Follow your forefathers.
Phil Lang writes:
I created a twitter bot that is tweeting every human being recorded to have arrived at the port of New York during the Irish potato famine – 12/1/1846 – 31/12/1851…
‘sup?
Shane Mulvey writes:
Have you seen my Cee-lo tape?
Update:
Mick’s tape.
Thanks Fudecafe, Lavery Avenue, Dublin 12
This afternoon.
O’Connell Street, Dublin.
(RollingNews.ie)
Meanwhile…
Frank O’Dea, of the Balla ban Gallery, Westbury Mall, Dublin, writes:
An oil painting by Dublin artist Norman Teeling that I think reflects today’s horrible weather – entitled “Sumner in Grafton Street Dublin”. Ahhh sure it would be a great country if we could just put a roof over it!
What you may need to know:
1. Two cops (Ice Cube and Kevin Hart) take down a Miami drug dealer. Shenanigans etc.
2. There was a Ride Along 1? What a world.
3. Kevin Hart is like Chickenpox; small, irritating and everywhere.
4. Tim Story is the director responsible for the classic Think Like a Man (2012) and the seminal Think Like a Man Too (2014). His two contributions to the Fantastic Four (2005 & 2007) franchise made Roger Corman look good. Almost. Of course that was before Josh Trank’s recent exercise in career suicide.
5. “Please, call me Ice, everyone else does.”
6. Broadsheet prognosis: Straight Outta Crapton
Release Date: January 22, 2016.
(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
Ching Chait Kwong (top) and the proposed Dublin Docklands Strategic Development Zone (SDZ)
Ching Chiat Kwong.
He has suits bigger than some of his apartments.
The Government’s Housing Agency wants Dublin City Council to lower its apartment size rules and allow the construction of rental-only “studios” 27 per cent smaller than the current minimum size.
Housing Agency calls for smaller apartments in Dublin (Irish Times, October 4, 2014)
Planning permission has been sought [By Oxley and Ballymore] for the first phase of one of the largest developments planned for Dublin’s docklands under Dublin City Council’s new fast-track planning scheme.
…Oxley is headed up by former Singapore police officer Ching Chiat Kwong, who made his name in Singapore as the “Shoebox King” for developing compact apartments.
Major development planned on Dublin docklands site (Irish Times, today)
D writes:
Surely there’s some connection between these two stories…Perhaps your readers can shed some light?
Major development planned on Dublin docklands site (Irish Times)
Ching Chiat Kwong on Forbes Lists
Previously: ‘No Party May Appeal To An Bord Pleanála’
Super Powers
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A short film by Greg Brunkalla exploring the experience of Neil Harbisson who was born with achromatopsia, a condition that renders him completely colourblind.
By way of an antenna implanted in the back of his head, Harbisson (who happily refers to himself as a ‘cyborg’) gains a comprehension of the colours around him by hearing distinct sounds.
A free wifi tile sign in Dublin
Dublin’s public free wifi is gone.
Damien Murphy and Lois Kapila, in the Dublin Inquirer, write:
“[Christy Beal] and her family – over from New Jersey for a short break – had tried to log in at a few of the Dublin public free wifi spots around the city. “I’ve been looking for the signs,” she said. Scan for wifi connections and you can see the network and a healthy number of bars but, so far, she hadn’t managed to connect.”
“That’s because in May this year, Dublin City Council quietly made use of a break clause to terminate its contract with Gowex, the wifi firm that had been providing the service. So, there’s no public free wifi facilitated by Dublin City Council available right now, said Sinéad Murphy from the council’s press office.”
“It’s a shame nobody’s told confused holidaymakers. Or, for that matter, local councillors.”
Edie writes:
St Patrick’s College advertises a 9-month Jobbridge internship for a Research Assistant in the Centre for Human Development, requiring applicants to have ‘a Third-Level qualification in the area of Human Development or cognate discipline’.
The Centre’s brief is to explore ‘well-being and human flourishing […] from a variety of perspectives underpinned by a holistic view of the human that includes emotional, intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic and civic dimensions’. Are they looking to explore the extent to which ‘well-being and flourishing’ are possible on welfare payment plus €50 a week?
Research Assistant in Human develepoment (JobBridge)
Meanwhile, in Waterford…
Via Pamela Ryan
No Shakes
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Glug.
This morning.
K Quinn writes:
Not yet 9.30 am in Belfast Airport…and if any man says the Irish are a bunch of drunks I’ll fight him right now…