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“When The Easter Rising starts the sweet shops are the first to be looted by the Dubliners living in the tenements. Noel and Tom race off and leave their mothers and sisters at home but the havoc of the next few days will come right to everyone’s door….”

Gulp.

A trailer for Irish Film Board-funded short film ‘The Cherishing’,

Directed by IFTA-winning Director Dave Tynan and featuring Ben Carolan (“Sing Street“) and Lauren Kinsella (“You’re Ugly Too“) the film was made under IFB’s After ’16 shorts Scheme.

The Cherishing will screen as part of the Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2016 THIS Sunday at 3.30pm in the Lighhouse Cinema, Smithfield, Dublin 7.

Details here

Thanks Dave Leahy

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Ah here.

Labour party ad in today’s Irish Independent.

FIGHT!

Thanks Alan Daly

UPDATE:

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Gary Gannon, of Social Democrats and that video, tweetz:

I see Irish political discourse is reaching new levels of maturity.

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Coronation Street‘s Izzy Armstrong (Cherylee Houston) purchases cannabis on the soap

In Britain the Street takes a stand,
Supporting a drug that is banned,
If you get chronic pain,
Once then twice then again,
It might just leave you feeling grand.

John Moynes

ITV

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