The man behind the extraordinary fiction will be LIVE.
Suzy writes:
Books Upstairs and The Lilliput Press are proud to announce an evening with Rob Doyle at Books Upstairs, at 6.30pm this evening.
Journalist Olaf Tyaransen will interview Rob about his divisive new collection of short stories, This Is The Ritual…Free glass of wine with every ticket…
Yikes.
Outside the Markievicz Leisure Centre, Dublin 2 earlier.
Julian Brophy tweetz:
100 years on, Countess Markievicz is still being subversive!
Risteard Cooper as Terry Prone on last night’s ‘Apres Match Presents Election 1982 ‘on RTÉ
Did you stay in last night?
Rory writes:
I am surprised you haven’t mentioned the highlight of the campaign so far. RTÉ partially redeemed themselves last night for their abysmal, biased, fearful general election coverage (don’t get me started) thanks to Apres Match. The uncanny Terry Prone take off [at link below], in particular left me, well…prone…..credit where it’s due, fair play in fairness, etc, etc.
Watch here
From top: Fine Gael TD Seán Kyne; William Campbell
Here’s How, the Irish current affairs podcast presented by journalist William Campbell, speaks with Sinn Féin’s Dublin Rathdown candidate Sorcha Nic Cormaic; Fine Gael’s Galway West-South Mayo candidate, Seán Kyne TD; and Fianna Fáil’s Kerry candidate John Brassil.
William writes:
Better late than never, three of the four big parties finally came through with interviewees. They all get a grilling on the Bumper Election Special of the Here’s How podcast, except the Labour Party who didn’t show up. Go figure.
*At 35.27 Mr Kyne is asked about the appropriateness of former Fine Gael Environment Minister Phil Hogan’s decision to cancel inquiries into planning corruption.
Listen here
The ‘world’s first all-electric hypercar’, according to Italian designer Rimac Automobili. Four oil-cooled permanent magnet electric motors (one for each wheel) and a mind-scrambling 0-100km/h acceleration time of 2.6s.
Mmm. Shiny.
This morning.
Brown Thomas car park in Dublin.
Dec O’Sullivan writes:
BMW boomer making a land grab in Brown Thomas this morning.
Boats of refugees approaching Lesbos island and filmmaker Conor Maguire
Conor Maguire and Paul Webster are two freelance filmmakers based in Dublin.
They write:
In 2015, over 500,000 refugees have made their way to Lesbos island from Turkey via overloaded inflatable rafts. This represents 59% of all refugees who made their way to Greece last year. Projections are that refugee numbers making the dangerous journey across the Aegean Sea could double this year.
Lesvos is a tiny community that has found itself at the centre of a vortex: the greatest migration of people since World War Two. We wish to travel to Lesvos in March as a two-person crew to document the situation.
Against the backdrop of international stalemate, clashing ideologies, technocratic power plays, economic ruin and a war that could spark something terrifyingly large, people are showing the best and worst of humanity on one small island.
We wish to speak with volunteer and professional aid workers, local residents, on-site journalists and, most importantly, refugees to document this critical juncture in European history.
We are launching this campaign to raise €3,000 to cover only the most basic aspects of our work: transport, accommodation, insurance and food. Everything else will be covered by us.
Our aim is to create a short documentary that is as shareable and mobile as possible. We think this is an important story to cover in an unfiltered way, without politics or ideology. We hope you think so too and help make this production viable.
Those who wish can donate to Conor and Paul’s fund here
Previously: A Letter From Lesbos
Pic: La Kaseta
A timely lesson.
Seán O’Laoghaire writes:
“Hello there, I put this video together on how to vote, there seems to be a little confusion on issues and this clears it up!”
@thephoenixmag makes the jaw-dropping claim that @RAE_Stephen applied for the RTE director general job, and is on the short list
— john burns (@JohnBurnsST) February 24, 2016
Thud.
Previously: Did The Editor Have His Points Quashed?
My Tribe Your Tribe – Garden Song
What you may need to know…
01. Kildare alt-rockers My Tribe Your Tribe have just released new single Garden Song this past week, ahead of an upcoming 4-track EP this May.
02. The trio had a busy 2015, with festival appearances all over the country, including Other Voices, Electric Picnic’s Body & Soul stage, Hard Working Class Heroes, and others.
03. Garden Song is a move into more indie/alt-inflected territory, following a 2015 of synth-informed singles. It’s also a tad bit more of a mover than big, sweeping pop tunes like Ghost With You.
04. They’re playing the Sin É in Dubland tomorrow night in a free show, ahead of a run of single-launch shows around the country: Thursday March 3 at Monroe’s in Galway; Saturday March 12 at the Village Pump in Rathangan, Co. Kildare; and Sunday, March 13 at the Crane Lane Theatre in Cork.
Verdict: Slowly demonstrating an ever-increasing range of influences and reference points, My Tribe Your Tribe are ones to watch for fans of the greater indie-&-alternative oeuvre.
