Unfold group portrait. Image courtesy of Sean and Yvette_6‘sup?

The back of St Andrew’s, Suffolk Street, Dublin.

Tara Walsh writes:

Eleven established Irish fashion designers will showcase their collections at London Fashion Week this September as part of the Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) international programme of events and activities.
Unfold will be presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September as an official on-schedule event as part of London Fashion Week. The 11 designers unveiling their SS16 collections at the ICA are NATALIEBCOLEMAN, We Are Islanders, Emma Manley, Jill de Burca, Helen Steele , Honor Fitzsimons, Chupi, Maria Dorai Raj, Laura Kinsella, Martha Lynn and Capulet & Montague….

Get them/Fair play, etc..

Top from left: Rosie O’Reilly, Chupi, Emma Manley, Helen Steele, Laura Kinsella, Jill De Burca, Honor Fitzsimons, Lisa McCormick, Maria Dorai Raj, Natalie B Coleman. Missing: Millner Martha Lynn.

Irish Design Collective (BritishFashionCouncil)

Irish Design 2015

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For those who survive the Mediterranean crossing.

The ‘Balkan Route’ awaits.

Eamonn Farrell, photo/news agency boss, writes:

Sasko Lazarov, a freelance photojournalist who works with RollingNews.ie and Photocall Ireland whose work may be familiar to Broadsheet readers… returned to his home in Macedonia recently on holiday. While there he came across these scenes.. Unfortunately due to his becoming ill while at home and the need to verify some details, we are only in a position to release them now.
The plight facing the thousand of immigrants who were lucky enough to survive the Mediterranean and who having got through processing in Greece, then take the Balkan Route overland through Macedonia and Serbia to try and get into Hungary, which is now building a wall across its border with Serbia. The scenes along the route are heartbreaking and harrowing.
And while not having the visual drama of sea drownings or rescue, they portray a tragic canvas of biblical proportions, with the young, elderly and sick, being hounded like animals, abused and sometimes relieved of their few remaining possessions, herded onto trains to ‘anywhere but my back yard’.

(Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie)

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Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, third from left, with colleagues at Knock earlier this week and a poster for the Knock Novena

A NINE-day national novena begins today at 3pm in Knock, led by controversial (see link below) Rosary-cheeked Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan (top second right with clerical pals at a pre-Novena session last night).

Good, publicly pious times.

Massive crowds due at Knock Novena which begins this week (Mayo News)

Pics: Knock Shrine

Previously: Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Broadsheet

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Socialist TD Paul Murphy and Irish Water protesters, including Ken and Carole Purcell, centre, addressing the media at a press conference in Brookfield Community Centre Tallaght this morning

Further to RTÉ Crime Correspondent Paul Reynolds’ report on Wednesday’s Nine News that the DPP Claire Loftus has directed more than 20 people who took part in the Jobstown protest last November are to be charged, some of those involved held a press conference this morning.

In the Irish Times, Mary Minihan reports:

Protesters who took part in the incident in Jobstown, Dublin last November when Tánaiste Joan Burton was trapped in her car have warned Government Ministers they can expect worse treatment….“It’s not a personal hatred of Joan Burton. I don’t know the woman. Nobody here knows the woman. But it’s a hatred of what she represents politically which is a complete sell-out of people and then really laying the boot into working class communities,” Mr [Paul] Murphy said.

Meanwhile, RTÉ reports:

“Carole Purcell and her husband Ken said they found out about the possible charges when they read it in the newspaper on Thursday, after it was reported by RTÉ the previous evening…Ken Purcell said he hoped gardaÍ would contact their solicitor so that they would know where they stood.”

Water protesters warn Government of ‘a hell of a lot worse’ (Irish Times)

Jobstown residents express fear over possible protest charges (RTÉ)

Pic: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

Earlier: Iffy Leaks

hound

Ireland’s greatest legend.

Needs YOUR help.

Paul Bolger writes:

Just wondering if you might give us a bit or coverage and a shout out to potential backers to the 2nd Kickstarter we are running for my Cu Chulainn graphic novel trilogy, “Hound”.

It  ends on Sept. 11 and got off to a great start but we need to boost backer numbers to make the target. We are talking to publishers about doing a paperback edition for worldwide release but I want to Kickstart the creation of the art and produce a high end edition to showcase what it possible.

Barry Devlin (ex-Horslips) co-wrote the book and film adaptation, which is ongoing. The film is being developed in partnership with Oscar winning UK producer Hugh Welchman and was supported by The Irish Film Board and Northern Ireland Screen.

Make Hound Happen (Kickstarter)

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