A very accomplished 2015 graduation short by students of Paris/Montreal based ISART DIGITAL in which a lumbering gravedigger attempts to amuse his son.
DTwo Or TV3?
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Last night.
Stephen McManus writes:
This is, allegedly, the last action of an emigrant on their way out. Seen somewhere in Co. Wicklow.
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From left: Tessi Bellard (2 children), Ruth Coppinger TD, Danielle Adderley (2 children), AAA Ccouncillor Sandra Kavanagh, Mellisa Rothwell (2 children and expecting), Edel McElroy (3 children).
This morning.
Porterstown Road, Castleknock, Co Dublin
A number of homeless families, supported by the Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA) and Socialist Party TD, Ruth Coppinger after taking over a house on a NAMA controlled development to “highlight the need to use NAMA land for social housing“.
Most of the women [see caption] are homeless “due to being unable to afforded the rise in rents for the private accommodation they were living in” according to the Anti-Austerity Alliance.
Yesterday: Meanwhile, In Castleknock
(Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie)
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John from The Pigeon Club writes:
Myself and a friend of mine have set up a new site selling (different) Dublin style prints. We are mixing Dublin slang/street art and 80’s graphics to come up with something new.
Fair play in fairness.
“Early 2016” the general election will be @EndaKennyTD tells the #dail
— Páraic Gallagher (@paraicgallagher) September 22, 2015
On the plinth at Leinster House, Dublin this afternoon.
Oh it’s not really on.
(Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie)
Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
Outside Leinster House, Dublin.
(Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie)
A pots and pans protest outside the Dáil during the banking crisis
Should you have a kitchen.
Free in an hour?
Emma Jane Dempsey writes:
If you happen to be in the vicinity of the GPO at around 4pm today you might notice that the city center is slightly louder than usual.
A large number of community groups who work with the homeless community are organising a “Pots and Pans” protest march from the GPO to Dail Eireann on the first day government are back from their annual summer hiatus.
The groups include the Irish Housing Network (responsible for the recent occupation of Bolt Hostel), A Lending Hand, Social Workers Action Network, Jacket Off Your Back, an Spreach, Help the Hidden Homeless, Help 4 The Homeless and many many many more.
Keira who is part of the Irish Housing Network and who works with Lending Hand based in Dublin City, says:
“Twice a week on a Monday and a Thursday we go out and feed and clothe the homeless and hidden homeless on our streets and every week it gets worse and worse. Last Monday we fed upwards of 180 people.”
This week it was also revealed by the Department of the Environment that the number of homeless families in Ireland has increased by 76% since January.
While the official homeless figures take the vast majority of the homeless community into consideration, there is no way of gathering data on the number of Irish people currently struggling to secure affordable housing whom are staying with friends and family on an ongoing basis.
Just shy of 10,000 tenants are moving into rental accommodation per month at a time when the number of available rental properties is at it’s lowest in recent times.
Due to a lack of appropriate emergency accommodation currently available citizen support groups for the homeless have found people sleeping in hedges, in parks, behind shops and in a variety of other places some without even a tent for shelter.
In some cases the government are handing out sleeping bags as a replacement for emergency accommodation which is just not acceptable according to the groups.
Keira says
“The system is corrupt and it just isn’t working. There is no recovery. We are going backwards to the 70’s. Someone somewhere is planning on making a lot of money on empty buildings but right now there are upwards of 290,000 boarded up buildings and 90,000 on the housing list. The government won’t listen so we feel our protest can make them listen because you cant miss the noise of pots and pans with a passionate crowd to speak for those with no voice.”
Everyone is welcome to join in, and if you find yourself with out pots and pans a good shouty voice will do just fine.
*croak*
Pots and Pans Protest (Facebook)
(RollineNews.ie)
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Thud.
Carlosfandango writes:
Yes, you’ve read that correctly. €7.12 per MB. SEVEN EURO TWELVE CENTS. Alright, I’m a long way from home (working in India) but Jaysus lads..
“Before we had four publications and the editors didn’t talk to each other,” said Fionnuala O’Leary, the Executive Editor of Independent.ie in a phone interview. “Now we are going from silo-ed, product-sliced teams to a new group dynamic. Everyone will sit next to each other and hear each other, so you can’t ignore people.”
Scrapping the old office layout which separated the different brands across two floors, the new design aims to improve collaboration and communications. Shaped like an eye, with editorial on one side and the digital developers and business team on the other, the new newsroom puts digital in the center and includes many casual meeting spaces to encourage interactions.
“We have adult conversations between the editors,” said O’Leary. “We are thinking about content, not just about the brand,.” According to the new structure, one reporter can bring in content and it will be diced up across different brands; if it’s live feed, it goes on the web; if it is analysis, it will hold for the dailies; if it is an exclusive interview, it will be reserved for the Sunday papers.”
Right so.
Good thing they all get along with each other.
[pause for flying stapler]
FIGHT!!
Under one roof: Irish group builds content hub (WANIFRA)
Via Liquid Newsroom