part-time cowboys out of business. Above is a series of images of Milan’s concept taxi designed by Volkswagen…
FIGHT!
Pics: Volkswagon
Some boffins now claim they have shown
Why we lack a genital bone
Monogamy means
We don’t need the genes
For support in our down below zone.
John Moynes
A graphic outlining the number of females on State-funded sports boards in yesterday’s Irish Times
What a load of codswallop. The proposal by Minister of State for Sport Patrick O’Donovan that 30 per cent of senior positions in Irish sporting organisations must be held by women within the next few years is poorly thought out.
First, he talks about fairness and equality, but then plucks that 30 per cent figure out of the air. The number of women participating in and involved in the administration of the various sports differs greatly.
Rather than a random figure of 30 per cent, the number of women in senior positions should be proportionate to their numbers in a particular sport.
Second, and more importantly, the Minister and his colleagues should perhaps put their own house in order before meddling in the affairs of sporting organisations. The population of Ireland is 50.1 per cent female, yet only 22 per cent of TDs are women.
I would take Mr O’Donovan’s proposal seriously if he achieved fairness and equality in Dáil Éireann and led the sporting organisations by example, rather than indulging in publicity stunts.
Donal McAuliffe,
Dublin 6W.
Gender quotas for boards of sports organisations (The Irish Times letters)
This morning.
From 10am.
Nama’s chairman Frank Daly and Nama’s CEO Brendan McDonagh will appear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to answer questions regarding the taking of notes and preparation of minutes at Nama board meetings on December 12, 2013 and January 8, 2014 – in relation to the sale of Project Eagle.
PAC’s chairman Seán Fleming previously stated:
“I find it surprising that at key meetings where the sale of Northern Ireland assets worth 1.3bn was being discussed that notes from which the minutes were to be prepared have not been retained by Nama. Put simply, this means these records have been disposed of and were destroyed. Therefore, the committee has agree to recall Nama to discuss this matter.”
Watch the proceedings live here
H/T: Namawinelake
From top: Arran Smyth, and his ‘Nature Pak Picture’ ink jet paintings, €25 each
Arran Smyth is seven years old and from Dublin.
Arran writes:
My dad has helped me make a website, so I can sell prints of my drawings from my shop and give the money to Homes For Unwanted Greyhounds.
I really love greyhounds and I want to look after a greyhound someday.
I already have a dog called Mr Bojangles. He is a sheepdog.
Thank you, everybody.
Irish-made ‘Stocking Fillers’ to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. No charge.