A series of oil paintings by Beijing based artist DU Kun featuring famous Chinese rockers depicted as monumental sculptures – Buddhist temples carved from mountains, cliffs, trees and waterfalls.
Close up details and more of the artist’s work here.
This morning.
Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Members of the Right2Water Campaign launching a series of protests across the country this Saturday. Full list of events at link below.
Above from left: Anti Austerity Alliance Paul Murphy TD, People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett, Sinn Féin Senator David Cullinane, Sinn Féin Dublin City Councillor Daithi Doolan, Independent TD Clare Daly TD and Independent TD Joan Collins.
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Alan writes:
This must be the ‘great new changes’ that were coming. Somehow I feel I’m not a virgin anymore.
Front page of today’s Irish Times
The EU’s refugee relocation programme – which was to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy in two years from September 2015 – is moving at a glacial pace.
The Irish Times today reports on Ireland’s involvement in the scheme.
A front page report headlined, “‘Very low’ take-up of EU refugee programme in Ireland – Only 20 asylum seekers have applied to Ireland so far as part of relocation plan’ may imply that asylum seekers currently waiting in Greece and Italy are able to choose the country in which they would like to live.
Like picking a holiday location.
However…
According to the European Asylum Support Office states (above) in a brochure for asylum seekers :
“It is not possible to choose the country to which you are relocated.”
Further to this:
Previously: Pawns In The Game
Thanks Subpri.me
UPDATE:
The Irish Times has updated its headline…
Robostalgia
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Tom asks:
The Twitter outages this morning had me thinking. Aren’t the paddies in charge of running Twitter now? In other words: Are we to blame for the global meltdown of priceless tweetage?
Anyone?
War Paint
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Yesterday afternoon.
Killester Dart station, Dublin 3.
Martin Daly writes:
Native Americans used to paint yellow lines in front of their wigwams to keep the painters out.
Galway City Council to hold a meeting totally through Irish this year to mark bilingual status. “It may not be a long meeting,” says Mayor.
— Galway Advertiser (@galwayad) January 19, 2016
TROID!
Irish Rail advertises city breaks to “places like Galway, Limerick and Cork”.
Why not to Dublin?John Talty,
Cork.
Anyone?
Junk Meal
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Katie writes:
“Saw this on Facebook yesterday – classic nutritious meal of sausage rolls and Tayto for €2… :( Who said anything about a national obesity crisis? If our self-control is that unbelievably useless, don’t we need to tax the crap out of this sort of food?”
FIGHnomnomnomnomnom…