€1,500 to €1,900
€1,700 to €2,800
People are receiving notice of rent increases as the two year #freeze begins to come to an end.
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— Liveline (@Liveline_RTE) November 28, 2016
Ugh.
Related: Rent increases in private rented housing (Citizens Information)
Previously: Certainty In A World Gone Mad
Galway’s about to get a fully kitted-out indoor youth centre, organised and run by the father-and-son team behind the local DC Store.
Writes This is Galway:
The massive two-story space in Fairgreen House has sat vacant for years, but it’s getting a complete revamp thanks to the vision and hard work of John Deely from DC Store Galway. The VAULT will be open to everyone of all ages — it will feature a skatepark, climbing wall, urban library, cafe, as well as adaptable workspaces to hold workshops for design, yoga, cookery, art and more.
Fair play, in fairness.
Interview with space co-founder John Deely at the link below.
It’s that time of year again.
Fupp!
Yay!
Eliot Loudermilk writes:
You’ve been very kind to feature my top-notch present Christmas shopping site for the past two years (in 2014 and 2015). It troubles me that people might actually put thought into their presents this year, so I’d be very much obliged if you could feature it again, as I’m sure the shopping stress season has well begun.
Oh, and in an obvious attempt at pandering, look what occasionally comes up as a suggestion.
*Blushes*
HINT, HINT: The Broadsheet Buke of Unspecified Things That Look Like Ireland (edited by Aidan Coughlan, New Island €5) Some still in stock!
Terriers – post-hardcore from Cork
What you may need to know…
01. One year after playing their very last gig ever, Cork four-piece Terriers are all in the same country for a few days at Christmas, and are chancing their arms with a charity show.
02. Spinning off from Cork screamo band Slugbait, Terriers specialised in a slick, melodic post-hardcore, with streaks of classic rock riffage.
03. Streaming above is the band’s sole album, Let’s Hear It for the Boys, completed and released last year, shortly before their disbandment.
04. Catch ’em at Fred Zeppelin’s in Cork on the 23rd, with support from Sheffield math-rockers Ganglions and Cork alt-rockers Temperance Parade. A tenner in, all proceeds to Cork Simon.
Verdict: Much joy here for fans of alternative rock, post-hardcore, and the more QOTSA-end of stoner rock japes.
Earlier this morning.
At the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his wife Fionnuala met Pope Francis.
Mr Kenny gave the pope a print of a stained glass window by Harry Clarke while the pope gave Mr Kenny an etching of St Peter’s Basilica.
*It’s not a caption competition until you say so.*
Issue of silenced priests expected to be raised by Kenny at Vatican meeting (RTE)
Pics via Tony Connelly
UPDATE:
Pope Francis has confirmed to Taoiseach Enda Kenny that he will visit Ireland in August 2018 for the World Meeting of Families in Dublin.
Flowing digital portraits by Moscow illustrator Maxim Shkret – 3d modelling and applied shadows to create an effect similar to paper sculpture.
More of his work here.
Children protesting at the Kinsale Road Direct Provision Centre in Cork in September 2014
…Of €16.
Kitty Holland, in The Irish Times, reports:
Over 1,000 asylum seekers will get their Christmas “bonus” this week – of €16.23 for adults and €13.26 for their children.
These asylum seekers are among 1.2 million welfare recipients who will get the “bonus”, worth 85 per cent of their weekly allowance, along with their regular payment, between now and Friday.
According to figures from the Department of Social Protection, some 1,170 recipients of the direct provision allowance – of €19.10 per week for adults and €15.60 for children, will be entitled to the “bonus”.
Christmas bonus for asylum seekers in direct provision is €16 (Kitty Holland, The Irish Times)
Previously: Gifts Direct
He’s back!
Are Ya Having That writes:
‘LeatherJacketGuy’ explodes all over his 50,000 sexscribers!!
After last week’s kerfuffle on the still-potential outsourcing of young people’s programming, RTÉ have announced a further step into the Irish music scene, getting behind the annual Choice Music Prize.
RTÉ director-general Dee Forbes says:
Supporting Irish music and Irish musicians is a core part of what RTÉ does and this partnership will allow us to take our support one step further. Through RTÉ2 and RTÉ2FM, two established brands with a long and rich history in supporting Irish music, and through our popular online and mobile platforms, RTÉ will put the RTÉ Choice Music Prize at the centre of a campaign that will bring the best Irish artists and songs from the past year to a wider audience.
The shortlist for this year’s album prize will announced on Wednesday 11th January, 2017, with the winner announced on Thursday 9th March 2017. The awards will be broadcast live on 2FM and presented in extended-highlight form the following week on RTÉ2.
Previously: This Dustin
Alan Currie writes:
“Early on Saturday morning, I decided to shoot the sunrise over Greystones and surrounding area in Co Wicklow, Ireland. I was lucky enough that the forecast fog didn’t appear.
Only hampered by three very friendly labrador dogs which appeared and I had to more or less wrestle them to stop them from walking in front of the camera.
When I checked the footage the only thing that invaded the scene during the incident was my backside. I’ve edited that part out for your convenience, enjoy!”
Music by Aaron McClelland
