https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUKCSErI3WY
Dublin-born director Benjamin Cleary winning Best Live Action Short Film Oscar for for Stutterer – his first film – at the Academy Awards last night.
Oscars for Brie Larson in Emma O’Donoghue’s Room, and for Benjamin Cleary’s Stutterer (breakingnews)
Trailer for Stutterer (2015).
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Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan celebrates in the RDS after he’s elected in Dublin Bay South
Fine Gael’s Kate O’Connell is lifted up by her husband Morgan after winning a seat in Dublin Bay South
Dublin Bay North candidates, Fine Gael’s Richard Bruton and Independent Averil Power, chat as counting continues in the RDS
Fine Gael’s Noel Rock celebrates with his girlfriend Dawn Wheatley after he wins a seat following the 9th count in Dublin North-West
Candidates in Dublin’s RDS this morning.
As of 3.15pm, 14 counts remain and 120 of 158 seats have been filled.
The seats are FG: 36; Labour: 6; Fianna Fáil: 34; Sinn Féin: 15; AAA/PBP: 5; Renua: 0; Social Democrats: 3; Green Party: 2; Independent Alliance: 4; Independents: 13; Others: 0.
Meanwhile, in Cork North Central…
AAA/PBP’s Mick Barry (top) and Sinn Féin’s Jonathan O’Brien celebrate after taking the second and third seats behind Fianna Fáil’s Billy Kelleher.
One more seat remains.
In Cork South Central…
Fine Gael’s Simon Coveney and Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire, of Sinn Féin, speak to RTÉ One after they took the fourth and third seats respectively.
Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath and Micheál Martin took the first two seats yesterday.
Fine Gael’s Jerry Buttimer has lost his seat.
In Tipperary…
Labour’s Alan Kelly takes the fifth seat in Tipperary – without reaching the quota.
And in Dublin Fingal…
Fine Gael’s James Reilly speaks to RTE after losing his seat.
And in Mayo..
Fianna Fáil’s Dara Calleary and Lisa Chambers celebrate after taking the final two seats in Mayo, following the 10th count.
Fine Gael’s Michelle Mulherin has lost her seat.
Pics: Rolling News, Mike and Emmet Kennedy
Frank Kelly 1938-2016
Actor Frank Kelly, best known for playing Father Jack Hackett (above) in Father Ted and multiple roles in Hall’s Pictorial Weekly, has died.
Acting great Frank Kelly dies aged 77 (RTÉ)
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Michael Noonan at the Limerick Count Centre last night
Michael Noonan has this morning taken one of the last two seats in Limerick city..
Frilly Keane writes:
A media blackout on Noonan was in place until the call…In the end it was 393 Surplus transfers from Shinner Maurice Quinlivan that actually got him elected (without reaching the quota BTW )
So here’s what I want ta’ know, will Miriam [O’Callaghan] be asking Michael Noonan to say thank you to Sinn Féin?
Previously: Grace, Noonan And Monageer
Pic Eric Clarke
The final leaders’ debate on RTÈ on Wednesday night
The national broadcaster and the main papers kept the distorted coverage going.
Gene Kerrigan, in today’s Sunday Independent, writes:
Reporting on its exit poll [on Friday night], the Irish Times said, “An inconclusive outcome does not even begin to describe what we are left with.”
Ah, now, lads, come on.
You can come to that conclusion only if you’ve totally swallowed the propaganda that this election was about stability versus chaos…
…Fine Gael and Labour asset-stripped the people in order to implement policies which Michael Noonan, in opposition, said were not only unfair but obscenely so.
And then declared themselves the parties of stability.
And the media obliged by selling that message with ferocious zeal.
No one is more gullible than the media when convinced it’s doing a public service by sucking up to those in power.
…The most significant media intervention was RTÉ’s decision to frame the election as an exercise in which the four top parties were supposed to generate the makings of another of those Penny-farthing Coalitions..
…By cutting out everything but the four top parties, in the last debate before the vote, RTÉ obscured the reality of the election – and did so deliberately.
As I type this, I have one ear glued to RTÉ radio as the results come in. An expert has just explained that Enda and Joan made a mess of the TV debate because they failed to mount enough attacks on Gerry Adams.
…Enda and Joan and Micheal Martin could hardly have assaulted the poor bastard more grievously without tying him down with piano wire and pouring molten wax on his nipples.
Welcome to slowly evolving change (Gene Kerrigan, Sunday Independent)
Previously: Ireland’s Biggest problem Is RTÉ, Says Max Keiser
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Killian writes:
Dev’s Ireland is alive and well. Obligatory Mass after all these electoral shenanigans
