Proper BO

Admin at 2:04 pm November 11, 2015

Cathal writes:

Someone has named the area South Of the Samuel Beckett & O Casey Bridges SOBO..

SOBO?

SOBO?

SOBO

All Me Own Work

Admin at 1:30 pm November 11, 2015

‘My First Selfie’ by Frank O’Dea

Frank O’Dea of Balla Bàn Art Gallery writes:

Art Source, Ireland’s biggest art show takes place this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Main Hall RDS. With approximately 100 contemporary artists and art galleries showcasing painting, sculpture, photography, illustration, prints and ceramic art, there is something for everyone.

Fair enough.

Balla Bàn Art Gallery [which will have a stand at Art Source] is delighted to give 30 pairs of complimentary e-tickets (normal price eur10) to the first 30 broad Broadsheet readers to email me here.

Now you’re talking.

Out Of His Cold, Forgetful Hands

Admin at 1:25 pm November 11, 2015

‘sup?

Lennie writes:

I found a wallet belonging to Michael P Delew on Townsend St [Dublin] near the fire station. There was money in the wallet and above is one of the ID cards in the wallet which is is now at Pearse Street Garda Station.

Crooked Forest

Admin at 1:09 pm November 11, 2015

The 400 trees of the Crooked Forest outside Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomerania, Poland (photographed by Killian Shoenberger) are believed to have been shaped by human hands back in the 1930s, though no one knows why.

Theories for the 90 degree bends at the base of the pine trees range from preparing the wood for furniture or boat building, the effect of energy fields and witchcraft.

Naturally, we’re going with witchcraft.

colossal

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria’s Appointment?

Admin at 12:55 pm November 11, 2015

Prospective Labour Senator Maria Cahill

Further to criticism by Catherine McCartney, whose brother Robert was murdered by the IRA in 2005, over the past of Seanad Labour candidate of Maria Cahill.

Mark Malone writes:

Labour’s appointment [of Mairia Cahill as a seand candidate] isn’t just cynical in that it’s a transparent move against Sinn Féin. It is deeply inauthentic in relation to survivors of abuse and those campaigning for a meaning framework for justice and truth in the north.

I can stake no possible claim of understanding the specifics of Mairia Cahills decision to run as a Labour Senator. And its pretty understandable why she wants to land punches on Sinn Féin.

Though if feels and looks like Labour’s play here actually results in creating hierarchies of victims around the ‘troubles.’ This is precisely what is important about the perspective Catherine McCartney bring in her statement. She says:

“It is vital for victims’ families, fighting for truth and justice to be entitled to work with elected representatives who should operate from a position of integrity and independence”

Cahills appointment to the Seanad.

“leave(s) us isolated from those political parties who support this nomination”

In a statement to all sitting TD’s and Senators she expanded on this point.

“I fail to understand how a family like our own can ask political parties to hold SF to account regarding matters of truth and justice, (issues which remain at the forefront of peace process) whilst at the same time those parties ask no questions of Ms Cahill, and provide no answers to the public.”

It‘s up to Labour to disprove the widely held belief that the appointment is really poorly thought out opportunism. Yet that itself wouldn‘t rescue it from a fairly simple truth.

The main political parties in the south, and Labour in this instance hold up the grimness of war, and the very often brutal experiences of our fellow humans on this island, as tokens and faux currency for their own small minded games.