Barbiere Camden Street

Enny Buono head barber at Barbiere in action

Happy International Men’s Grooming Day to you and yours.

With TWO groomings [shave and cut] for two men at the effortlessly cool Barbiere barber shop on Camden Street, Dublin on offer, we asked you to nominate a friend in urgent need of a nose trim and whatnot.

You answered in your hairy dozens.

Winners:

Mourinho: “Would you ever just give the Barbiere cut and shave to Eoin Murf as he bloody well needs it. When we head out in the city he gets heckled about it. The heckles range from not so bad “Jim!” – Morrison, due to he massive hair – to not so good “Alan!” – the nut job from the Hangover film.”

Caitseye: “Would you ever just give the Barbiere cut and shave to my lovely husband Matt as he is in serious need of a fine grooming experience having spent the last 5 months living out of a suitcase while doing up our new home, being a fantastic daddy to our 11 month old son and travelling across the country every weekend while I’m away cos my dad is sick. He really does deserve it…”

Thanks all.

Barbiere, Camden Street

Previously: Get A Groom You Two

Thanks Ian Collins

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Philomena Lynott, mother of the late Phil Lynott, with Balla Bán Art Gallery owner, Frank O’Dea next to Phil’s statue outside Bruxelle’s on Harry Street, Dublin 2 and a portrait of Phil dressed as Charlie Chaplin

Phil Lynott’s mum Philomena receiving a portrait of her son dressed as Charlie Chaplin by Dublin caricature artist, Ray Sherlock ahead of this weekend’s Chaplin Film Festival in Waterville, Co. Kerry.

On Sunday there will be a Guinness World Record attempt to have the largest gathering of people dressed as Charlie Chaplin.

Also on Sunday, A Birthday Party For Phil will take place at the Bloody Stream Pub in Howth,  Co Dublin from 3pm.

Charlie Chaplin found ‘no room at the inn’ in Waterville (John Daly, Irish Examiner)

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The Great Wall.

By Carlow-based filmmaker Tadhg O’Sullivan.

Its opening screening takes place in the Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, Dublin tonight at 6.30pm.

The IFI writes:

“This bold new documentary, an adaptation of a Kafka story, looks at the enclosure of Europe by a complex system of walls and fences. Mysterious and visually dazzling, the film journeys across a range of European landscapes, and encounters those whose lives are defined by these walls – detainees within European migrant camps.”

“The film was shot in 11 countries over a year, and journeys from a Spanish enclave in North Africa where the border with Europe is marked by a three-metre barbed fence, to London and Brussels, seats of power and exclusion.”

Also at the IFI on Sunday, at 1pm, Tadhg will present a selection of his new and older shorts.

The Great Wall (IFI)

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The Priory Hall apartment complex in Donaghmede, north Dublin

In the Irish Times editorial (Building regulations: Politics over planning, August 17) the proposed exemption of one-off houses from the requirements of the Building Regulations is referred to as a “bonus to the one-off houses . . sucking the life out of towns and villages”.

Recent experience in Ireland has demonstrated that the problems of defective housing go well beyond this. The cost to the State of repairing Priory Hall and of the pyrite remediation scheme runs to tens of millions.

One of the disappointing aspects of the recent report on the regulations was the failure to consider why professional fees for building site inspections can be so much more expensive here than in the UK, where inspection of a one-off house typically costs less than £500 (€700).

Instead, it was decided to exempt one-off houses from the regulations altogether. One-off houses are not inherently lower-risk; the report itself notes that “small houses carry big risks”, for example in relation to radon, subsidence and septic tanks.

The result will be that houses will be built without any inspections, with potentially disastrous consequences for owners, future purchasers, and the public purse. Defects are often impossible for purchasers to see when deciding to buy. This is why inspection in the course of construction is mandatory in other countries.

It beggars belief that we would now choose to exempt new houses from inspections, given the misery that poorly-built housing has brought to so many.

Deirdre Ní Fhloinn,
School of Law,
Trinity College Dublin,
Dublin 2.

FIGHT!

Why we need Building Regulations (Irish Times letters page)

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