‘sup?
This afternoon.
Premature – and possibly ILLEGAL* – Sinn Féin General Election posterage at Usher’s island, Dublin 8.
Anarchy.
(Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie)
* Actually perfectly legal (see comments). Harrumph.
MORE to folly
This afternoon.
Brown Thomas, Grafton Street, Dublin
International makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury (top) speaking to Karen Koster (in red), of TV3’s Xposé while (above) among fans of international make-up there’s always one.
Late Late Show so
(Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie)
Fluffy Biscuits writes:
Politics.ie seems to be down and has been for most of the day. I understand some of the users may have quit and formed a new site and others are on the brilliantly but not as busy (but will be) politicalworld.org . Anyone have the low down on what’s happening!!
A rather adorable short from Aardman Animations wherein:
A plucky, pioneering pre-historic fish, has a ground-breaking plan to improve his life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-OGRtonKjM
Andy Byron writes:
If you change the music on that John Lewis xmas ad, it becomes terrifying/creepy!
Free Monday?
The International CETA speaking tour will be held in Liberty Hall, Dublin at 7.30pm, hosted by Attac Ireland, which “resists neoliberal globalisation and campaigns for a more just, equal and sustainable world”.
CETA?
Barry Finnegan writes:
The Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA), is the less well-known cousin of TTIP, the EU-US ‘free’ trade and investment deal currently being drafted. Negotiations on CETA are closed: if adopted by the European parliament early next year, it would allow companies to sue governments for compensation in a private arbitration called ISDS when they say that laws interfere with their profits.
The completed CETA trade deal is the first EU treaty to include an approach to services liberalisation through ‘negative lists’. This means that all categories of the services sector, including water, education and health, will be opened to competition and competitive private-sector tendering, except those services that have been explicitly excluded in the ‘negative list’ at the start of negotiations.
The text of CETA,, now available online, clearly shows that the Irish Government has not excluded water, health or education services from the enforced privatisation and tendering rules of CETA,
International CETA Speaking Tour (Facebook)
Following yesterday’s Little Book of Beards giveaway.
Geradline Feehily at The O’Brien Press, writes
You Know You’re Irish When by Séamus Ó’Conaill celebrates everything that’s weird, wonderful and just plain daft about being Irish/. Like the fear of the immersion, being eyed suspiciously when off the drink, the Centra baguette, a fondness for quoting from father Ted or the need for clarification between ‘going out’ and ‘going out-out’.
We have FIVE copies of You Know You’re Irish When to literally give away. It’s a perfect stocking fillerTo enter, just complete this sentence.
‘I tend to know I’m Irish when______________________’
Liners MUST close at 5.45pm
You Know You’re Irish When (O’Brien)
Yesterday: If You’re Not Chin You Can’t Win
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_UI1GzaWv0
What you may need to know:
1. A group of outlaws are left stranded by a blizzard in post-Civil War Wyoming.
2. Quentin Tarantino’s second western in a row. He’s supposed to be retiring after another two movies, but he does tend to talk himself up.
3. A draft of this script was leaked back in January 2014. Tarantino shelved production and filed a lawsuit against Gawker. He shut their butts down.
4. This is the sixth collaboration between Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson.
5. No Christoph Waltz? Shame.
6. Broadsheet prognosis: There will be blood. And lots of bad-tempered junket interviews.
Release Date: January 8, 2016.
(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)