A 485bhp Dodge Shakedown Challenger – essentially a promo for the gigantic MOPAR 6.4l hemi engine that lurks within a modified 1971 Dodge Challenger.
Fast. Probably loud.
Meanwhile, in Bucharest, Romania.
Kerrang!
(Thanks Noel)
Ahead of the return of Bridget and Eamon on RTÉ Two at 9.30pm on Monday, November 14…
A clip from a new online mini episode Bridget & Eamon’s Marriage Guidance.
Watch the episode in full here
On Deaf Ears
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Call of Duty has been among the biggest-selling videogame franchises in history, racking up massive sales hits annually for the last decade.
Allowing bloodthirsty teenagers casual gamers to live out their basest gunplay fantasies in a socially acceptable fashion compete online, while trash-talking endlessly over a headset being socially engaged, it seemed as though publishers Activision had found a licence to print money.
So, how about this year’s installment, then?
Infinite Warfare, just released on PC and home consoles, starring Kit Harrington, Conor McGregor and Lewis Hamilton,In space!
Tom Philips of Eurogamer writes…
Launch sales of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare were down 48.5 per cent compared to last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 3.
Both Infinite Warfare and Blops 3 launched on a similar Friday in November. Both games had a huge marketing push. But, for a number of reasons, Infinite Warfare sold only half as well.
Even accounting for the loss of last-gen platforms, Infinite Warfare’s sales were still down by 43.6 per cent, UK numbers company Chart-Track noted.
Well, surely it’s doing well on Steam, via PC, the natural home of first-person shooters…
Oh.
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Eoin Carley writes:
€860 a month for a shared room. Ridiculous.
The Pyrite Equality Group writes:
The pyrite remediation scheme was set up in 2013 to address structural damage arising from expansion of hardcore infill containing pyrite. It is estimated that up to 20,000 houses in Ireland are affected by pyrite yet, as of 2016, only 700 homes have been remediated…
The Pyrite Equality Group demand a fairer approach to the pyrite remediation scheme. The current scheme requires houses to have a particular level of damage in order to qualify for remediation. This is excluding the majority of affected homeowners from the scheme and leaving them in limbo waiting for damage to manifest.
The group have released the video (above) which highlights the strains placed on, primarily, young families who, through no fault of their own, find themselves tied to a property which has effectively become worthless.
The group is also asking people to comment on the updated National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) guidelines – which are at public consultation stage – and which set out the required levels of damage that houses need to have to be eligible for remediation. The group argue that the new guidelines will do nothing to address the problems residents are facing.
The guidelines are on the (NSAI) website and those who wish to comment, can send an email to NationalEnquiry@nsai.ie with the subject line of: Pyrite Review IS398-1:2016. The deadline for comments is November, 15 2016.
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For the week that’s in it.
RTÉ Archives have this morning released footage of various US Presidential visits to Ireland throughout the years and some nifty design work (above).
Writes Áine Kerrigan:
Watch John F. Kennedy and his sisters chat and joke with their Irish relatives and take tea and salmon sandwiches on home-made bread on the ancestral farm in Dunganstown, Co. Wexford in 1963.
In 1970 Richard Nixon visited the Quaker burial ground where his mother’s ancestors were buried and then had a close encounter with an egg thrower on Lord Edward Street in Dublin.
In 1984 Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy were entertained by Irish dancers In Ballyporeen and presented with a pictorial record of the town.
Bill and Hillary Clinton took a walk among the throngs in College Green in 1995 and President Clinton pulled a young boy from the crush and Hillary was asked if she has ‘any sisters knocking around’.
Revisit the anti war protests of 2004 against the use of Shannon Airport as a transit stop for US troops heading to Iraq as US President George Bush arrives on Irish soil.
Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle were given a warm welcome on their visit to Moneygall, home of the president’s great great great grandfather in 2011 and they stopped for a quick pint in Ollie Hayes’ pub.
Which should take the edge off this week’s result, either way.
Tomorrow night.
At the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin from 6pm – 7.30pm.
An event entitled A Most Violent Year: 2016 US Election Special will be held as part of the gallery’s Design and Violence exhibition – a co-production between the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Science Gallery.
The gallery writes:
How has violence influenced the 2016 US presidential race? As voters take to the polls, our panel of experts will explore the era of Trump and Clinton and the elements of this election that have been designed by violence.
Carole Coleman, former Washington correspondant for RTÉ will be hosting the panel discussion featuring Laura Graham, Assistant Professor of Sociology at TCD, Peter Stone, Ussher Assistant Professor of Political Science at TCD, and Eugenia Siapera, Senior Lecturer, School of Communications at DCU…
Behold Broadstone Station, Dublin 7.
Erstwhile terminus of the MGW Railway.
Expectant gateway to the new Dublin Institute of Technology.
Neoclassical welcome to Phibsborough.
Now Look at it…
Ah here.
The Scarlet Phibsbernel writes…
Recently, the Luas Cross City project team have seen fit to erect a dirty great concrete wall in front of John Skipton Mulvany’s 1850 masterpiece, which conceals the lower floor of the façade from the street. In disbelief, the community have woken to the fact that the wall is not a temporary necessity due to the on-going tram works – but is intended to permanently hide this much loved building……
The retaining wall’s height is made excessive by a tall surmounting concrete parapet, which – we are told – is necessary if CIE staff are to be able to park their cars in front of this important and very rare piece of Egypt-inspired architecture…Locals have started an online petition, leading to a demonstration planned for Nov 19th.
Persons who appreciate beauty in stone, as well as those despising cack-handed planning are invited to support a neighbourhood which has both in spades.
Anyone?
UPDATE: Bus Éireann’s Nicola Cooke writes:
I’m the Bus Éireann Media & PR Manager and you have incorrectly stated that a wall built by Luas Cross City is for CIE staff to park their cars behind. This is incorrect. No staff cars are parked there, nor will they be in the future. It is also our understanding that when finished, this part of the project will be some sort of a green area with trees, or it will be pebbled.
That Snaake – reissue first two E.P.s
What you may need to know…
01. Dublin noise-rock four-piece That Snaake riff equally on no-wave angularity and bleary-eyed early ’90s pop, a concoction referred to by the band as “seshcore”.
02. Hailed by Goldenplec as “unfashionable”, the band have been steadily gigging in Dublin over the past while, and have notched up stage time with Proto Idiot, Cat Palace and Sister Ghost, among others.
03. Streaming above in its entirety is newly-released E.P. compilation, In the Court of the Baby Kyng. Collecting the band’s first two extended players, Go Bricker and Blinded by the Smell, two equally ramshackle statements of intent.
04. Available now for streaming, download, and on limited-run cassette via tape-slingers Little L Records. That’s purple spray-painted cassette, we might add.
05. Also, the label is still selling its entire back catalogue for a fiver/pay-more-if-you-like. That’s a fairly ridiculous deal for nearly 125 singles, E.P.s and full-lengths, if you so desire, including the above.
Verdict: A succession of noisy, entirely smart-arsed, but eminently likeable tunes. Full taste.
Some of the more outstanding entries (submitted by 2000 participants from over 60 contries) from this year’s International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest.
The winner (and also last year’s champ) was Takayuki Fukada (top pic).
Previously: Age Of Aquariums
More here.