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Slow Skies – Winter Night

What you may need to know…

01. A gentle piano ballad that brings the best out of the cool, breathy voice of Karen Sheridan, a.k.a. Slow Skies, Winter Night released last week on Dubland-based Paper Trail Records.

02. Working with producer Conal Herron, whom she met while studying music in London, the pair have struck up a working relationship on previous singles that continues here, contrasting a strong voice over delicate keys and strings.

03. Says herself: “Winter Night is about trying to capture a place in time or feeling you once had and wanting to hold on to it, not wanting to move on from it. It’s that feeling you have where you wish you could go back in time and just be in that moment or feeling again. It comes from a place of longing”

04. The single follows a busy 2015, including working closely with Cork audiovisual stable/label Feel Good Lost on live appearances in Ireland and Iceland.

Verdict: A spine-chilling piece of sparse, stark folk that’s an early contender for Irish end-of-year singles lists. Beautiful.

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Why We Need to Put the Easter Rising on Film.

A video essay by Stephen Murphy , who writes:

In terms of filming our own history, we’re playing catch-up with most other nations. People may be unimpressed with much of what’s been produced so far for the centenary, but at least it’s getting the conversation going….

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Former  Labour Party leader Ruairi Quinn at the party’s ‘think-in’ 2014

As he steps back from struggle and spin,
The fellow they call Ruairí Quinn,
Reflects on a life,
That’s had plenty of strife,
And more than one noteworthy win.

John Moynes

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

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From top: The 15 general election candidates for the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency at a debate at KCLR 96FM this evening; Labour TD Ann Phelan 

An election debate took place at KCLR 96FM in Kilkennyl ast night

It involved the 15 candidates from the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency, including Labour TD Ann Phelan..

How did that go?

Oh.

Minister Ann Phelan walks out of KCLR’s Election Debate (KCLR)

Thanks Bertie Blenkinsop

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArxAu20TTdc

A story before bed-time.

From Russia-born (usually underwater) filmmaker Victor Karu, who writes:

A Pre-Election Bedtime Story is a moral tale to warn all Irish people to beware people bearing promises at the door this week. It is accompanied with footage of amazing people braving the wet weather, on Sat 20th Feb 2016, to march thru Dublin from all over the country to show their anger at the present government and established politics for the mess they have made of the country over the past decade. Music is ‘Sheep may safely graze’ and ‘Danse Macabre – no violin’ by Kevin MacLeod…

FIGHT!

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