He’s Ireland’s most divisive puppet.
But who’s pulling the strings?
Podcaster Gearoid Farrelly (above) writes:
I made a podcast episode [below] about the story of Bosco. It includes an interview with the woman behind the Bosco, puppeteer Paula Lambert, of the Lambert Puppet Theatre.
Little Treasure with Paula Lambert and Bosco (Gearoid Farrelly, Headstuff)
Ah now.
Colin writes:
BBC carries GAA image of Xi Jingping at Croke Park in February 2012 to illustrate how he’s a football enthusiast as China announces timeline for intended football supremacy.
Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, Amazon. These top tech companies each receive over a quadrillion resumes per year (source needed). So it’s safe to say they have a good process for choosing the best job candidates. But what is it?
READ ON: Here are Google, Amazon and Facebook’s Secrets to Hiring the Best People (The Cooper Review)
Old children’s books supplied with new titles by the anonymous proprietor of the wonderful Paperback Paradise.
More here.
Inspired by Jacob T. Swinney’s compilations of the first and final frames of selected films, Celia Gómez follows suit with her own version, featuring TV series from Hannibal to Friends.
Is there anything to be gleaned from such juxtapositions aside from spoilers?
You be the judge.
Related: And the First Shall be Last
Plenty.
The current issue of Village magazine, now monthly, in shops NOW
Village on the Seanad elections:
Village is a campaigning magazine. Two of its key agendas are equality and sustainability.
Two thoughtful and evidence-led champions of these issues are respectively Oisín Coghlan of Friends of the Earth and Rory Hearne of Tasc, standing for the Trinity and NUI panels.…In the same spirit NUI voters might want to avoid voting for Michael McDowell (strangely
endorsed recently by LGBTI campaigner, Katherine Zappone TD, who – if she had any interest
in Equality would know better)…….Just one of the three outgoing NUI senators, Ronan Mullen, is seeking reelection. The other two, Fergal Quinn and John Crown, are not running again.
Current Trinity Senators, Prof Ivana Bacik, David Norris and Prof Sean Barrett are all standing again in this election. Norris, a long-term campaigner on progressive issues, is the longest-serving senator on the panel, while Bacik is Reid Professor of Criminal Law in the Law School, and a former TCDSU President.
She is a solid and excellent candidate with an unimpeachable record on both equality and the environment; and she is a generous contributor to Village…
*cough*
FIGHT!
The IFTA-winning An Klondike.
The first western to be made in Ireland (in and around the Glengowla mines in Oughterard, Co Galway).
Ciara writes:
The bilingual TV drama An Klondike [created and directed by Dathaí Keane and produced by Abú Media,Inverin, Co Galway] was nominated for 9 IFTA [Irish Film and Television Academy] awards It won FOUR: Best Drama (above), Lead Actor Drama, Hair & Make-Up, and Script Drama.
A fantastic result for all involved (I wasn’t involved by the way!). On the TG4 website [link below], the show is available on the Player for another 3 weeks, cut as four episodes. It is also available cut as a film (poster top). Might be worth mentioning if people are looking for something good to watch.
