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Jaded with the modern world? Hankering for the simple ways of your early 20th century ancestors?

Laura Gaynor writes:

So a company I work with (Macalla Teoranta) are making a programme where they get kids to live a day in the life of a 1916 kid. They’ll have to live without any modern technologies and attempt 10 challenges based on chores and daily tasks faced by the children of that time. The series is presented by Simon Delaney (Moone Boy, Alan Partridge Alpha Papa)

Interested?

Go here for details OR send a ONE MINUTE VIDEO CLIP of yourself here by December 20th explaining how YOU could have survived growing up in 1916 and why you deserve a bed in our 1916 House.

 

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Impulse: 30 illuminated see-saws currently on show at the Place Des Festivals in Montreal.

The see saws, which won the 6th annual Luminothérapie event last summer, generate a harmonious sequence of sound and light when they’re used.

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‘Twas the night before Xmas
And all through the Broadsheet site
ABM was bah humbug
Along with the rest of the far right
Bodger had his stockings hanging
Moynes playing Wham on loop
Clampers was buying Pampers
Whilst shopping with Spaghetti Hoop
Scottser had put the kids to bed
And sat down by the fire
Don had wrapped all the presents
And wished for her Xmas desire
All of a sudden the site crashed
There was no access
Was it a DDoS?
that left the site in a mess?
Moynes jumped in anger
And let out a roar
There stood DOB’s solicitors
Three of them at the door
They exclaimed at poor Moynes
‘We can assure we will sue’
Everything seem fruitless
What could BS do?
The threat seemed real
And a horrible stinker
They got straight on the phone
To Legal Coffee Drinker
A letter was forthcoming
As they did up a reply
They figured to themselves
‘This we shall enjoy’
“DOB you have been bad,
Scaring everyone on your list
I’m sure Santa is looking at you
And feels very pissed
Your legal threats are nothing
Santa is bringing you coal
And take your legal threats
And ram them up your hole”

Fluffybiscuits.

FIGHT!

Broadsheet will be open all next week operating a lighter schedule. Happy Xmas all.

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This morning.

Dublin Airport.

Sam writes:

Martin Mulroe proposing to long term girlfriend Louise Mooney in Dublin Airport. Martin arrived from Perth, Sydney this morning to propose to Louise as he arrived. She said Yes…

Harrumph.

(Sam Boal/Rollingnews)

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Last night.

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Human rights activists and TDs, including Mick Wallace and Catherine Murphy wishing Chelsea Manning a happy 28th birthday.

Ms Manning is a transgender women who was a soldier convicted in July 2013 of violations of the espionage act and sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Happy Birthday Chelsea: An Icon of Bravery And Integrity (Clare Daly)

(Sam Boal/Rollingnews)

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Former Fine Gael Councillor Hugh McElvaney

Rising tides and oily graft.

Here’s How the political, social and current affairs podcast presented by William Campbell, explores both.

William writes:

With floorboards still soggy, and Prime Time [featuring dodgy councillors such as Hugh McElvaney] still in mind, the latest edition of the Here’s How podcast looks at the link between flooding and planning corruption. And yes, they are linked, and it’s important.

Here’s How

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