Rally Saying Something

Admin at 2:26 pm July 3, 2015

Suzanne, at Rally For Choice writes:

So tomorrow as we all know is the delightful Rally for Life and so this means our annual counter-demo is here. We’re meeting at 2pm at the Spire [O’Connell Street]. This year it’s all the more important with the arrest of the woman in Northern Ireland for supplying her daughter with abortion pills. For many, including myself, abortion pills were the only option when it came to choosing an abortion. Rally for Life have no business trying to criminalise and stigmatise us further….

Rally For Life Counter Demo (Facebook)

Playing The Ball

Admin at 1:47 pm July 3, 2015

From left: Thomae Kakouli; Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan; UCD’s Dr Julien Mercille (!); Socialist Party TD Ruth Coppinger and Eamon Dunphy

Earlier today.

At Buswell’s Hotel on Molesworth Street, Dublin.

The Greek Solidarity Committee (GCS) held a press conference to explain why it is staging a demonstration in Dublin tomorrow calling on people in Ireland to stand with Greece ahead of their referendum.

Some snippets…

Eamon Dunphy: “Ireland’s media pretends that #SYRIZA caused the crisis. They didn’t. They are the result of it.” #IrelandStandsWithGreece

— Greek Solidarity IRL (@Ireland4Greece) July 3, 2015

Eamon Dunphy: “Narrative spun in Irish media about #Greece pretends away history of its right-wing governments.” #IrelandstandswithGreece — Greek Solidarity IRL (@Ireland4Greece) July 3, 2015

Dunphy at our #IrelandstandswithGreece presser! pic.twitter.com/IXLCkUFCTV

— Greek Solidarity IRL (@Ireland4Greece) July 3, 2015

More as we get it.

Earlier: ‘We Are A Proud People…Like The Irish’

Thanks Ronan Burtenshaw

You Must Remember This

Admin at 1:37 pm July 3, 2015

Stop that!

Aideen writes:

I know you don’t normally do this but found in Dublin this morning. …I have it in my work….it’s still on so they can ring me on it.

Anyone?

Taking On Ikea

Admin at 1:22 pm July 3, 2015

One whack at a time.

Benny Magennis, from Monaghan, is a furniture designer/maker who has launched a kickstarter campaign to help fund his furniture business, Whackpack Furniture.

Whackpack items are self assembled using a mallet a wedge and a… whack.

Whackpack Furniture

Meanwhile, In Whitehall

Admin at 12:54 pm July 3, 2015

Or is it Beaumont?

Still waiting for legislation, presumably.

Some Dad writes:

A Mar Ref poster still hanging on Collins Avenue Dublin 9.

Message In A Bottle

Niall Murphy at 12:38 pm July 3, 2015

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How To Be A Supervillain

Admin at 12:21 pm July 3, 2015

The fruits of a challenge presented by Italian motion graphics and design house Alkanoids whereby seven illustrators and seven animators were given two days to set out the tao of the evil megalomaniac.

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Protoshop

Admin at 12:17 pm July 3, 2015

A timelapse of 2 hours of highly skilled digital restoration and colourisation [using Adobe Photoshop CC 2014] of a badly damaged black and white image by Argentinian photographer and retoucher Joachim Villaverde condensed into three minutes.

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Hip To Be Square

Admin at 11:49 am July 3, 2015

Free Sunday afternoon?

Happenings & Nialler9 present: funksters Ajo Arkestra & Antrim singer-songwriter Ciaran Lavery (performing ‘Little More Time’ above) LIVE outdoors in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2.

3pm. €10.

Live In Fitzwilliam Square (Facebook)