This afternoon.
Lower ormond Quay, Dublin 1.
What the…. weird giant yellow feather over the Winding Stair?
Anyone?
A Daft ad in May
On Wednesday, October 22, at 6pm.
A Banter discussion at Wigwam on Abbey Street Middle, Dublin 1, will focus on the cost of rent today.
The panel will include Eithne Shortall (The Sunday Times Home Hunter column), Sive Bresnihan (Dublin Tenants Association), Lorcan Sirr (Dublin Institute of Technology) and Mandy Meredith (Associate Director, Sherry Fitgerald Lettings)
Banter writes:
Back in October 2013, Banter held a discussion about housing in the capital. After the boom and the bust, we thought back then that it was as bad as it could get and the struggle to find an affordable house to rent or buy seemed harder than ever.
Fastforward three years and the situation now is worse than ever before. Last week, figures from the Residential Tenancies Board showed that the cost of renting a home in the capital is now at an all-time high and that the average monthly cost of renting in Dublin in June 2016 was €113 higher than a year ago.
Rents are also increasing outside Dublin so there’s no escape. Add in record numbers of homeless families and you’ve a story which doesn’t appear to be getting any better, no matter what the Government promise or plan.
This Banter discussion will focus on the situation which exists in the city right now as regards renting, the possible solutions which could be introduced, the perpetual reluctance by the relevant authorities to do anything about this, the unwillingness to tackle social housing and how the current intransigence could play out.
FIGHT!
Banter: Generation Rent
Random Cork Stuff tweetz:
A currach gliding downstream at dawn in Cork this morning…
Picture taken by Niall Twamley
It’s not just wellies and muddy furrows you know.
Sinn Féin, on Facebook, writes:
The Irish Independent at Ploughing16 hosted a ‘Farmer’s makeover’. They’ve now removed all footage of the event from their website and YouTube account.
Watch as one of the ‘Farmer’s makeover’ participants criticises the Independent’s coverage of Sinn Féin and the microphone is immediately grabbed from his hand and sound is switched off…
Previously: RTE, Sinn Fein And Insidious Propaganda
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Naive Ted – new single Down the Tubes
What you may need to know…
01. At last, an excuse to talk about the Don of weirdo Irish beats. One half of one-man duo Deviant and Naive Ted, the latter has struck out in recent times with some of the country’s most innovative music, meshing old-fashioned boom-bap and eclectic sampling with spiky noise and pop-culture references.
02. Having accosted decks around the country with his presence under various monikers and in various collectives over the past decade (including the positively outstanding Vince Mack Mahon), Ted has been a cornerstone of Irish hip-hop, from co-founding the Galway Community Skratch Games, to supplying tunes for New Japan Pro Wrestling’s baddest gaijin villains.
03. Last year’s full-length The Inevitable Heel Turn was a bold jump from beats and noise into jazzy, exploratory territory.
04. New single Down The Tubes was released last night, with a little less than 36 hours left on his their customary two days’ free download on new material. Streaming above, also.
VERDICT: Ted’s excellent adventure into the murky depths of his own frame of reference & musical impulses continues. Yurt.
Sign on a cycle lane in Phoenix Park last year
Further to Michael Cullen’s letter, in which he recounts seeing seven people breaking the law within 10 minutes, it should be a record, but is probably not.
Cycling on the footpath is not subject to a fixed-charge notice (on-the-spot fine), but it is against the law and is subject to a fine of up to €1,000, and possible imprisonment for three offences within 12 months.
This law should be enforced because cyclists do not have third-party insurance. If knocked down and injured by a cyclist, a pedestrian would be unlikely to obtain compensation.
Michael Regan,
Donnybrook,
Dublin 4.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny with farmer Gerard King at the National Ploughing Championship on Tuesday
The festival we all adore
Is happening near Tullamore
And anytime now
The King of the Plough
Will be crowned and his subjects will roar.
John Moynes
Rollingnews
Yesterday.
Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Cathy at the Abortion Rights Campaign, writes:
Abortion Rights Campaign held a photocall and press conference in the run up to the 5th Annual March for Choice THIS Saturday, September 24th, at 1.30pm at the Garden of Remembrance. This year’s theme is “Rise and Repeal”. It’s great to see so many TDs and Senators come out in support of the march. (There was cake provided…) .
Fight!