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Barbiere, Camden Street, Dublin

Is it time for a Spring cut (and beard trim)?

Not you, ladies.

Alison writes:

Barbiere is an extremely cool Neapolitan barbershop based at 23, Lower Camden Street. It combines the skill of generations of Italian artisan barbering with the design and style of contemporary Italy.

Barbiere owner Enny Buono learned his craft from his father in Naples and his skills go back four generations of Neapolitan barbers.

Barbiere has a very cool system where they sit their customers down with an iPad and go through the looks they want.

A bespoke orange vespa on the wall and the complimentary Lavazza coffee are also firm favourites of the Barbiere clientele.

We have one (yes ONE) voucher to use at Barbiere worth €100 to giveaway to an unkempt broadsheet reader. To enter, please complete the sentence below.

‘My worst haircut to date was_________________________’

Lines MUST close at 4.50pm

Barbiere

 

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From top: Nutmeg 1916 tee celebrating the use of hurleys (above) in training by the Irish Volunteers

Ah here.

Joe Collins, of Nutmeg Clothing [nice tees since 2000] writes

We couldn’t miss the opportunity to acknowledge the alternative use of hurleys in preparation for the Rising. Nutmeg style. A limited print run of 50. Available online and in Designist, 68 South Great Georges Street [Dublin]

1916 tee (Nutmeg)

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Photographs tweeted by Channel 4 journalist and cameraman Stuart Webb this morning allegedly showing members of the Turkish coastguard trying to damage the engine of an inflatable dinghy carrying refugees trying to reach Greece

Further to the talks continuing today in Brussels between the heads of the EU’s 28 member states and the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu – as they attempt to finalise a plan to stop migrants and refugees from reaching Europe…

Sue Conlon, of the Irish Refugee Council writes:

“We are calling on the acting Irish government to refuse to sign up to a proposal of the European Council, discussed on 7th March 2016, forcing refugees who have entered the EU back to Turkey.

The proposed deal, in exchange for a further €3bn, resettlement of Syrians from Turkey as well as increased rights of entry to the EU for Turkish nationals, would breach international obligations not to return refugees to a country where they may face persecution or serious harm.”

“To date, Ireland has agreed to make a contribution of €22m to an initial EU payment to Turkey of €3bn. No indication has yet been given as to whether Ireland will contribute any further payments to Turkey or accept any more refugees other than those agreed to in September 2015.

However, the danger is that, notwithstanding that Ireland only has a caretaker government at present, decisions may be made which will see Ireland, with other EU states, sign up to an agreement that sees Syrians and other nationals in need of international protection, returned forcibly to Turkey in contravention of obligations under the Refugee Convention.”

“The essential commitment of signatories to the Refugee Convention is that of non-refoulement, the agreement not to return someone to the borders of a state where they may be at risk of persecution.”

Meanwhile, Amnesty Ireland has created a petition calling on Taoiseach Enda Kenny to refuse to accept the deal.

Those who wish can sign it here

Previously: Cannon Fodder

‘Can Ireland Not Do Any More?’

Ireland And The Turkey Refugee Facility

Pics: Stuart Webb

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Not any more!

Niamh at Twin Strangers (lookalike matching agency) writes:

We took to the streets of Dublin on St. Patrick’s Day to ask people did they know who the man (top right) was. Every single person said [native-tongued dreamboat] Dáithí! It is however not Dáithí…it’s ANOTHER man.

Troid!

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Slow Motion Heroes – At the End a Big Wave

What you may need to know…

01. Making no bones about their predilection for big, shiny pop, Slow Motion Heroes are a motley crew of various Cork heavy/noisy-music veterans, moonlighting as an indie-rock proposition.

02. Members of the band are/have been in a number of Leeside outfits, including Hope is Noise, El Bastardo, Rulers of the Planet and Cyclefly. This would be their ‘older and wiser’ effort.

03. Streaming in the widget above is At the End a Big Wave, rolled out ahead of debut album Hinterlands. Organs and big singalongs a go-go, as per expected, it’s one of the centrepieces of the record.

04. Hinterlands launched locally late last year, and sees a national release via FIFA Records on April 7th, with the usual slew of gigs to follow.

Verdict: Cork music heads initially took to the band because of its status as a supergroup, but its own merits have long since been proven over a series of EPs and singles. Hinterlands‘ national launch should hopefully lift the lid on one of the real capital’s best-kept secrets.

Slow Motion Heroes

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Trademark lawyer Brian Conroy writes:

You might be surprised that they didn’t already have one, but actually it’s quite typical of Irish brands and businesses, and also very dangerous, particularly if you don’t have as unusual and distinctive a brand as “Copper Face Jacks” – If you’re an Irish business owner wondering whether you should register a Trade Mark, give me a call [details at link below] to discuss (Spoiler alert, the answer is almost certainly yes). Anyway, that’s the shameless plug bit out of the way, Is that (above) a new logo, or have I just not been there [Coppers] in far too long a time?

Anyone?

Coppers Lingerie Anybody? Copper Face Jacks Trade Mark Application (Brian Conroy)

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What you may need to know:

1. Remakes. Remakes everywhere.

2. To be fair, William Wyler’’s 1959 version with gun lovin’ Charlton Heston was a remake.

3. Lew Wallace’s novel had already been adapted for the screen in 1907 and 1925.

4. Morgan Freeman’s hair deserves its own movie.

5. I presume that the chariot race will make the podrace sequence in Phantom Menace look tastefully restrained in comparison.

6. Broadsheet prognosis: Ben there, done that.

Release Date: August 26.

(Mark writes about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)

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