Get On Board
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Of their new, musical celebration of the legendary Contraceptive Train (written by Arthur Riordan and Bill Whelan), Rough Magic tweetz:
Full album of production shots here. Previewing TONIGHT @LimeTreeTheatre
Mary Kenny (out of picture).
BOOK HERE: The Train
The abstract ceramics of US artist Jason Briggs – porcelain, hair and steel sculptures with unlikely titles like ‘Angel’, ‘Blossom’ and ‘Baby’ grotesquely redolent of everything from sexual organs to cysts. Interpret them however you like, sez he:
…sculpture, fine art, fine craft, ceramic sculpture, figurative, abstract, surrealism, eroticism, non-traditional, biological, fucked-up, pornographic or, worst of all, decorative.
Lovely Christmas presents, in fairness.
Damn Van TV
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A TV studio in a VW camper van?
Greenman writes:
Nice video of two guys with a van, they seem to be about helping startup companies get noticed…
Now you’re sucking diesel
Anyone?
This afternoon.
Hueston Station, Dublin
From ‘left’: Labour Party Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin, Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, Minister for Social Welfare and Tanaiste, Joan Burton and Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Paschal Donohoe speaking to the media as the Government announced €27 billion in funding for spending on capital projects from 2016 to 2021.
Legitimate announcement or so obvious-it-tickles pre-election gimmick whatsit?
We may never know.
New Metro North line expected to be in operation by 2026/2027 (RTÉ)
(Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie)
This morning.
Outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin
Previously: Notes On A Scandal
Via Stop #TTIP
No Charges
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Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams
The Guardian reports:
“Gerry Adams, the Sinn Féin leader, will not face any charges in connection with one of the most controversial murders of Northern Ireland’s Troubles – the abduction, murder and secret burial of Jean McConville.”
“The Public Prosecution Service in the region confirmed on Tuesday it had taken a decision not to prosecute seven individuals in relation to the McConville killing, which was the most notorious of the “disappeared”.”
“…The deputy director of public prosecutions, Pamela Atchison, said: “We have given careful consideration to the evidence currently available in respect of each of the three men and four women reported and have concluded that it is insufficient to provide a reasonable prospect of obtaining a conviction against any of them for a criminal offence.””
Gerry Adams will not face charges over Jean McConville murder (The Guardian)
Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie
Stop That
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From the chapter on Eircode in the Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on the Accounts of Public Services 2014 published today.
Good, familiar times.
The Development Of Eircode, The National Postcode System (C&AG)
Previously: No Honour, No Code
An homage to foot fetishism in the films of Quentin Tarantino by Pablo Fernández Eyre.