ADX featuring Mr Lankey – My Happy Place
Alan Hurley writes:
As you like to post music videos by Irish artists, you may be interested in this no-budget effort I made for Irish EDM act ADX feat. Mr. Lankey.
Curb Stomp
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This afternoon
Kaz writes:
“Blanchardstown Shopping Centre – there were 200-plus free spaces nearby.”
In fairness.
Very Moving
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A decent gaff in Dublin.
No seriously.
Francis Doherty writes:
‘Moving on’ is a short film that tells the story of two young people in homelessness and follows them as they prepare to move into their own homes.These new homes were former local authority voids, vacant for a number of years, which were then renovated by Peter McVerry Trust with funding from [building material firm] Saint Gobain Ireland. The project resulted in 6 apartments for people in homeless services.
Credo
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We’ve finally dropped the pretense,
That journalists should make some sense,
And at long last Lu,
Has met someone who,
Can stand beside her and sound dense.
John Moynes
(RollingNews.ie)
Visit these buildings (above).
Free this Saturday
Christmas on Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Niall writes:
Christmas On The Square happens this Saturday with craft, food and drink markets, Santa, talks, performances, screenings and more indoors in the houses of Merrion Square. All free events but some ticketed.
Events include: Dublin’s Christmas Past with the ‘Come Here To Me’ bloggers; An Ancient Christmas Carol Singing Workshop; Le Père Noël screening, presented by The French Embassy; Pop-Up Café with Luncheonette; Lunchtime Talks: Aoife Carrigy talks to a selection of Irish cookbook authors, AND Vinyl Love playing Christmas tunes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn69hfjqAsg
Of this compilation of expensive pratfalls (some you’ve seen, some you ain’t) Fail Army sez:
Some people can afford to fail a few times. Here are some of the most expensive fails in our collection. In fact, lets do a quick moment of silence for their bank accounts.
Previously: Legends Of The Fail
A proof of concept by the Unseen Art project, (currently funding on Indiegogo) which aims to make the world of fine art accessible to the blind and partially sighted by creating 3D versions of famous works, printable by anyone with access to a 3D printer.
Fair play in fairness.
Claire Cullen-Delsol and her husband Wayne with their stillborn daughter Alex
Further to calls for a repeal of the Eight Amendment.
Ellen Coyne, in the Ireland edition of The Times, reports:
Claire Cullen-Delsol, 31, a mother of two from Waterford city, had to wait over a month for her daughter’s heartbeat to stop naturally before she could end a pregnancy that had no medical chance of succeeding.
Ms Cullen-Delsol and her husband, Wayne, have an eight-year-old daughter and a 20-month-old son. In August, twenty weeks into her pregnancy, she was told that Alex, her second daughter, would not survive because of a chromosome disorder.
…Ms Cullen-Delsol said that travelling for an abortion seemed too traumatic, so her only choice was to wait until the baby died.
“During those five weeks I could still feel her moving inside me, and every week the movement would get less and less — she was dying inside me,” she said. “Sometimes when I couldn’t feel her moving I would drink something cold and then something hot, and then I might try loud music, and then I might jump around to see if she’d move, just to be sure.
“I would wake up every day and say, ‘Is it going to be today? Is today going to be the day she dies?’”
“…There were times when I’d have to leave the house to go shopping, because the kids needed to eat, and I might see a mother with a baby and just have to abandon the trolley and go home. It was absolute torture. There were days when I would have to call people for help. My daughter started begging her dad not to go to work, because she could hear me crying after he left.
She added: “One night I woke up, and there was a complete stillness unlike anything I could describe. There was no movement. I knew she was gone.”
‘I had to wait for my baby to die inside me’ (Ellen Coyne, Ireland edition of The Times, no paywall)
Pic: Claire Cullen Delsol
Thanks Richard
