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Sam Mardar (above), bassist with Dublin band Keywest, writes:

The public consultation for the new and very unfair rules the council are potentially imposing on  Dublin buskers is over this Friday at midday. We decided to fly back yesterday from our single promo in the UK to help rally the cause with our old Dublin busker friends

We’ve learn’t a lot about what can be done by the public in these situations after working closely with keepstreetslive organisation who saved busking in a lot of cities in Britain.

We don’t busk here in Ireland anymore and haven’t done for a while! but we really don’t want to see Dublin lose its street performance charm! Public consultation is on Friday, you can submit a submission and have your say here.

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The Shouting Vase –  a ‘stress relief jug toy’. To wit:

Turn your loudest, most urgent frustrations into mere whispers with the Shouting Vase. The plastic jug is designed to fit over the contours of your mouth and absorb your screams and shouts, ‘storing’ them in the vase and emitting a softer version of your angry cries through the tiny hole at the base.$61 (€54)

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Terry Pattison writes:

This quite nice bike has been chained to my fence for months now – I guess it must have been stolen. I live in the Dun Laoghaire area – if you think it’s yours, tell me the make and other identifiers.

Are you the owner? Mail claim details (‘It’s light blue’ and ‘There’s reflecty things on the spokes’ are not acceptable) to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie and we’ll pass them on to Terry.

In Wicklow town earlier today.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is heckled outside the constituency office of Fine Gael’s Andrew Doyle.

And in Portlaw, Co. Waterford…

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You may have seen Oireachtas Retort tweet to his/her 12,000-plus followers last week to ask if they would like to contribute to a fund – to allow him/her to run an election website.

Well.

She/he writes…

Later this week will see the launch of the new all-singing, all-dancing Oireachtas Retort website. I have plans and hope see to as many through as possible. To be honest I feel like a prick asking for money but I intend to earn it.

…I have six years worth of extensive notes, all the minutiae you wanted to forget, that will be launched into virtual fire pit and finally out of my life thereafter

What Oireachtas Retort will be looking at…

– Each political party and their record

– How the Oireachtas “has been used and abused since Enda Kenny’s ‘democratic revolution'”

– The meaning of opinion polls

– Who profits from the housing and health crises

– Planning and the environment

– Church and state

– The Irish media

–  REDACTED

– An Garda Síochána

– What’s facing today’s under 30s

– Irish Water

– Podcasts

And MORE.

Those who wish to contribute to Oireachtas Retort’s project can do so here

A lot done, more to do. The Oireachtas Retort Election (Oireachtas Retort)

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