The Pac Man Suit (with matching tie) (€83.50) from Opposuits.
Not Suitable For Wok.
This morning.
Sandymount Green, Sandymount, Dublin 4
Telly’s Bryan Dobson with James Joyce lookalike Paul Kennedy and Graham Wilkinson (in formal attire) at the launch of the 23rd annual Brennan’s Bloomsday James Joyce Bike Rally.
The rally has raised over €873,00 for the Irish Youth Foundation community and voluntary groups through the country
In fairness..
Brennan’s Bloomsday Messenger Rally (Brennan’s)
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The Happy Pear brothers David (left) and Stephen Flynn
SPLUTTER!
We are now.
*drops bacon butty*
Via RTÉ
On tomorrow’s Late Late Show…on a mission to revolutionise Ireland’s attitude toward vegetarian and vegan food, The Happy Pear brothers David and Stephen Flynn will be in studio to tell us the secrets of their super healthy lifestyle…
Christy Moore will be in studio to chat about his brilliant career, still going strong after 47 years in music,
Former rugby international Alan Quinlan broke new ground when he became one of the first sportspeople in Ireland to open up about battling with mental health. He’ll be filling us in on changing attitudes toward mental health in sport and why more needs to be done….
The Late Late Show at 9.35pm on RTÉ One.
Pic via Random House
The redoubtable 95 year old Al Jaffee describes how he became the ‘Father of Fold-Ins’ – MAD Magazine’s trademark back cover feature.
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From top: Taoiseach Enda Kenny with US Vice President Joe Biden and actress Fiona Shaw and at the Kennedy Centre for the ‘Ireland 100’.
Last night.
The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC
The sense of event was heightened by the presence of Vice President Biden and the taoiseach of Ireland, Enda Kenny, which meant the accompanying presence of airport-style security gates that kept the glittering audience waiting in line for minutes after the scheduled 8 o’clock start. We all wish that our government leaders would come to more arts events, but when they do it is certainly a hassle for everybody.
Fiona Shaw, the actress, was a buoyant master of ceremonies who was as natural and unaffected as it may be possible to be in an evening skirt, trying to keep a touch of class in this high-end variety show and then marshaling her own talents for a recitation of Yeats’s famous “Easter, 1916” (“A terrible beauty is born”) that was unquestionably the artistic highlight of the evening….
Kennedy Center opens Irish festival with array of appetizers (Ann Midgette, Washington Post)
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We asked: How was Italia ’90 for you?
The three winners of last night’s competition to meet Packie Bonner at the launch of his autobiography The Last Line in the Smock Alley Theatre, Lower Exchange Street, Dublin 8 at 8pm next Thursday were:
Rose: “My abiding memory of Italia 90 involved…my mum cutting up every old shirt or bit of fabric that she had with even a hint of green, white or orange in it and making it into lengths of home made bunting to drape the front garden. Best dressed house on the street!!
This ticket would be for her….huge fan!”
Dash Rickwood: “My abiding memory of Italia ’90 was getting Packie to sign my shirt when they were training for the Holland game. I was 13, he was enormous and I knew right there that something great was going to happen.”
Spud1: “Involved me getting my lovely Penneys ‘Give it a lash Jack’ t-shirt covered in Cavan Cola as we, and my other young cousin, bounced around like mad after Packie saved that peno while watching it in my Grannys house. We were full of sugar and excitement… and it seemed the grown ups dancing around us were too.”
Runners up:
Fluffybiscuits: “My abiding memory of Italia 90 was sitting in the armchair in the shoot outs of the second round against Romania. Daniel Timofte had just fupped up and we waited and waited for what seemed like an eternity. David O Leary took the ball and looked really nervous and smashed it home. My father for one of the few times in his life cried as did I (I was 8) and my mother. Even now I still feel the lump in my throat thinking about it. Our neighbour Nora who lived up the road was in her 70s and she skipped down the road crying. It was like a tsunami of tears. Regardless of not winning tickets or not its a nice memory that I needed on and its just put a smile right back on my face….:)”
The Old Boy: “My abiding memory of ‘Italia ’90 involved a piss-up in a brewery during the Ireland v Romania match. My memory of that evening, however, sadly no longer abides.”
Continuity Jay Z: “My abiding memory of Italia 90 is Pat Bonner’s mammoth fupp up on Roberto Donadoni’s drive to allow Scillachi to deprive us of a semi final place.”
Thanks all.
Packie Bonner At The Smock Alley Theatre
Yesterday: Shake The Hands Of God
Thanks Katie
Still Alice
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Are you in Los Angeles?
Dublin artist and ‘sheet favourite Meagan Hyland writes:
I am taking part in an all female show (my entry above) dedicated to Alice in Wonderland in Los Angeles to promote the new film. It’s being organised by Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles in partnership with Disney Studios and Amy Poeler’s Smart Girls and opens this Friday! 7-10pm Hero Complex Gallery, 2020 S. Robertson Blvd, Studio D, Los Angeles, CA 90034….
