Ollie Carmody writes:
Spiderman feeling the heat on Cabra Road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQHr1GFXdXg
It’s all over bar the barking.
Rupert and Frank, the frankly tasty Irish natural pet food offered a MONTH’s free food to the best Pets for Yes/Pet For No pic sent to the ‘sheet during the Marriage Referendum.
Last night they selected three runners up and one winner.
In ascending order they were…
Fourth place
Name: Mr Picklesworth, also known as Mr Pickles.
Guardian: Charlie
Verdict: “It was impossible to vote no once you looked into Mr Pickle’s warm brown eyes.”
Third Place
Name: Loki
Guardian: Lauren
Verdict: “Alert, vigilant, intense (too intense?) but above all beautifully groomed.”
Second Place
Name: Samwise
Guardian: Aisling
Verdict: “Confident, carefree and wriggling on a couch. Modern Ireland right there.”
Winner
Name: Max
Guardian: Niall
Verdict: “A big dog for a big vote. Who’s going to say no to Max especially at dinner time? Not us.”
Thanks all.
Lucky Treehouse celebrates the 22nd birthday of the one-armed save-a-thon that is Cliffhanger with a montage of 101 classic movie peril scenarios.
Migrants being rescued by the Irish Navy on LÉ Eithne off the coast of Libya last night and this morning.
RTE reports:
“At around 9am this morning the LÉ Eithne came across 100 migrants on board a rubber dinghy and a rescue operation is under way [off the coast of Libya]. These operations follow the successful rescue of 201 migrants who were found in five makeshift boats yesterday.”
Meanwhile, Neil Michael in the Irish Daily Mail, reporting on the 201 migrants rescued yesterday, writes [not online]:
“The migrants were last night due to be transferred to the 176m British Royal Navy assault ship, the HMS Bulwark, on which they will be transported to a port of safety in Italy.“
LÉ Eithne rescues 300 migrants off Libyan coast (RTE)
Pic: RTE and Photocall Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz_24nxMM98
Of this trailer for a longer feature, John Fleming writes:
legendary Irish rocker Eamonn Dowd, based in Sweden, performs frequently around Europe with his bands the Racketeers and the Last Souls. Dublin gigs usually see him in the Leeson Lounge. Dowd was the front man with The Swinging Swine oh years ago. The full video is being entered into some short film festivals etc. Hence the trailer.
Saints
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Nine cats in a cardboard box is not the name of a band playing at Forbidden Fruit.
That is all.
What you may need to know:
1. Just a quick reminder that this actually exists.
2. The story of FIFA was screened at Cannes 2014, but a year later is still without a release date.
3. FIFA bankrolled this to the tune of £16m. That would have funded the GOAL project (supporting football in developing countries) for a year.
4. Sepp Blatter (Tim Roth) is one of the good guys.
5. That’s the equivalent of Anglo funding a movie where Seánie Fitzpatrick volunteers at a homeless shelter and gives all his money away to the poor.
6. Between this and Grace of Monaco (2014) was a bad year for Roth. And credible accents.
7. “You need the money. We need the world championship.” It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Seppy played Qatar.
Release Date: Don’t hold your breath.
(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
Roy Greensalde
Further to the ‘matter‘.
Media analyst Roy Greensalde writes:
Given that IBRC is state-owned, [Catherine] Murphy was suggesting that the Irish people have been subsidising O’Brien’s interest payments on massive loans for no clear reason.
Although I have no idea whether or not her claims are correct, they are protected by parliamentary privilege (as in Britain).
…the extension of the terms of the injunction to cover a parliamentary speech has shocked the Irish media community, not to mention the public.
It had extraordinary effects. For example, RTÉ reporter Philip Boucher Hayes tweeted yesterday afternoon that the Drivetime show was about to play Murphy’s speech, but the piece was not broadcast and his tweet was later deleted.
RTÉ news bulletins mentioned that Murphy had spoken but didn’t quote what she had said or play clips. Online reports quoting Murphy were removed, stating only that Murphy had spoken about O’Brien. Similarly, the Irish Times’s report was silent on what Murphy said but it did provide a link to her speech on the Oireachtas site.
The report on the matter by Ireland’s best-selling daily newspaper, the Irish Independent, said: “Mr O’Brien successfully stopped RTÉ from broadcasting the details which Ms Murphy raised in the Dáil”.
Ireland’s media silenced over MP’s speech about Denis O’Brien (Roy Greenslade, Guardian)
Pic: New Europeans
UPDATE:
Meanwhile…
Dáil should be recalled next week to reassert a basic principle. Dáil speech and the reporting of it protected by absolute privilege
— Micheál Martin (@MichealMartinTD) May 28, 2015
Under Standing Orders- at request of Taoiseach, Ceann Comhairle may
summon Dáil for an earlier date than that fixed on an adjournment.
— Oireachtas News (@OireachtasNews) May 29, 2015
Equal marriage rights, now.
The recent fruit of Australian photographer Steve Axford’s continuing quest to document the world’s most obscure fungi. These colourful species are all native to the Northern Rivers area of Axford’s native New South Wales.
More here.