https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCuFK29EFa4
Quill To Power by Al Katraz Films.
Alan Caulfield writes:
Here’s our short documentary about a pair of peregrine falcons nesting on the Poolbeg chimneys. Since we made the film, they have had two chicks, which flew the nest a few weeks ago and are still in the area.
Save Poolbeg.
MORE to folly.
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Thanks Kevin Cramer (Irish Examiner); Meliosa Fitzgibbon (Irish Daily Mail); Colin McGann (Clare People); Neil Henderson (UK papers
The Galway International Arts Festival Skywhale this evening.
A thing of terrifying, pendulously deca-boobed beauty
Pix via Susan O’Keefe
(H/T: cairotango)
Big heeled boots to fill.
Martin McCann, a 1980s-era Paul Hewson in Killing Bono (2011) and currently the spit of Bono as he looked during the Pop album world tour meets Olaf Tyaransen and chats about adopting an American accent for early-Bono and his lead role in The Survivalist, a thriller based in post-apocalyptic Northern Ireland and presented at this month’s Galway Film Fleadh.
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varouvakis.
Into the eyes, not around.
Varoufakis, who resigned a week ago, has been criticised for not signing an agreement sooner, but he said the deal that Greece was offered was not made in good faith – or even one that the Troika wanted completed. In an hour-long telephone interview with the New Statesman, he called the creditors’ proposals – those agreed to by the Athens government on Friday night, which now seem somehow generous – “absolutely impossible, totally non-viable and toxic …[they were] the kind of proposals you present to another side when you don’t want an agreement.”
there was point blank refusal to engage in economic arguments. Point blank. You put forward an argument that you’ve really worked on, to make sure it’s logically coherent, and you’re just faced with blank stares. It is as if you haven’t spoken. What you say is independent of what they say. You might as well have sung the Swedish national anthem – you’d have got the same reply.”
There were people who were sympathetic at a personal level, behind closed doors, especially from the IMF.” He confirmed that he was referring to Christine Lagarde, the IMF director. “But then inside the Eurogroup [there were] a few kind words and that was it: back behind the parapet of the official version. … Very powerful figures look at you in the eye and say ‘You’re right in what you’re saying, but we’re going to crunch you anyway’.”
Varoufakis was reluctant to name individuals, but added that the governments that might have been expected to be the most sympathetic towards Greece were actually their “most energetic enemies”. He said that the “greatest nightmare” of those with large debts – the governments of countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland – “was our success”. “Were we to succeed in negotiating a better deal, that would obliterate them politically: they would have to answer to their own people why they didn’t negotiate like we were doing.”
Yanis Varoufakis full transcript: our battle to save Greece (Yanis Varoufakis, The New Statesman)
Thanks Nelly Bergman
This afternoon.
Herr is among us.
Enda Kenny and President Higgins meeting President of the Federal Republic of Germany, H.E Joachim Gauck (boo, hiss) at Government Buildings Dublin and the Good Room Aras, Phoenix Park.
*chucks cone*
(RollingNews.ie)
Echinopsis cactus flowers only bloom at night and then only for a few hours.
To capture the spectacular display, Echinopsis aficionado Greg Krehel uses a HD camera timelapse system, set up overnight. These are his favourite blooms of 2014.
‘sup?
The cyclist we can identify.
His pilion rider remains a mystery.
Derek Ryan writes:
I was at the street performers festival in Merrion Sq [Dublin] yesterday, During, Mario Queen of The Circus act, he enlisted the help of a member of the public, someone called Amy (above). The act was fantastic, really entertaining and funny, helped by the involvement of Amy. I have some photographs of the performance if Amy would like copies of them [see here]
Anyone?
